What's the story behind your avatar and username?

Super Irish · July 29, 2014, 09:16:00 AM

Back when I was an ignorant child and first experiencing the internet after moving from Ireland in 2005 (where we only had terrible dial-up...), I started getting into Runescape with some new friends I'd made.

Made an account, and wanted something to remind me of my Irish-ness in a foreign country, so Superirish was an easy choice. Then I tried to add my birth year, like an idiot.

. Luckily the character limit only allowed the extra "19", and I accepted the account name without noticing until after. Since then the number 19 itself has become a lucky number for me, for various other reasons which I cba to go into.

The name has just stuck for most accounts everywhere, but on Bungie I add a little twist every so often, adding an adjective depending on how I feel regarding something, e.g. I went to Turkey recently and came back still pale white, so on Bungie I'm "Still Pale Irish"

As for the emblem, I either have a Halo 3 emblem of a Shamrock (obvious reasons) or here I've got a Metro guy modified green myself for my interest in post-apocalyptic games and again, irish-ness. Plus I like green.

Jump Into Hell · July 29, 2014, 09:30:50 AM

Helljumpers and shit

Also, I'm a big fan of Anonymous User(deleted)

Sprungli · July 29, 2014, 09:54:34 AM

The name; I was tired of people calling me "Radical Racer" instead of "RadialRacer", and when I decided to change it I was eating some Lindt chocolate. I thought "Spr?ngli" was pretty memorable and difficult to get wrong, I kept the accent so that people would know it was definitely me.

The avatar is my 3 or reach one specifically, but i've had it in every Halo since 2, NO GRUNTS ALLOWED was the original concept

TheMassimo1969 · July 29, 2014, 10:08:45 AM

astronauts look cool

username sounded cool at the time. It was either that or masimatrix, lolnope.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · July 29, 2014, 10:12:15 AM

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velox · July 29, 2014, 10:29:53 AM

Boy, will this be a story.

I've been yoshi95 on various web forums for a long time, because when I was little, Yoshi was my favorite Nintendo character and I was born in 1995 (not every single yoshi95 out there is me, though). I was yoshi95 on bnet for a while as well.
One day I decided that the 95 in the end sounded childish, and I changed it to yoshinator.

A few months ago, I decided to create an alt for fun, and to screw around. I named it Cerulean Velox, where Cerulean is a nuance of blue, and Velox is Latin for swift. I didn't know that it meant swift though, I took it from the Latin name of the Swift Fox, Vulpes Velox. I grew fond of the slightly more random and less strict posting style that I had adopted, and renamed my main to True Velox.

My avatar is, as you can see, a blue fox, which is what my alt's name was supposed to hint at. Yes, I'm a furry. Deal with it.

fatman3000 · July 29, 2014, 10:56:02 AM

My username is something I just made up on the spot when I made the account.

As for my Avatar? Well me and a friend got into a cat selfie war, where she and I would just send each other selfies with our cats. This one was my favourite so I decided to use it as my whatsapp profile picture, and ultimately my profile picture for this site.

Hawk · July 29, 2014, 12:50:57 PM

"Hmm, what should my username be... maybe 'Hawk'"

As for the avatar, my friend introduced me to the show a month or two ago. I liked it, and so the character is now my avatar.

Legit 8-Bit · July 29, 2014, 12:58:04 PM

I just like my name. My friend made my picture for me, though. It's of my face and I'm not sure what the rest is about.

Nascent Email · July 29, 2014, 01:06:52 PM

My username came from joining B.old and wanting to call myself Trojan Horse or Trojanhorse. I find out both names have been taken and then just scrounged for a word that kinda fit at the end and being 14 at the time thought lord sounded cool. My avatar? A friend linked the pic to me and I loved it so I chose it as my avatar on most forums I am on.

Bonewheel Barry · July 29, 2014, 02:14:52 PM

I won't reveal the secret of my username, but for my avatar, well, Smelter Demon is awesome.

i am karjala takaisin · July 29, 2014, 02:19:39 PM

username: changed my gamertag to spirit of amber in early 2011, from that came ember
avatar: comes from this drawing by an artist i like http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/254/d/b/unzipped_by_epicguitar-d5edf15.jpg

Dustin · July 29, 2014, 02:28:44 PM

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mojo · July 29, 2014, 03:43:12 PM

Name:
I thought it sounded unique. :|
Also, I've always been fond of the word "Torso". I was a big Lego fan when I was younger, so I first discovered the word when referring to the torso piece of a Minifigure. The "Dr" part just sounds cool.

My main on b.net is my XBL GT, which was made by my dad. When I was younger, I'd watch him play PC games like Rainbow 6, Ravenshield, etc.(CoD precursors). His username was always Mojo_Marine, and when we got a 360(we never got Xbox Live on our original Xbox), he wanted to make his GT "Mojo_Marine", but it was taken, so he just slapped his birth year on the end of "Mojo". :|
Anyway, he ended up never playing the thing so it defaulted onto me. I just hate that his birth year is on my GT.

Avatar:
My avatar is from a SFM video that I saw a while back. I downloaded the video and made a gif of the part when Shrek is flipping off the sniper dude from TF2. I used it for my coup, so I just reused it here.
My avatar on my Dr Torso account is a picture of the Halo 2 map Zanzibar. Zanzibar was my favorite map in both Halo 2 and 3.
My avatar on my main on b.net b.net is my Halo 3 emblem.

Juuzou · July 29, 2014, 03:46:06 PM

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Legit 8-Bit · July 29, 2014, 03:55:55 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on July 29, 2014, 03:46:06 PM

Quote from: Legit 8-Bit on July 29, 2014, 12:58:04 PM

I just like my name. My friend made my picture for me, though. It's of my face and I'm not sure what the rest is about.
Orange is the New Black is an original series on Netflix.

Yeah, I know. I don't know what the story behind the picture is though.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · August 08, 2014, 10:43:31 AM

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