The thread in which we talk about our usernames and avatars

[Libertad]

An avatar and username are prime identifying features of forum users.  Why did you choose your particular username and/or avatar?

Libertad is the Spanish word for Liberty.  My avatar is a picture of Emiliano Zapata, renowned Mexican Revolutionary.  I have a great interest in politics and history, especially of events in eras of social upheaval.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata

Zapata grew up in a feudal era of Mexico where over 90% of the populace labored under slave-like conditions at the mercy of cruel landlords.  The President was a tyrant who brought an end to elections and created a brutal police state.  Zapata became a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, and his policies helped bring land reform, elections, and civil liberties to the Mexican people.

Warning: Libertad's avatar is subject to revolutionary change!  It most commonly takes the form of V from V for Vendetta, fictional anarchist who seeks to overthrow the fascist Norsefire government in a post-nuclear Great Britain.

[sirpercival]

Sir Percival of Avalon was (and still is) one of my favorite characters of all time.

A dashing, chivalrous knight and paladin of the Lady of the Lake, "Percy" (as he was known to his friends) had two bizarre quirks: (a) the ability to fail a save against Charm Person et al. no matter how easy the save was (seriously, over 18 levels of play I never made a save against Charm Person with him), and (b) the ability to get hit by every lightning bolt cast by any person within a mile.

My avatar is the logo I made for my Augury campaign back when I first ran it.

[brujon]

brujon is a handle i started to use some 3 or 4 years ago and derived from Brujo, which is what i used earlier. I got it from Brujeria, a death metal group i'm a major fan of. Reason is, brujo is most of the time already taken, but brujon never is, so... My avatar is Ginko from Mushishi, which is an anime that really got into me, so i'm using it as an avatar, but i'm prone to changing it.

[kurashu]

I'm a weeaboo faggot and lol vegeta.

[:<]

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^"Defeating a sandwich only makes it tastier," Sir Theodore Roosevelt at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1492.

[Shadowhunter]

Shadowhunter was an old NPC I made for a Vampire: the Masquerade campaign that never got anywhere. A Lasombra, bishop of San Fransisco. It's my regular username on all boards related to nerdy stuff, but I have a few others.
Go by SecondMateEagle over at the Privateer Press forum since I play Pirates.
Go by Rezak meklah over at the Bolter and Chainsword forum, but I since I gave up on 40k years ago I seldom have a reason to be logged in.
Used to be Kurlethmir over at the Battlefleet Gothic Forum and Jhurgol at Deathguard.org, both 40k-related forums now extinct.
I belive I also have an account over at the Inquisitor forum, but meh.
I gave up on GW a long time ago (except Blood Bowl, the best idea they ever had).

As for the avatar, it's the picture from the "vampire: the eternal struggle" card Abyssal Hunter. I wanted something to do with Obtenebration and/or Lasombra and it was the best option I could find. That was years ago. Now I just use it out of habit.
If you see a Shadowhunter with the Abyssal Hunter avatar somewhere on the internet, I'm pretty sure it's me.

[SolEiji]

Eiji started out a looong time ago.  His original creation was a human pokemon trainer for some freeform gaming I was into on those early chatrooms.  His name was stolen from Battle Arena Toshinden, an old 1st gen PS1 game whose character happened to resemble the design I chose.  That came and passed and all was good.  Shortly thereafter while shooting the breeze out of character in those same roleplaying chats a running joke started concerning living psychotic dolls.  Since it was my current character I proposed "Eiji Plushie" and proceeded to joke it up.  The joke quickly stuck and I found myself enamoured with this interation, so I kept it, and it quickly became my defacto avatar long after I had stopped running with the joke.

While always a comedic figure, a psychotic one with a perchase for arson and explosions, he was eventually incorporated into a semi-serious array of deities for what I suppose I could call my first campaign setting.  While I could wax on and on in detail about that setting, in this place Eiji Plushie was now the progenitor of a whole race of Eiji Plushies, and he was their god-king.  Given their association with fire, he was placed as a sun god and took up the title of Solaris Eiji.  His background was fleshed and his "Eijilund Plushie" spawn was too.  It was proving to be rather popular in that old RP chat I haunted, and I enjoyed many years of quiet internet fame with this.

When I eventually drifted from that chat elsewhere, the name and lore stuck and grew.  I am now permenantly in the character of Sol Eiji.  The human meat puppet has been abolished, allowing me to escape the confines of his brain and fantasy.  Soon I will awaken in your world, my body will be the sun, and I shall swallow all you delicious earth meats.  In about 5 billion years.  I'm a busy sun god after all.

 

[littha]

Littha was the name of my character from Final Fantasy XI. I believe it was randomly generated somewhere but regardless I have used it from that day forth (better than my previous username: david1383241 for obvious reasons.)

I made the avatar myself because of a character I played in guild wars, called The Muffin is Here. It is a muffin photoshopped over a disco ball with a pile of filters on it in case you couldn't guess. As to why, why not?

[Kajhera]

Kajhera's the name of the volcano goddess for my ... second world crafted, maybe? She wound up being a succubus who stole her deific power in some fashion and was fully leveled in elemental savant twice (earth and fire). xD It later was revealed she violently traded her wings for a phoenix's, and this saved her from a horrible death long before history (barely). She allowed me to get away with saying ridiculous things, and as I slowly became sillier I grew increasingly fond of the name for some reason.

I've also used Kalai or Kalai Eljahn, who's best explained as a character originating from a race of venomous enslaved lawful evil shapeshifting anthropomorphic box jellyfish genetic engineer spies who struggles to overcome her heritage and fit in with human culture without killing people while fending off a hivemind zombie infection, which, as you may have noticed there, does not lend itself to simple explanation.

My avatar's a pretty picture of a kobold I found to use for my e6 kobold archer Mekoti, who is ... a pathfinder shaper 1 / 3.5 cloistered cleric 1 at the moment and will probably remain so for a while.

[Optimator]

My name comes from Spaten Optimator.  I really like the name in itself and I love the beer.  I once went a few months where I would use the word "optimate" for almost every verb.  Fun stuff. 

My avatar, on this forum, was chosen primarily because the forum supports it and I thought it'd look cool.  I usually use a Vault Boy portrait on other forums and websites.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Slaughterhouse Rock is the name of a cheesy horror film with a soundtrack by the band Devo.  Dunno why I chose it, I just liked the sound of it I guess, but it's been my username on damn near every site I've been to since I got the internet.

The Evil Dead films are my favorite horror films, so when I saw an image of King Hippo dressed as Ash, I thought it funny enough to be avatar worthy.  On other sites I use various other horror-related avatars.

[InnaBinder]

When I made the InnaBinder name, I was about a week out from joining a game (which fell apart) where Tome of Magic was available for the first time.  I wanted to build a Binder, was working on short notice, and kept my character sheets in a 3-ring binder.  So, InnaBinder was a pun in a pun, in a pun - all of them bad, but such is life.

Current avatar was one I found amusing, and oddly comforting.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Uhh ...

Do you want US to talk about my kitty avatar?

Do you want to talk with my kitty avatar about Me??

or

Do you want US to talk about Y'all ... 

 

[Unbeliever]

Unbeliever is from the Covenant series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant,_the_Unbeliever) by Stephen R. Donaldson, which I happen to believe is one of the great, mature, and unappreciated works of fantasy.  It's also sufficiently rare that I can usually use it as a handle on web forums, so that I can be consistent across the forums.  That way I don't agonize over screennames (like I do with character names).  Donaldson does have some pretty sweet names throughout the series, though, so maybe I should branch out.

The avatar is Mogo, the loneliest Green Lantern.  He's my favorite of that crew.  Actually, he's the only Green Lantern I like at all, really.  Is that weird? 

[Nicklance]

This is my pen name.

Cirno is my beloved tomboyish daughter...

*looks around*

*walks away quietly*

[RobbyPants]

My avatar:
The current one is a fan art I found of Ink Eyes, Servent of Oni (a M:tG card). When I joined the WotC boards years ago, I happened to pick her as an avatar because I liked the card at the time. It's since been the avatar I've used at several gaming forums since.

Here's the original:

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My username:
Robby Pants is a nickname I picked up almost 15 years ago (my name is Rob). I've been called other variations (Pants, The Pants, Mr. Pants, Pantalones). It stuck with me enough that it was joked about at my wedding rehearsal. We were discussion options of how we'd be introduced after we got married, and the best man piped up: "Mr. and Mrs. The Pants". Even my three-year-old was calling me Robby Pants for a few months.

[DonQuixote]

Don Quixote is just fantastic in...well...pretty much every way.  I also tend to go through life with rose-tinted glasses, so I felt it appropriate.

The avatar is a piece of art done by my late uncle, depicting my first character--William Lyesmith, a bard 5/dragon disciple 2/crusader 3.  Amusingly, the equipment in the picture is actually accurate to William's magic items.

[RobbyPants]

The avatar is a piece of art done by my late uncle, depicting my first character--William Lyesmith, a bard 5/dragon disciple 2/crusader 3.  Amusingly, the equipment in the picture is actually accurate to William's magic items.

Oh, that's cool. I'm sorry to hear about your uncle.

[BrianTheBrain]

When I was in high school, I took Tae Kwon Do and they ordered black belts with our names embroidered on them. When I got mine back, it turned out they spelled my name "Brain" instead of "Brian" on the belt. When I mention this incident and the fact that my name gets spelled that way a lot to my friends, a nickname was born.

The avatar is a panel from Homestuck: a webcomic that balances humorous commentary on the facets and foibles of fantasy, scifi, and adventure gaming with a complex story and compelling characters. I won't spoil what's going on in that picture, but I will say that that moment in the comic sorta spoke to me as a fan of Lovecraft and Spelljammer.

[DonQuixote]

Homestuck isn't exactly a webcomic any more.  What with all the animations, games, and what-have-yous, it has to have changed genres by this point.

I tend to refer to it semi-mockingly as "an experience."