Post by Rad on Jul 19, 2011 1:36:42 GMT -8
The Name Game~
This thread was created because Rad’s insane curiosity about how you all got your aliases is killing her…
How to Play: Simply tell us the sequence of events that led to your current pseudonym. If the name you’re using is your real name you may choose to tell us why you were named that way. Participation is optional~
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Okay, since I suggested it, let me start us off. The tale of how I acquired my pseudonym is rather long and begins (Four? Three?) years ago when I first switched to roleplaying humanoids instead of wolves. (Before that my appellation was always ‘Cloud’ because one of the homophones of my Chinese name translates into ‘Cloud’. Apparently it suited me because I used to, and still do, space out a lot).
Anyway, since back then I still RPed under the restrictive regulations of Neopets forums, my more vulgar characters had to find a child-friendly alternative for your typical everyday profanities. For me, the solution was ‘rattlesnakes’. (Why? Because I was going through a snakes-are-freaking-AWESOME phase at the time and also thought that the word had huge potential as a swear word. *nods*)
My use of ‘rattlesnakes’ as a swear word in RPs gave me the title of Rattlesnake amongst the people who knew me. Anyhow, this continued for some time until people abbreviated it to ‘Snakie’. I was perfectly okay with this until some random guy in the guild I was in at that time pointed out it that it was one letter away from ‘nakie’ which just sounded SO COMPLETELY WRONG.
So after that people started calling me Rattle instead. Yup, for a while I was referred to as the cute little toy that infants play with which is awesomebecause I like being the baby of my RP family. In any case, at one point the leader made a ‘typo’ by calling me Raddle…which was all good cause it’s like a new word was created just to describe me~ *giggle* However, not long after that it was abbreviated to simply Rad because people were lazy because I’m like…totally Rad~! ;D *brick’d*
That has been my RP name ever since (although in some one-on-one RPs I got called by some other aliases. Heheh).
My real name is Dana. :3
This thread was created because Rad’s insane curiosity about how you all got your aliases is killing her…
How to Play: Simply tell us the sequence of events that led to your current pseudonym. If the name you’re using is your real name you may choose to tell us why you were named that way. Participation is optional~
-x-
Okay, since I suggested it, let me start us off. The tale of how I acquired my pseudonym is rather long and begins (Four? Three?) years ago when I first switched to roleplaying humanoids instead of wolves. (Before that my appellation was always ‘Cloud’ because one of the homophones of my Chinese name translates into ‘Cloud’. Apparently it suited me because I used to, and still do, space out a lot).
Anyway, since back then I still RPed under the restrictive regulations of Neopets forums, my more vulgar characters had to find a child-friendly alternative for your typical everyday profanities. For me, the solution was ‘rattlesnakes’. (Why? Because I was going through a snakes-are-freaking-AWESOME phase at the time and also thought that the word had huge potential as a swear word. *nods*)
My use of ‘rattlesnakes’ as a swear word in RPs gave me the title of Rattlesnake amongst the people who knew me. Anyhow, this continued for some time until people abbreviated it to ‘Snakie’. I was perfectly okay with this until some random guy in the guild I was in at that time pointed out it that it was one letter away from ‘nakie’ which just sounded SO COMPLETELY WRONG.
So after that people started calling me Rattle instead. Yup, for a while I was referred to as the cute little toy that infants play with which is awesome
That has been my RP name ever since (although in some one-on-one RPs I got called by some other aliases. Heheh).
My real name is Dana. :3