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May-26-2005 05:26
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Some of us have interesting reasons to pick a detective name. What is yours?

jstkdn which some people don't realize right away stands for JuST KiDding! It is something I tend to say a lot in real life after a lot of sentences. A good friend of mine in the US had jstkdn as a license plate of her car, so I wasn't that inventive myself.

My previous other agent was PM, which stands for Project/Program Manager, my profession in real life.

My only detective that I currently play with is freelancermountaineer. Only because Freelancer was taken. Sidney Bristow in the Alias series uses two call signs freelancer and mountaineer.

Aug-10-2008 12:16

I liked the first name Dixie for a girl, and then I just randomly thought up the last name Perkins. Idk, I've had this s/n forever, I'm kinda getting tired of it now lol.

Aug-12-2008 19:25

I got my name from a book i read a lot so i will never run out of names.

Aug-14-2008 09:52

mine is kind of weird...
i was watching will and grace and karen was at a drag club and wanted to know what her drag name would be so mine is my drag name..

Oct-26-2008 17:00

great question! :)
Well, i have a dad called kevin and i once had a brother called Aaron Kevin Hey but he died when he was baby...God i hate cot death.
so when i first joined this site(which was today -_-') and had to pick my detective name, the name Aaron Kevin Hey just came naturally to me.

Nov-15-2008 16:09

I dont really know why.....

Jan-2-2009 17:39

This is just something i've been using for a couple of years in different places, so i decided to just keep it simple and go with this one.

Mar-26-2009 11:27

La Sorella stands for " The Sister" in italian.
I refer to it as a sister in the Christian world (no, I am not a nun)! "La Hermana" in Spanish.

Mar-26-2009 13:01

I have no idea why I picked my name. It's not my real name, or anyone I know, or a charecter in a book I've read...

Why did I pick my name?

*scratches head*

Apr-3-2009 02:31

I started off in Shades of Mystery, and i had trouble because all the names i wanted to use were always picked. I experimented with jo00, and ended up using it. I then started writing on the RP stage (got quite addicted to it, i must say). jo00 doesn't fly, and derived Jo-seph Zeo (as in Zero - 00), hey, at least it's catchy... a little bit...

When i came to Noir from Shades, i used the name. It resembles nothing in my RL, except the jo part which is part of my nick name for like, forever. LOL.

May-11-2009 00:14

Valentina D'Angeli is a character in one of my short stories.
She's a 400 year-old vampire, and I really like both her and her name.