i_seethestrals: It refers to Luna's introduction, where we find out she and Harry are the only people who can see Thestrals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXWHLWKsYwQ), the winged horses that can only be spotted by people who've seen and accepted death. Also, a reference to I SEE DEAD PEOPLE because I'm... not original.
bedeviledspider: This terrible username is about how Reilly's been bedeviled, as in literally turned into a demon, and has a connection to both Daredevil and Spider-Man. It's pretty awful but I think it gets the point across.
gatewhatgate: There's a running joke in the comic about him not noticing the Gates (the central macguffins), so it's like "Gate? What Gate?" It's not really clever but "yelloweyesblacksomething" had too many characters and I couldn't think of anything else.
someonetoscold: is like a triple decker joke or something. In "First Steps" the radio says something about Sandman attacking an oil tanker and then says "and now, an oldie but a goodie by the Chordettes." aka Mr. Sandman.
It's a pun on the lyric: "Mr. Sandman ~ someone to hold/ would be just peachy before I get old" and he's a villain so... scold. yeahhhh
bluepurrymuffin came after much deliberation, a reference to how he was abigail's "blueberry muffin" in s.w.or.d. with added cat puns
nottheanswers is a quote from huntress: cry for blood #5, when batman walked right into a pun. "it isn't the answers that matter, but the questions" has pretty much served as the foundation for how i see his whole take on perspective being the most important part of investigation
hells4children is from a pat benatar song, the last line spoken in bkv's run on runaways, as alex tells the arriving gibborim how well he knows about suffering to gain the approval of your parents
tastingcolors is because...kanaya's a rainbow drinker and i have each blood color headcanoned with its own flavor? i'm actually always unsure of this one because it would probably work better for terezi idefk
microwavemutant because she is a mutant with control over microwaves. I was not very creative with this one fffff. mockingbirdie because it is part of her codename and also her nickname. It used to have an underscore but I changed it. mansansfear because Daredevil is the Man Without Fear... heiressapparent because she is wealthy, she sort of inherited her bow and codename, and also because it started with an H. It used to be queenofcantstfu because she never knows when to shut her damn mouth. sweetvalleygirl because she is a valley girl from Sweet Valley. And also there is a jingle about being a Sweet Valley girl (it's embedded on her profile page.) It used to be svhcheerleader, but I'd intended to have sweetvalleygirl always. latexspectre because her costume in the movie is made of latex, not silk. crabulous is a word he used on the show. And let's face it, he is pretty darn crabulous.
niceassassin because Zevran is an assassin who is also kind of a nice guy, but mostly because it has "nice ass" in it and he has one of those. And will tell you if you do too.
arachnopho8ia because Vriska is all spider-themed and replaces her Bs with 8s.
prodigitalson because it's a pun on "prodigal son" and "digital," and Keith from his current canon point is the son of a computer who eventually turned away from her plan. He used to be motherloaded, because, again, his mother was a computer.
spiritgun_punk because...yusuke uses a spirit gun and he's a punk...lol i am so creative. notsaintly used to be a matched set but now it's just foreveralong.gif but because fred's not saintly but george is because...george has a hole in his head and he's holey.... pamnotpammy is a line from the show! mid-season three pam is like, i'm telling people what i want. directly. ol' pammy's getting what she wants. and don't call me pammy! so it's pam, not pammy.....yup. fastburning is one i'm really proud of! johnny's all about speed and quick and I WANT TO DO EVERYHTING NOW NOW NOW so fastburning sums him up pretty aptly. i can't take credit for subconman because a friend of mine made that up for me but i think it's pretty glorious.
not_polish : I FEEL PROUD FOR BEING ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WITH A SALLY ACCOUNT WHO. took something extremely minor and made it into an account name. basically, sally's last name is actually juspeczyk but she changed it to jupiter because 1) it's a stage name and 2) the polish people weren't held in too high of a regard during that time. in the comic, the silhouette asks her something relating to the polish, and sally flat-out denies knowing what they think (http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc222/KooKooXachoo/sallypolish.gif). i also like it because Polish can read out as the "polish" in nail polish and i think that. has a lot to do with Sally too seeing as she's a pretty polished figure but....not entirely.
bestfrond : IT'S A PLANT PUN. i have fun calling twoey seymour's best friend. which goes from friend to frand.....and then olesia made a frond pun. SO. there you go.
foreverbouncing - Well. Charlie bounces, she adores doing it, and she'll never ever stop. So. Forever Bouncing! notenthused - It's Mai. Aside from fighting and occasionally Zuko, she's never really enthusiastic about anything. And even those things seem to bore her after a while. :( wisestcamper - Annabeth is the daughter of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, and is generally portrayed as the smartest person at Camp Half-blood. So... girlverine - Because it's puny! girl wolverine. Girlverine. Her old one, which was 'tiniest_killer', came from the fact that everyone in canon constantly describes her as being 'so small' and 'so tiny' when she's out slaughtering people. Domino does it, wolverine does it, gambit does it... blue_and_proud - this is a bastardization of something Raven says in the movie, and I'm honestly not very happy with it. But oh well, too late now! paints_lanterns - Well...because Rapunzel paints lanterns. This account was very much an 'I need a rapunzel account RIGHT NOW' moment, and while I like it, I'd probably want to change it if I thought of something better/more clever.
grooviestmutant - this is kind of self-explanatory BUT, in the movie he uses the word groovy to pick up chicks in his beautifully over-used spiel — though i wanted a hint of his arrogance in there so i decided that clearly he had to be the grooviest one. especially if he picks up so many chicks not. this username is actually a wonderful gift from a sweet anonymous donor since before that, it was groovysexavier which was ... HILARIOUS WHEN I WAS TIPSY WHEN I MADE IT THE FIRST TIME but after that I was like "okay I wanna take him a little bit more seriously now :|"
letoilenordique is French for "The North Star" and it is the lovely invention of Ali's, who was so kind to help me think of something for him. I hardly imagine him using English for anything so self-indentified as a username so it works out perfectly. Also once I ran into a Jeanne-Marie with a very matching username and was.. quite thrilled and amused!! :)
purrfectlolcat is actually also an invention of Ali's, since she was so sweet to let me have her previously-created Nepeta username ; _ ; ALI LOOK AT YOU, MAKING MY WHOLE RP LIFE COMPLETE!! And of course it suits her, what with her adorable kitty puns and also her love for all things fandom-related, which you can lump lolcats into quite easily.
aaaaand I know he's not in the game but I just made Ozymandias' iamkingofkings account and I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT'S LIKE CHUNKS OF THE SHELLEY POEM I AM SO CLEVER NOBODY HAS THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE ok bye!
I am actually one of the most uncreative user name people ever but..
secondhandwebs May is a legacy superhero and the suit (while not so much 'passed down' as 'stolen') is a legacy, too. Her original one was the suit her 'uncle' Ben Reilly wore back in the day. How a suit designed for a grown man could have possibly perfectly fit a teenage girl is a different story entirely. Either way, her status as a 'web-head' is kind of a hand-me-down.
byholeystgeorge in the whole world of ear related humor, being saintly because he's now 'holey' is the direction George chose to go. Now he has to live with those choices in this user name.
anoblelie Azula is a lying liar, and I wanted to do something a long that theme...and then remembered by old undergraduate philosophy course. A noble lie, according to The Republic, is one the elite knowingly tell the lower classes in order to keep social order. And thus is it Azula.
finalpunchline One of Sally's line about Eddie's death is how he finally got his punchline, which is what this username is based off of. Shortest story ever.
he_is_wild has its obvious origins referring to the phrase "The Joker's Wild" from casino card games, particularly poker. This phrase has been shoved in Joker's face enough that he tends to get pissed off when people say it now. "He is Wild" is also the name and first three words of a Druidic prayer to an ambiguous, ancient Trickster Deity.
[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] is both a line from the Elektra movie after Mark discovers her name and well she is named after a tragedy... plus you know her life really does suck.
[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] is a reference to how much Shahrazad loves you know the sun... and past tense because yeah. Bad things happen to her.
[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] is from the episode where Tara actually makes a joke above G rating for once and says she wanted to try out some spicy talk. Everyone stared so it didn't happen again. :|
hairwasmyroom: In one episode, Erin, who is dating Andy at the time, is taken out to lunch by Michael, who reveals that Andy and Angela used to be engaged. This freaks out Erin, who grabs all her hair and pushes it over her face (see icon). When Michael asks what she's doing, she says, "In the foster home my hair was my room."
undeadsidekick is a pretty obvious reference to Jason being formerly dead and also a sidekick. I wanted just "deadsidekick" but that was taken back in like 2003 and updated all of twice. Jerks.
leftymitt is a reference to Allie's baseball mitt in Catcher in the Rye on which Holden Caulfield's brother has written a bunch of poems. Caulfield writes an essay about it for his roommate just after getting kicked out of Pency Prep and generally finds it to be "descriptive as hell". I the Ghost in the Shell universe, a Lefty Catcher's Mitt is net jargon for something you think is real, but isn't. Sort of like an urban legend accepted as fact, but only on the net. A "lefty mitt" is also an appropriate term for Aoi since he's a questionable definition of a human? Like, he's a real life form by GITS universe, but he sort of questions that since he's got a ghost in a fully cyberized brain.
hoaryhosts is a reference to "by the hoary hosts", which is just something Strange says. It's kind of like "by god" but in reference to the Vishanti which are the three deities the Sorcerer Supreme serves/is powered by.
oncemercurial. A mercurial person is someone who is notoriously inconsistent or flighty. From his canon pull point, Pietro had been promising to shape up and be a better, more reliable person. So "once mercurial" seemed apt, especially since quicksilver is another name for mercury.
Annnnnd, coping from Haley, even though he's not in yet... Manhattan's account will probably be blueapathy unless I find a reason to change it. Because he's a big, apathetic blue person.
a_relative_hero is just a reference to the name of the series Joel comes from, 'Relative Heroes'.
free_dumb_ring comes from a phrase used in the comics. Curtis' friend Troy called the cosmic ring a 'free dumb ring' when it was found. Curtis later used the phrase as the inspiration for his codename.
thenicehulk is because Teddy is the nicest, most polite of the people to have 'hulk' in their name.
Jack's username has a double meaning- he works for CTU and saves the day a lot, and it has repeatedly been shown in canon that CTU cannot find its collective ass with both hands without him, i.e. he is CTU's savior as well as a savior that works for CTU.
Calvin [more_surreal] is a quote from one of his strips: 'I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.'
Mordin [heal_or_execute] is a quote as well: 'Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients, sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps.'
The Major's username is loves_war which I believe needs very little explanation.
bestunrevealed - from the Albus line, "My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?" Basically: He's a decent human being, but he buried it under a layer of crap because... well, being decent is scary and makes you vulnerable.
thebadturtle - he's a turtle. and he's bad. oh yeah.
dontknowgray - on Garrus' loyalty mission he says that he really prefers black and white because he doeesn't know what to do with gray.
For Billy, because he has magic and in a scene in between the two big arcs of Young Avengers when Teddy comes over and Billy tries to tell his parents he's a superhero (but they think he's coming out to them as being gay and with Teddy instead), Teddy is like 'you can always zap them if they don't listen' and I thought the word 'zap' is amusing. He can blast people with electricity or magic stuff so... zaps with magic.
For Conner, because he's Superboy... and Superman is the man of steel. I could have used theboyofsteel I think, but Conner's more mature than he was when he first showed up so I wanted to sort of show that by using theteenofsteel instead because he's not really a 'boy', a kid, he's a teenager now.
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