Apparently many of us have a bizarre urge to name ourselves and other people names that they did not start out with.
Emu, aka Emily
Disorder/Spaz, aka David
Bjorn (the Lost), aka Jessica
Snorri, aka Chris
Slater, aka Kevin
Catsie, aka Cassandra
Tabby, aka Tabbitha
Lolly, aka Alayna
Sarah the Red
Rebbecca the Purple
Mankind, aka Jeff
And this is just the starter list of people who frequently or always go by their nicknames. Many others have earned handles or personifications during their time here.
Death, aka Charlie
Panic, aka both Michele and Ruth
Pain, aka Heidi
Guilt, aka Tom
Famine, aka Catsie
War, aka Tammy
Pestilance, aka Rachael
Ian the Strange
Jefferson the Found
Thora never needed a nickname, because her real name sounds like it isn’t. Who have I left off? Will this be the future subject of some anthropology, linguistics, or psychology student’s final project? Seems like everything else we do has been. Who can explain this?
New entries:
Aedo- Actually Aedo’s Last name, and as a persona name is actually romanized as Eidoh
Bob- (I shan’t give his real name without his express permission)
Daisuke- Our newest spawnling. His name is abbreviated as D.J. and I think his real first name is David. He also answeres to Dai-chan or Wan-chan from the right people.
By: Yamanouchi no Jirou no Eidou on October 5, 2007
at 2:31 pm
It’s debateable whether I “started out” with my name, as it was given to me at birth, but only used in special circumstances. I’d probably imagine many of the others have disparate but similarly interesting stories. A large part of it probably stems from the accepted MPD of creating personas, which extends into a penchant for naming people funny things and some of them sometimes sticking. Some names are just very apt, and thus stick, like Ian’s epithet “the Strange”, or Sarah’s epithet “the Red”. Some are fun. Some are really random. Some are really just nicknames in the normal sense, like Tabby for Tabitha-easier to say.
Whatever the reason, it’s fun to have multiple names, despite the confusion it may cause (as with anybody, for example, who knows me both in and out of club).
-Snorri Thangbrand Reynardsson
P.S. I do think we should let ourselves be studied, though. Maybe they’d use psychiatric microscopes or something.
By: Snorri on October 7, 2007
at 9:10 am