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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.

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.

May-23-2009 01:09

I think that's a beautiful name :)

May-23-2009 07:29

I was in an exotic mood that night and Lolita sounded exotic and exciting and starts with the first letter of my name too. Then I was scratching my head over a surname for my detective when Mr 14 popped in to see what I was doing and he came up with Marinez. So basically something that Mr 14 and I cooked up out of thin air :-)

Jun-15-2009 12:59

The name chose me.

Jul-5-2009 17:21

i got my detective's picture and qualities before i named her. She had to have a name that suited her style. :)

Jul-30-2009 18:08

It's a combination of a friend's old role-playing character called Encyclopedia Zorn, who was a strange FBI-agent in sun-glasses and hawaii-shirt, and Bill Pullman's character Daryl Zero from the movie "Zero Effect" - one of my favourite Private Investigator movies.

Aug-16-2009 12:48

Mine is Misouri because it's a beautiful state. And Snape because, well, I'm in love with Professor Snape from Harry Potter, :) he he hehe :)

Aug-21-2009 07:45

I always have a Shades character and then make up a grandparent for them. I decided not to be sexist so my third Shades character was female, a 'Moonlighting Dilettante' Jill Weine. Since she spent all her money, she earned it from... her grandfather, Sir William, 2nd Duke of Kingston. This is set in the 20s, see the point? Shades' Weine is related to this one. I don't know where HER name came from though. Oh yes, it ought to be 'Whine' but I made it such as a joke.

Sep-10-2009 09:05

I didn't see every post on this thread, but is Anais Nin named after the writer, Anais Nin?

Sep-10-2009 10:23

Um... kinda... I love a quote of her's, so I used her name. But then I read one of her books... But I still love the quote! Here it is:

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anaïs Nin