Where did your username come from?

[Maden]

No fancy origin really. A long time ago I went by random names I made up on the spot for every single site I used. As it was getting tedious remembering those, especially for places I intended to use more often, I wanted to have a more permanent nick.

In this case, I just decided to use the first two words in my native language that came to mind at that time. Decided to cut the latter half at some point due to character limits often not accepting the full version. Nowadays I have to go with some variation of Maden every now and then because other people register with that nickname before I do.

[Akiana01]

Took Akko and Diana and smooshed them together. I liked Akiana better than Diakko, I say it like arcana, so I don't annunciate the i after the k. 

I'm just getting into the games of Touhou, but I've been following the memes for a few years. Any recommendations? I'm setting up 12.3 right now.

[anEmptyBliss]

The caretaker. kinda

[Ballast]

Mine is fairly simply my family is pretty involved in the armed forces as such I became pretty interested in the military as well particularly planes and boats, I got the idea from ballast tanks and ballast weights on boats and planes respectively, I thought ballast would be a cool name. 

[Andrew Whiteingale 1998]

mY real name./

[Crab]

Crab.
*points at the lake*

 

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Ok, sorry, I'll be giving a proper answer now. I do like crabs a bunch, but there are a plethora other reasons besides that. I can't deny the memes the DNA of the soul had a good share on this decision. Also the "Crabulon" boss from Calamity Mod had a tiny bit persuasion for having such an awesome theme. Click on the spoiler for more.

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No, the OTHER spoiler.

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There is also a little story. Once upon a time, a young Crab was playing an RPG. Over there you could play as Hunter, and one of the characteristics of that class was that you could tame pets. The little me thought "That's so cool! I wonder which ones I can get? There are so many options!". And on the whole realm of possibilities I had, I could have chosen a stealthy lynx, a ferocious wolf, a tenacious crocodile, a agile owl, maybe a stalwart bear. Many many options for one little me.

Then I saw a blue crab at the shore. Hell yeah.

 

[Stan]

My current username is Stan. It started as a thought of changing my username to something super generic as a joke but I think I will keep it as I like this username. I have not changed my username in years. unanimously over the internet my old username was Schloozy. I have used it since I was 12. It came from the words schtick and oozy. I used to think those were such funny words. 

EDIT: Stan was also the name of my first terraria character which probably added a bit of significance to the name in my mind.

Edited January 30 by Stan