on nicknames
Rin Hoshizora is such an awesome character. So awesome, in fact, that I stole her last name for my Twitter handle some 7 years ago. Or 8. My list of usernames isn't that long. When I was longer I went by coolyjinwoo. I don't think there are any remnants of that online, but if you do find any online, congreats. I regret deleting them, but here we are. I changed the first xbox gamertag I had immediately. I turned it into TenderToast with some numbers and played it off like it was random. The second one was when I really liked Greek stuff and wolves so I was Upsilon Wolf. I picked a random letter which is soooooo not good but that was my name. I used that one for probably close to 7-8 years? It's still my Xbox gamertag. During that time, I played with a lot of friends and my tag would often get shortened to "Ups" or "Wolf"
Eventually, when I made my second Twitter account to hide my weeb shit, I had to come up with a new name so I used "Lykos." I liked it since it was wolf in Greek, I think it is pronounced something like Ill-lee-kos, but anyone who said it out loud didn't know. It was also my Smash tag for the short time I tried to be competitive. I think originally it was "@Lykosandmemes" because 2016/17 was all about memes and stuff to me and I thought they were the funniest things. Like shitposting and stuff. Eventually I thought it was too cringe so I made it "@Its_Lykos." At some point after high school, I didn't want to use my first name for online things and I wanted to separate my account from the past. I