Usernames.

I created my username in 2007 for World of Warcraft. After realizing I was the only person on the internet having this username, I decided to use it for many sites and forums. It has no real signification, except some people might see "mad - sir" but it was not intended to have a signification.

It stands for "Billy The Bum".

... I think I started using GrayShadows for the Yuletide fanfiction exchange? I don't remember why exactly why I chose it, although the idea of 'gray shadows' as more neutral than 'dark shadows' seems familiar -- a more nuanced, intermediary step between dark and light.

Mine has a history. Like others I use it for everything. If FlyingPoodle or Flying_Poodle is too long, I try for just Poodle (but that gets taken more than you'd think).

I'll work backwards:
Like I said, it's the default to anything I do that requires a username and is for entertainment. For serious stuff, I just use my email.
So on League of Legends and other games I play now (I think LoL is it?) people know me as FlyingPoodle, or Poodle for short which is fine.
People think I'm a girl for some reason. Poodles are associated with women more I guess?
I first used FlyingPoodle as Flying_Poodle on Diablo 2 for my Hammerdin. It was hard naming characters on that game w/o having it taken but this stuck and I ran with it. Plus, Hammerdins was a class almost everyone had because...1 hammer = Baal dead...so I had the name a while to stick to me.

We use to have a little play poodle here. My brother use to pick it up and say "fly poodle fly." The poodle didn't like this. So when I was coming up with D2 names, he walked by and boom! FlyingPoodle

Two origins to choose from, neither more correct than the other:

1. A loose Greek translation of the first name I used online back around 1999/2000.

2. A Greek translation for my perpetual state of mind.

my user name kinda has a backstory to it lol (Poco Loco for those that don't know)

when I was 3, I used to like to rhyme (for reasons I cannot explain), so when my mother or grandmother were in the kitchen cooking (may they both R.I.P.), I would smack their asses and they would turn to me and scream "Tu ta Loco?" (are you crazy?) and I would reply "un poco!" (a little) and run away (because I knew I was about to get my ass beat lol), so an old tenant that used to rent a room here would call me poco loco and I would just say "bebiendo agua de coco!" (and I'm drinking coconut water) (I was 3) and that nickname just stuck with me ever since

there are a few others but thats another story lol

LMAO Poco!

I like Poco's, its always nice when gaming handles come from real-life experiences/people.

Actually, my normal gamer handle is kinda similar. "Edrin" on the other hand, has been my goto fantasy name since I was maybe 10. I made it up on a visit to see my mom when I was trying to invent an armored Samus-type character who was male. But I loved the name "Erdrick" growing up from the Dragon Warrior series and "Edrin" popped out. I can't remember why I chose it for my username here.

If you were to see me on pretty much any other gaming site, you would know me as "B-Run" which comes from the earliest days of Nintendo. In the original Mario, you would run faster when you held down the B button, we would call it B-running. "You have to B-run to get over that hole." Well when I was that age (4, 5 maybe?) i was constantly moving and nothing slowed me down, seemingly having an infinite source of energy. My parents dubbed me B-Run, which both my Mom and my Dad still occasionally call me. On more than one occasion I've considered changing my account name here, but figured I was already too-well-established as Edrin.

D'awww, that's cute. 0:-)

Hello !

I adopted this username several years ago when I was looking for a Japanese name to use as username. Then I found Rum & Monkey's Japanese name generator then after I submitted my real name, it gave me Ishimaru Chiaki. Before that, I used Katt (from a BoF2 character) which I don't use anymore as it's too much associated with conflict I had in the past (I have a short temper which was more obvious before I started medication for anxiety). I thus gradually replaced Katt with Ishimaru Chiaki which I still use today, while on some other sites I use MissGeek or MissTux.