So what's the story behind your username/avatar?

[Ljs1121]

My username is just my initials and my date of birth.

My avatar is Crush from Finding Nemo because it's freaking Crush from Finding Nemo. He's one of the most awesomest sea turtles in the history of the world.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I'm frequently lost, in terms of goals, and I enjoy gryphons.

The avatar is a gryphon.

I kid, it's actually a commentary on modern art as it relates to ancient mythology.

 

[Deadyawn]

My name is from a book I read a little while ago, Ghormengahst. Deadyawn was basically the laziest person in existence so I thought it was fitting.

The avatar is a headshot of my character from Fallout NV wearing chinese stealth armor, a pre-war hat and weilding a Shishkebab. So yeah.

 

[Lewieroo0]

My first name is Lewis (I prefer to be called Lewie) and I like kangaroos, to whIch I found the "roo" sound to be rather catchy, which lead to the combination of lewieroo0( the zero was added on due to it being an invalid name at the time I tried it, which I decided to just stick with it)

As for the avatar, it's countryside soldier Nephenee, one of my favorite characters from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (both in personality and usefulness)

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

The username is basically just a shade of red and a another word for fire put together. My avatar is always changing from some Sonic picture, sometimes official and sometimes a stylized equivalent.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I was the 130th Ed on Trade Me (a New Zealand based Ebay) and I like the Aquila symbol from Warhammer 40000.

 

[Bigbomb94]

Named after a guy I made in WWF No Mercy named Bryton Bomb. Yeah I'm not good at making up cool names. I decided to use it as a username for everything. But back then, I didn't want to put my name in it, so I just replace my name with Big and there you go.

My avatar is just some picture my friend drew on MS paint.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I should hope mine is self-explainatory... but if not:

My Username is based on the most famous line-that-never-happened... Seriously, Shelock Holmes never says 'It's elementary, my dear Watson' in the books... and the phrase was conned in one of the early TV adaptations.

My Avatar is a picture of me in fancy-dress when I grew my moustache on a detachment to the middle east... I love the picture... although I wish it wasn't so dark! I haven't been able to track down any of the better pics that were taken that night! :/

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention, because it's hard to tell, that I am holding a pipe, and the word in the corner says Elementary (with the escapist 'e')

 

[Death Carr]

Well, my username was Darth Carr because Star Wars. It changed when someone typoed my name as "Death Carr" and I thought it sounded cool.

As for my avatar, its my favorite character from the anime Sora no Otoshimono.

 

[CriticalX13]

My username is an old one that i made when playing the Battletech board game 3rd edition. It describes my ability to either land a critical hit ripping a mech apart or landing a critical failure and blow my own mech apart.

The most memorable was when i was winning a game i had a Battlemaster going after a Jenner. I go for the over kill method to make sure i kill the mech only to over heat suffer an ammo explosion, melt down and explode. Least i left a nice crater.

X13 comes from when i registered for Xbox Live and Critical was take. X is there because why not and 13 is because Friday the 13th is my luckiest day of the month/year. I have won everything except the lottery on those days. I normally always lose..

 

[Hawkolf]

My username is a comic book character I invented when I was a little kid. I've always liked hawks and I guess it turned out to Hawkolf. I've used it pretty much everywhere ever since.
And my avatar?
Ski-Bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo dab dub dub
Ski-Bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo dab dub dub.

Plus he looks just like how I imagined Big Brother when reading Nineteen Eighty Four.

 

[purplecactus]

My username is pretty simple, I love cacti, and purple is one of my favourite colours. Plus it sounded better than 'redcactus'.

My avatar is me. The picture was taken on one of the hottest days of the year so far when I found a river. I take way too many pictures anyway, and decided one of my reflection would be kinda cool.

 

[namhorFnodroG]

Here's the story of my username. In the year of 2009, i was in search of a username which was actually a bit original, since i was going with the name Gordon Freeman for lack of anything else. Then i discovered the small webcomic about Gordon Frohman's adventures, which i found quite intresting, so i decided to change name to Gordon Frohman. It wasn't that much more original, but it was still a bit different atleast. Then, one faithful day when i was messing around with people at TF2, i changed name to something else just to make a joke. Then, when i changed back, my keyboard messed up, and accidently wrote everything backwards for some reason. First, it was quite hilarious that it did it, so i kept the name for the rest of the day. The name grew on me, and i decided to have it for a week, to see incase i liked it, which i did. Haven't changed name ever since.

Here's the link for the comic incase someone cares to read it. http://www.screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2005-05-01

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Simple, The Blue Rider is the nickname of a character I liked in Raymond E. Feists books. Cant remember his name or which series though because it was a while ago.

And the avatar is because I really like Gurren Lagann, and it goes well with my Username

 

[Snippy the Shoe]

Both are from the webcomic Romantically Apocalyptic.

The name is based on Pilot's monologue where he believes that Snippy is a shoe, and the avatar is the lifealope.

I also use it as one of my many wallpapers:

I'm not gonna lie that is one badass wallpaper you got there

(Yeah I kinda messed up on the first post)

Well the artist does many more if you're interested: http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/gallery/35396878

Or you can read the comic for the context:http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/

 

[Garrett]

This should be a good place to introduce myself to the forum. I did say hi in my first post but this is a better place for that. So, hi, I'm not new on this site but finally decided to register. Why? Well... to do the quizes xD I just have this condition that whenever I have to do work at home I end up doing pretty much nothing browsing the internet. Anyway, I'm not some heavy poster so you probably won't even notice me and since there is no "show new posts" option (or at least I don't see it) I will post even less.

So on-topic. I was positively surprised this nickname wasn't taken. It's a name of my favourite game chartacter when I was a teenager. Garrett from Thief series. I love doing normal missions in these games. By normal I mean no supernatural stuff. So simple residence/factory/normal building and normal guards. This series is also a reason why I love bows.

As for the avatar, it should be Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. Should be, because I fell prey to "DON'T PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTON" and I'm seeing Justin Bieber everywhere. Anyway, this is my "fixed" avatar (Sephiroth, not Bieber). I use it everywhere so if you spot a Garrett like nickname (usually Garret02) with this avatar, chances are it's me. Why Sephiroth? Because he is most badass villain ever.

 

[AceTrilby]

I once signed up to be a junior reporter on the CBBC's Newsround website, so I tried to pick something that sounded like a reporter and cool, and the name stuck!

My avatar is from The Last Express, because Robert Cath is a badass.