The Story Behind Your Username

I'm a big old school AD&D player and "Arthur Higgsbury" was a name originally used by a character I played in a game where I was used to dying a lot. He was a Thief that I had built with enough intelligence to hopefully switch to Magic-User one day. Thought he was a goner when he ended up on his first big solo mission before reaching level 2. Snuck into the guard's barracks, made it out with some important documents that led to us stopping a human sacrifice. He never died, but sadly the campaign eventually died out. Never did manage to switch to MU, but I pulled off some crazy stunts with him.

Made him into an NPC when I eventually started running my own games. Ever since then the name's kinda just stuck with me.
 
Espada said:
I Don't know really how i got this username.

I Try to get with spanish, Espada means sword so it's quiet majestic i guess so.
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It's really a cool word(it's the same in Portuguese, and similar[Spada] in Italian) and it's origin comes from the latin "spatha" that actually did not mean "sword"(that was "gladius") but a specific type/model of sword used during the late end of the Roman Empire, and was used also during the early Middle Age, and it comes from the Ancient Greek "spáthē". You may got that it sounds familiar, right? Like a small town, maybe you heard of it, know as Sparta? :guts:
 
Beelzebud said:
It's really a cool word(it's the same in Portuguese, and similar[Spada] in Italian) and it's origin comes from the latin "spatha" that actually did not mean "sword"(that was "gladius") but a specific type/model of sword used during the late end of the Roman Empire, and was used also during the early Middle Age, and it comes from the Ancient Greek "spáthē". You may got that it sounds familiar, right? Like a small town, maybe you heard of it, know as Sparta? :guts:
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Hey sorry for going off-topic, but I don't think Sparta's name is correlated with "spáthē".

The general consensus is that it comes from ''spēro'', (''Σπείρω'', to sow, to seed).
 
Scott Rugeles said:
Hey sorry for going off-topic, but I don't think Sparta's name is correlated with "spáthē".

The general consensus is that it comes from ''spēro'', (''Σπείρω'', to sow, to seed).
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Yeah, that's the consensus, but it's still a similarly pronounced word, linguistics are very complex and don't follow a straight line, but don't want to deep much into this here at this thread.
 
M stands for “Michael,” my English name since middle school.
W represents the first letter of my surname.
C is civilian should do in the next 50 years.
I stands for “Insight.”
F represents “Flash.”
J stands for “Jack,” my English name from primary school.
 
Hey love the thread my story is basically just that kids kept calling me trash at games and I eventually agreed with them but after that I realized I called trash cans trashbins so I just went with trashbinboy and I've used it ever since
 
Perhaps unsurprisingly for someone who loves Miura's Berserk, I've always loved Russian literature and specialized in it during my undergraduate. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, and Bulgakov are amongst my favorite writers. "Sokol" is Russian for Falcon, which was the nickname I had as a little kid in elementary school when we all got secret nicknames, usually based on animals or mythical creatures. I later used "Falcon" to sign my writing projects when I handed it out to friends, and it became my personal signature. I was young and knew nothing about Berserk or Griffith at the time, funnily enough.

When I created a Steam account as a teenager, in high school, I had already read a bunch of Russian fiction, and chose the name "Sokolva," adding the common Russian suffix for names, "va" and it stuck, the way some gaming names do. My husband, who I've been with for 13 years and met through a Left 4 Dead gaming clan while I was in college, still calls me Sokolva, or Kolva, rather than my given name. I've continued to incorporate the name Sokolva into my given name quietly as part of my signature for writing and art projects.
 
I'm a RedLetterMedia fanatic, especially their Best of the Worst series. "Coffin Sister" was a nickname one of the RLM guys gave to a female character from an incomprehensible 1974 vanity project film known for being exceptionally awful, and the guys were compiling a list of female actresses who appeared but weren't given any character by the writer/director/main actor, so they nicknamed them by how they appeared in whatever scene(s) they were in (such as Indoor White Bikini, Where's Waldo? Taylor Swift, Bronzer Girl, Coffin Sister).

I lost it at the nonchalance of Coffin Sister, cracked me up. It was still fresh in my mind when I made an account here, so that's who I am here.
 
Lawliet said:
I've seen a lot of interesting usernames on SK, so I was wondering about what everyone's username meant or if there's a story behind it (except @Griffith. I know Miura stole that name from you!)

Mine is based on the character of L from Death Note, whose real name was revealed to be L Lawliet. I picked this as a username on PSN years ago and it stuck (some friends use that instead of my real name lol). Not an interesting story I'm afraid.

What about you guys?
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I can explain right here what "Keek" means. It's a Nickname for those with the middle name "Enrique", in Spanish, "Kiki" is a nick-name that references those who who have this name to call to them in short-form slang. My Grand-Father called me "Keek" in place of having to say "Kiki", who is now dead. But the name itself carried to other people who refer this delegation to me, thus I am Keek.

Mirror the letters and push them together, Brand of Sacrifice.
 
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