mine originates from greek mythology. i've always loved mythology and the scylla is a terrible beast that lives on one side of a very narrow channel, across of from charybdis (a whirlpool)
scylla was rumoured to originally be a beautiful nymph, child of Ceto and Phorcys, turned into a really ugly mmonster by the sorceress Circe. i always liked monsters and the concept of scylla, and did a lot of projects and study on her until i gained the nickname 'scylla' from my chums. when i started heavily using the internet, i just tacked 'daring' in front of it because 'scylla' was more likely to be taken and universal. and because i've always been very outspoken, unafraid to alienate people and in general not giving an eff about anything online. that's meeeee.

well my user name was just kind of random... i played many online games and this was a common user name i had... that or shinoknight, hdzshino, xiro, or shino... people tell me i took the name shino from naruto... but the thing was that i had it before the series started and i never heard of it...

Oh god... I don't really remember. All I know is that I've always used this user name. It who I am online XD

mines kind of cheesy but it came from Echo Nighttray from Pandora Hearts. I cosplayed her and Nikko found me at NDK and he and his friends calls me Echo than my real name...and the 713 is my birthday July 13

A character's name from a story I wrote. I borrowed the Massy, spelled exactly like that, from a friend's character, and the last name came out of a want for a rhyming last name to my protagonist, seeing as how he was a sort of doppelganger of my protagonist.

My name is my real life nickname. My buddies on my old track teamed named me this, I was the fastest on the team, and as team captain for a while, had to constantly carry word from coach to team xD

I am the manry-est of men!

Mine name came from one I had on an old site, when it was Seishin No Kibou (spirit of hope in Japanese). Eventually I wanted to shorten it because everyone just called me Sei anyways, but it was taken, so I kept the longer name. Once I came here, I got to shorten it. That's the origin of my name. *nods*

The origin of my name comes from a video game. :'3
Rozalin from Disgaea 2, but I tweaked it bit more to my liking. //Nod nod.

Well, my name just came to me out of the blue one day and I think I had voodoo dolls on my mind {my mind is very scary.. o.. o I wouldn't never want to meet it in a dark alley} and somehow it went from Voodoo towards Tormented which stuck in my mind so I put Tormented and Doll together to be a bit more creative. :3

I have always been fond of Mukuro Rokudo from Hitman Reborn and his illusion abilities. That and Illusions in The Elder Scrolls has always been one of my favorite skills ;D

All that said, I just loved the idea of manipulating people's minds to see something else then what's expected. So Illusion as a name to me is that I can be anything I want you to believe.

This past June I went to a formal ball. It was a birthday event for my friend's girlfriend. So I flew to Georgia (I'm in Illinois), and we drove to Florida to attend. We shopped forever for a ball gown for me and stuff to make me look all fancy and junk. Well, at the ball, I was all self conscious because I had never been to a ball nor do I feel super comfortable in gowns. And there were a lot of beautiful women there and junk. I never slow danced officially before and I was super nervous.

So the birthday girl is a huge fan of anime and video games, so all the music was orchestrated versions of popular theme songs from them.

"Lacrimosa" from Black Butler started playing and I squee'd so loudly. One of the guys who sat at our table looked at me and was like: WTF. I explained that it was the ending theme to my favorite anime of the moment. So he asked me to dance.

It's a faster paced waltzing song, so it was difficult, but we OWNED it. We flew around the dance floor kind of magic like and trumped everyone out there. Everyone was watching us in amazement and I felt like a princess.

So I made this name and it registers just... glamorous fantasy. Of course, I prefer the "wrong" spelling of it, but it's still recognized.

Lacrimosa means "weeping", which I definately was during that dance. On the inside. With happiness.

*/shot*

I don't think I've ever considered the word "lachrymose" in any context other than devastatingly-disconsolate despair before. It just sounds so Romantically bleak. Say it with me, "lachrymose" :p

(Actually, for some reason, the word always brings up the image of Satan weeping under the sun after his Fall in Paradise Lost. Always carried to me that sort of fallen-from-splendor-lordly-inclination-to-tears connotation to me. :p)


Anyway, that was enlightening to learn. :)

Sheol, I'm pretty sure you could take "lollipops" and find an interpretation of it as the abject failure of humanity. ;)

Lovely story 'Mosa. :)

My real name is Matej, which roughly translates to "Mattie" in American, or Matthew. I'd rather people call me Matt than the former two, so. There we go. ovo...