How'd your Hero Handle Come about?

[Overbite]

Kinda a spin off of another thread. Just wondering what inspired your names, what they mean, how you thought them up. ext...

For me "Veikira" is a name I came up with myself. It's Native American based though. Most of my Family on my Mom's side is Native American. Threw a Family Tree Report I had to do I found that one of my Great++Grandfathers had the name Tukovekera, which I thought was just the coolest name ever. Adjusted the spelling abit and there it is. Veikira (Veck-ear-ah). Been using that handle for about 5 years now. Was only right I give my main hero the same name...

[Kurai Inago]

Kurai Inago came from the name of a villian from a Story I've been writing for awhile, it means Dark Locust in Japanese.

[suburbanhell]

Phrase I use all the time "Thank you Captain Obvious" -- Captain Obvious was taken, so I promoted him. Major Obvious still sounds even more like a play on words so I kept it.

Miss Judgement, wanted one of the "mis-" words as another play-on-words superhero...

Dr. Flamestrike, initially was Flamestrike but that was taken, Flamestrike being a rather powerful fire spell in Ultima Online the game I came over here from.

Nurse Red Cross -- she heals...so do nurses...and the red cross....

Brimstonia - fire & brimstone yadda yadda yadda...

Atse'Hashke - Thesaurus search on other terms for Satan (he's demonic)

Muscular Beaver - former Cartoon Character of same name

Krystal Power (Formerly the Atomic Mistress) -- both names done through that hero name generator and tweaked to actually sound worth something usable.

[Quakester]

Quake is based of a character I played in the PnP Marvel RPG. His main power was a vibration blast but Energy was the closest I could come up with. Char's original naem was Seismic but that was taken.

[Thermyte]

Well, Trying to come up with a name the day before I got CoH, and I was talkin' with Kin. It started as Thermix, then Thermite, Then Thermyte. Kin had started to design him and said if I wasn't going to use him, He wanted to use him, of course I said...Hexxxxx Nahzzzz dawg.

[Got]

Back in 2002 when I first found CoH and went to sign up at the old boards I wanted to register as some sort of hard-hitting, smashy name. That was the only concept of my proposed character I had, he was going to be big. I tried a whole slew of names and every single one of them was registered, so the infernal forum told me. So I understandably thought, There must be something wrong with the registration system here, maybe I'll just test it, see if it's broken. So what I decided I'd do was randomly type in some letters (assuming I'd end up with something like jsdfbnp) and if it told me the name was registered, the system was clearly broken.

I let my hand fall on the keyboard and quickly hit enter without even looking at what I'd typed, sure that the forum registration was broken. Well... did I get screwed over.

"You've successfully registered as got!" it informed me.

"****!" I thought, "got? Bloody hell."

As dismayed as I was with the name, I was too lazy to PM Aura to get her to change it and I was certainly far too lazy to create a new e-mail address just so I could register again. And at least it wasn't jsdfbnp.

And thus I became known as Got, and I ended up working with it. It's served me well.

[inkblaster]

Inkblaster I've had in my brain ever since pdas started coming about.

The handwriting recognition thing was really cool, instead of with paper and ink, so for a time I referred to computers in general as inkblasters.

That was like 10 years ago, so I've had the handle for a while, usually just shortened to ink, which consequently is the first 3 letters of my last name swapped around.

When I spotted this game I thought, well that's a cool name for a hero too, and not many heroes made of ink, and not much chance of it being taken on me too.

sorry for the ramble, think I will some more since the servers are down...

The White Rabbit, I was messing with the character creator in Beta and wanted something that really looked unique, and for some reason those giant fins on the full mask caught my eye, reminded me of Arthur from 'The Tick'.

Then I remembered how all the villains call Arthur a rabbit, so I messed around till I had a decent looking rabbit.

Then I chose gravity for his powers, as in Beta wormhole actually drew everyone in the team to your location, 'down the rabbit hole' as it were. Of course that's been changed since, and gravity as a powerset truly is hard to do, thus my lack of playing the rabbit in a while.

The Paragon Falcon, I really like this name, and wish I had it on all servers, but think it's also cool of in the future meeting an alternate reality Falcon.

I was trying to make a character similar to Batman, as I'd just got my Batman Training Manual at Borders, was going to see how well it applied to playing the game. So I wanted a similar type of character, and I thought a Falcon would be similarly menacing like a Bat, and the claws set would work for the whole Falcon image.

But Peregrine Falcon wouldn't fit, and almost as soon as I realized this typing it in I decided to try Paragon Falcon, I'm surprised I actually got it, and just think it's uber cool.

Metal Mole, we'd done the Transcendant mission with a guy, I think his name was Super Mole. I thought that was cool, a hero named mole hanging out in the Hollows.

I was pondering what powers would work best for the Transcendant mission, and some other task forces in the game. I realized an invuln scrapper with stealth, super speed, and recall friend, would be a great tool for a couple task forces inparticular.

As a mole, he had to have claws. I also wanted a name that had the whole two words, same first letter deal, Mad Mole, too villainous, Maximum Mole, too over the top, Metal Mole, I could just picture his rusted power suit before I even hit the creator.

yeah, so there's a freaky peek into how my mind conjurs up random heroes, scary eh?

[D'Arkaine]

well i used to use Anakin a lot way before ep1...then ep1 hit and i decided i did not want to use that anymore. I had a secondary handle for use in fantasy type things that became my main one - D'Arkaine. It came about the most stupid way. I was playing Diablo 1 and there was a mission about Arkaine's Leagacy or some such. Just added a D' to the front.

Angrytownsman was from watching the frankenstein movie - the villagers with pitchforks and such. ;shrug

Vindicator was from a character concept back in middle school - before i was ever into the x-men or found out about a pre-existing character.

Any other names just seem to fit the individual characters.

[Randomus]

I'm not writing out the whole thing again.

Basic story, fell in love with a woman while living in Holland, decided not to do anything about it because I thought I'd be leaving in half a year and it wouldn't be fair, we were friends, she gave me the nickname Lord Randomus. I kept it ever since.

The end.

[Stalking Shadow]

Would the plural of Randomus be Randomi?

Stalking Shadow:
Orginally, I wanted his name to be "The Sniper". I was going for a shadow-skulker type name to go with his wet-working background. Evidentally "The Sniper" wasn't allowed to come into being, so I was left fumbling around with other names.

Then I remembered a couple short stories that I'd read that featured a character named "Detective Shadow", and I thought it was a cool name. So I tried just "Shadow". No dice. Then I tried "Shade". No dice. Then I tried, on a whim, "The Stalking Shadow", and I've been saddled with that admittedly unfortunate pairing of words ever since. I wish I could pay influence to change my name.