It was really interesting reading about everyone's name stories! Mine's not terribly creative, but it's stood the test of time.

Tiegrsi : Tiger's Eye

Back in 1995 when I was 15 and first discovered the interwebz, my mom allowed me to make my own email account. For days I struggled over what I should call myself, since it seemed like a life altering moment for me at the time, lol! (Create your own secret identity online!) Finally I decided I just needed to pick something I liked...which included at the time tiger's eye gemstones and marbles. I tried spelling Tiger's eye about 21 different ways, but AOL kept telling me "that name's taken!"
So I tried a 22nd way...and lo and behold, Tiegrsi was available! So it stuck, and I've carried it with me through 5 or 6 different email accounts and countless website registrations. A lot of people (on many sites) have shortened it to Tie, Tigs, and even Tigger when they post to/about me. Most people don't seem to realise that I meant it to sound like 'tiger's eye', but I can't fathom changing it at this point!

Somewhere around mid-2003 I hit a song that I really liked; Breathe No More by Evanescence. There's a lyric that goes "All the little pieces falling, shatter. Shards of me, too sharp to put back together." I turned that into "shatteredshardsofme" for a new email account, as the one I had was pretty overrun with spam somehow. From there it morphed into Shatteredshards, which then typically got shortened to Shattered, especially when I got into SecondLife. Where I used to do RP in SL, one of the admins nicknamed me Shatt, and it stuck.

I have a couple other lesser-used handles, but for the most part people know me as Shattered/Shatteredshards, so that's what I went with here.

My first name "LoveIsAMovement" came from some graffiti at the beach, then I found out it's a Switchfoot song. No offense to any Switchffot fans but I hate them so I changed it to LoveNabokov because Vladimir Nabokov's writing is what inspired me to take up a pen in the first place.

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I could tell all kinds of fun stories about the various screen name's I've had, but since Crescent Dreams is the one I have on Dokuga, I'll just tell that one.

I used to roleplay/write fanfiction years back in the Inuyasha universe, and my most frequent partner/obsession was, of course, Sesshoumaru. Later on, when my online community pretty much disappeared after four years, I decided I wanted to make a new name for myself. I've always loved nighttime, and the moon and how beautiful it looks, and my favorite character had a Crescent on his forehead, so that stuck with me. The 'dreams' part was added on to my penname/screen name because of the potential the crescent represents in it's waxing phase and because for the most part, all of the ideas in my head were left there, as dreams. Also, I thought it sounded cool.

I use it everywhere, I even created an insignia for it in HS, but for the most part all my online friends/communities just call me Crescent, and for some people trying to be cute, I get called croissant.. silly people.

Mine is my name.... but my Dokuga name is Neko_brenna and there is a funny story to it! Originally my username was Inu_youkai_brenna, and one time in chat when something happened and you couldn't change names someone asked me (i cant remeber who sorry ) Why is it that your icon is a cat but your name is inu. Well I thought that was hilarious and just ended up changing my name to match my icon in chat. It may not be as funny as some stories but I still think its kinda funny!