Everybody else all together, starting with my new boy!

nonelikemesince - I know this username sounds pretty arrogant, but it's an adaptation of a canon line from Abyss, and a scene that momslilassassin and I adapted for the Field of Dreams plot, I think. When Luke and Ben go to the Lake of Apparitions and meet Anakin's Force ghost, Ben tells Anakin, "You're a legend, Anakin. Your sacrifice saved the Jedi. There hasn't been another Jedi Knight as strong as you since."

So the real reason I chose this reference is because of Anakin's response (and this scene is going to go into his userinfo as soon as I get around to doing that):

Anakin scowled, then looked back to Luke. "You must be going soft on them."

Luke smiled, but shook his head. "Not at all. Ben is right . . . I have high hopes for Ben, but there hasn't been a Jedi Knight like you again. Losing you was as great a loss to the Order as it was to your family."

Anakin's eyes grew worried. "It shouldn't have been. The Order can't wait for a great Jedi Knight to lead it. That's what everyone thought I was, and when I died too much died with me." He turned to Ben. "Don't make the mistake I did, don't let anyone push you into that. Every Jedi Knight has to be his own light, because the light shouldn't go out when one Jedi dies."

Because Anakin hasn't yet developed his hero reputation, much less the "legendary" status he'll take on after his death, I like the contrast implied in the username.

batwaffles - Again, more of a Batgirl- era Stephanie reference than one that fits her current bit of the canon timeline, but see how much I care. Waffles are a running gag in Steph's Batgirl run: making waffles for breakfast is her mom's way of bonding with her, but someone (usually but not always Steph) is seen eating waffles in every. Single. Issue. Also the username was free and I wanted to snag it.

But since this is DC comics canon, I feel I'm perfectly justified in retconning my own explanation to pretend all along like it was also a clever reference to A) how she goes from being Spoiler to Robin back to Spoiler again, which is related to B) how Batman keeps swinging wildly between telling her he needs her help on a mission and then turning around and saying that she's incompetent and should quit vigilante-ing and go home. And then recruiting her help again. GOD, BRUCE, MAKE UP YOUR MIND. Anyway, you could say the big Bat waffles about her.

YEAH, THAT WAS CLEVER. I'M RETCONNING THAT INTO MY REASONING TO MAKE MYSELF LOOK WITTY.

weetuskenraider - You know how Anakin Solo has ICE BLUE EYES and Jaina and Jacen have BRANDY-BROWN EYES? Throughout New Jedi Order the one physical attribute they kept hammering home about Tahiri was that she was tiny: very slender, and also short enough that at seventeen years old her feet don't touch the floor when she's sitting in a chair. The fact that she's the adopted daughter of a Tusken Raider tribe, on the other hand, was a big thing in Junior Jedi Knights and then got all but forgotten from NJO on. She's also a lot more dangerous than she looks, so I like how the contrast in the name reflects that.

brat_intraining - Kennedy's a total brat, and as a Potential Slayer she's in training to learn to kick evil's ass. Pretty straightforward (ha), right? There's really no super clever reasoning here, and no, the underscore pattern matching life_inshadow's username wasn't intentional.

Watch me stress out already over OH GOD THIS USERNAME WON'T BE APPLICABLE MUCH LONGER HOW SHOULD I CHANGE IT TO SOMETHING THAT WILL FIT BUT NOT BREAK THE THEME AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

thismaskiwear - Katchoo's a lot more emotionally vulnerable than she lets on. Her username is the title of a poem she wrote in high school (see her userinfo for the text of it) and a very appropriate quote to describe her, and I still can't believe it wasn't taken when I created it.