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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-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

Aug-25-2007 12:39

I have a tattoo on my arm that says 'cenoe', which is the name of my dead homeboy. So people started to call me cenoe. But I felt silly naming my detective after my nickname, so I added another word that I really like.... Hence, cenoecox.

Aug-27-2007 16:23

Looking at all the interesting reasons, I should make up an interesting name next time too. n.n"

As for the great history of my username, it's part of my email address. ~ Misses a Thrown Tomato By an Inch ~

Aug-27-2007 16:25

And as a comment to Aiden, Conan's last name was Edogawa. His name is Edogawa Conan. Sorry, but I'm a Detective Conan freak.

Aug-28-2007 08:20

my detective name is just basically my real name backwards and slightly altered:
real-Louis Scott
detective- Scott Lewis

nothin special

Aug-28-2007 23:05

I got my the first part of my detective name from a show I was watching on... I believe it was Discovery channel. They were talking about big cats and I was trying to think of my username during this. Ligers weren't specifically mentioned but they did show a Siberian Tiger and a White Lion (Which is what I guess caused me to think of Ligers) And thinking that simply "Liger" was taken, I went to www.behindthename.com and started browsing the surnames and just chose one that sounded good with Liger. Possibly the longest story behind a username I've ever had.