I like rabbits, wings, and odd hiiragana romanization. The name comes from CLAMP's WISH series.

My sister and I were watching Utena with a friend, and when they mentioned Akio's name, my friend asked, "Wait, who is Akio?"
We pointed him out next time Akio came on screen, and my friend said, "He's Akio? I thought his name was.....Dognog."

I have no idea where she even got "Dognog" so I just guessed it was a really messed up version of "Dios"

A Dognog-related snack is Ding-Dongs and eggnog!

I can't remember if I had ever posted to this thread, so bear with me if I already have.

But yeah, The reason for my username(which I use almost everywhere online, TBH) is two fold:

- One: to signify my overall anime fandom, as "Onsen Mark" is the teacher of Ataru's class in Urusei Yatsura.
- Two: part of it's my real first name(no, not that -- I doubt there are many people going around with the first name "Onsen", lol.)

I've hated my first name.


It's boring. Terrible. One syllable. The epitome of lame. It doesn't even have any symbolism in it. Lame.


However, it wasn't until high school when a teacher only called us by our last names that something lit up in my brain. Florence. I don't know anyone in the entire flipping world whose first, middle or last name is Florence. I am...

The only Florence.

My username is my meatspace name as well.

I just picked this once because I thought it was cute, and then I've been using it a lot since because I usually can't think of anything better.

Take Japanese human name of one protagonist from Megaman Battle Network, and human protagonist's Jap. last name from Megaman Star Force, and that's my username.

Why? I dunno. It was at the height of my Megaman craziness, but I don't regret it. (... Okay, maybe a little, but only because I've overused the Saito part too many times since then. But it's a hell of a lot better than most anything I had used before then. /Example: USERNAME ST-FULL-MOON WTF ARE YOU ANYMORE /)

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I'm a sucker for Old European literature, particularly post-Roman stuff, Norse epics and the like.

And since right now I'm in the whole mode of "Royal Knight of the Queen" after seeing both Turn A Gundam and Revolutionary Girl Utena at the same time, I couldn't resist but registering under this name hahaha

and frowned at the things that I pretty much couldn't changed (like my PSN login. *irritated face*)

Oh god, I know how you feel. I want to change my PSN name.... lots. It looks like there are options for setting up different accounts there... I might look into that at some point, I don't know if it's something that would work or not. Or maybe I can get a new name with the PS4, whenever that comes out. I imagine it's closer than I'd expect, since nintendo's new thing is out. I'll probably need to go through the trouble of opening a new e-mail account somewhere for it or something. Anyways, I really like the new (two-part) name you came up with. I think it sounds great.

I chose my name mostly because I felt it was fairly genderless, which I enjoyed. I'm a male if anyone here cares, and hasn't read the secret santa thread, but yeah. I also like the way it sort of "flows" with the l's and... soft v? I'm really not sure how to describe a word phonetically. I guess I'll stop trying and just say I liked the way it sounded.

My Grandfather introduced me to Everquest when I was roughly 7-8 years old. He suggested the name 'Dazmi' for some reason and I still use this name. So, yeah.

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I got my user name from my dad's mom.

Valeli wrote:

I had one question that might be better in another thread, but doesn't seem too out of place here: what's your forum name mean/from/how do you say it? Is the Kita part meaning north (as in Japanese), and if so what's Ysabell? Actually, what's Ysabell regardless, and how do you say it? Is it like Isabelle? Eees-belle? Other? Just curious. I like it. Even though I'm not entirely sure how to say it. Which is probably a bit odd.

I'd be obliged if no one asks why

I'm sorry, I just re-read the first bit of your post and this jumped out. Which it hadn't last time. So scrap my question. Still interested in how you pronounce it though, if that's ok. No worries if not.

Because saying "don't ask me this question" is pretty bad form on my part, here is the whole sordid affair.  Be ye warned: it's long, tedious, and a little dumb.

First, pronunciation.  My best guess at a phonetic spelling (note: I have like, zero linguistics expertise, so this could be nonsense and confusing) is "kee-tah ees-ah-bel."  That said, I'm not sure it's meant to be said out loud, it's almost more just a written thing.  But it is not pronounced "kih-tah is-a-bell."

Now, the actual name part.  This was the product of me signing up to Gaia Online in 12th grade, and having zero idea what to use as a screen-name.  I had taken the link from... some online game thing, where I kept naming characters after the characters I was writing.  Which... is kind of where the first name comes from.

Kita, (who I now generally think of as having the full name Nikita) is/was a character of mine.  The name was me just jamming syllables together, and I'm not really pleased with the result, as a) it sounds Japanese, and the character isn't and b) she had a sort of... splinter persona that I took as part of my username for various places on the internet.  So by name alone, she flunks any Mary Sue test, HARD, and while she did go through a Mary Sue phase, I swear she's reformed, but the name sticks.

As for the part where it turned into a username: through high school, I had a somewhat... apocalyptic mindset.  Like, it was going to be a race between global warming, cancer, nuclear war, serial killers, and MIBs to kill me first, and I was scared, so one day I had the brilliant idea to pretend that I had an imaginary friend who could protect me from everything, and since Kita's always been a bit of a badass, she got to be the source of the splinter-identity that filled that role.

And then, fast forward to me sitting in front of the shitty desktop computer with dial up, (ah, 2007!) looking at the Gaia sign-up screen, and I was like, hey, I should come up with two names that I feel kind of describe different aspects of who I am/who I want to be, and hyphenate that shit like a gender-progressive married name!  So, being all I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL and whatnot, the first name that came to mind was that of my fake imaginary protector, Kita.  And to balance that, well.

From about 7th through 9th grade, I had this weird thing where I would try to get a number my friends to correspond with me using pseudonyms.  I dunno, maybe it was a developmental identity thing.  Now, looking back on it, it's more of a headdesky thing.  Most of the names I tried using were really, really stupid.  Ysabell is a variation on my given name (Elizabeth) that sounded more... exotic and fabulous.

I tend to associate it with some of the earliest experiences I had with the friend I used it with, including one night at band camp, getting hyped up on the original Sprite Remix and saying "screw this" to a game of Sardines to go prancing about, getting to know each other and doing absolutely horrible Jack Sparrow impressions.  So... sometimes I think of "Ysabell" as the name of my girly, gregarious, less inhibited persona.  The person I am/try to be when I go shopping or am helping host a party or are going out to dinner with friends.  Hence it seemed like a viable counterpoint to "Kita" to make a username out of.

So now you know.