We all have our own unique names in the fandom, and a lot of us have stories behind the choices we made upon choosing our fursona names. If you have one and you'd like to share it, feel free too. Many of them are interesting to hear, so speak up!
The story about my name was partly through the anime I watched, more particularly the character I cosplayed, Mitsukuni Haninozuka, from Ouran High School Host Club. Or better known as Hunny-senpai. He had a bubbly personality that I enjoyed. About two years ago roughly, I welcomed a new family member into my home, my now 2 1/2 year old kitty name Hunny. Based on those two, the bubbly personality of the character I cosplayed, and my extremely hyper kitty, after joining the furry fandom, I thought giving myself the 'sona' name Hunny was the best choice. It suited me well and I thought it was very cute~ ^ 0^
Mine was just my online name before I ever became a furry.
I liked to walk around my high school and try to think up new names. One day my tongue stumbled over this one. I didn't know at the time it was a name that already existed (though I spelled it differently and had a slightly different pronunciation). I liked it so I used it. Then the surname is just my favorite animal (and now fursona species) spelled as though it were a last name.
It's a real nick name, since I was young. My older sister had two boston terriers she took to fly ball and I liked to help. One of the ladies on the team had a staffy named Rant that I instantly bonded with, and was always around, they started calling me Rant because wherever I went she'd follow... :/ :-3
My original fursona was a white staffy, and it hasn't changed too much :3
My fursona's name is Shadow.
I made her as a kid, and I never changed the name.
It's ironic since her name is 'Shadow' and she is afraid of the dark.
Her back story is still a work in progress. If you guys want I can try and type what I got so far.
~~Shadowwolf
My username came from when I wasn't too serious on the fandom. Of course, I needed the "Furry" and the "Man" in the name to differentiate from my real name, Jack.
My Raccoon is just called Jack, after my IRL self.
My Micro Fox self is named George "Zed" Fox because of George Shrinks and Antz. "Zed" is the Canadian way to say our protagonist from Antz: Zee.
I borrowed the name Anton from a character in Steve Gallacci's "Birthright" comics, which ran in 'Critters' in the late '80s (I believe); originally I was online with the name of my D&D character, Thog (strength 18/60, intelligence 4), but when he got his face eaten off by some sort of undead thingie I figured I'd go with something else, and that felt right, when shortened to Tony. (His middle name, in-character, is K'Therin, which I've developed as a patronymic - 'kit of Therin' - his father's name is Therin. And Greyfox is his clan name. I think way too hard about my characters' backgrounds.)
Other characters I run occasionally: Dhani (panther; Dhani is from Swahili, though apparently it also means 'rich' in Hindi - I picked it for a character I play on a Lion King RP and transferred her over to my other RP areas); Keileigh (ferret - just a cool spelling); Kamau (zebra - I forget which African language I got this one from, but it means 'Silent warrior').
I have a god father who came all the way from England to see me but by then i was already named Marklen so he didn't get to help name me, but he said that if he could have he would have given me the name "Dante Dorian Jones" as my unoffical name. that is why my fursona is named Dante, and his brother is Dorian, and why his aunt's last name is Jones.
Dante spent most of his time as a teen playing Devil May Cry because the main character's name is Dante, so as a young adult he started "In The Night" as his company, he investigates the paranormal and exterminates evil, not to mention the large liabrary of books on such things he keeps. when you see him he will likely be in a long black jacket with white lining, black cargo pants, and holding a Winchester rifle over his shoulder clanging against his black feather earring.
Black, Pink, Silver, Lead, and a whole lot of fun.
Mine was created back when I was no older than 13-14 and I was just getting into the fandom, I had this dragon character (yes, me the red, white and yellow one here) that I use to draw a lot and i had a tendency to draw him simply living out my own fantasy's.. but that's aside the point, I pretty much bridged the gap and took on the identity as my own seeing as really Drake Wingfire was nothing more than a mirror/ inner personification of myself.
The name came from a relative lack of imagination, I was heavy into Dragonheart at the time and was on the world biggest dragon bend haha. The name Drake always seemed like a cool.. yet very cliche dragon name right next to every single other name that literally translates into "dragon" in some other language haha. So knowing that at the time I opted to come up with a last name for myself and really all I did was look at my character and go "hmmmm.. uhhh... any relevant features that could pertain to a dragony last name..... hey! red and yellow wings... looks kinda fiery... Wingfire?.. hmm sure!" lol thats more or less the story behind my name. XD
: Tony Greyfox link=topic=3556.msg49096#msg49096 date=1302923392
Kamau (zebra - I forget which African language I got this one from, but it means 'Silent warrior').
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KAMAU : - Kikuyu of Kenya name meaning "quiet/silent warrior." (Swahili Language)
Well Van_Fox means Im a fox that lives in Vancouver XD Pretty easy. But my fursona name is my own. Van_Fox is just my online name, as well as Spice_Weasel021 and Foxy_Gamer.
M'aoi is a contraction of the Japanese words for green (midori) and blue (aoi) mixing to make a feline sounding name. Also my fursona has turquoise hair which is a mixture of green and blue. The last name, Neko, is just Japanese for cat which I figured would be a common family name for Japanese cats.
I couldn't decide if my fursonas name should be completely made up or if I should keep it simple.
So I just scrunched wolf and fox together and got Folx
but then it sounded too simple to me, so I ended up just putting
my actual name into it...making it more simple
DARG!!! XD
Mine I got from Second Life, where my avatar is a blue girl.. People ended up just calling her Blue, and the name stuck.
My gaming name is "media", I had friends that called me Mee Dee Air (mediar). I rolled a cat character in EQ2, named him mediar. Needed to pick a name for furries, changed it to sound like mee dee arrr(media). The End.
Ryan backwards equals Nayr. Nothing too special, just kinda thought it sounded cool.
Slightly complicated really...
Amur_Tiger has been my handle/gamingID for more then a decade but when I first broke into the fandom I chose a different name, mainly because the character I created needed a more distinct name then one of the other names for his species.
Thus Sikhoten Tiger came to be, representing that the character I created was a tiger form the Sikhote-Alin range, this was more of a title then a name as wild tigers would have little need for specific names given the size of their social groups.
However as his story coalesced some exposure to humans and other furs who placed more value in names and as a result he gained the name Bitsa Medz, the mangled pronounciation of 'Bear killer' in russian by some english speakers working with the Siberian Tiger project.
I always just kind of stuck with Chris when I wasn't really all that into the fandom, but when I got hardcore into it, I really got into it.
I decided my fursona would be what I have most in common with, so I picked a snow leopard. Later became the bunny/snowleopard hybrid with funky colors and markings and such. Once I had that, all I knew was "I want a name that starts with Z" because I love names with Zs, and "Zythren" just blurted out. It was the first thing I said and I have no idea where or how it came out of my mouth. It just did. So I feel like it was meant to be. Cheesy, yes. People tend to mis pronounce it as "Zith-ren" which it isn't. It's pronounced "Zeye-thren". :3
So Zythren just randomly happened and was the first thing I said while making my first real fursona, and it's stuck ever since. I luff it :3
Can't answer this fully without an image, so i'll necro this thread later
Because I am chaotic and balanced... and because I can be Wicked or Lovely.... But together, You get something truely remarkable :3
: WickedLovely April 18, 2011, 08:18:35 -06:00
Because I am chaotic and balanced... and because I can be Wicked or Lovely.... But together, You get something truely remarkable :3
and you share your name with a book about faeries.
Univaded is a mispronunciation of "Undivided". I used to read a lot of maps back in the day when roads around here were classified as minor, secondary, undivided and divided freeways. One day while traveling down King George Highway I told my parents "This is a Univaded freeway!" They never let me forget that.
my xbox live gamer tag im so imaginative
Mine's from my Japanese teacher. xD
I was wearing a shirt with a cat on it.. So she started with "Kat" and it eventually became what it is ever since. :3
Cause z00p@gmail.com is taken, I needed a new nickname, so I anagrammed my full name around till it atleast sounded like something. Tyranos!
But that was before I had a fursona. Then I drew a random scalie character. And my friend told me to name him Tyranos cuz Tyranos sounded scalie.
Thus he was born <3
The story of z00p is a much less interesting one, lol.
I was in a Husky Staition and saw a bottle of Oil and the brand was called "Karo" i thought it was a cool name.
: z00p April 20, 2011, 01:22:01 -06:00
Cause z00p@gmail.com is taken, I needed a new nickname, so I anagrammed my full name around till it atleast sounded like something. Tyranos!
But that was before I had a fursona. Then I drew a random scalie character. And my friend told me to name him Tyranos cuz Tyranos sounded scalie.
Thus he was born <3
The story of z00p is a much less interesting one, lol.
But I wanna hear the story of z00p. You've never told meh!
: Katsuke April 20, 2011, 09:44:17 -06:00
But I wanna hear the story of z00p. You've never told meh!
Yeah I have! I think ._.
It was when I needed a new name to use online instead of psycho_fool, and I thought the sounds Mr. Saturns make in Earthbound was cool so I used that. But I remembered wrong cause they say z00t!, not z00p!
^^;
Mine is simple, it is the result of running a phonetic J-Lo algorithm on my real name. You do that and you get M-Br or Ember. It was the first thing that came to me when I first logged into a furry irc server, and it kind of stuck.
The unfortunate side effect of this plan is that it resulted in my having a girl's name :monocle:
I never really had a character name till i was signing up for Secondlife and they asked for a first name. I was watching The Simpson's at the time and Duffman was on so the lazy uncreative side of me just put Duffman :P
So my name ended up being Duffman Catnap and i thought it sounded cool. everyone just started calling me Duffy, so it stuck.
The name 'spuug' took a few years to arrive.
In 1988, I passed the test to become an amateur radio operator.
I was given the option of choosing the suffix of my radio station call sign, but it had to be 3 letters.
My initials are WG, so I decided to spell the W as UU, and so I chose UUG.
The prefix was determined by the province where I was (Alberta), so I was given the radio callsign VE6UUG.
I started to use 'uug' as my nickname on bulletin boards.
In 1991, I was studying computer science, and I was friends with one of the system administrators, so I asked to have my user name changed to 'uug', which he did for me. (In the unix world, there is a certain amount of prestige associated with short user names.)
I was in a campus club, the Computer Science Undergraduate Society, and one day we were playing a word game in the club office. The president's name was Scott, and he had the nickname of "Spot". So we were taking the sp- from Spot, and applying it to the names of the other club members.
Pam -> Spam, Marc -> Sparc, Kerry -> Sperry, Zein -> Spain
At first I was "Spilliam". (Scott liked the "spill" part, as in "built to spill".) But I quickly suggested "Spuug" instead, combining the sp- from Spot with my login name, 'uug'.
I had a copy of "The New Hacker's Dictionary", and it had an entry for "spooge":
spooge /spooj/ 1. n. Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program. 2. vi. To generate spooge (sense 1).
This sounded like it described me well! (I was unaware of the more mainstream meaning of the term at the time.)
One of my Dutch-speaking classmates made a pained face when he heard of this, but he wouldn't tell me why.
It turns out that 'spuug' is a Dutch word meaning "spit" (saliva, or as a verb, to expectorate), and is used as an euphemism for "vomit". (Like how we, in English, say a baby is "spitting up".)
So I started using 'spuug' on bulletin boards, and on IRC, and online in general. Since I came to the furry fandom via IRC, it became my fur name also. And the rest is history.
I don't usually bump topics but this seems bump worthy.
I just wanted to come up with a name that's short and sweet, something that you can put on the back of a Canadian license plate and still have space for random numbers.
Originally, I decided to go with a really generic everyday name such as Stefan, but I decided to just shorten it to Tef, pronounced [təv]. My favourite weather is typhoon weather, reflecting my fursona's elemental siding of predominantly wind and subdominantly water, of which I ended up pronouncing [taɪvun] half of the time, and originally, I wanted to go with T3f, but I'm not a fan of leetspeak either way.
In addition, I wanted a name that reflects a bit on my fursona, a Tamaskan Sled Dog.
Originally (this word is becoming a broken record in the post), I wanted to go with Xok, pronounced the same as Shock, but I'm not that much of an electrifying fur myself.
(Hopefully I haven't posted here already. There don't seem to be that many new threads.)
My fursona has gone through a few names already. Originally, Kimari. A friend suggested that and I just thought it was cool. And then I changed forum (gaiaonline) usernames and decided to start off fresh, with Kai. But...I soon realized that was a really popular nickname. So, I was hunting for interesting names. And when I was at work, Jasper randomly popped into my head, and I couldn't get rid of it. Despite the Twilight references, I love my new name <3 I'm sticking with it.
Well. Now I feel generic. :/
But, my parents were actually going to call me 'Kai' at some point. They figured i'd get made fun of in the long run though... but I like it.
Yay, rant time.
So there are three parts to my name, Murphy Erasmus Grimmerie. First name, dominant parent's name, species. So if, for example, my rat Diego was a grimm, she'd be Diego Murphy Grimmerie (or grimmerat? Silly.) If I were to use my real name, I'd be Maggie David Grimmerie, but Murphy Erasmus sounds cooler ;)
First name, Murphy. Murphy's Law sorta sums up my life. Seriously, almost anything in my life that can fuck up will, often in a hilarious way. Need to wake up at six? Screw that, you're waking up at seven by vomiting on your face. Oh, you have a party tomorrow that you need to cook for? Awesome, when presetting the oven, you'll forget your mother put her computer in there, set the laptop and oven on fire, and end up with the fire department mocking you (TRUE FUCKIN STORY YOU GUYS). You're going on a week-long skiing trip tomorrow? HAVE THE NORWALK VIRUS. Life hates me, and likes to prove it by making fun of me at every possible opportunity.
Okay, now for Erasmus. I was talking to a friend of mine about names and he suggested Erasmus. Now, I'd been mulling names over for a while, and I realized this really fits. Saint Erasmus is the patron saint of sailors, and sometimes, before or after swords, "St. Elmo's Fire" will appear, to prove to sailors that they have the protection of St Erasmus. In my life I feel like, whenever I face something especially hard (a storm, if you will), my dad gives me strength and helps me through. He's my St. Erasmus, so he's part of my name (and now part of my body thanks to my tattoo!)
Grimmerie - my species! I won't go on a long rant here; essentially they're big bear-like canines with manes and back spikes. And parents can be any combination of either sex - male+male, male+female, female+female - as insemination can only be achieved when two grimms have mated for life and combined their souls. They also don't achieve sexual maturity until they've figured what gender they are, and their sex corresponds. Yep, awesome species, I know. B)
The 'Eskape' part come from the film Finding Nemo. You know when Dory and Marlin are trapped by the shark and then Dory reads the hatch inside of the shipwreck and says while reading the door " Hey, look. "Esc-a-pay". I wonder what that means? That's funny, it's spelled just like the word "escape." "
So I though I'd be original and spell the word escape wrong, purposely replacing the 'c' with a 'k'. With one reason being: it can then be pronounced 'esc-a-pay', it also gives it a french 'je suis' sound to it, and since my first names starts with a 'k' its just a little bit more mysterious lol ( long rant about one word!)
As for 'Peanut'......I like them!! Really though 'peanut' is more of a cute thing in its meaning. I'm a bit of an introvert..I have a bit of a 'shell' when it comes to myself (I'm more shy then having some type of wall up), however once you break it open you find I'm a but nutty and eccentric and weird. I'm short LOL I also seem to attracts Stellar's jays and squirrels when I'm outside.... I also make awesome sandwiches!!!
Now! As for my fursona being called Peanut. Peanut the bat... He's a Peter's Woolly False Vampire Bat.. so that makes him a cannibal in a way since that species eats other bats! He's cute and seems harmless but will eat you... SURPRISE! Much like peanuts which seems harmless but cause about 150 to 200 deaths a year for allergies!! SO WATCH OUT! Peanut's gonna get ya, eat ya, then eskape! xD Never to be caught!!
I'm so funny.... :)
Well, when I first got into the fandom four years ago, I really didn't think much of it. I pretty much just referred to myself as "Kitteh" on chatrooms and such. I was also a generic black cat, as generic as one could get =D
It wasn't until about 2 years ago I started going as Nyan Kolaris. Despite what EVERYBODY thinks, I did not get the name from the god-damn Nyan Cat >:C How the story goes is this:
Two years ago, a friend of a friend was running a fashion show that was showcasing different Japanese styles. She was desperate for a male model, so my friend suggested that I model in the show. I agreed, and we were all set. Except for the fact that my real name wouldn't sound very sexy or model-like (Kevin, despite it's meaning, doesn't sound very sexy or alluring). This led to a pondering session with my friend over what my "model" name should be. We were throwing vaguely Japanese sounding names around, when she said "Nyan-ko?" My reply: "...so much yes". (Now, at this point I did not know that 'nyan' was also Japanese for 'meow') Once the show was over, I realized Nyan was actually a pretty badass sounding name, and my fursona was evolving to have more unique, standout features. I kind of figured that Kitteh was as generic as a genericat could get, so I ditched that name and changed it to Nyan. As for Kolaris; well, I just extended the '-ko' from Nyan-ko to a name that sounded badass to my 16 year old self. And that is all she wrote, I guess. Not terribly exciting as origin stories go, but then again, we can't all be brooding millionaires who adopt the mantle of a bat to fight crime in order to fulfill a childhood promise to his murdered parents, can we?
When I was 10, I had a active imagination, and had this idea for a fox character guy thing that was white. It was a project dear to me so I was trying to come up with a name, and though I like my actual name Fraser, I wanted to make it sound more 'spacey'. So I kind of threw a Z in there because I thought that was pretty sci fi. Also turned an E to an A. Thus, Fazar
Now I got two new characters who are kind of being my avatar, name, ect. Jolan was me trying to fancify "Joe". Wanted a simple name for my Skull guy.
Haurbus was when I felt I was able to be more exotic at names, and I recall being impressed by the word Omnibus. Haur was just a made up sound that sounded kind of exotic so I rolled with it.
Moved to Coquitlam with a guy that was in the fandom. I thought fur names were pretty stupid, so I didn't have anything different then my Government name and my email address. We planned to go out to a dinner meet and he told me to make up a fur name. On the spot I came up with Kohl. I learned a few months later that it was the same name of his past dog.
I chose the name Snoww back in 2006 when I was first coming online. I assumed that there are many different individuals with the same name as Snow, SnoWolf, SnowWolf... so I opted to tack on an extra W... and I think it looks well; not every word can have an extra letter at the end and I think it works well in my case to differ myself from others.
The extra 'w' in my name means wolf, and Wolf I am.
I love the band Kings of Leon, and the name Leon reminds me of the stars, for some odd reason.. :-X
Nothing ground breaking for mine. When I first got involved with the fandom, I went by Dall. It later extended into Dallas as the name appealed to me. Now people assume I'm a texan.
For those who don't know me by now, I'm an otherkin (though you'll have to ask me the specifics, since I'm WAY more vanilla than your usual, crystal-waving, magick-practising wack-job otherkin), and I used to be way more into the whole practical shit like meditation and all that crap. The name "Neox" came to me many years ago while I was sitting on my bed listening to Serenity by Godsmack, sorting through the vast creative depths of my mind, trying to figure out more about this new sensation that was my discovery of my affinity to my character and to dragons, in-general.
After I abandoned the whole metaphysical garbage that I was suckered into by the draconic otherkin community (added to the fact that I was 13 at the time), I learned to figure out more about myself and my representation of myself as a dragon through my artwork. Even after that night the name "Neox' came to me, it always felt like something was missing... like that was only part of a name. After a while, I finally sat down and started brainstorming names which incorporated "Neox." Then I put together "Naetholix," which is an almost-anagram of "Neox."
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: Naetholix November 17, 2011, 11:44:20 -07:00
For those who don't know me by now, I'm an otherkin (though you'll have to ask me the specifics, since I'm WAY more vanilla than your usual, crystal-waving, magick-practising wack-job otherkin), and I used to be way more into the whole practical shit like meditation and all that crap. The name "Neox" came to me many years ago while I was sitting on my bed listening to Serenity by Godsmack, sorting through the vast creative depths of my mind, trying to figure out more about this new sensation that was my discovery of my affinity to my character and to dragons, in-general.
After I abandoned the whole metaphysical garbage that I was suckered into by the draconic otherkin community (added to the fact that I was 13 at the time), I learned to figure out more about myself and my representation of myself as a dragon through my artwork. Even after that night the name "Neox' came to me, it always felt like something was missing... like that was only part of a name. After a while, I finally sat down and started brainstorming names which incorporated "Neox." Then I put together "Naetholix," which is an almost-anagram of "Neox."
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Haha a lot more clever than I, shit that's crazy though, that was the same age that I was going through that Draconic/ Kin related identity/ discovery O.=.o crazy
Off topic, but yeah, I think most people find out they're a furry/otherkin at that age because that's when kids typically hit their identity crisis in middle-school as they're trying to find a group to fit into (if they don't already have one). Most of us discover who we are as people around that age. For many, the furry/otherkin thing is just a fad and it fades away after time; but for me, it's a legitimate solid feeling that's stuck with me for 9 years and shows no signs of dying.
That is a pretty good point. Heck most people I have seen find the furry fandom at about 14-16 it seems. While I only just recently started to feel comfortable using the Draconic label once again, the inner identity and spirituality managed to stick it through since the beginning. I really can't see me fading form the fandom as a general any time soon.
Unfortunately, my story is incredibly bland. Ruby is the name that I've been using for over a decade; I chose it way back then because it just...fit.
Basically I started out with something really long- SentimentalSerpent.
I liked the word sentimental, plus it's a word that could be used to help describe me. P: And I love all things reptile, so, serpent.
Often that name would be too long so I would just go with 'Sentimental', and friends would just shorten it to Senti.
Which brings me to another point-
When I originally started USING the name I looked it up and found that in some kinda indian language it could be translated into a certain.... intimate body part (tee-hee) and I'd also heard that in another language it meant 'getting high' or something like that.
EITHER WAY, I didn't really care. Lol.
However if you look it up NOW, I guess apparently some people actually use the word/it's defined as being an actual word that's short for sentimental.
Which.... I dunno, I kinda hope it doesn't really catch on- and I feel that whoever put it up on UD (where it first showed up) did it 'cause of me.
I like it anyway- feels kinda original to meeee and other people seemed to like it too so it stuck with me. (:
My name that was literally in print in front of me, but when seeing it, something just kinda clicked in my head, like it was MY name. It kinda seemed different to me. Not some generic Japanese sounding name (no offense to you guys ^^;) but it didn't sound bland either. As for the last name (Drachen) i didn't even know it was the German word for, what else, dragon, but it was something that was kinda floating in my head. And being of a German bloodline, it just kinda...fit.
my fursona started out as elias fuzzybottom, just a cute name i thought of one day, it sounded like some bookworm mixed with a little cute and cuddlyness so i used it for a while, but after i got a nickname from my current gf (roo) i decided to take her last name and add it to that for my fursona instead, i plan to use elias fuzzybottom again but i have yet to think of an alternate fursona to attach the name to
I guess this will be a good time to mention my character's history, which does involve his name.
I created my character late Feb/early March of 2008 and gave him the name Vorp. I'll give you one guess on where I came up with that. A couple of months later I grew a strong dislike towards the other community I'm part of, and I also wasn't really planning on becoming to active in the fandom, so I pushed my character to the side with no plans of ever bringing him back. That's also about the same time I started to check out Doom Metal bands.
Thanks to North encouraging me to go, I attended Rainfurrest '08, and after the con I decided to bring back my character but with a different name. By then I became a huge fan of Doom Metal, and I decided to base my name off of a band I like. One problem: most of them didn't really connect. Sometime later I watched the DVD release by Solitude Aeturnus called Hour of Despair, and when I heard them say their name, something clicked and that's when I decided to name my character 'Aeturnus.'
Mine's nice and simple:
Boomer= Slang for male kangaroo
Flyer = Slang for female kangaroo
I'm a boy, so I'm a Boomer :thumbs:
I tried to be more creative, but I never could come up with something I thought was especially great. I may change it some day, but who knows.
XD my original online name was Amaya and amylith kinda popped up from it somehow xD I don't even remember how exactly so yeah :-X
Insipiration for my fursona name Nhyra (pronounce Nee-rah) came from the Guardians of Ga'hoole (sort of).
There is a character in the series called Nyra (pronounced Ny-rah). I liked it the way it sounded, and as I was playing around with it I decided to change the spelling and pronounciation and I ended up creating a different version of the name altogether.
I didn't have a name for my fursona until then, nothing else fit me quite right.
Akonite used to be my IRC login name. A long time ago. Before MSN and such. LOL
Really spelled Aconite, I got it from the dictionary. Its a flower with poisonous roots. Changed the C to a K because thats what my real name starts with. The end. :-D
My Draconic Name :D
I just thought it was neat "Scared" and "Sacred" used the same letters.
I like bats, I've always wanted wings, I've had a lot of health issues, therefore my wings are broken.
It's my real name spelled wrong... :P
I got the nickname Dexter from a youth worker because at the time Dexter was my farovite tv show so he joke around that I was going to grow up to be just like him, so he called me Dex all the time. Though now that I think about it that's really really creepy that some one, a youth worker of all people, thought that I was going to grow up to be a sociopatic serial killer with a nack for playing lady justice :o
Mine is from Second Life for when I made my ass ;D took two random first names that were available because you need a first and a last name at the time and went for something that sounded good.
So if you want to find me on Second Life you know my name! :-3
Well... as for my name, its been my nickname since.. forever and a day X3 Somehow Kristopher, turned into kippy... idk how that process worked, but it happened XD But seriously ive been called that ever since i was like.. man idk.. 4? 3? I use that name for pretty much everything so i figured why not make it my fursona name too? ^_^;
My first online handle/name for my dragon character was "Magnus the Black". I really liked this big derpy dragon from the original Spyro game (http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz140/spyro_dragons/Peace%20Keepers/Magnus.png) named Magnus, so I took his name. 'The Black' I took from the book called Dragonsbane which I had recently read at the time (I was way too young for that book, looking back lol) from the dragon villain Morkeleb the Black in the novel.
Why I go by weremagnus more often now is simply because of deviantArt. when I first joined the site, the name 'Magnus' was taken. I love were-creatures so I just slapped 'were' to the beginning.
I still go by all three variations of my name but weremagnus I think is the one I am most easily recognized by.
lunar prodigy is my dead name. i don't actually go by lunar at all anymore online but people in person just know me as that name. Unlike Lope's transition to Mazosi; i just figure its to hard to get 300 people to start calling you by your new proper fursona. Besides i do not actually tell people i know in person my private online names as a way to keep real life separate from online for professionalism, anonymity and career aspects.
as for the meaning of the name lunar prodigy:
lunar prodigy actually was not about the band prodigy which i love, but rather a creative way to say "moon child" which was a wolf thing since the old character/fursona was a wolf in a time when i played werewolf the apocalypse.... oh so long ago... over a decade.
these days i tend to look at myself mostly as four fa handles which serve various purposes online. the names i keep rather anonymous but have interesting themes or inspirations behind their creation.
-The first is an inside joke about being an author; intended use for my writing entries to keep them anonymous and separate from my art ( because time after time i hated my art taking center stage and having my stories ignored so as a writer only account i don't encounter that problem.
-The second account is much the same case for art except intended to be for professional finished quality stuff. the name is very obscure name from an anime i found cute.
-The third is a inside joke pointed at the kind of art people always asked me to draw, which implies that art account is for fetish stuff ( as i don't draw hard porn or gore, just soft stuff) but essentially to keep the weird away from the normal so that i do not become known as a fetish artist i am not like the name lunar did lol. ( which is why i stopped posting art almost entirely around the time i moved to Vancouver five years ago.
the last account was intended as animation but i am unsure what it shall be just yet.
The identities have character's rather than fursonas. subsequently these four characters represent the spirit, the soul, the heart, and the body.
1) is a cartoon unspecific canine that tends to follow laws of cartoon characters as if he is made of ink and rubber (a throwback to Richard Williams who created "who framed roger rabbit").
2) is a floating Japanese ghost wolf temple guardian who is insubstantial, timeless, and mythical in nature.
3) is a coyote who loves to chew on anything made of wood and is immune to cactus "he likes to use them as scratch posts."
4) was once an inanimate object cast into the shape of a wolf and brought to life, who smells of mint chocolate and who can change shape and size.
As for my actual fursona ( which is new now that lunar prodigy is retired forever), i am a coyote now, no longer just a wolf. though i have had difficulty saying goodbye to the wolf entirely so i have two fursonas. the wolf represents the "ID representing basic instinct and desire" the coyote represents the "SUPER EGO represents the critical and moral side" and the human who interacts with you is simply the "EGO the realistic mentality"
Carl Foxmarten is a fox/pine marten cross.
Carl: Was actually chosen at random, though it did turn out to sound much like my real first name, making it even easier to react to both of them.
Fox: Was what I started with, then remembered that almost everybody new to the fandom wanted to foxes at the time.
Pine Marten: I'd been listening to one of the Redwall books on tape, I think it was Mossflower, which featured a pine marten as a villain's aide or something.
As it's my first fursona, it's not terribly original, but it's not too bad.
Mmm, my story is that my fursona just kind of introduced himself to me as 'Carter' xD <3
Mine is really uninteresting, I assure you.
The character this name comes from is Dietrich, which I just picked out of the aether when I was coming up with a new character on Taps.
Mine was a nickname, most non-english speakers couldn't pronounce my real name so someone decided on the more multicultural "Tito." Also it was the name of that commmunist Yugoslavian dictator who had the balls of steel to tell Stalin to stfu which is cool. 42 because it is the answer to life the universe and everything.
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My name came from a misspelling of "Twins" - from a poorly translated japanese > english text I read somewhere on the internet a loooong time ago. I pronounce it (Tins). The last name, Darkwulf - just thought it sounded neat ;D
Mine's just based off my real nickname of being a total retro dork. :3
I used to be really into Meerkat Manor (got lost somewhere around the fourth season, though) and always loved Tosca. Even if she did get kind of a bad rap. :U When renaming my 'sona for something like the sixth time, I went with that and it finally stuck.
Well I just go by J.R. I gave my fursona the same name because I don't really view my furry nature as a separate entity but an overall part of me. KermodeJay is a username that I've used for a while now, Its pretty self explanatory and KermodeJR didn't sound right to me.
Nemulas ended up being a long drawn out process of.. well. just browsing through a random name generator. I was looking around for a good marksmen name for guildwars way back in the day and the name Nemulas sounded A touch more well. natureish sounding and unique too. which is why I liked it. and it happened at around the same time I first heard about the furry community, so the timing was perfect. hehe.
Interesting tales and accounts, I could partly relate to Weremagnus' account (Tito42 is also innovative).
You find a name and an identity you can relate and you go by it.
The origin of the name came from Worman. Back there I deducted several terms such as man, woman, wolf, world and... worm. When venturing into into the realm of therianthropy (which I admit to have one paw in it), were creatures was interesting to learn more about. When developing the name of Worman to Wereman I went from the assumption that I would change my name and identity several times. This was the case with my animal side as it changed over the years. The "were creature" and "man" best fit into the name of Wereman which is something that has remained since.
I was talking to my friend while we were brainstorming my fursona, and since my fursonas base colour is lime green, i called her Lime :birdy:
: Lime June 09, 2012, 04:56:21 -06:00
I was talking to my friend while we were brainstorming my fursona, and since my fursonas base colour is lime green, i called her Lime :birdy:
That makes it convenient, though a great name.