soldarius is Medieval Latin meaning soldier because I am unoriginal like that. My old one used to be assombris, which is French for "to darken".
invokings because when Gil calls for Raven he... invokes... it. I think he even said the word "invoke" once in canon but the translators tend to be inconsistent like WILL OF THE ABYSS to INTENTION OF THE ABYSS.
aaaaaaaaand possibly birdsinging because Clover makes a lot of references to cages, wings and birds. She befriends Suu, who is pretty much a caged bird for the longest time and Oruha is a singer.
arakhnes: latin for arachnid and then hipsterfied disillusionists: because rose becomes disillusioned after she realizes she can't beat the game... illusionist as she uses magic
disillusionists
... OH MY GOD THAT'S A PUN
shesmashes: play off of hulk smash and then past tensed or hipsterfied or something submersing: submerse like submariner toxicologies: the study of toxins and then hipsterfied
girlyboywonder! MAN, THAT HAS GOT TO BE THE GIRLIEST BOY WONDER YET... OH WAIT. >:T Everyone in canon except for Bruce and Alfred mistook her for a boy, but they had to think she was a pretty girly one.
fantasycliche! To me, there is nothing more representative of fantasy cliches than color-coded dragons. There's a few other typical fantasy cliches to her as well, so. yes. :| I had this whole list of potentials, all dramatic and dark-sounding and stuff, then I was like FUCK IT IT'LL GO WITH THE ONE THAT MOCKS HER.
boltalicious! speaking of mocking characters. This guy is so dignified and stoic that I could pretty much never give him a nice username. Ever. This one is nothing but exactly what it sounds like.
Well in Boyd's case it's his title really and for Seras well she's a new vampire and it was the best I could come up with. Though I do take a bit of pride in it apparently being one of the only usernames out there for her that doesn't mention her breasts somehow
xuffasch -> xu'ffasch is arabic for "bat." one of damian's elseworld names is ibn al xu'ffasch, or "son of the bat." yep.
kathreptis -> greek for "mirror." in one of donna's many origins, and her most current, she was created when a witch gave life to diana's reflection, and literally walked out of a mirror. also amazons are greek okok.
deadthenred · it is because he was killed then resurrected as a communist assassin in a brilliant eisner-nominated stroke of comics, everybody. it is, i remain convinced, the best of all possible bucky usernames.
russianreverse · is because russian!! alliteration!! look over there it's stan lee!! I would change it if I could think up a better one that wasn't taken
itsatrapped · is because admiral akbar and uh loki is trapped in norse mythology, I would change this one too but :|
fuuuuuuuck · is/was because jessica jones says fuck a lot. it is tricky to remember the number of us!
osreborn: I like all my Osborn journals having puns off of "Osborn" (and they all do heh) and in Norman's case, he was famously killed off and came back after a million RL years during the famously fabulous (lol) 90s. Also he remakes himself constantly after defeat because he's super adaptable, so it works there too?
acrossyourpath: My one non-pun username but I still like it. Uh, Black Cat, crossing paths, etc. it's pretty clear.
electrouble: Also pretty clear because DAT BOY IS TROUBLE. I don't really like this one but eh. I couldn't think of anything else that wasn't taken.
indentcision: As we know, Harvey/Two-Face's dilemma/shtick (well, one of them, but the biggest one) is the inability to decide things for himself and thus he needs a coin to make his decisions for him. And his name is Harvey Dent... thus there you go. I guess I like name puns idk.
couldbeavoided: Bob has Avoidant Personality Disorder, and also has another personality called "the Void," and though the Avengers always assume avoiding the subject will make it go away it never does! Not to mention Bob's own thinking patterns (and his history of addictions) that compound the problem. So it all could be aVOIIIIIIIDDDDDDDed but it isn't and shit sucks.
acahellyeah: Andy loves acapella and is a friendly enthusiastic annoying-as-fuck kind of guy. Thus, aca + hellyeah! I mean, I'm sure if he used tumblr he would be the guy who owns the hellyeahacapella blog or something. (Does it exist? I'm not looking.)
sweatquius: Originally "sagitowels", which I still kind of like but I got tired of because there are a million sagi[blank] Equius journals out there so I swapped for this one. It's something Nepeta called him once!
superbology: From herbology so I needed something with that "b" sound. Superb! The end.
Mine's fairly obvious. Inspired by another guy I know who played Deadshot for a while years ago on a DC game I was in, who had 'gotyoudeadbang' as his name.
gallitrap: it's a card about protecting weaker things. speedofnaked: have you seen her esper form
i'm on the wrong account but i'm lazy so i'll explain this one too ultimagi: it's a pun. ultima is her final spell. ultima also refers to the last of something, and occasionally the best. magi is the ffvi term for magic user. at the end of the game Terra is the last person with magic, and depending on how you play, the most powerful. ultima/ultimate magi. tada.
Finn = totallyrhombus = his slang for how cool for something is half the time involves maths, and something being RHOMBUS has turned up a couple of times.
Draco = sunburnthair = Wizard People, Dear Reader (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPhwlIVPZco&feature=youtu.be#t=2m45s) (I really wanted "goesfortheshamespell" but it was too long)
iron_liver -- Pretty much. Iron Man. Playing on alcoholism. I don't really love this username, but eh I am generally uncreative.
emperorshand -- Mara was the Emperor's assassin in Star Wars, and this name was pretty much playing...on that. It's so obvious. I also love this name and I've had it for too long.
deus_ex_100 -- SO HIPSTER. God in 100. Series is called Ex machina. Another one that I would love to change, but I am terrible at usernames for the most part!
elecdouble -- See Gabbie's Electro name. She's his double :')
pandablade -- In Warcraft 3, Illidan's warglaives have a panda face on the outside. I LIKE THIS BETTER THAN LIKE...the million of you're not prepared's I could have done.
megamaniacal -- Megamind...megalomaniacal... yeah. I actually really love this username!
supertorso was a nickname scans_daily people had for her back when she was being terribly written. It comes from the fact that both Michael Turner and Ian Churchill (her first two artists) drew her as more torso than anything else.
vettecrasher is because of the scene with bb!Kirk where he drives a 1965 Corvette Stingray off a cliff. No, I don't know why there's cliffs/canyons/rock quarries that steep in Iowa, much less in Riverside. Just roll with it. Also, I've been contemplating a name change, but idk what to.
asserting is because Gwen is nothing if not assertive. She rarely gives any fucks about letting whatever's on her mind out and takes no shit from anyone.
pilotais is a hideous, pretentiously hipster username. According to my French-English dictionary it's the... first-person singular imperfect indicative of piloter meaning "to pilot." If I'm right about conjugations and all that, it should mean, "I piloted/I flew." BUT I DO NOT SPEAK FRENCH SO I COULD BE WRONG. It was a throw-away username until I could get a rename token (which I'm doing tomorrow) and didn't expect to have to wait this long.
Carol's username is going to be, fingers crossed it's stil free tomorrow, bests because her life as been a series of having to prove herself the best at something, and then having to realize that it's not about being the best at everything, but being the best Carol she can be.
Matsuka: loveyourenemy. It's both a Biblical allusion ("love your enemy as you love yourself") and a reference to the fact that Keith is the enemy of all Mu and spends half of their canon swearing up and down he's going to kill Matsuka one of these days, and Matsuka loves him anyway, with surprisingly positive end results. Who knew?
Squall: liondormant. A heraldry term, French for "sleeping lion," an obvious reference to Squall's omnipresent lion motif. "Sleeping Lion Heart" is a phrase associated with Squall (among other things, engraved on the back of the official Griever pendant), presumably referring to the fact that his heroic better nature is kind of buried under a mountain of emotional issues and interpersonal hangups.
technophantom - Ghost is the ghost in the machine do you get it because technology and
phantoms and
yes
precalculate - this was a recycled journal that was too good not to use, since Arcade thinks of pretty much everything ahead of time, and one-word usernames are kind of irresistible to me.
afeatherpillow: Because he smothers... people... with pillows. But I'm pretty sure it's a metaphor for sweet, comfortable things can turn nasty. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.
(He also writes a story called the PIllowman, which serves as a parallel to his life and death, and then there's the whole fact that he has the relevant time-traveling abilities in the City. Doho. oho.)
swwag is one of the million Eridan journals that depend on his quirk, hurf. The joke is that he has no swag.
His old one was swwag because he forever has a bone bulge for famous conquerors and shit (and loves them), and also loves others in a way that might... be Caligula-ish I guess... also there's a song about it. Caligulove was taken. For some reason, caligulovve did not occur to me!
enochiass is because she deals with angels and speaks/understands Enochian, and also because the entire game is one long moment of dat ass.
Runners up were enochiass (I would have gone with that had I not screwed up the icon trick!) and enochiass (same reason as before and also it's a filthy hipsterish username) and, if I wanted to transfer all her keywords and shit over to another journal (I do not), I would probably go with enochiass. Because she kills a lot of angels.
Annnnd assistotle is because I was like SARA I CAN'T THINK OF ANY CLEVER PUNS HELP. Because he has a thing for Aristotle, see. Also, he's an asshole.
Runners up were assistotle, assistotle, and the one I almost went with anyway, assistotle. Sara is the best at clever punny usernames.
kingofrooks wasn't actually made for him (that's why it's over a year older than the muse), but it fits Bruce. When translated to chess terms, all of his Robins and Batgirls are Rook-pieces, and Bruce is the Queen-piece. But 'queenofrooks' does not call up a guy, so I swap it for the King. He is also suitable as a King-piece since he's the one all of them circle around anyway.
Oh, Jason is a knight-piece in my head, but he doesn't really count at this point. >_>
"Ridi, arlecchino" is Italian for "Laugh, harlequin". It's a play on "Ridi, pagliaccio" ("Laugh, clown") which is a line from the opera Pagliacci. Incidentally, Harley isn't a fan of the opera. (She crashed it and robbed the theater during Hush.) She'd like it even less if she ever knew the ending, considering the distraught clown Pagliacci ends up killing his wife and her lover.
It does get referenced in one of her favorites movies however. From Singin' in the Rain, right before the song "Make 'Em Laugh":
Cosmo: The show must go on! So ridi, Pagliacci! Ridi!
screwmeister : He is a meister with a giant screw in his head. I was surprised this username wasn't taken considering how late I got into the fandom.
abdocted : Ian is one of the few companions that didn't choose to travel with the Doctor--he was abducted. By an alien named "the Doctor". Abdocted heh I am so funny.
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