[quote=“Derek”]
I also sometimes struggle with matching up online name, real names and character names to each other, so I try to make it easier for other people.[/quote]
You’re much too nice. 
Mine is my Teonn character who is loosely (and i really do mean loosely) based on one of the characters from David Gemmels Troy series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_series:_Characters - if you are at all interested, he’s a very cool character.
Also awesome characters from that series are Banokles and Kalliades - they remind me of an ancient greek warrior timone and pumba.
ROTFL!!!
oh what mental images!
ROTFL!!!
oh what mental images![/quote]
… I hope that you and i are having different thoughts after you point this out, cause mind went straight to dirty (what the greek soldiers used to… do to each other).
ROTFL!!!
oh what mental images![/quote]
… I hope that you and i are having different thoughts after you point this out, cause mind went straight to dirty (what the greek soldiers used to… do to each other).[/quote]
O.O
Mine was more along the line of Timon and pumba in greek hoplite armour singing hakuna matat in greek…
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So… hows about that weather…
My favourite author is and will ever be Anne McCaffrey and especially the DragonSinger/Song storyline. When I discovered gaming/internet/BBS etc when I was at Teachers College my first pick was Menolly. I even emailed Anne McCaffrey and got permission to use it as my email address way back. When I moved to Auckland and ended up flatting with Ma’at, Su’Ratt and Maab… and would play endless Diablo online the Miss got added cause Menolly had become a more popular handle online… and I was teaching at the time 
[quote=“Dragnew”]My first two initials, then my surname.
I feel boring. 
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Dude. It’s not boring, it’s simplicity (and there is beauty in simiplicity). I got sick of not being able to work out who people were from their handles, so just decided I’d go with my real name. Otherwise I sometimes go by Wyldcard (my Livejournal).
Jon
[quote=“Jon Ball”]
I got sick of not being able to work out who people were from their handles, so just decided I’d go with my real name.
Jon[/quote]
What he said. I am in about 3 evening games a week and too many monthly games as well as Teonn and others, sometimes its easier to know who is talking to who. (<----Lazy 
)
I’m glad for yours, Porl because with my American ear and the Kiwi accent I had no idea what your name was meant to be.
Mine means I beat out all the other Matthews 
I joined Diatribe just after the first Chimera where I had won the best costume at Flight of the Hindenburg award for Indiana Jones, so it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I did a similar thing.
Walter originally is Germanic, but I inherited it through a long English line. Hamer has been traced back to a place in England too. The combination Walter Hamer is seen in my family in generational jumps - at least 4 Walter Hamers have a grandfather with that name (myself included).
This… is freaking awesome.
Well as i keep reading others i thought i better tell mine.
Myn is one that i have used for years. No idea how long ago. I playe(d) the clarinet (need to get back into it) and i out that in as a username and it gave me options. I chose 303. I have used this and mixtures of this and others ever since. Yay! Lol. I did it without thinking when i first came on diatribe and i have no idea how to change it. 
Lol. Real exciting. 
Mine’s from the heroine of the story of Tam Lin. I’ve always liked the contrast with fairy tales where the woman is the one in need of rescuing, here Janet is the one saving the boy. And she does it by clinging to him no matter what the fae turned him into, no matter how much it hurt or scared her. True love is worth hanging onto, even through the rough parts. </hopeless romantic>
可笑しい おかしい (adj-i)strange; funny; amusing; ridiculous
Okashii.
I love that story.
Neimh-aille. Two gaelic words put together to create a stuntfighting character way back in 99. At the time I was in a stuntfighting gym and was going to use it.
So being Gaelic is is not pronounced the way it looks. And I forget where the accent should be. Neev-elle or close to.