My username has quite a backstory to it. My *typical* forum name is SilverWolf. THIS comes from a character from a novel that I one day hope to write and publish. SilverWolf is a half-shifter, who's true form is a "silver fur wolf," a very rare group of wolves with pelts that had a metallic silver color to them. As a half shifter, according to the lore of my world, he can shift into any biological being, but nothing inanimate. Though not the protagonist of my novel in progress, he IS a main character, and my personal favorite.
However, when I joined the guild, I had to choose a different name. At the old guild, SilverWolf was taken. So, I wanted something fitting, but something that STILL had wolf in it. I love wolves, to me they symbolize Alaska and I relate to this animal more than any other. Attaching "Lone" to my usual screen name of "SilverWolf" seemed a perfect fit for my personality. I don't have any friends IRL, and it's only since joining the guild that I've had any close friends at all. I've very much lived my 28 years alive as a loner, and the screen name fits.
Lately, I've felt I associated with it and identified with it a hell of a lot more, with my best friend, someone who I cared for a LOT and someone who I thought cared for me...well, parted ways. We started having a rocky patch, and it just grew from there. It started with a rift, and it grew. And now, I really, truly identify with my screen name even more, as a whole. A Lone Wolf, part of no pack, treading the wilds by himself. That is where my screen name comes from, and the significance behind it.
As for my avatar, I tend to switch it up occasionally. Right now I chose this one because someone I was good friends with pretty much from my first week at the guild, made it for me upon request: MissCapnCrunch. since then, she's been unable to come to the guild due to personal reasons, and I've had very little contact with her because of those said reasons. I chose this, and my sig too, as sort of a memorial for my old friend, because I miss having her around the guild. AND I love Firefly, it's one of the best TV shows ever made.
And no, Tori is not the best friend I was talking about earlier :P She's never done that to me.