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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.

Jul-31-2007 12:36

I'm not super creative ...so since I'm a female I choose "Lady" and then just rearrange the letters in my real last name to have "Zeugirdor".

Aug-1-2007 11:37

I got Rocky from the name of my favorite character in the online comic Lackadaisy (Pretty awesome, you should check it out. The main characters are, um, cats, though.)

Then I just sat for like 15 minutes trying to think of a last name... Polinski just... happened.

Aug-1-2007 13:12

I have a thing for girls names beginning with "E" that sound kinda traditional... I'm sorted for if ever i have a baby girl.

Edith, Eve, Elsie, Elanor, Eva...

I like surnames that could be first names, i have one irl, like Rose can be and it sounded pretty, Eva Rose.

Aug-1-2007 13:58

My favorite character to be when I play clue is Miss Scarlet, so I wanted Scarlet to be a part of my name. When I was little, there was this mystery series called "Jigsaw Jones." He was the one who got me into sleuthing and detective work, so I chose Jones as my last name. I wanted to feminize the first name a bit and came up with Scarletta Jones.

Aug-3-2007 06:24

I've got the name Aiden from a gothic band which i used to listen, hehe..
While the name Anagawa was taken from the last name of Conan Which has to be Conan Anagawa... That cartoon show was my favorite cartoon-based detective anime... haha... ^^

The name of the show is Case Closed... or in Asia... Detective Conan...

hehe... pretty cool huh...

Aug-3-2007 09:36

Angus Drako is a form of the name I used to use when I did some reenactment stuff years ago. It just hung on from friends and family. Guess they liked it and I got used to it.
Thus far I will stay with it. Sort of has a nice ring.

Aug-7-2007 10:50

Darken Mist was just created out of my odd habit of putting odd words together. I first used it on another website and it seemed to stick in my head. When I joined Sleuth, I thought it be a perfect name for a darker type of a detective. I used that mind frame in doing her history. No much more to tell.

Aug-7-2007 22:56

Patric Flannagan is the name of my favourite character in the Australian mini series "ANZACS" back in the '80s.

Aug-11-2007 09:30

My name is from the song Black by Okkervil River. Before I signed up, after my first/practice account retired and I had some familiarity, I knew I was going to be a moonlighting dilettante. The name really seemed fitting for the era and the story.

Aug-24-2007 23:01

Jay = My real name is Jason.
Rain = In all my other online games, I am known as 'raen' and it's ALWAYS in small letters. I couldn't bring myself to write 'Raen' as this would be betraying my online reputation for the past 2 years and so therefore spelt it 'Rain'. =P