I used to be "Zapphire[insert year of registration here]" (at the time I really like sapphires, and put a Z to sound cooler), then internet people decided to make it cute so then I was "Zaphy". I don't remember how the S came back into the name, but when I discovered my first OOO game (YPP) and saw that "Saphy" was taken, I added "kun" because yay anime, and voila, i r Saphykun

My name comes from a starburst commercial
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=lkvhnRAd4V0
USEF is my clan which I've been in for about seven years

I used to be LichAnikan. Fan of magic, especially those mythical ones. And i'm a starwars fan too. But it was taken.

I got Sothe from fire emblem:rising dawn. A nice game i bought for the wii.

"Cesar" wasn't available, so I used the same name as my Twitter account.

"HI Billy Mays with MIGHTYPUTTY!"

There's your answer xD

It was supposed to be LaN since I used that name for years in every game but It had to be more than 3 letters so I just used 2 L's.

Though thanks to the way the letters in the game look, people call me Lian.

I jumped at the chance to be Kraken during the preview event. There weren't a lot of people (relatively) playing yet, and it wasn't taken. I'm a little obsessed with sea monsters. The friends that I played with then all made a guild of Greek Mythology sea monsters. The rest have since left. The guild now is "Cake or Death" from an Eddie Izzard sketch that I love.

My "normal" or at least most often used forum name is Raineach just about everywhere else. It's Scottish Gaelic for "braken" or "fern." Didn't translate too well to the game. Everyone thinks its "rain-each" like rain each day.

And I'm really OCD about names. I created and deleted a whole bunch of knights because the name wasn't just right, or the personal color wasn't really what I wanted. There comes a trade off point where you invest so much into a character you can't justify deleting it.

I also invest time in Alt characters for the same reasons. I love to accessorize and play with the look of the character. My alt: Viggo is named for a "war-like, battle, or fight" in Nordic origins. So of course he has to have the Troika, Grintovec etc line. Viggo has about half as many hours logged as Kraken. So, a lot of what goes into the name has to do with the persona that I am setting up for the character. I also love Viggo Mortensen, though the name had nothing to do with him and much more to do with Ghostbusters 2.

... I even have a third knight on the account, Duskbunny, which holds down the original guild, just in case. I started with Kubaryana which is the latin species name for the Variable Neon Sea Slug. Look it up - it is awesome. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nembrotha_kubaryana). But that name was long and possibly a pain for others to remember with so many syllables. I made lists of names to choose from, tested several to see if they were taken before deciding on the last. Duskbunny roughly equals dust bunny... but wearing dusky theme.

I love usernames that are cleverly manipulated or just quirky in some way. Like Spaztronaut, Gigglegasm, Nineinchnuts, Steampink, Trashbocks, Derpules, Berzerkules. Steampink in particular is so great because a single letter changes the whole connotation of the name while including the original reference.

TLDR: Picked from a list, changed my mind several times.
... I think I just revealed how OCD I am about this topic.

Thunder Cats.

I've been using Ayln for quite a long time now, but I think it was taken (or else I was bored with just Ayln). I usually add a 9 or 90 to the end of it if it's too short, too, so Ayln9 -> Ayln nine -> Aylnine.

I was going for something sciencey, I think, and I just ended up cutting off "brom-" from "bromthymol" and changed the "y".

I think.

As for "Sylvanius", it was just "Sylvani(a)"+"-us", just for that Dog Latin look.

So I have two accounts. My main is Anakletos, which I found via a Random Name Generator. It means something along the lines of "One who invokes fear"

Traevelliath is a reference to tabletop Warhammer 40,000. The first name of one of the Dark Eldar characters is Traevelliath. Most people know him as Duke Sliscus.

Everyone knows the old cliche of a "knight in shining armour" right? Well, I'm a second-rate one of them.

Ok, dead-last-rate. I'm a terrible person.

I decided to change my online alias to Unknownlord from a laser tag match I played with a friend a long time ago, as well as not wanting to be referred to (in part) as a number.

Also, this is my first post here.

Looked at my birth certificate

Before I made an account I checked the wiki to read up on things, so I didn't noob every second of the game.
I checked the monsters first and the image of the treants stuck to my memory.
They are like trees so I assume oak. (Although I know it doesn't exactly look like it)
A gear is their waist.
So I choose Oakgear as my knight.
(Why trojans are my favorite enemy is another thrilling story)

<<<<<<<< Name explains it's self.

I like more than one style of combat.

Narfle the Garthok? Anyone?

Well, I tried Skyflare and even Horizon, but those were all taken. the next thing on my mind was Skyber.

but actually, It is defined as an account (or the story of), hence the Christian gospels...

Its also the name of a character in a comic I'm making...

Scrappy was taken so I went with the formal version of it. At least I think it is?

Well I like Bears and I like to sleep XD

An Arquebus is a type of old flintlock rifle. When I was first looking around on the Spiral Knights site, I was taken with the medieval-futuristic fusion of the equipment and visual style, and wanted a name to reflect that. A janky old gun seemed perfect, since it's got a good mix of fantasy (janky old) and sci-fi (gun) connotations. It's also a pleasing collection of syllables, and shortens well to Arq.

I have since become a pure gunner, so the fact that I named myself after a gun is highly appropriate!

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