Furcadia! I was an otter way way way back in the day. Shoal was a good ocean-y sounding name. And then I needed help with the first name... so an internet boyfriend at the time (I was like, 15-16 or so) suggested Luca. And thus, a legend was born.

Leo Howler just sounds badass as fuck. Don't you dare deny it~ :D

I was in my depressed emo phase and I felt like I had sold out so I took the term "exindividual" and shortened it, not realizing that it would look like a type of lettuse.

I forgot the ES

using your last name backwards is probably the best possible way to choose a username
definitely nobody has thought of this before, yup.

"Mine came about when I was thirteen or so and really big on HARDCORE SUPER SMASH BROS MELEE."

.... stop making me feel old, you whipper-snapper :|
<.<; >.>;
As for mine, it just comes from one of too many variants of my real name that I use pretty much everywhere online be it in games or else >.>; <.<;
Boring crow is boring.

Welp, soon as I became a squirrel, I just knew it was time to reimagine myself. I wanted to be hot, and of course I was a squirrel. I didn't want to take any chances on there being other "hot squirrels" out there, so I purposely misspelled it for hotsquirrl.

I was studying chemistry at secondary school, and I had my own set of favourite elements so I made my username Tin, but wait that'd get all kinds of shitty tin-tin jokes, BETTER MAKE IT GERMAN! And so Zinn was born.

When I was little I used to watch Ren and Stimpy and I always loved when they said Jasper, that dalmatian dude's name. Years later when I got into anime I made your typical super cool dog OC and named him Jasper. I had to add "Claw" at the end of it for sites like DA and FA because of course Jasper was taken! Now my 'sona is a raccoon and Jasper has stuck with me ever since.

I was one of those deviantART dog/fox/wolf artists who switched usernames every few months or so when I started being an internet artist. My nickname has been 'Boo' for a long time, and I was talking to an Australian friend on MSN one day and she was telling me about bogans. I can't remember which one of us said 'boogans' jokingly, but I liked it so much it became my next username and it was the one that actually stuck. The only place I didn't use it was on FurAffinity, because I managed to snag 'BooRadley' when I first signed up and I couldn't bear to part with that.

Mine was randomly generated by my brain when I was, like, 14 or something? I thought it sounded sufficiently cool and vaguely mystic-like at the time, and it just became my default.

I've since learned that apparently nobody can figure out how to pronounce it properly and a lot of people think it means something dirty, but it's kinda stuck. Even if most people I'm close to just call me "Shake" now. So it's like I have a nickname of a nickname.

"Jintiuroh" was my shitty old Ragnarok Online character from middle school that I was just so ding dang proud of. I held onto it until it stuck since I always sucked at naming things, but nowadays I just shorten it to "Jinti" or "Jin", which makes me cringe much less.

Karl is just my name.

A friend gave it to me in the fifth grade. We needed nicknames for a game we were playing. I was Geemo and he was Qbert.

basically I needed to think of a name quickly and Cedric sounded like something a dragon would have. But I was using a name elsewhere that prominently involved a "C" and I didn't want to make them seem related, so it became Sedric with an S. I am the most boring dragon ever, and this story does not discredit that claim

Mine came from the fox characters in "Sonic Adventure 2 battle" and "Starfox Assault" for the gamecube. In both games, other characters occasionally refer to them as "foxboy". I started using that for all my games until I played one of my first online multiplayer games, which required me to pick something more specific. So I just added "prower" to the end, since it was another name used in the sonic game.

I used Gaia and Halfgaia a lot... and then at one point I got lazy and just started adding 1234. And the rest is history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_stoker
http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Bramwell_Collins

The name Tzologeist was something I heard in a dream I had. My idea was to call myself that in hopes that the REAL Tzologeist (somewhere) will take notice. However, I a not entirely sure how you spell that name, I just took a stab at it.

Oh, also, I was already an adult when the internet became a thing, so I was safely past making really bad choices in screen names.