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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.

Nov-2-2007 08:05

I chose gardener Greene because not only is it an alliterative name (which makes it instantly more interesting), but also because I once played a character in a Marvel roleplaying game with the same name. I'm patterning this character after that one... at least a little.

Nov-5-2007 04:32

Mine is a name of a character I wrote for a student film when I was still in college. It's suitably cheesy, plus it wasn't taken.

Nov-6-2007 15:56

Mine is so boring compared to everyone else's, haha. Mine is just my name. Easy.

Nov-7-2007 16:55

I know I've read this before, I thought I had posted myself, guess not.

lilangel came about when I was in college. My best friend (in RL, aside from my hubby) and I were being silly during classes trying to get our interpreter to laugh. She had told us that we were little devils and I said, "No, we're little angels, see the halo and wings." Well, lilangel got created for an email with my birthdate, since others seem to think they're lilangels as well. I tried it without my birthdate on here, and lo and behold, no one else had that for a detective when I first started with her.

PS: as for the other 6 detectives of mine, I'm not going into long explanations on each one.

Nov-9-2007 14:08

My full first name is Benjamin and BenJermaine is just a little twist on it.
I use the same three usernames for everything: Loser, Benji and BenJermaine.

Nov-22-2007 23:48

HA! Loser. :-)

Hey Gardener! Are we, like, twin brothers or something? ;-)

Nov-23-2007 00:28

Only in the sense that you were both conceived in a garden:) There's a lot of really phallic vegetables out there...

*seductively eats a cucumber*

Nov-24-2007 21:24

My name is my RL name :D yes I know it is so origanal. Wait, your saying it isnt? Oh crap... Still RL NAMES FO LIfe

Nov-25-2007 23:02

Mine is not to original. Being an EMR (Emergency Medical Responder) the nickname 'Doc' kinda got stuck to me by my paramedic father. It's not used very often but I figured I could create a viable background with it. Since 'Doc' had already been taken here I just threw in my last name, Ross, to ensure that I could keep it.

Dec-6-2007 20:12

Waaaay back in the day I wrote a few short stories based around my alter-ego of Jesse Dean Hunter. The shorts weren't anything special, and I don't really know where the name came from. I actually can't even say why it occurred to me to use it here. I had actually typed in my usual nonsensical screen name and erased it and used this one on a whim.