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speedforbrains - Bart is fast. He thinks fast. His thoughts tend to be fast. He tends to go fast rather than think. He's not stupid, he's not slow, he just thinks so fast he forgets what he thought about a few seconds ago because he's moved on to more interesting things. And then he freezes out and gets confused, so it's easier not to think at all.

better_robin - He's the best Robin. Especially better than Drake. And Todd. And Brown. Grayson wasn't that bad, he supposes. Mostly, though, he's just better than Drake. That's why he replaced him, after all.

greenestlantern - Guy likes Hal and Kyle and all the other lanterns. They've had their differences, but at the end of the day, he can depend on them and drink with them. That being said, he's stubborn and competitive as hell, and even if he's not the greatest Green Lantern ever (in anyone's opinion but his own), he'll sure as hell burn brightly.

BONUS BECAUSE I'M WORKING ON HIS APP RIGHT NOW:

brilliantbug - He's a bug. A Blue one. And he's brilliant. ...that's all there is to it.

This is fun!

I didn't actually just stick an n in there.

Interlac (which the Legionnaires and Bart speak) has its own swear words like grife, sprock, and nass. Kind of obvious what nass translates to.

(Mostly the names I liked were all taken.)

gogopowersuit I think there was a Power Rangers commercial when I made this? It had the tune "Go, go, Power Rangers!" playing, so I thought "Hey, Power Rangers, Power Suit" so, Go, Go, Power Suit.

That was kind of lame, sorry.

savin_ur_data Well, Mei Ling saves your data in the first MGS game, and I thought it was clever? Eh? Eh? No.

prof_indiana This isn't creative at all. He's a Professor and Indiana Jones. I combined his titles.

bonk_you_up This was supposed to be like "Fuck you up" except with "Bonk" because Scout... says bonk. Yeah, that's all.

Sorry I fail at usernames.

worm_dancer: Sheeana has the ability to communicate with the sandworms via...rythmless interpretive dance. I'm not kidding you, this is canon.

not_prncss_tldr: Lafiel's full name is Abriel Ne Dobrusc Paryunu Lafiel. The Abh are big on titles. However for most of her life she only wanted to be reffered to by her name and rank, IE as an ordinary soldier instead of as 'your highness' and such.

lilyofthedrills: Yuri is Japanese for lily. Her borg belongs to the Drill Clan of symbionts.

just_like_nii: Was based off Russel's screen name,

just_like_daddy. "Nii" is a nonsense word based off the Japanese word for "older brother", which would be ani or nii-san usually.

liyakun_noorun: Assuming I app her, it's Arabic for "Let there be light"..

runnerwithagun
before joining atlantis, ronon was a runner who are people that have tracking devices surgically implanted into them and are then let lose so the wraith (the bad dudes of sga) can hunt them. his trademark weapon is his gun that everyone seems to want but can't have. and if he loses said gun, it somehow finds its way back to him.

not_to_be_eaten
chopper's a reindeer (read: venison waiting to be cooked). when he first met his captain, luffy wanted to eat him and sanji, the crew's cook, wanted to cook him. there's a re-occuring gag in one piece where they say that chopper's part of the crew because he's the emergency meat. sanji will also threaten to cook him if he plays up too much. and most recently in the manga, chopper was being hunted as food by some giant birds. unfortunately for him, chopper being mistaken for livestock isn't at all uncommon in the one piece world.

flunkingspanish: Paco missed out on a road trip to Kansas (and the first time meeting the first Blue Beetle's granddaughter) because he had to take extra classes. Apparently, his teacher said he was "speaking Spanglish". Paco's at-the-time girlfriend (not Brenda) literally fell to the ground laughing when she heard.

mynameisax: If you have ever read an Animorphs book, you know why. For those of you who haven't, each book in the series starts with "My name is [blank]", [blank] of course being the narrator's first name. Ax is actually the only one to use his full name (until the very end of the series, when we get Jake's (and probably Rachel's) surname), as he doesn't have to hide his identity to keep the Yeerks off their trail. Everyone calls him Ax, though. We're lucky Marco didn't decide to call him "Milly".

vision_ya: This was the first RP journal I ever created. I made it prior to Jonas picking his own first name (hell, it was before the first Young Avengers series was even finished). So... "Vision", because it's his name, and "ya" because he's a Young Avenger.

hatngartersnake: Jeka likes hats. At one point, she had the Legion's in-house engineer make her a fancy fan to take with her while she went out dancing. When complimented on her illusion, she revealed that, like the fan, the hat was real. So I started from there, and went "hats -> accessories -> garters -> garter snake". Voila!

shes_intense : Brenda's sn comes from a classic conversation she had with Paco early in the Blue Beetle series where Paco told her she was a very angry girl and she told him 'I'm not angry, I'm 'intense'. She then pointed out that 'intense' was the kind of wording that went on a college application and Paco retorted that no, it was the kind of wording that went in an angry woman's personal ad. XD

wantstobebatman : Batman is Doc McNinja's idol. He has Batman PJ's, and asks himself 'what would Batman do' in tough situations. He has also been outrightly accused of being 'a doctor who wants to be Batman' in his canon so... yeah. It just fit.

beyondgotham - I admit, this wasn't really inspired by anything. It was like, 'I should include something in there so you know it has to do with Batman... okay, how about Gotham? Okay, yeah, that's good, but should I point out that it's from Batman Beyond? I'll just toss 'beyond' in there. Okay. Done.'

itsmynamenow - Since I decided to have an account solely for Batman icons, I wanted to do something clever that pointed out how Terry is the new Batman. So I modified a line of dialogue from the BB episode 'Shriek':
Terry: Tell me something - why were you so sure those voices weren't coming from you?
Bruce: Well, first, I know I'm not psychotic.
Terry: I hope your other reason is more convincing.
Bruce: Second, the voice kept calling me "Bruce." In my mind, that's not what I call myself.
Terry: What do you call yourself? [Bruce just looks at him for a moment] Oh, yeah. I suppose you would. [Batman voice] But that's my name now.
Bruce: Tell that to my subconscious.

watchwith3hands - Rei has a watch. It has three hands. Bam. (Actually, I wanted to give him the name 'universeman', from the TMBG song. But that was taken. So I wanted to use 'mutabilytemporal' after the trope Temporal Mutability (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TemporalMutability), but that didn't fit. So I just went with the watch thing.

madeofwyn and

forthewyn are, uh. Pretty straightforward. I just swapped a letter into two different Internet phrases and voila! Puns on Wyn's name!

notastaffchick was inspired by the 'Staff Chick' trope over at TV Tropes (which I will not link for your sanity). Unfortunately, Hunter fits just about every part of that trope except for 'usually female'.

enter_aeneas was based off the title of the book that I planned on writing off of Aeneas's backstory (which was itself taken from the RP name I came up with when I first developed him). I could go further and say that I found the title 'format' in a single phrase of a book's cover summary and thought it was rather catchy, but that's a little too in-depth.

quark_assassin is in Dustin's background information in his app. "Quark Assassin" was the pseudonym he used under all of his early theses; later he dropped the 'Quark' part and just stuck with 'Assassin' as his all-around alias.
...And when I say 'Quark', I mean the constituent of baryons and mesons. Not the cheese. >>;;

twelvevoltman: is taken from a Jimmy Buffett song (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Twelve-Volt-Man-lyrics-Jimmy-Buffett/DCE59CB3388BAF09482569A1003082DF) of that name, Jimmy Buffett being Allen's wife's favorite singer, and Twelve Volt Man being her nickname for her cyborg beau.

not_philistine: Goliath is named after the Philistine champion who struck fear into the hearts of good Israelite soldiers due to his gargantuan size and ferocity on the battlefield. Being cultured, philosophical, and a defensive soldier rather than a conquering champion, apart from his size and strength, Goliath the gargoyle has little in common with the biblical figure for whom he was named.

its_keeper: Will's main status within her group is as the Keeper of the Heart of Kandrakar, from which her teammates' powers spring. She keeps the MacGuffin.

found_myway: Zuko spent much of his life on a path set before him by his father, and his grand-and-great-grandfathers, before finding the way that was right for him in joining Aang's quest to save the world. This Zuko had just started down that path when he came to Trans_9.

sent_herself: The Chinese army asked her father to be a soldier. Mulan sent herself in his stead, therefore, yes, sending a daughter when Shang

asked4sons. /derp

staturity I don't really know why I came up with this. For some reason it popped into my mind as a play on "maturity" which, in retrospect, is actually pretty fitting as Cassie/Stature has her own kind of maturity... in that she's largely lacking it. (I know, I'm so hard on poor Cassie but she's 15. She can't help it.)

agoodomen This was nearly just firenhellstrom but I was asking for suggestions and someone suggested this one. It was apparently meant as a play on the movie The Omen but I took it as a play on Good Omens and so I took it. I may or may not be considering making a darksoul lj which is i_p_fire.

w1tchywoman Probably pretty self explanatory. Witchy woman as in from the song and Wanda is a witch although not a very good one. The 1 is in there because for some reason a lj witchywoman was suspended and because of that they wouldn't let me make any variation of witchywoman unless it had a 1 in it. So despite hating using numbers for letters... I did it anyway. I've considered forking over money to do a name change but meh. It works.

visserbasher My friend came up with this one! It was either that or skritchynoses (what Loren called the Skrit Na aliens at first). In Andalite Chronicles Loren threw a rock at the yeerk that would become Visser Three. Hence, visserbasher.

kawalskyeffect This one is pretty funny. I didn't know what username for Kawalsky until I was scanning over wikipedia trying to learn more about Stargate in preparation for the app and then I saw "Kawalsky effect." Apparently the appearance of minor, usually very cool characters whose sole purpose is to be killed off is called the "Kawalsky effect" as opposed to the classic Red Shirt description. And then I realized I probably should have gone with wheresmystereo but oh well. It's still funny.

...And aw hell, might as well do this for Sofia as I'll be apping her and I wish I hadn't picked her username because no one would ever get it.

ayasofia It's a play on Hagia Sophia, one of the wonders of the ancient world. I was looking it up and it said hagia was pronounced like Aya. I wanted to go with hagiasofia but that was taken. Hagia Sophia means "Holy Wisdom" and while Sofia isn't exactly holy, she is somewhat religious and she's very perceptive in social matters so you could call her wise. But I mostly picked it just because I wanted to use a play on Hagia Sophia. After two (or more?) years, I wish I'd picked some other username.

governmentninja - Leon's name is fairly self explanatory. As he basically is ninja (who prefers high caliber weapons) in the employ of the Federal Government.

imperious_lex - Lex's name is a play on Namor's battle cry "IMPERIOUS REX", which loosely translates to "Power of the King" or "Powerful King", so it sort of means "Powerful Lex"

lil_hellion I actually didn't create this journal. Someone else at another rp did, but handed it over to be since I wanted to play the character and they weren't using it. But Julian's codename is Hellion, and Lil' Hellion describes his personality anyway.

Well, I suppose I should answer my own question, eh?

When I thought up "BlueBrassMonkey", I recalled an old nautical term (although the theory is somewhat still debated). The word "brass monkey" refers, in this sense, to a device added to the binnacle (which holds a ship's compass) to compensate for magnetic interference. It features a pair of Kelvin spheres (or "balls") mounted on a pair of arms, usually made from a brass alloy to avoid magnetic interference with the compass.
Another theory for this device involved a triangular contrivance to hold a warship's cannonball shot in place when cannons were not in use. Early devices were made of brass and...

As we all know, brass and many other metals expand and contract in fluctuating temperatures. Hence the line "freeze the balls off a brass monkey".

Blue? Well, that's obvious, now innit?

clear_horizons,

four_lights -- Well, both are from lines Picard has said in the past. In Nemesis, Picard offered Riker and Deanna 'clear horizons' along their journey and marriage. When he was being tortured by Cardassians, he refused to give in to conditioning, stating there were four lights when they wanted him to see five.

cognitive_array -- Spot is of course a genius, and Data commented on this, referring to Spot's cognitive array in a poem called "Ode to Spot".

lightspeed_attk -- This one's obvious. Sonic's specialty attack since Sonic Adventure has been his Lightspeed Attack.

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V3's name

twin_fans comes from him having two fans in his belt, powering him.

indigoblueberry comes from the fact that she's Indigo, and her nickname was 'blueberry'.

spartanjohn_117 - First LJ username I ever made, actually. Not very creative. He's the Spartan named John-117.

doesnt_afraid - Second account for Chief, comes from the "I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything" meme.

withteethbared - Comes from Bella's old name her wolf pack called her before she was found to be a werewolf, Stands-With-Teeth-Bared-Never-Backs-Down being the rough translation into English. You can probably see why the others liked calling her "Bella" better. The SN suits her temperament and Ahroun-warrior-ness too.

helipack_jack - Jack has a helipack. It also rhymes, and has his name in it. Simple!

outta_this_army - What does Grif want more than anything else in the world? OUTTA THIS ARMY! :P This is also one of my earliest journal names.

the_team_sucks - Second Grif journal, from a Grif quote:
Church: "Thanks for the support, Grif. Way to be a team player."
Grif: "Hey, I gotta think about myself here!"
Church: "There's no "I" in team, Grif."
Grif: "Yeah, there's no "U" either. So I guess if I'm not on the team, and you're not on the team, nobody's on the goddamn team. The team sucks!"

obscura_prodigy - Vega's last name is Obscura, and he is a Zoid piloting prodigy. I like to connect journal names to the character's name or canon somehow if I can, and I've never seen another character with the surname "Obscura". So, it links to Zoids, Vega specifically, and says something about him. :)

runs_on_rage - The Berserk Fury is a very angry Zoid. It has a measurable gauge of "combat motivation", which can be understood as how high its will to fight is and basically how ragey it is at any given moment. Once it hits a certain threshold it will ignore commands (even from Vega) and basically go on a psychotic rampage against anything it sees as a challenger. It has a mind of its own, but most of that mind is devoted to battles, rage, and looking forward creepily to the next time it gets to fight.

f_u_im_a_human - Hisk's SN is a play on the "Fuck you I'm a dragon!" meme. She actually is a dragon pretending to be human, so the irreverence and the "I am totally human, guys, really believe me!" thing works for her. I like the humor with this one, she could've ended up with something really generic. I kind of which I could've figured out how to make a "both main characters from Dragon Heart" sort of joke work without it getting too "...wut?"-inducing.

nothawkingbird - This is in reference to early in Kate's start with the Young Avengers. She had Hawkeye's bow, and Mockingbird's staves (also the Swordsman's sword), so the reaction from Eli was 'who are you supposed to be, Hawkingbird?' Despite her numerous denials and generally hating the name until she was awarded the Hawkeye moniker.

waylostandfound - This comes from Nathan's speech at the end of Season Two where he was talking about how he had lost his way, and his journey to find himself. Let's just say, it had been a journey in process for much of his life.

thexanwhosees - A combo of Xander and the reference to him being The One Who Sees in the group, the normal observer who reminds the rest of the group of their humanity.

notadamnangel - Basically sums up Dean's reaction to the idea of him being Michael's vessel, and also the angels have been trying to have him be their bitch since they brought him back from hell. Also a general statement that while Dean has a lot of good qualities and is a hero, he's not perfect and frequently sins and screws things up.

notsaintkaiser - Vivio is the reincarnation of an ancient Belkan ruler known as the Saint Kaiser (or Sankt Kaiser, depending on the translation). Despite this and her transformed state resembling it, she constantly tells those close to her (i.e. the Numbers) that she's not the Saint Kaiser and to stop treating her as such.

is_the_ultimate - This was one of Shadow's victory quotes in Sonic Adventure 2 ("I AM the Ultimate!")

bonnypiperlad - In Jamie's first appearance, there's a part of the episode where the Doctor convinces the villain that Jamie is actually Charles Stuart - who was referred to as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. I combined that with the reference to him being a young piper (hence the lad part) but decided the 'y' spelling looked better than the 'ie' version.

lackofdarkwings Lack of Dark Wings refers to the events in W.I.T.C.H. Season 2 of the Animated Series where Matt was kidnapped by Nerissa and transformed into Shagon the Angel of Malice. ComicMatt was spared from this fate as a "Totally Random Guy (tm)" suffered that fate. Thus, the lack of dark wings.

pocketloli Reinforce Zwei. Small, tiny, adorable. And ultimately a little bit lolicon even when she's in a full sized form. Thus being said, she's a loli that fits into a pocket. And THAT'S the story of Rein's journal no matter what people say.

halfa_hero Half-ghosts in Danny's world are referred to as halfa's, and Danny was the first heroic one. It aslo refers to when he was split into two by the Ghost Catcher, the ghost half was the heroic one.

wolf_that_grins Refers to Wags' tendency to joke around.

ihasvison Just wanted a ridiculous way to refer to Shawn's fake psychicness.

bouncywarrior Speedball is both bouncy and a New Warrior.

cowsquirtdrinkr The Middleman refers to milk as cowsquirt, and drinks a lot of it.

potentialmonkey Ron is occasionally referred to as Potential Boy by Kim, and is the Mystical Monkey master. Thus Potential Monkey.

ron_factor At one point Global Justice believed Kim's success was due to Ron. They hoped to calculate and reproduce the effect of Ron for the rest of their agents, and dubbed said effect as the Ron Factor.

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