What's the Story Behind Your Gamertag?

A good question!
I had a previous gamertag just before the launch of SoT.
Thought it was time for a change & something specific , I created a new account, & thought "Craggy" would suit my persona.

"Craggy" is a little nod & wink to my heritage, culture & lump of land.
Being an Irishman... there was a comedy programme screened here written by the wonderful Graham Linehan & Arthur Mathews called " Father Ted" Set on the fictional Craggy Island, a remote location off Ireland's west coast.

For me it's comedy gold, and rewatching it.... as I often do, makes my world seem brighter.
Here's a Compilation of clips for those unfamiliar of this comedic gem. Hope you enjoy!

Best of Ted - Father Ted Compilation

@vorondil1 mine be not a choice it be a random gamer tag and I like rabbits so I kept it

Kinda self explanatory...

@vorondil1 ah interesting, well my name comes from trying to call myself weststormtrooper, as I was highly into Star Wars at the time. This ended up not being an option so I went with the next best thing as Weststormborn, the west part comes from living on the west coast of US and storm born for the effect of me being born in a storm.

Mine is my last name. No special story other than that sadly.
Figured there aren't many people who can have their second name as their gamertag. Fortunately for me I have an uncommon name.

A collection of stories: What's in a name?

Often times when I play with new players they get a good chuckle at my screen name and I often have to supply the back story to how my screen name came to be.

I came up with the screen name in 1998 when I started playing online FPS games within clans.(i.e., Call of Duty, Rainbow6, etc.) Since then the name has just worked for me.

My screen name was derived from my surname and first name. But it was also based on a theory from a popular movie from the 90's and the theory comes from the movie 'Free Willy". Basically, what would have happened to the orca from that film if he was not freed? Hmmmm?

I apologize for my satirical sense of humor. Albeit coming from a person who is a scuba diver and lover of the ocean.

I've posted this before in a previous version of this thread. gatorwocky is a combination of things in my life.

I played in a local metal band for well over a decade known as Jabberwocky. When local band sites popped up, we created accounts that were "Jabberinsertfirstname." This was to promote our band for upcoming shows. My first X-Box account was that name. Then I somehow lost access to that account. I don't remember those details and I eventually started a new one. gatorwocky. I'm a huge Florida Gators fan so I simply combined the two. I'm long since done with playing music in live bands (I'm an older guy and that stuff takes a lot out of you). However, the gamer in me still exists. So gatorwocky lives on.

I like the name. It's unique and means something to me. Plus, I feel like it kind of rolls off the tongue. Of course, most of my gamer friends simply call me "gator" and I'm good with that.

It's taken from two WATAIN (Black Metal band) songs.
Legions Of The Black Light / Reaping Death = So i tried mixing the words around and found out that ReapingLegion sounded good :P

@vorondil1 I'm a long time fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels along with most things fantasy (D&D, WHFRP, LotR etc) so wanted something along those lines, but not so obvious as to need a huge number to be unique. I went for a lesser known character, Bravd the Hublander, but this was too many characters (I joined Xbox live the day it came to the UK on the original Xbox) so I tried shortening it to Hublander and have kept it ever since.

Sea of Thieves is the only reason I even have a gamer tag. Being totally alien to the modern gaming world, I had to figure out what that was, how to get it and how to get started.
As SoT is also my only game, my gamer tag is geared towards having fun in the pirate world. All I could think of was Buttery Barnacles so it was adapted to the gamer tag character limitations.
Aye, me barnacles be buttery. Do ye want to feel them?

Well, mine is a rando tag from Microsoft. Was starting another side account to hide out on (longer story than I'm willing to share). Cycled through several because I wanted to not be connected with my many potato themed gt's. Ended up presented with this.
Pithy means short and informative. And rumble cause... I mean I like my music to rattle the dishes...

So I'm a concise informative earthquake.

And now this is my main. 🧜🏽‍♀️💜

The straw hat pirates to me have always embodied the enjoyment of life and the freedom of not questioning oneself. Now every time I Sign in I’m reminded of the childish nature I used to have and to not let the sea (video games) make me bitter. Great post! I love reading about everyone’s gamer tag origins haha

This being my first and only Win10 game, I wanted a name that invoked a pirate version of grunt.
A soldier in the trenches, a stalwart crewmate and capable seaman, a combat veteran with a thousand mile stare.

Since the debut of Arena, I see myself as a retainer for DiMarco and Lisedi.
Or a cheerleader for the Glorious Sea Dogs.

My name was picked from one game and one ...RPG-maker game.
Daikon was from the rpg-maker demo Velsarbor! It was very well Made, but still just a demo! One of the charaktes was named "Kento Daikon". And I love the sound of that! The name Akechi comes from the game Onimusha," Samanosuke Akechi".

Fun fact Daikon is a japanese raddish! The funny thing is, this is my favorite username since 13 years I think, but since 6 years I know what it means! But still, I like it.

@dredgen-cosmos said in What's the Story Behind Your Gamertag?:

Quickly before it gets locked

re. Topics over 1 month

Think we are good here... this is a "Perpetual" topic.
One of the special few I believe.. that can be added to.
All our stories in one place.

I'm sure @Deckhands , can confirm this.

edit: personally I love to hear everybodies story on how their name came to be.
Whether their post was made back when 1st this thread was created, or now.
It is the story of our community, and a welcome thread for those new to the game.... to share a little about themselves.
It's a continuing story... yet to be told.

My Origional Gamertag (Buck_Luny) was an old D&D char that I used in my 2nd Edition days. He was a Baklunish Priest of Pelor who was origionally called something arabic untill during his first game session everyone Just Called him Buck Because he was Baklunish so I renamed him Buck_Luny and the rest is history.

@knifelife said in What's the Story Behind Your Gamertag?:

@closinghare208 said in What's the Story Behind Your Gamertag?:

@vorondil1 mine be not a choice it be a random gamer tag and I like rabbits so I kept it

I’ll reply to this before it gets closed for being necroed.
But I’m not sure if you are aware mate, but if you got a random gamer tag.
You are allowed to change it once free of charge. :)

idc

This is going to sound a bit cringe to some, but meh.

It derives from a attachment of interpretation of a song by the same title by a band called Sub rosa, that's helped deal with some stuff.

As for the interpretation, it comes from my personal battles with cancer, and the lasting effects it has had on myself both physically and mentally over decade on.