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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.

Jan-20-2011 08:24

Emily as a nod to Lady Emerald Devon and Hill as a nod to Blueberry Hill.
Emily's middle name is Ruby :)

Jan-20-2011 08:54

When I signed up, I deliberately did so with a troll username in an attempt to offend/amuse people. After about 2 months in, I started writing my first scripted mystery and I realized I really liked the community, so I e-mailed Ben and asked him to chance it to my current name. The only people who might remember me as what I used to be are my original agency mates in Ona Mission, Ben, any admin who could check the records, and the one other member here that I've actually told. Other than that, it's something I'll take to my grave. The only thing I'll say is that it was very similar to my current name.

Feb-14-2011 11:32

Well I picked mine after reading Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers. Although I didn't like the character in that book I did like the name, so I used it

Jan-25-2012 15:50

Martin Eden (Jack London's protagonist in his novel Martin Eden)
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Stefan Zweig (writer) = Eden Zweig

Pink Floydian way of paying homage to anyone or anything that becomes a part of your world and expands it and a way of self-relaxation, too :)

picture belongs to Gabriel Byrne(as Marcia Gay Harden putting a gun against his head by the chin) and the shot is from Coen Bros' Miller's Crossing. He had a thing for his hat. The hat was one of the recurring symbolic themes in the movie, and it stood for a restless quest of belonging in an unpredictable world with no reference points, I believe. It's been years I saw it, I may as well be exagerrating and romanticizing the movie and where the hat belongs in it.

Jan-27-2012 03:26

I picked my Name from my top-three favorite fictional stories.

Dessel = Main character in the novel "Path of destruction"
Hawk = Main character in the Game "Dragon Age 2"
Cooper = From the games with the thief Sly Cooper

Jan-27-2012 18:11

Desmond Cory is a pseudonym used by one of my favorite british authors.

Jan-31-2012 10:53

I took Alister from the person that was called the wickedest man who ever lived, Alister Crowley. As for Bane? I'm not really sure, it just kinda popped in my head, it paired well and no one else had it.

Jan-31-2012 12:06

Really... :)

Jan-31-2012 18:33

... or so I thought at the time, up until I finally decided to come to the message boards, which was literally yesterday, heh. Wanna know something really interesting? My actual middle name is Joseph and everyone has always called me Joey for short, go figure. *Looks around nervously* Coincidence? Or conspiracy? :D

Feb-1-2012 05:23

Well now...my paranoia says...CONSPIRACY!!!

However, the "official" explanation is that Joey Bane is the main character in an old kids game called Gangsters 2. Bulldog is...just something I see in the miror every mornin'....