My inbox will regret this later.

[mcfussyfangs.livejournal.com]

So I've been ogling everyone's username all over this game, and some of them are actually kind of interesting, but I know nothing about the canon and am too lazy/don't have the means to find out. So it's time for

USERNAME MEME

1. Post with your account names.
2. State why you chose the username. Is it an inside fandom joke? A horrible pun? Canon relevant? Go nuts.

Man, 4 minutes to 9AM EST is the perfect time to post this.

Comments

[puppetfetishist.livejournal.com]

OKAY UH

puppetfetishist

LOOK.

THE MAN RUNS A WEBSITE OF MUPPET PORNOGRAPHY

HIS APARTMENT IS COVERED IN SUGGESTIVE PUPPETS

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

So when we had a Hanna here his account name was idkmybffzombie so I thought OMG LETS MATCH

Annnd I guess it still works Hanna is Zombie's BFF. *SHRUG*

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

SHODAN is a machine who wants to be god / thinks of herself as a god

Yep.

[featheryasshole]

Dave's sprite is consistently referred to as a feathery asshole both before and after being prototyped with Future Dave. Kind of obvious choice. *shrug*

[manipul8trix.livejournal.com]

Bluh bluh boring username. Vriska has mindfuck abilities stemming from her Vision Eightfold that are colloquially referred to as the power of "Manipul8tion". Thus she is a manipul8trix. Yeah. :I

And OH JEGUS, googling "Manipulatrix" sans typing quirk informs me that I have inadvertently named this account after a website devoted to "female domination, humiliation and cuckoldry". WHY. WHYYYYYYYY. DNW, SIX SOLAR SWEEPS, ETC ETC

[whistlesatengineers]

AU relevant, actually!

The adorable weird pink thing in this icon is Vergil the Engineer. In the AU I use for Rookie, he whistles a short tune at Vergil in one scene to tell him everything's a-okay. It's shamefully cute and on my profile.

I would have gone with engineerwhistler but I didn't think it would fit (and also it looks silly), and the actual name for the Engineer species is Huragok. So!

[nobleleader.livejournal.com]

LOL leader of noble team. I can't think of good user names like ever so Nie helped me.

[howkickassiam.livejournal.com]

This one is just something York says to Tex, hahaha.

[pacifisting.livejournal.com]

This is like the only username I'm proud of Lflksmfas. Euphie is a pacifist and she was originally apped into a sex game so pacifisting was perfect.

[nobletwo.livejournal.com]

8'| lol. She's Noble Two.

[cuttlefishcull.livejournal.com]

Because her trollian name is cuttlefishCuller and the full name wouldn't fit

YES I am the most creative B| bask in that creativity

[oneliners.livejournal.com]

blackone was taken so i thought on this and well. She's Black-One and she spouts a oneliner or two, so....!

[he-shrugged.livejournal.com]

Because! Ann Rand has a book called Atlas Shrugged (which always makes me laugh because come on. Best book title ever.) and this guy's name is Atlas. And his name is Atlas as a direct reference to that book. Even some of the posters in the game (see icon) make a stab at the Who is John Galt? bit in the book.

So :T that's that.

[circuitry]

I originally planned on going with s33r_of_m1nd, but then I realized the whole numbers-to-letters thing looks really awful when the words aren't capitalized, so I just went with this one because Terezi wants to be a legislacerator. Also I think it's a really cool word and I wanted to snag it before anyone else did.

[alaspooryork]

Well, "heretoassist" and "memoryisthekey" were taken, so I was dicking around with trans_9's Grif and Tex trying to think of a good Delta username and I mentioned how Delta must secretly be a Shakespeare fan because he was constantly analyzing the plays, since they were considered great human literature and the purest forms of emotion blah blah blah. So we came up with this, based off the line in Hamlet of course. "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio...."

[evaskullface.livejournal.com]

I got attached to the idea of making "skullface" part of his name, and his helmet is the EVA helmet. Also, I was too late to snag "noblefour" and "carveditmyself".

[sgt-crockets.livejournal.com]

I was going to go with mjr_malfunction at first, because 1) Sgt. Hartman says it in Full Metal Jacket and 2) Soldier is crazy, but then I thought that Major was too high of a rank so I bumped him down to Sergeant. And crockets is the shortened form of crit rocket, which are a Soldiers best attack.

feeltheraeg just comes from Kilo Monster being a monster of rage and misspelling things is the cool thing to do.

vespa_americana is supposed to be a scientific name for Solly. Vespa is the genus for hornets. Americana is the species name, so it comes out to be American Hornet.

[hows-the-knee.livejournal.com]

Both of mine are snippets of dialogue; Parker's (theniputitback) is quoted on her profile. Sarah's is from this exchange with her psychiatrist at the mental institution:

Dr. Silberman: Good morning, Sarah.
Sarah Connor: Good morning, Dr. Silberman. How's the knee?
Dr. Silberman: Fine, Sarah.
Dr. Silberman: [turns to the team of doctors with him] She... uh, stabbed me in the knee cap with my pen a few weeks ago.

I'm not super thrilled with either of them, but eh. Everything else I could think of was taken already.

[i_like_your]

It's meant to look like 't-x_unit', but LJ makes it look like 't_x_unit', making me lament ever putting that dash in...

[onceaniso]

I wanted infectious but that was taken, so it then came down to either infectthegrid or spreadmypain. Based upon the first Abraxas shard in game.

"I am the perfect weapon." "Everything about you ISOs is a threat to us." "Spread my pain." "A threat to our perfect system." "Infect the Grid. Destroy everything in my path." "A threat I must eliminate." "My purpose is clear. Everything is coming to an end."

Kind of like spreadmypain a bit more now.

[notsoloyal]

In the show Shockwave is like the most loyal. In the Dreamwave comics he starts off incredibly loyal, but turns out to be not so loyal after all (just like the Marvel comics). Megatron sucks. That's it.

[mcfussyfangs.livejournal.com]

Kanaya gets her username from this conversation with Vriska (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004104) where the other troll calls her Miss Meddlesome McFussyfangs.

[has-a-hardline.livejournal.com]

Tucker gets his/her username from a quote in the Episode 92: Where Credit is Due (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ml_naWhnfk). When Tex mentions that she needs a hardline to move Sheila from the tank to the recently crashed ship, Tucker comes hauling ass out of a the base and tells her that he "has a hardline Tex can use. Bow chicka bow wow!"

Bowchickabowwow was already taken IIRC, but I was playing him in Amat before, and hurr hurr has a hardline could be doublespeak for erection. Lame, I know.

[im-sorry-dave.livejournal.com]

Pretty much taken right from this iconic scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBmPiOmEGQ) in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I have another one named takeastresspill, which is more subtle but OH WELL.

[ysonightfurious.livejournal.com]

A combination of his being a Night Fury (http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/Night_Fury) and this shitty meme (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-so-serious).