Reason behind your username and avatar

[aza]

Serpentine said
Serpentine because I like snake things.

/whistle

[Queen Raidne]

Raidne is a siren. I like to name electronic things after Greek mythological figures. Every electronic device I own is named after sirens or muses, depending on whether I think it will inspire and help me or just suck me into a distracted death spiral of procrastination. Anyway, I always wished that I was a siren, so I've gone with "Raidne" as a username for a while now.

And then I changed it to "Queen Raidne" after guildfall to prolong a joke that had been dead for a while.

I love my avatar's dress and tiara! I'd kill for a chance to own (and wear) both of them.

[Scara_blood]

My username is two names I like. Scara is a boy from the first Star gate movie and blood is... Idk.

As for the avatar, I saw it and though it was cool alright?

[Gwazi Magnum]

Mine's actually a user name that had two different regeneration's (Yes, my username is now a Time Lord :P).

Basically it started during the summer before I started High School (Note, I'm now 20 in my 2nd year of college) where I joined a site called Star Wars Combine.
It's basically an open world, browser based Star Wars Galaxy you make a character and roleplay in. The mechanics were really rough at the time though so I wasn't sure how long I'd stay for so I just used a random name generator and ended up with Duvnar Magnum.

About 2 years later, Duvnar Magnum became my first and longest used forum RP character (Whose stayed to one personality type. I've technically been Gwazi longer as a character on the Guild. But he's character has already changed with each RP. Duvnar was always consistent). It got to the point where I decided it would be cool if Duvnar adopted a son to aid him on his travels. This son became Gwazi Magnum.

Then about a year after that was when the star wars community I was with introduced me to the Guild. By this point Gwazi had started to become my main character used so I made my username for the Guild Gwazi Magnum. And that became the name I used right up until the Guild crashed.

Some time before the Guild crashed though, I was playing an MMO called Guild Wars 2 with some friends of mine and my current character on the MMO was Gwazi Magnum. One time during this I got bored while waiting in the human capital, so I stripped all my characters clothes off other than pink pants and started dancing in the player lobby. :P

Within 5 minutes everyone else there had joined in and one of the friends I played with coined me the nickname Magic Magnum in reference to the male stripper Magic Mike.
I took a big liking to that name and it became a long running joke. Once the Guild was back up though and we had the chance to pick new names I figured I might as well change my name to Magic Magnum.

TLDR: Duvnar Magnum (RP Character) -> Gwazi Magnum (Duvnar's Son) -> Magic Magnum (MMO incident).

As for the Avatar?

That's just me on Christmas Day showing off all the stuff I got for Christmas including:

-N7 Hoodie
-Tom Baker's Hat
-Tom Baker's Scarf
-IT Crowd Shirt
-Breaking Bad mug
-Matt Smith's sonic screwdriver

[Halo]

Avatar/Signature because JLaw is freaking awesome. I really love some of the quotes from Silver Linings - they're pertinent to me and I connect to the characters a lot. I switch around though.

The name... well, it's a shortening of the horrific name I had on oldguild, which I created on a whim at the tender age of 13, "HaloAssault". Halo became a handle of mine, it's what I was known as. There's other reasons that I like the name, though, mainly to do with irony. I've been an emotional support for a massive number of people, through all sorts of rather difficult personal problems, across the world. At this stage, after several years of giving most of my free time to this purpose, it is perhaps my only significant defining quality outside of "lolgoodgrades". I've been described as a guardian angel more times than I'm comfortable with by some of those people. I couldn't have a more different view of myself, so Halo, by chance, ended up appealing to my sense of irony. There are numerous other reasons I stuck with this name, but I can't be bothered listing them all.

[Darog the Badger God]

No idea, just liked it.

No idea, just like rocket raccoon

[Serpentine]

Halo said Avatar/Signature because JLaw is freaking awesome. I really love some of the quotes from Silver Linings - they're pertinent to me and I connect to the characters a lot. I switch around though.The name... well, it's a shortening of the horrific name I had on oldguild, which I created on a whim at the tender age of 13, "HaloAssault". Halo became a handle of mine, it's what I was known as. There's other reasons that I like the name, though, mainly to do with irony. I've been an emotional support for a massive number of people, through all sorts of rather difficult personal problems, across the world. At this stage, after several years of giving most of my free time to this purpose, it is perhaps my only significant defining quality outside of "lolgoodgrades". I've been described as a guardian angel more times than I'm comfortable with by some of those people. I couldn't have a more different view of myself, so Halo, by chance, ended up appealing to my sense of irony. There are numerous other reasons I stuck with this name, but I can't be bothered listing them all.

♥♥♥

Darog the Badger God said No idea, just liked it.No idea, just like rocket raccoon

You put a lot of thought into that, didn't you, Drago?

[Cayden Black]

My name was from a combination of the meaning "spirit of Warrior" and "death" so it means Spirit of the Warrior of Death. It was the name I chose for my gamertag o Xbox and on Steam as my display name. It's a name I've used for over 6 years now. I never plan on changing it.

As for the picture. I like the chose images that feel right for what ever reason. I prefer to get ones that look like me in anime form but that's not always the case (as with this one. I don't have black hair...)

[MelonHead]

Reminds me not to take myself so seriously.

And I can't fit my old spinning avatar, so unicorn.

[Darog the Badger God]

Serpentine said
♥♥♥You put a lot of thought into that, didn't you, Drago?

oh you!

[Goldmarble]

Old identity was too 16 year old proto-emo.

Couple years back, I was dragged into a local paintball team, and needed a nickname. Only paintball gun I had at the time, was rather unique: An original Tippmann 98 Special Edition in Goldmarble powdercoating.



Only made in a limited run back in like, 1999-2000 or something. So, I took Goldmarble and ran with it. Been using it for pretty much everything since.

Avatar? Came across the pics that the guy took of bird corpses found in Tanzania's Lake Natron, and was mildly fascinated by the posing he did with them. Suits my morbid, old, grouchy personality to some extent I'm told.

More birds if you didn't know about this

[Hunter of Shadows]

My name is an old handle I've had for years now, based on a character who was an information broker, ergo a hunter of shadows.

As for the rest, I love dark souls, nuff said

[Smiral]

who the fuck has a reason behind their avi?

I go by Smiral because Nex made a typo and it stuck extremely hard.

EDIT: also, holy shit, I want to yell at several people that have posted in this thread, the fuck you doing writing paragraphs

[Halo]

Smiral said
who the fuck has a reason behind their avi?I go by Smiral because Nex made a typo and it stuck extremely hard.EDIT: also, holy shit, I want to yell at several people that have posted in this thread, the fuck you doing writing paragraphs

Explaining. Why do you expect people to have as little meaning in their username as you do? It's an identity; whether through design or coincidence, there's often a lot of meaning placed in a name. There doesn't have to be, but I fail to see your issue with it.

[Smiral]

Halo said
Explaining. Why do you expect people to have as little meaning in their username as you do? It's an identity; whether through design or coincidence, there's often a lot of meaning placed in a name. There doesn't have to be, but I fail to see your issue with it.

>taking me seriously

come on guise I thought we understood how this works by now, it's been like 2 years

[Kaga]

My old username was Kagamine cuz I was in the middle of a huge Vocaloid phase back then. A lot of people just called me Kaga, though, which actually managed to spread to my IRL circle of friends, as well. Pretty much all my friends just call me Kaga now, even the ones that don't know the origin of the name.

The Vocaloid thing died down considerably actually a while ago, plus I started thinking the name was kind of unoriginal and dumb. I started preferring 'Kaga' even back on the old Guild, but it was too much of a hassle to change. Rebooting the Guild was a good opportunity, though. Besides, I feel like 'Kaga' has a nice ring to it.

As for the avatar... I just like Trigun. That's all.

[Drakel]

Avatar: I made it... because I liked my little comic things... :D

Username: Isn't this obvious? xD

[Halo]

Smiral said
>taking me seriouslycome on guise I thought we understood how this works by now, it's been like 2 years

I didn't think you were seriously annoyed, but for you to even think to say something about it the thought process of "writing lots = bad" must have occurred. Look, people are gonna assume you're trying to make some sort of point when you say something. It's what we developed communication for, and even if someone is being sarcastic or satirical or ironic or whatever, they're still making some sort of relevant point. Otherwise every single one of your posts may as well just say "cheese". So, considering they don't just say "cheese", people will assume you're saying /something/ about the topic at hand. You can't expect people to treat every single one of your posts as devoid of any meaning whatsoever if what you're saying in it has reference to the topic at hand. Not treating something as serious is not the same as treating the post as a piece of utter randomness without any relevance whatsoever.
Plus you've been nippy as all-fuck lately and I wanted to make a point. Stahp. Contribute to discussion, that is the only purpose of a forum. Only posting things you desire people to ignore because they're non-relevant means you're just taking up server space. And having spoken to you before, I know you aren't a fucking idiot with nothing to contribute, and that when you actually try you can bring up some interesting stuff.

tl;dr: don't expect people to treat your posts as random if they reference the topic at hand, because "not taking seriously" =/= "treating as utterly irrelevant and random nonsense that has no relevance and thus no point". Also, stop with the nippiness.

[monstahunta]

Halo said
I didn't think you were seriously annoyed, but for you to even think to say something about it the thought process of "writing lots = bad" must have occurred. Look, people are gonna assume you're trying to make some sort of point when you say something. It's what we developed communication for, and even if someone is being sarcastic or satirical or ironic or whatever, they're still making some sort of relevant point. Otherwise every single one of your posts may as well just say "cheese". So, considering they don't just say "cheese", people will assume you're saying /something/ about the topic at hand. You can't expect people to treat every single one of your posts as devoid of any meaning whatsoever if what you're saying in it has reference to the topic at hand. Not treating something as serious is not the same as treating the post as a piece of utter randomness without any relevance whatsoever.Plus you've been nippy as all-fuck lately and I wanted to make a point. Stahp. Contribute to discussion, that is the only purpose of a forum. Only posting things you desire people to ignore because they're non-relevant means you're just taking up server space. And having spoken to you before, I know you aren't a fucking idiot with nothing to contribute, and that when you actually try you can bring up some interesting stuff.tl;dr: don't expect people to treat your posts as random if they reference the topic at hand, because "not taking seriously" =/= "treating as utterly irrelevant and random nonsense that has no relevance and thus no point". Also, stop with the nippiness.

I think this is the first time I've done this non-sarcastically, .

[Skallagrim]

The name is one I've used for years on various sites and is the name of my first and longest running arena character. The avatar is how people remember the name.