How did you choose your ultimate nickname?

OrphanedAngel

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It's an idea that Morticia NL and me have discussed when we were at Thessaloniki!
So,what's your nickname's "historical" ?

To start with mine,I chose "OrphanedAngel" because of our beloved's band first word and as for the second infix of my nick,
is that i want to believe that angels exists in our fake,cruel world. :saint:
 
Gormenghast is the best book I have ever read and I found myself in the character of Fuchsia Groan and while I was reading the book I really felt that I was Fuchsia Groan... :worship:
 
well my choice was a bit unconscious i think ;) i don't remember why i chose this nick at that time. but after some time i liked it and thought it suits me since i sometimes feel as if i have been acting a bit unconsciously, especially when i get lost in thinking. i "wake up" from thinking and when i look around i realize that i moved around and did some things automatically, and ask myself how the hell did i get there.
sure i'm not the only one who feels like this. whatever. i use this nick nearly everywhere on the internet now, though sometimes i want to change it to something turkish.
 
Corporal McDick was actually a costume from last Purim, my friend got those camoflauge US asmy uniforms, and we roamed the streets.
I was Corporal Virgil "Bloody" McDick, and he was Nick O'Hardon.
Silly, yet the nickname stayed.
 
IOfTheStorm said:
"I Of The Storm" is a song from one of my favourite bands: Psychotic Waltz

I just recently discovered Psychotic Waltz, thanks to a convergence of the new Ayreon album and Dead Soul Tribe grabbing my attention. I have Social Grace and Mosquito, bought just a few weeks ago as a package deal from The End Records.

My nick is a combination of my favorite band, Savatage/Trans-Siberian Orchestra and my preferred status as a member of the popular community; an outcast.
 
Corporal McDick said:
Corporal McDick was actually a costume from last Purim, my friend got those camoflauge US asmy uniforms, and we roamed the streets.
I was Corporal Virgil "Bloody" McDick, and he was Nick O'Hardon.
Silly, yet the nickname stayed.

Just a small note about Purim: Purim is the jewish version of Halloween :)
 
I did not come up with my nick myself- it was given to me by friends about 13 years ago (how time flies...) I used to wear a long pencil dress made of black velvet with a little train, was always very pale and my hair was very long and I wore make up that consisted of black eyeliner and red lipstick. The only one the could think of who ever looked like that was Morticia from the Addams family and so it became my nick.
Funny thing is that a lot of people in the dutch scene only know me by my nick and don't even know my real name.

PS Dead skin mask from Slayer IS an awesome song!
 
Orphaned Matti said:
No avi, Haloween is the christian version of Purim :)

We were here first!

And about my nick, there's nothing much to add.

yeah matti I didnt meen to say that the jewish holiday came as a reflection of the chreistian one, after all the origine of the jewish Purim is the emancipation of the jews in Persia and persian king`s permission to let jews go back to israel :Spin:
 
Well...i used to write the lyrics in a band i was in some years back. My favourite lyrics and song was titled "Burning Dreamcells". My ultimate nickname was inspired by the meaning of the lyrics united by the music's feeling...:)
 
The story behind mine is that I used to like Tool, and when Lateralus came out, I was looking at the tracklist, and one was called Mantra and the one after was called Schism. I said them together. I thought it sounded cool. A new screenname was born.

After that, my nick became significant in other ways. I went through a time of bad 'spiritual' uncertainty. I figured a 'mantra' was like a religious chant, in a way, and a 'schism' is a severe fracture in a faith, e.g. Catholicism and Protestantism being two very different takes on Christianity. I felt like I was telling myself that I believed one thing, but I didn't really, so it was like a split between what I wanted to believe and what I did believe. Which was really nothing. This is probably pretty inaccurate, actually -- I remember that there was something more to it, or something different, but that was a while ago and I don't remember anymore. I kind of wish I could. Now I feel like Mantraschism doesn't really fit anymore.

My first nick was Fates Guardian, which I still use. This one is really simple: Fates Warning + Blind Guardian (my favorite band) = Fates Guardian. Again, I thought it sounded cool, and it worked well for online gaming, and it has just stuck. Actually, I guess my REAL first one was Krakatau, from an Yngwie song, which is the name of a volcano. I've also used Sméagol, too -- pretty obvious. Sometimes I use Grymskald, or just Skáld, the former being Swedish or Norwegian for 'grim-skald' or 'grim-poet/musician', since I play music and write lyrics which are dark. Skáld is just Icelandic for, well, 'skald'. I think it's a cool word, and Icelandic owns. \m/

Now you have my biography.
 
UnConscious said:
you were in a band, chris? that's great :headbang:
we all know you're great at writing so it's good to hear that you have some lyrics written. :worship:

Yeah Muhip i used to own a band about 9 years ago!!! It was named "CONDEMNED" and we used to play something like atmospheric-gothic metal.
The thing is that we would almost sign in "Holy Records" and be co-bands with Orphaned Land. But it didn't turn out good for us, somebody (not to tell his name but he is into a big Greek band) put his hand not to make it happen and signed "On Thorns I Lay" instead of us, so we've split up. Anyway...
Thanks my brother for your kind words! :worship:
 
bad thing you've split up for such a thing. now I wonder who that "somebody" is. :bah:
do you have any recordings or anything? i'd like to listen.