Meme: What's In A Name?

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Looks like we did this one last in June, and with new characters, why not do it again?

It's really simple (which is nice if you're still recovering from a holiday weekend like I am) and goes like this:

Tell us about your character's LJ name, what it means and how you decided on it?

Bonus points for the username stories of your past characters too. Okay, I can't really give bonus points but pretend you get 'em for this.

That's all. See? Easy.

Comments

[halfman-lion.livejournal.com]

NEWEST ONE FIRST! Even though it's boring.

halfman_lion is a combination of Tyrion's canon nickname of "halfman" -- because no one in the books can let him forget he's a dwarf for 30 seconds -- and the fact lions are the symbol of House Lannister. I had cunning_imp reserved first, but it struck me as too cutesy for Tyrion.

And the slightly updated cut-and-paste:

bitten_notshy -- Jack's whole thing with Sebastien involves getting bitten, and he is not in the least shy in any sense. Plus, I liked the idea of riffing on a saying. ( living_endless had the same kind of name.)

chief_cheerio is a straight-up reference to her former canon status as head cheerleader. Very creative. If we go over to Dreamwidth, it'll be former_cheerio, since the cheering thing really hasn't happened in Fandom.

life_inshadow is from Tara's big song in "Once More with Feeling." It made sense to me as her username because at the precanon point I was taking her from, a lot of her life had been very shadowy and repressed. She's not so much in shadow these days , but I couldn't imagine changing it.

twintuitionist -- Juliet is convinced she has a psychic link with Jeremy, but twintuition (which she calls it in canon) was sadly taken and nothing else I thought of felt right. stars_and_money suggested this version and I went YAY. It is a bastard to type, though.

withoutverona ... well, he started as fair_montague which got annoying after I played him long enough to realize he didn't need to remind everybody he was pretty in every single thread. So I started raiding canon for usable quotes. This comes from "There is no world without Verona walls/ But purgatory, torture, hell itself," which is Romeo being melodramatic about being banished. He doesn't feel that way anymore, but it's a hell of a reminder of where he started from.