I’m always very curious about nicknames. There’s a story to what we call ourselves, and I’d be really interested to hear how you got the name you go by.
My story for going by the name ‘QuadRaptor’ goes back to roughly 1997 or so. The first computer video game I ever got was Quake 1. I played that game for at least 12 years. Anyway, when I first started playing, Jurassic Park had recently come out and I was obsessed with Velociraptors. So my original nickname on Quake was ‘Raptor’. However, there were some players on there that kept asking me stuff as if I was a friend of theirs. Turned out there was another Quake player that went by ‘Raptor’, but named after the F-22 Raptor jet rather than the dinosaur.
So I was trying to think of how I could make my name more unique. One of the powerups in Quake is called ‘Quad Damage’. So I put ‘Quad’ and ‘Raptor’ together, and there you go. It’s been my nickname for about 16 years now XD
So that’s my story. How about yours? How’d you get your nickname?
Very simple: Zoroark is one of my favorite Pokemon.
I’ll explain why.
It has one of the greatest designs I’ve ever seen.
Zorua was my first shiny EVER. I’m waiting until PokeBank comes out so I can transfer my shiny Zoroark.
It guided me through Black and White and it was probably my most reliable and powerful team member.
It’s ability, illusion, disguises it as the last Pokemon in your party. I’m really fascinated by illusions. Also, I love disguises
Competitively, it’s one of my favorite to use. It has a super-high Special Attack and Speed, with equally good Attack. It learns many, many useful moves. I can’t make a UU team without Zoroark.
infernape is still my favorite pokemon though guys don’t freak out
Mine probably has the least amount of imagination: Sly+ my initials
Even though people think crg stands for ‘Craig’…or say it like it reads when it’s meant to be read as Sly C R G
I actually pronounce your name, Sly, with syllables that I can’t verbally utter. I always read it in my head… if that makes any sense.
My name? Least creativity as well.
I went by Kookaburra a while before because they were among my favorite birds, but everyone who knew me by “Reset”, another username I go by, still called me that, so people got confused.
I took Kooka, my most common nickname, and fused it with “reset,” dropping the “re.” And that’s how I got Kookaset.
I have a more creative name, but it’s sort of private, so I didn’t get to use it.
Well my name is a little more complicated, the first part “Shen” is a sort of a play off the word “Sensei”. One of my friends I was teaching Jujutsu to decided to call me Sensei, and I was like… K… So at at that point I was Sensei W00, but I wanted to shorten it up a tad, so I chopped the last three letters off. Then I was Sen W00
But to me, and my friends that looked weird. So we morphed it a bit into Shen, which is equally Japanese and pronounced the same.
As for the last part, it’s simple, fist 3 letters of my formal last name, replacing the “o’s” with “0’s”
Zoroark, you reminded me of one of my other nicknames for a while. In addition to QuadRaptor, I also went by Gyarados316. I was on a Pokemon RPG forum and my character on there was a water-based gym leader named ‘Gyarados’. Happened to be one of my favorite Pokemon at the time, and I added the ‘316’ part because at the time I was watching WWF/WWE and was a huge Stone Cold Steve Austin fan. So that’s a reference to his ‘Austin 3:16’ bit.
Reloadable…
I used to play a game called the World of Magic, and I’ve been using this name ever since, because it’s what I named my very first character…I don’t have the slightest idea why I picked it though
Wooaahhh, I played World of Magic too! I think my username was Scarf or something, but I forgot. Maybe it was Scarff. Or Scarrf. I don’t really know haha
