lone_defender | What's in a name Meme

The IC What's In A Name? Meme

A rose by any other name might smell just as sweet, but you might not want to find out if its name were 'stinkflower'. Names have meanings and evoke certain thoughts and reactions through each individual's experience.

Usernames are no exception. What you choose for a username, from a cute/amusing quote they've spoken, or has been spoken about them, to a catchphrase associated with them, there are hundreds of possibilities. Your choice says something about what you think of them or how you choose to interpret them for play.

So!

1. Post and share what your username comes from, or what it means.
2. If you want to, meta on how your username reflects your interpretation/style of play for your character (even multiple incarnations/AU accounts of the same character.)
3. Others post to yours with thoughts on your reasons/choice, and what they think or thought it shows for your interpretation/play of the character.
4. Have fun, don't use this as an excuse to start wank or argue about characterization! Every choice and interpretation is valid.

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So. Most of my char journals have stupidly boring usernames. But there are a few I verily enjoy.

This one, for starters.

daredtodo. James T. Kirk, Captain. When I stumbled upon it as an idea for a Kirk journal, I was immediately impressed with my brain. Because there's something about it, to me, that just screams Kirk, especially this rebooted version. It's a play off of Pike's infamous dare to do better, of course. But it represents more than that, to me, at least. A dare is something childish, taken up because you refuse to let anyone get away with calling you chicken. And Jim? Half the time, he's just a kid in over his head. Certainly mine acts that way, destressing most often in silly, immature ways. Nothing to cause harm, just working a little on that screwed up childhood of his, fifteen years later. The other side of having been dared to do something is that, hell yeah, he done done it. Dare him to boldly go where no one has gone before? He'll do it without batting an eye.

Some of my other favourites in my personal arsenal of journals/muses:

atanadvantage, my Spock. You think he's going to be upset that you've insulted his mother and called his human ancestry a disadvantage? Well, excuse you, being a child of both worlds it the hugest advantage he knows. And he will so show you up with this half-breed body and mind of his.

mostofteninred, my Star Trek, might-as-well-be-OC redshirt, Lieutenant Leslie. In Original Series canon, he's see performing a number of jobs, from Engineer to Navigator to Medical Technician to Security. He's a bit departmentally challenged. In one episode, he appears to die. And, yet, he's still around until the actor has to quit. Longest-living redshirt without a constant place in plot or first name. So, yeah, the poor guy may be wearing that ill-fated colour most days, but, haha, in your face, fate, he's not dying anytime soon.

very1967ofyou, my Rodney McKay, of Stargate: Atlantis fame. He's a dork. He's a huge dork. And aside from sharing my headspace with a crapton of Star Trek characters, making this LOL-arious on that level, there's something about him that knows his flaws, knows he's not the suavest guy ever and once, just once, might like to be Prince Charming, rather than always letting the team's Kirk do it.

ETA: If I missed any you want me to talk about, give a poke!

Edited 2011-01-08 12:32 (UTC)

Oh hai thar,

daredtodo. Speaking of stupidly boring usernames...

lt_cmmdr_scott. His name's Scott. And he's a Lieutenant Commander. I suppose I could make something up about how I tend to play him as extremely focused on his place on the ship and how he fits into the ship dynamics (which I do) but mostly I chose that particular username out of laziness. Same for my TOS Scotty,

ltcmmdrscott. I was really stretching the creativity muscles on that one. Oh, and my XI Kirk?

kirk_james_t. I'M REALLY GOOD AT THIS OKAY.

i_likethisship was a bit better. That's my girl!Scotty, for those that don't know. She likes her ship. Y'know, it's excitin'.

ayecandothat is my oft-neglected pre-Academy "Look at me I'm on the USS Deidre" Scotty. His username is pretty self-explanatory. I wish I could claim credit for it, though. I didn't come up with it.

eatabean_bedone is probably my favorite. That's Keenser. Dur. Of course it's Keenser. His username is taken from an Advice Gorn (think Advice Dog, but with the Gorn). I think it sums up Keenser's existence pretty well. And by that I mean he exists mostly to make Scotty look cool. There needs to be a text feature to point out that I'm saying this all very tongue-in-cheek, although I suppose since I've told you, that's a moot point.

AHA. I FOUND MY TOS KIRK.

not_tiberius I love this username. There was a Trek novel I read once, where Kirk mused on having gotten some shit over Tiberius being his middle name, and he'd constantly remind himself that he was not Tiberius. I think it speaks of the depth of Kirk's character - that he's not always the happy-go-lucky womanizer he tends to make people think he is. There's a... well. Not darker in the sense that he's a bad man, but there are some... sort of grayish aspects to his personality, and

not_tiberius reflects those inner battles.

And for a few non-Trek muses:

just_got_real Sgt. Nicholas Angel. Shit just got real.

reallyaniceguy Anthony J. Crowley. Deep down inside, he's really a nice guy.

I have a feeling this comment is all a bit tl;dr.

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