Let's talk user names

[ponymechanic]

What's your reason for choosing the username you picked for your character(s)? Was it to be funny or was it related to their canon? Or was it simply because it was the best you could come up with?

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[ponymechanic]

Luna - It's a terrible pun on "just married", but with her having just been purified by the Elements of Harmony. Lame I know. -_-;;

Tails - See, originally this account was just an extra account for twotailmechanic because I don't have the means to get a paid account for him (this was back on LJ), so basically it was meant to match with the real account. When I saw this game before it opened, I knew it would be perfect to recycle this account and get to really use it (which is why it just has ponymaker icons in it. I would draw, but it would look awful and nobody wants that.) If I ever do app in a Conner from Young Justice or any other future characters, it would just be normal accounts with maybe one pony icon.

[stormbroken]

SURE I'M GAME.

Flare - stormbroken - A play on 'stormbreaker' (itself both a decent description of what Flare's actual talent is as well as an Alex Rider joke) and broken ala Broken Birds and other such tropish things.

Luna - ensembledarkhorse - The "original" Luna account, used as an icon mule before the new one got a paid. It's a trope name and a pun on many levels. I can't take credit for it, though; someone else not in this game came up with the name for me.

Luna #2 - noxequus - When I'd intended to app Luna here, I'd originally planned her as an OU (for those who didn't follow the plurk confusion), and so I chose a name intentionally meant to parallel the NPC Celestia (solequus). Since "moon horse" would translate literally to "luna equus" in Latin, I decided to fudge it a bit and go with "night" (or 'nox') instead.

[whywouldyoubuckleup]

http://youtu.be/_4LlA_yunVY?t=1m49s

Linked because DW won't let me embed it I guess.

Also: IT WAS A PARKED CAR. Why would you do that, 24?

[buckleupforsafety]

This is also the explanation for my username.

Also I'm a horrible person.

[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Oh right, I forgot about the whole 'I'm also a pretty bad person,' thing!

[buckleupforsafety]

Well, yours comes from a place of trauma and pain for 21. Mine is just "lol that's why he died."

[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Except I chose it after seeing your name. "Ho ho ho," said I, "This is clearly better than twotontwentyone." which has far too many t's and o's for my liking. So I dunno if I chose it mostly because of all them feels or because ha ha ha, they match

[buckleupforsafety]

[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Ooh, that's a good one. I'll save it for the next time I'm struck by 21 feels.

Feels about 21.

[buckleupforsafety]

This was the runner up, but it felt a little too orgasm-y.

[whywouldyoubuckleup]

Especially since I don't know what he's watching on the tv or maybe computer.

[selfmadespeedster]

My usernames are mostly BORING and I wish I had thought of something better. >_>

Wally/Kid Flash- wally_west It's just his name. /snores
The 11th Doctor- trustme Named after one of the BGM tracks but kind of... boring sounding? idk
Fluttershy- faunafriend This one I like. She's a friend of the fauna.
_{fau·na Noun /ˈfônə/ /ˈfänə/
faunae plural; faunas plural
-The animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period (i.e. "the flora and fauna of Siberia" "islands that support one of the richest of all marine faunas")
-A book or other work describing or listing the animal life of a region}

[ponymechanic]

Naw it's okay. Most of the time my usernames tend to be boring. It's only rarely when I come up with a good one (see the top comment).

[mylittlescorpy]

This one's pretty self explanatory, I think. A mun in an old game called Scorponok Scorpy pretty much exclusively, and it stuck as a fast and dirty nickname for him ever since, so... -shrugs-

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

My usernames perpetually reflect the joy and excitement I feel at having 25 characters to play with. When I first started RP, we had only 10. ;)

That being said, all of them are pretty obvious...

[iron_mare]

Iron Liz often refers to herself as the Iron Maiden, much like how she got the nickname from the heavy metal band. It's only fitting that in pony form, she would be called the Iron Mare. I know, so clever.

I've yet to get a pony account for Jack since I don't have pony icons for him yet, so I recycled an old name from when I played him at Flamingo Heights on Livejournal. I picked up the name literally because it was the only farm-themed name I could brainstorm that sounded any good, and because I knew my perverted roleplaying friends would be amused by it.

[ghostgem]

Gemineye here (this account) is because Ghost Gems are a Thing in the games. There's a gem for every type! and since Gemmy is a ghost and loves gems, it seemed like a good fit B|b

[tinkertytonk]

'Tinkerty tonk' is a nonsense phrase invented by P.G. Wodehouse (the author of the canon Bertie comes from). It means 'goodbye,' but has a bit of a bite to it. When Bertie says it in canon, the narration goes something like:

"Tinkerty tonk," I said, and I meant it to sting.

Bertie is a silly character and silly, nonsensical (or overly verbose) jibes are typically what he goes for if he's in a snit. Thus the username.

[oldhippony]

Nemo is an old hippy who is now a pony. Hence, oldhippony.

[anelegantmyth]

Uh well

anelegantmyth - Cynthia's an elegant lady who likes mythology...yeah. Or you can go all philosophical and realize how little is known about her, making her a myth

carouselboutique - the name of Rarity's shop, honestly I'm surprised no one took the url before I did.

[thecrazypony]

Well, mine's fairly easy. Fai's Institute account was the_crazy_one to match that his brother was the_saner_one. Now he's thecrazypony to match that his brother will be, wait for it, thesanerpony.