Meme: What's In A Name?

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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.

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Past characters now, wheeeeeeee.

actingltcrumpet - Archie Kennedy's nickname in Horatio Hornblower fandom was "Crumpet." As a midshipman, he was frequently called upon to be an acting lieutenant. Therefore, username. See? Easy.

overlord_zordon - There was something about the idea of a giant floating alien head who masterminded a lot of the fight against evil and was the Dean of Students at the time being referred to as an "overlord" that made me laugh a lot. I like contrast/irony in my usernames, can you tell?

drjcovington - . . . yeah, Doctor Janice Covington, professor of archaeology and Gabrielle's identical descendant far down the line. SUPER INVENTIVE. Look, she was in a single clip-show episode. I didn't have much clever canon dialogue fodder to work with.

queen_of_zagreb - Yitzhak. Drag queen. "The most famous drag queen in all of Zagreb," as a matter of fact. Using that username with icons of a scrawny guy with perpetual beard stubble was hilarious if you're me.

blossomsofice - Sakura Nishihori was known for being the pragmatic, unemotional, detached one on the Boukenger team, constantly referred to as "cool" or "cold" by her teammates, at least according to the fansub translations. Her name's also Sakura, so: Blossoms of Ice.

ladycfitzgerald - Anne Shirley (yes, Rilla's mother) totally Mary Sued herself into all kinds of stories she'd make up in her head. She talks about imagining she was a rich, stunning beauty named Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald, and I liked the allusion to her imagination.

isntabitpretty - Sara Stanley (hello, other L.M. Montgomery canon!) is captivating because of her personality and her voice, but as her cousin Dan says "No, she isn't [pretty]. But you'll think she is while she's talking to you. Everybody does. It's only when you go away from her that you find out she isn't a bit pretty after all."

connernotconnor - Pretty self-explanatory, right? Conner McKnight, on more than one occasion, made sure to specify that his name was "Conner with an E." And then Power Rangers Dino Thunder did an episode called "The Passion of Connor." SIGH. Really, showrunners?

laceycantlie - Because it's true. She gets all stammery and twitchy and it's painfully obvious. It's also, verbatim, what Oscar Leroy tells Lacey her reputation in Dog River is.