# So what's the story behind your gamer handle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 28, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051 "2017-01-28T04:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KrudlerTheHorse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/krudlerthehorse/32/9505_2.png) [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/1 "2017-01-28T04:48:13Z")
I know some people are very protective of their references hehehehe šŸ˜† So if you want an alternate question: what are your Arcade/Pinball 3-letter initials and why? ---
**Author:** ![Theina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/theina/32/24403_2.png) [@Theina](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Theina)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/2 "2017-01-28T05:04:07Z")
Mine is The ins and itā€™s just the short version of a nickname I got when I was 13, Dawnatheina, which was given to me cuz I was am small (Iā€™m not short just skinny so idk what they were thinking). ---
**Author:** ![JapanGamer29](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/japangamer29/32/10063_2.png) [@JapanGamer29](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/JapanGamer29)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/3 "2017-01-28T05:21:59Z")
Mine is pretty obvious. I live in Japan and play games. The 29 is my name, Nick, using numbers. In Japanese, 2 is ā€œniā€ and 9 is ā€œkuā€. ---
**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/4 "2017-01-28T05:22:29Z")
Itā€™s also the word for ā€œmeat.ā€ šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Taisiakat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/taisiakat/32/75810_2.png) [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/5 "2017-01-28T05:22:46Z")
Mine is one of my characters from a Short story I published back in the 80s in a Science Fiction/Fantasy national magazine. Sheā€™s an 8 foot winged black panther assassin princess vampire. Wrote it long before I knew what Furries were. Iā€™ve had a few well know Furry artists create drawings of her (Heather Bruton did a fantastic job of a painting that is in our living room) It sorta stuck with me. However most canā€™t pronounce her name (Thai-ee-c-a) I have to add on now Kat - because I keep finding someone(s) have already registered with the same same so I add something that represent me big time being a cat fanatic. If I could have 100 acres I would run a refugee for kittiesā€¦ Saving them all from the pound. (aka the crazy cat woman) Pinball/arcade TAI ---
**Author:** ![Rasper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/rasper/32/2363_2.png) [@Rasper](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rasper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/6 "2017-01-28T05:38:31Z")
Mine is from Everquest, where I was known as Rasper the Helpdesk and ran on of the leading strat sites available for 5 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Theina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/theina/32/24403_2.png) [@Theina](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Theina)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/7 "2017-01-28T05:44:37Z")
Most donā€™t pronounce mine right eitherā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Vangor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vangor/32/31404_2.png) [@Vangor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vangor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/8 "2017-01-28T05:47:51Z")
Mine is a shortened version of my full nicknameā€¦ VanillaGorilla which is pretty descriptive of me cuz im a very large hairy white guy lol Arcade name VAN ---
**Author:** ![Jainus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jainus/32/34949_2.png) [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/9 "2017-01-28T05:59:58Z")
Mine is a fantasy character name Iā€™d used for RPGs for years, derived from Janus (the two-faced Roman God), and picked originally for an NPC that repeatedly misled and double-crossed the PCs (the name was supposed to be a tacit warning to my player friends who all studied classics, but they didnā€™t get the joke until long afterwards). It became Jainus at some point when the spelling ā€˜Janusā€™ was already taken (I forget which game server), and then I decided I liked that spelling better. It also (at least one or two times each time I use it) triggers some hilarious wag to wonder if my first name is Hugh, and think they are first to do so. @KrudlerTheHorse you started this, whatā€™s yours? are you actually a horse? ---
**Author:** ![Sirrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sirrian/32/35758_2.png) [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/10 "2017-01-28T09:24:08Z")
My first D&D character (1982-ish?) was a Paladin named Sirian Iceheart. I named the white team of knights from my first commercially-successful game (Warlords,1989) the SIRIANS, and my first game company I created (that made the game, Warlords) was called ICEHEART SOFTWARE. While dealing with players on Compuserve in the 90ā€™s I started using the handle Sirian, but later changed it to SIRRIAN (with an extra ā€˜rā€™) in MMOā€™s when I found that the one-ā€˜rā€™ version was usually already taken. ---
**Author:** ![Ozball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ozball/32/36110_2.png) [@Ozball](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ozball)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/11 "2017-01-28T10:04:18Z")
Mine reasonably simple. It was a nickname given to me when I was around 12, because I was the only Australian in the group (Oz), and I had a very short haircut at the time (Ball for how my head looked I guess šŸ˜› ) I moved countries soon afterwards (to Australia) so I kind of took the name with me and made it part of me. ---
**Author:** ![ONOPALAVER](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/onopalaver/32/46403_2.png) [@ONOPALAVER](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ONOPALAVER)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/12 "2017-01-28T10:09:25Z")
My nick name came from a silly sentence in a game called Risen 2. A tribal men talks to hero with tribal language : Ono palaver Gucho. (something like : nothing of silly words white men) I use it for some laughs and also many others words like Ulele. (lucky to not chose that one) Later a friend tell me about steam extra things, like cards, gems , etc. So I made a profile in steam just to see that, I donĀ“t think it was going to be the actual one. I made it with ono palaver as name profile When I join this game they also caught that nick name to it. Since then I meet a lot of people here. Now people called me Ono. (but I like it šŸ™‚) ---
**Author:** ![AngryMidget](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/angrymidget/32/10478_2.png) [@AngryMidget](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AngryMidget)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/13 "2017-01-28T10:19:42Z")
Iā€™m angry and Iā€™m short. ---
**Author:** ![Zelarith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zelarith/32/1642_2.png) [@Zelarith](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zelarith)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/14 "2017-01-28T10:35:16Z")
A mix between ā€œZenithā€ and ā€œSolarisā€ (sun cult in League of Legend) gave Zelarith ---
**Author:** ![Maxx](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/maxx/32/50891_2.png) [@Maxx](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/15 "2017-01-28T11:49:05Z")
One of my cats was named Max. I got him when he was 6 weeks old and I was 10 unfortunately he died last year when he was 14. ---
**Author:** ![DonBoba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/donboba/32/25457_2.png) [@DonBoba](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DonBoba)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/16 "2017-01-28T11:59:43Z")
My real life nickname is Boba. Don is inspired by godfather. ---
**Author:** ![thejaz180](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/thejaz180/32/86249_2.png) [@thejaz180](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/thejaz180)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/17 "2017-01-28T12:01:41Z")
My gamer handle is actually my I.D. shorten, the Z in it is a backwards S. Itā€™s known as my online I.D. (more than just a handle). Iā€™ve been using it for over a decade now. (Although it might not seem so, this is information is actually too much information). šŸ‘€ ---
**Author:** ![esslee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/esslee/32/103072_2.png) [@esslee](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/esslee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/18 "2017-01-28T12:03:34Z")
Mine is the phonetic pronounciation of my real life initials SLE šŸ˜€ ---
**Author:** ![Jalijer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jalijer/32/2209_2.png) [@Jalijer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jalijer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/19 "2017-01-28T12:33:30Z")
I just mashed the first two letters of my first name, three letters of my middle name and last two letters of my last name togetherā€¦ worked out all right I think. But this username was created specifically for GoW because my usual gamertag isnā€™t very fantasy-like. ---
**Author:** ![Ozball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ozball/32/36110_2.png) [@Ozball](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ozball)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051/20 "2017-01-28T12:40:16Z")
> [@Jalijer](#): > > But this username was created specifically for GoW because my usual gamertag isnā€™t very fantasy-like. This is why my ingame name is different to my forum username, I use Ozball as a forum name/ID everywhere, but character names I have a few that I cycle between that actually sound like plausible names. [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/so-whats-the-story-behind-your-gamer-handle/19051.md?page=2)