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Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 836

In one of my earlier post i asked if anyone wanted to know what the story behind my name was and Xeb suggested that i might create a post for everyone to join in on... here it is.

Mine is simple and actually not that exciting... a Bestile is a fictional creature similar to a werewolf except instead of going from human to half animal they change from animal to half human... and any species can be one not just wolves... i believe that the original creation of these creatures was by John Peel in his Diadem series... and i am certain i have spelled it wrong

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

I've heard of creatures like that, though never by name. The one who told me about them could'nt remember it.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 2112

The term I'd always heard for such beings was "Wolfwere". I don't know where I first heard/read it, but it always stuck me as rather lacking in imagination.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 504

My name is one that I've been using since 1998 with StarCraft battle.net. When I first started the account, Itried to use the name 'Gargos', as that was the name of a gargoyle-like character (go figure) from the N64 game Killer Instinct 2. It was taken. Not being one willing to use numbers or l33t speak, I tried different permutations of the name until I got frustrated and stabbed my keyboard like a piano. Gantros came up, so I tried it, and it worked! Ever since, the name Gantros has almost never been used in whatever online application I have used, or I use Dark Gantros.
The surname Obscura came from the Latin word for shadow. Coming to this surname was from a somewhat unique anime I was watching around 2002, Zoids. The final 'villain' in the series was named Vega Obscura, and I just borrowed the name for it's Latin meaning.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

Mine is simply the name of my first furry creation, though Gray has been an alias of mine for some time.

Rank: Veteran Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 668

Mine? Well, there are a lot of sources.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 552

As for mine, well, I was trying to get a new self-image to connect to my comic-making, so I basically switched my name around the way Lewis Carroll did. Oh, and no, I'm not gonna tell you my REAL name Very Happy

Rank: Artist Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 417

Mine is just badly pronoced name of egyptian god of river banks and lakes Heryshef Wink

I was once in national museum and i really liked the small figure of some antelope headed god, i read the description and then remembered badly ^^; Later, somewhere on the internet they demanded a nickname, and my previous one (real nick gaved by people) 'Alien' egsisted in millions of forms with numbers and other shit around it(if somebody is interested from where it camed then just ask), so I decided to use the name which i liked so much; Herisheft
With weird luck, i changede the male name into female one, since only women had 'ft' on the end of their names, at least that's what one of my friends told me and she really knew what she was saying when it camed to ancient egyptian culture, she was also the one to remind me the name which i misspelled Razz

so from that day long in the past I function under this nickname and so far I am the only Herisheft on the net =^.^=

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I am Joanna for real Wink

Rank: Artist Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 309

If you don't know my real name I guess you haven't seen my watermark then...

Karine Coenen

Carrie Phox came from Kari and fox from the cartoon mr.phox

and i thought that was funny.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

Well, so much for my thoughts.

Rank: Artist Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 309

lol I'm proud of my name: KARINE!!!! XD it's almost the same so whatever i thinks XD

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 731

To be honest,I thought I had invented my first name "Foxonian".Only later after doing a google search did I found out that it was a name belonging to a heritical branch of the Quaker religion of all things.My last name "Vallincourt" is the name of my grandmother's family based in Montreal Quebec CA.

Rank: Veteran Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 668

My real name: Alester B. Ponaya. I'm actually from the Philippines.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 2112

I think I mentioned it once before, but as I don't remember where I'll repost it here. I got the name Xebulon Burke from an old history textbook I had in highschool. On one page, in one paragraph, there was an excerpt about an explorer in Virginia, during the time of the Lewis and Clarke explorations, named Zebulon Burke. I have never been able to find any more information about his and all I can remember is that there's some hill or something named for him somewhere in Virginia. This is the first time I've used the name and the change from a Z to an X was purely whimsical.

As to my secret identity, since it really doesn't bother me if people know, it's Shaffer (shay-fur).

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 612

Mine is the moniker i used when I entered writing contests in high school. Just sort of stuck. The '12' came in when trying to use it online.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 85

I got my name from a close friend of mine who I used to hang out with on the fur mucks who suggested it to me and the name has pretty much become a part of me since then that was almost 9-10 years ago. Originally the character Ksathra was a white tiger but over time I evolved him into the dark furred fox that I use today. Though I find it interesting when I looked up the name and it's meaning the name of Ksathra is Babylonian and it means "King" or "Ruler".

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 2112

Interesting. Both Ksathra and Herisheft have regal names. Excellent choices, I would say. Very Happy

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 167

Chessy comes from Cheshire cat. Pretty simple. x3

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 2568

Labrn Mystic = Martyr of Vengeance and Glory.

Giving myself in the name of those I love and care for who have been wronged in very theatric and over the top ways.

As far as spelling goes, it was originally Labryn, but alot of the games I played only allow a max of 5 characters, so it became Labrn. Just think of it as a long "N"

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My last name is an anagram of my real name... Dante has been my RL nickname for like 15 years

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Hmn, once I had pink hair and looked like a manga character named Ichigo and because it was to long the people started to say Ichi, then Chii...

And bright angel... Because I always wear white or lightblue and the people say I am shiny to much. Rolling Eyes

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Ooo fun learning about everyones names.

Hmmm I go by 2 handles usually... Jinx... due to an unfortunate propensity for electronics to cease functioning for no explainable reason in my presence. I have a lifetime ban against me from entering certain server rooms.

And Littlefox.... well I too am a furry artist Wink

The man I apprenticed to years and years ago went under the pen name of Baron William Blackfox. When I'd make it to events he was at, I would always be found at his feet, practicing and him critiquing my work. His friends started laughing and saying, Hey Blackfox has a little fox. The name stuck Wink

He died some time ago and I have since kept the name in remembrance of him.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 1000

Think I've mentioned this elsewhere, but my peculiar nickname was given to me by a particularly loved high school teacher years ago. He dressed as though the 1950s never ended and was a veteran of WWII. Due my fondness for wearing bright red, he enjoyed calling me a commie constantly. I learned Russian just to indulge him. Razz

When it came time to pick a name for myself, I just altered the spelling to make it look more like a name than an epithet.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 648

Tursi was chosen cause, at the time I needed an alias, I really liked dolphins. Tursi is short for Tursiops Truncatus - which is the latin name for the Bottlenose dolphin.

When I later decided lion suited my persona better, I kept the name. Wink

Rank: Artist Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 417

isn't krasnyi red in russian?

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 112

And Littlefox.... well I too am a furry artist Wink

The man I apprenticed to years and years ago went under the pen name of Baron William Blackfox. When I'd make it to events he was at, I would always be found at his feet, practicing and him critiquing my work. His friends started laughing and saying, Hey Blackfox has a little fox. The name stuck Wink

He died some time ago and I have since kept the name in remembrance of him.[/quote]

I was fortunate enough to meet the good baron the one year I made it out to Pensic Wars. He was kind enough to wedge me in for a sketch even though it was getting dark. It was saddening to hear he'd died, he was one of the best, a big, bluff, cheerful fellow.