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.

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[life_inshadow]

Former characters. I am a wee bit self-conscious of the length of this list. OH WELL.

boho_to_be -- Because Christian is going to be a true! Bohemian! revolutionary! someday.

chasingangela -- A play on her surname and the movie "Chasing Amy." Blah blah blah pursuit of self. Oooh, deep.

cutestripeyhat -- Because I was apping Vi before Felicia Day was famous, and the hat was the easiest way to explain which one she was.

doesnt_vomit -- I can't remember the context, but for some reason Temperance Brennan announcing she didn't vomit cracked me up. La.

ella_obeys -- It's her name, and she does.

game_of_you -- Didn't pick this name, but it's the title of one of the Sandman collections.

living_endless -- A play on the saying "the living end," as well as a reference to the fact Didi was a mortal and an Endless. I still really like this one.

meetingsnoopy -- In canon, Melody says that if she went back in time she'd like to meet Snoopy. Coming to Fandom struck me as the kind of thing that would ping her similarly.

one_who_goes -- Henry goes into a canon reverie about how his wife is the one who stays. He, obviously, had to get a user name that matched his status as her other half.

saveyoulater -- This is what Sarah promises in canon at one of the many points where it looks like Chuck is being carted away by the bad guys, Never to Return. It also refers to the fact that she probably is going to save your ass, so nyah.

swipedthatfoot -- Okay, so in canon Claire's first serious boyfriend gets her to suck his toes, then tells his lame friends all about it. They write crap about "little piggies" or whatever on Claire's car. Claire, for reasons that no doubt have to do with being a grief-stricken 17-year-old stoner who grew up in a funeral home, decides the way to retaliate is to steal a foot from the morgue and plant it in her boyfriend's bag. He, understandably, freaks. (Her confession, incidentally, was something like "I didn't burn down a house! ... I might have swiped that foot, though.")

thetoughestcook -- It's what Colette calls herself in canon when she's dressing down Linguini.

tyler_back -- Refers back to tyler_gone, which refers to the canon scene where Marla comes by and the narrator tells her something like, "I don't know where Tyler is. Tyler left. Tyler gone." I figured he'd be in a similar emotional place when he came to Fandom. Also, there's the idea of the Tyler personality being gone .... or not.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now I'm just sad my list isn't longer than yours.

[life_inshadow]

It's not the size of the list of former characters, it's what you do with it?

*waggles eyebrows*

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

I have no actual witty response to that, so here, have a gratuitously sexy icon.