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[screwthegods]

Here, have a topping icon.

So, I'm curious, and easily bored at work. What do your characters' journal names mean?

Example! Screwthegods is pretty much Homura's attitude towards Heaven, and budgetordie is Tatsumi's attitude towards life. ^.^

Alternately, if you could have a different journal name for any of your characters, what would it be?

Comments

[i-slay-giants.livejournal.com]

I'm probably not an ideal person to comment on your question as my character isn't even in play yet, but you asked a question that allows me to complain about how silly Livejournal is. :P

Starting with the second your part of the question, I tried to name my journal "I_climb_beanstalks", since that brings to mind the story most people know about Jack. Sadly, LJ said it was too long. So I went with "I_slay_giants" becase Jack grew up to be the Jack from the "Jack the Giant Killer" tales.

Alternate Homura journal name could be "Stealing Konzen's monkey". :P

[screwthegods]

I think I_slay_giants is cute. And no worries! I'm not playing Tatsumi yet, but it should be okay since they've been accepted. :)

And if not, the mods will take us out back and beat us senseless.

That's too many letters. :P He's in your base, stealin' your monkey.

[jei.livejournal.com]

Jei is Farfarello's canon "real name." Nothing complicated. ^^;

[screwthegods]

What would you have gone with if you hadn't won the battle against countless WK fangirls? :P

[forgot-it-all.livejournal.com]

Forgot_it_all is a reference to Ritsuka's 10 year memory blank due to his personality switch. I would have gone with Loveless (his Sacrifice name) but that was taken. Now I'm thinking he should just be called Jailbait or Shotaball or something.

Notachick is because...well, Okita's not a chick. BUT HE DAMN WELL ACTS LIKE ONE.

[screwthegods]

Now I'm thinking he should just be called Jailbait or Shotaball or something.

Especially with all the canon bondage art of him.

And not so much Okita, but Tetsu should be topped_by_pig or something like that. :D

[byname-bynature.livejournal.com]

Artemis has been described as "Fowl by name and foul by nature", so it just seemed to fit. I would have liked byname&bynature, but ampersands are a no-no. ^^;; I also debated using one of Artemis' many pseudonyms like Emmesy Squire (MC^2), and Dr. F. Roy Dean Schlippe (Freudian Slip), but I figured it'd be harder to know who it was. ^^;;

[screwthegods]

Ooh. I like the name/nature thing. That's clever. What canon is he from? I might have to explore this now.

[zalia.livejournal.com]

Ed's is lost_metal, which I guess is pretty straightforward. All of my Ed RP journals have something to do with metal 'cause of his automail, and he's kinda' lost in Landel's.

Yohji's is never_learns, which I think sums him up perfectly. He has a tattoo which says 'When you gonna' learn?' and he keeps falling in love with the wrong person, keeps making the same mistakes over and over again ^^;

Kenren's is opposingheaven, which is pretty self explanatory too ^^;

Rangiku's is fuyunohanabi, which is the title of the song on Gin's album which she and Gin duet. Means 'winter fireworks'

Byakko's is catsandsaucers, which has pretty much no reason at all ^^; Except that it came to me while I was working and I really liked it.

[screwthegods]

I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS KENREN IS. AT ALL.

And ha, nice to know Byakko's has no meaning. I've been trying to figure it out, and failing.

[theheirshinra.livejournal.com]

Talionisshinra comes from 'Lex Talionis' which means 'The Law of Revenge' which is the AIM name any of them can be found under.

Theheirshinra is pretty clear. Rufus is the heir to the Shinra legacy.

RabastLestrange comes from, duh, Rabastan Lestrange

DeathInvitation comes from Sephiroth's song, 'One Winged Angel'.

James Sunderland's dnrdni comes from the DNR/DNI order, a callback to Mary.

The Dementor's (dementorkiss) is pretty basic with that being what they do.

[31st-of-china.livejournal.com]

Haha, nice icon. :3

Sanzo's is pretty self-explanatory, but part of me wanted to get "trigger-happy-monk".

Kasady's is just how he views his bond with the symbiote.

[screwthegods]

Ooh, I like trigger-happy-monk. Except it'd have to be one word to fit in the character limit. ;)

And thank you! moshesque made it. :D

[colortheory.livejournal.com]

ciaccona--I...honestly don't know why the hell I chose this. It's the Italian reading of "chaconne," a French musical form which is basically similar to the pasacoglia, or "variations on a theme" (FUN FACT: Pachelbel's Canon in D--which I HATE XD--isn't actually a Canon...it's a pasacoglia). As for how that relates to my jailbait!Elena...it's anyone's guess. I made the journal almost a year ago. I may have thought I was being clever back then...but now...XD;

just_shiny--In Firefly-verse, "shiny" is the new slang for cool/okay/happy, etc. Kaylee says it a lot. XD

totallytheseme--I mean, c'mon. He IS totally the seme. Plus, "totallytheattacker" was too many letters.

[nijiironohako.livejournal.com]

*pets Hikaru*
He only thinks he's seme.

[famira.livejournal.com]

Qui-Gon's qui_gonjinn doesn't really need an explanation, other than that it was a recycled LJ I'd used in a previous RP.

Darman's clone_boy isn't really too creative either. He's a clone and a boy in years. I GUESS. xD

Eddie Brock's blacksustenance came from a Venom/Spider-man slash fanfic (same title). Black 'cause he's, uh, black as Venom and sustenance for food. That and I just suck at names, so it was random.

[thehellismycar.livejournal.com]

This is Dean's journal name because canonly it throws him to not know of the Impala's whereabouts, and given the Landel's situation I'm sure it would be among the first thoughts to spring up. It's basically a member of the family. Y'know when you create a journal, and a username just appears in your mind and it sticks there? Yeah. Nothing else seemed to suit him.

Fuu's (seizethesun) is my way of saying she's an optimist. It's a weak play on carpe diem, seize the day. I originally doted on 'prettyinpink', but I must say I much prefer this name.

[screwthegods]

For Fuu, I like seizethesun better too, especially since she's always going after the sunflower samurai. When I first saw the name, I thought it had something to do with that too. :) The play on carpe diem is cute too though, and very much her.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

muted_flame: Just referring to the fact that Landel's makes Roy's alchemy SUCK. Yeah, not very creative. XD

scintillatingly: I actually have the definition in the userinfo, but I'll paste here:
1. Throwing off sparks. Flashing.
2. Sparkling or shining.
3. Being animated or brilliant.
Sora is full of light and is a bright sort of person, so yes. XD;; This username is sort of pretentious.

still_free: The opening theme song of Firefly has a line that goes, "I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me." XD;; And that whole song is basically about Mal, so... yes.

championofright: Also from the opening song. (I'm so creative.) Daring duck of mystery, champion of right~ Darkwing also refers to himself as the champion of right in the show a few times.

razing_phoenix: That's the name of Guy's Mystic Arte (awesome attack, basically) in the game. Oh, noble conflagration... Razing Phoenix! Yes. ♥

[thehellismycar.livejournal.com]

Y'know if you listen to the Firefly theme enough times, it becomes "You can't take this guy from me."

*shot*

[gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com]

Ken's image flower is a Gentian, and whenever he's drawn with them they're blue...a variety of blue Gentian is the trumpet gentian, or 'Gentiana clusii.'

It's a very pretty flower (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Gentiana-clusii-ClusiusEnzian.jpg), really. :D

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

Ooo, that is pretty. :D

[subversive.livejournal.com]

Kadaj's (divinedestiny) is... A SECRET. Actually, no, I just feel sort of stupid about how it came about, AND, if I wasn't trying to NOT spend money, I'd buy a rename token for him... maybe. But anyhow. It's from a song by Tool called "Flood." Lyrics are over here. (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Tool/Flood.html) I thought it was appropriate seeing as how Kadaj got sort of killed and then completely screwed over by being dragged to Landel's when he thought his mother was going to take him somewhere peaceful and happy where he could finally rest. See this line: "Thought the sun would come deliver me, but the truth has come to punish me instead." AND the whole water thing links in to the healing rain that Aerith sent that facilitated the whole process.

Yes. I am a dork.

AS FOR LIGHT (godhood), that's just his whole I WILL BE THE GOD OF THE NEW WORLD thing shining through. I was also considering the usernames "god" and "justice," but neither of them were available. Sad.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

Actually, that song is... pretty fitting for Kadaj. Me likey. :D

[godsgift2man.livejournal.com]

Dias (heavens_too_far) has a well-known angsty line in his canon. His best friend and surrogate little sister, Rena, is asking him for something; he finally agrees, however grudgingly. Rena, delighted, thanks him...and then announces that Cecille (Dias' little sister, killed along with the rest of his family some years ago in Dias' and Rena's hometown) thanks Dias too.

After Rena leaves the room, Dias muses aloud, "Heaven must be too far away...I couldn't hear her."

Schuldig (k4t4str0ph4l) is straightforward enough; 'katastrophal' is German, and can mean 'catastrophic', 'cataclysmic', or 'disastrous'. All words which Schuldig's actions (and the results thereof) can frequently be described by. He's practically a walking catastrophe-maker.

Waka (godsgift2man) is also fairly straightforward. When he introduces himself in the game, he generally refers to himself as "Waka, the gods' gift to man".

And even though I've dropped him...when I had Zell, (burst_knuckle) his journal name came simultaneously from his habit of fighting with his fists and from the name of a special move of a character from Dias' canon that just sounded right~

[godsgift2man.livejournal.com]

PS: Schu's name is all l33tsp33k because most of the versions that used, you know, actual LETTERS were already snatched up.

[tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com]

Recluse is tartaros_avatar because his powers stem from the greek mythological figure Tartaros: One of the first five entities to be created from Chaos, and is synonymous (and the manifestation of) with the Hell of greek myths.

My new character, HK-47, has the journal name of arc_wrench. The reason is no where near as serious as the other one: It comes from one of the hilarious lines that he utters if you botch an attempt to repair him.
"Aaugh! What are you doing, Master?! Remove the arc wrench! REMOVE THE ARC WRENCH! ...medic!"

[godsgift2man.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite lines ever.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

lustful_thing - well, pretty obviously. Not only because Lust herself is lusted after, but she herself lusts for a human life - or she did. Now, not so much.

felled_hero is another pretty obviously one. Maes Hughes died a hero, in every sense of the world.

the_clown_king is a play on 'King of Fools' for Tamaki, because he is the king of fools. He fancies himself a lord and a knight but he's really just a dreamy teenage boy who's stuck in his own fantasy ideal of chivalrous times. All he ever wants to do is help and do good, but so often his plans are foolish and made to fail.

ontheabyss for Lyta comes from a poem by Lord Byron. That's an in-joke for me, because Lyta's canon lover was named Byron. But the poem, which is quoted on her journal, fits her very well. The lines 'Rayless and pathless...a fearful hope was all the world contain'd' fits her because she was, at one point, drifting and alone and the only hope to save the world. Lyta is a bleak character forever searching for somewhere to belong, and forever on the edge of her own darkness.

notmyfather for Valyn because his greatest fear is becoming like his father, and he's spent his entire life trying to be as different from him as possible.

reanalyze for Citan, who I haven't started playing yet, suits him because he is constantly reanalyzing his own life and motives throughout the game he comes from.

And of course, mister_radio because he is Mr. Radio. :D

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

felled_hero is another pretty obviously one. Maes Hughes died a hero, in every sense of the world.

;_; It still makes me cry.

[madvampireking.livejournal.com]

madvampireking: Kind of obvious. He's mad, he's a vampire and he was the big daddy of his kind until he was put into Landel's. AHAHAHAHA. XP I actually wanted 'tyrantvampireking' but LJ said it was too long. *emo*

[blind-nights.livejournal.com]

You should've went with 'lightbulb_eyes' instead. XDDDD;;

[the-hero-of-man.livejournal.com]

Well, mine is kinda obscure/geeky, but it is from the rock Opera by the Protoman where Protoman yells at Megaman "They called me the hero, the hero of Man!"

I wanted NoHeroesLeftInMan, because Protoman yells this a number of times in the Opera, or AManWhoKnowsHesFree, because the last line of the opera is "A hero, is just a man who knows he's free" But they were too long. :( Actually, I'm really surprised a name as generic as the_hero_of_man wasn't already taken. My gain. :)

[unmocked-lawr.livejournal.com]

Javert's username (unmocked_lawr) basically comes from the musical - specifically, the song "Javert's Suicide," part of which goes -

I am the law and the law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face

- and when Philip Quast, who's pretty much the most famous musical!Javert ever, sings it, he pronounces "law," well, "lawr." It's a bit of an in-joke in the Les Mis fandom. xD;

[i-slay-giants.livejournal.com]

I've been showing your journal name off to all my Les Mis fan friends for awhile, since it was brought to my attention when I was applying... for the very reason you chose it. :P We all appreciate the humor.

...and because I'd feel wrong ending without a Javert quote:

Let the old man keep on running, I will run him off his feet...

[voiceless-rage.livejournal.com]

Hoho. I like random things inspired by easy boredom ... explains why I'm on Neopets so much lately.

Caim (voiceless_rage) is ... more self-explanatory than I'd like. He's mute, and he's ANGRY ALL THE GODDAMN TIME. There you have it.

Chase (thirdtonever) is one of those ones where I just typed something in and went YAY, IT LOOKS COOL. But, uh, it has something to do with him being one of the three main good guys waaaaay back in his day of being a good guy, and how he then sort of ... didn't live up to becoming a Xiaolin Dragon. Because he turned evil.

Crawford (at_patera) refers to one of Apollo's temples. And Apollo had oracles. So I was like, yeah baby, gimme summa dat.

Pyramid Head (thebloodyacacia) ... uh ... WHY YOU ASK QUESTIONS. I don't know. I was running through a random SH2 online strategy guide and saw some in-game mention of acacia flowers and went "PUT BLOODY IN THERE, OKAY IT'S PHEAD". Plus I wasn't creative enough to think up raperaperevolution at that point in time.

Aaaaand Kimbley (crimson_handed) was supposed to be yourheadasplode. Sadly that was taken. So now he's just got a similar name to Scar and Greed, continuing on the whole hand(s) thing. Also the crimson = his title, Crimson Alchemist. Erin was all helpful with this :D

Yeah. I'm so awesome. :<

[madvampireking.livejournal.com]

Raperaperevolution= WIN. *huggles the Phead*

[coolegoist.livejournal.com]

That icon cracked me up. XD

141point12: Otacon's Codec frequency. And also Rei's AIM SN before she changed it and totally broke my heart. XD

coolegoist: Kyouya is the host club's "Cool Type", and he calls himself an egoist. Because he still is one, despite his heart of gold. ;D (My journal names are so original.)

It's your post, by the way. I can be the one who moves them next, if you'll be stuck at work for awhile. ;_;

[thehellismycar.livejournal.com]

I'M SORRY. I'm gonna miss it heaps.
LOOK LOOK. DEAN IS SORRY TOO OK?

♥

Sucker For Symbolism~ <3

[ofthisangel.livejournal.com]

somber_secret (Hisoka Kurosaki) is pretty much based on Hisoka's personality with how he is always serious and secretive even with those he trusts. The 'secret' part also was meant to portray how he was locked in the cellar for most of his life (to keep his empathy a secret from others) and because the kanji for his name means 'secret'.

entropy_effect (Naoya Kirihara)

Entropy- A measure of the loss of information in a transmitted message.

The name is basically just describing Naoya's ability to see the memories of others if touched and how, while he does see personal memories, something is always lost in the transition (whether it be his innocent view of the world or simply a memory). That and because of entropy's second definition (Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.) it could also be used to show how Naoya's always busting his ass to save a steadily deteriorating society from themselves and how he's always one step behind.

...yes, I'm a sucker for symbolism

[tsunagari.livejournal.com]

Sai's whole reason for going against orders from ROOT to help Naruto was his interest in the bond the boy had with Sasuke. He decided to help him recover this bond. Afterwards, he took more stock in learning how to become friends with others, etc.

At Landel's, he'll be separated from all those he'd grown close to, because none of the ones there besides Sasuke will remember him. So... yeah. ^^;

I thought of "lookingforgroup" but didn't even bother, because it surely would have been taken.

[coolegoist.livejournal.com]

I think "lookingforgroup" would've made me choke on my lunch. XDDD

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

gun_fire is a play on both Riza's skill with firearms and the relationship between Riza and Roy (the Flame Alchemist).

proud_king is much lamer, but was all I could think of for King Bradley. His first name is "King" but his homunculus name is "Pride." He's also the leader of Amestris, so he has a bit of kingship there too.

[1imited-edition.livejournal.com]

1imited edition - Reference to Rein being a (unique) book and the Landel's power-limiting.

blazing general - nothing fancy, just Signum's title back when she was a slayer of men and all that good stuff. I considered 'Daughter of Surt' too (her sword, Laevateinn, takes its name from the sword used by Surt to kill Freyr and burn the world at Ragnarok in Norse myth).