What's the story behind your name?

[Bsrking5]

Well my forum name is pretty simple. My initials+ king as a reference to chess + 5, the number of chess trophies I earned for first place at the time I started using this name. I earned 4 more since then.
My main is just a joke off of destiny legendaries.

[Infindox]

Mine is probably a bit more unconventional how I settled on it, but I still like telling it.

When Pokemon X and Y came out I started a file and got to about the first gym when I decided I wanted to try out the Wondertrade system. The first Pokemon that I get is an Absol with the name Absenthine. I'm like "sweet I like Absol" so I used this Pokemon through my file, whole way to the end.
Later on a friend of mine was frustrated that they were trying to shiny hunt and finding nothing. So they said out of frustration on Twitter "UGHHH IF I FIND ONE ITLL BE MY SPIRIT POKEMON, I DONT CARE WHAT IT IS". Jokingly I said I'd join in on this (I was also starting to look for my shiny for this gen) and I used the method with the Friend Safaris. Went into one... First thing that popped up was a Shiny Absol lol. So I named them Absenthine as well and since then try to breed at least one per file.
When XIV came into my life December 2016 I debated for a bit what name I wanted, and I'm like "well, that sounds fantasy-like" so I went with it. So, thank you to whoever Wondertraded all those years ago I guess

Starfrost is what I use for my "internet" last name and I just stuck it on. It's intended to be a contradiction and a paradox.

[GrassCuttingAuRa]

Well my forum name is pretty simple. My initials+ king as a reference to chess + 5, the number of chess trophies I earned for first place at the time I started using this name. I earned 4 more since then.
My main is just a joke off of destiny legendaries.

Ah, a fellow Titan. Truly a person of culture. *Smash*

[Edax]

Because people keep stealing my usernames, so keep some consistency I keep to a naming convention of ending all my usernames with an "x".

Edax is an older username of mine, a Latin word I discovered from the proverb "tempus edax rerum"

Royeaux is one of my newer usernames and a favorite. It was taken from the Dragon Age Origins, a faux French word for the Orlais city Val Royeaux. It's fancy sounding and it's not a real word so it works as a name.

[Stormfur]

I wanted to create a character that was dark, mysterious and based on superstition, hence the magical black cat. Since a black cat crossing your path is supposedly bad luck, I named him Hex Pathcrosser as "One who delivers misfortune via spells and incantations"

Stormfur comes from the original character name I had here. No reference to the Warriors books but rather a reference to my IRL kitty. When he passed away, I changed the name.

[Brightamethyst]

I picked it completely on a whim. Usually I'm one of those people who stares at the character creation screen for ages trying to come up with the perfect name, but not this time for some reason. Fastest I ever picked a name in any MMO by far.

[linayar]

I don't know. It's what the game gives me.

[Kinazu]

I wish I could tell, I'm not well versed in Japanese at all and from what little research I did, I couldn't find a meaning for "Kinazu". I just thought it sounded nice and kind, so I went with it. As for why I chose it. Long story short: I just wanted to turn a new page in my book and FFXIV was that starting point for me, so there is quite a bit of emotional attachment for me to this username. As for the last name, "Langurag" (pronounced: Lan-gu-ra) is made up by me and it took me until level 20 to notice I made a typo, as originally it was meant to be "Langurah", but I never fixed it and I'm too used to it now to change it either way.

As for my forum name, I guess it speaks for itself.

[BlitzAceRush]

"Blitz Ace" from Tidus's overdrive from 10, my favourite game, "Rush" being the main character from Last Remnant, which I happened to be playing at the time, good game though.
As for my character name, I actually changed her name at the tail end of Hevansward. "Xeorran" is a character in a book I'm writing and I really liked it so wanted to have it as her name, but also wanted to honour the name she'd had since ARR beta.
So, "Kalia Shearra" became "Xeorran Kalia'Shearra"

[Fawkes]

Oh but also