Project Lore

A while back, my fellow blogger iTZKooPA clued all of our wonderful readers in on how the Project Lore bloggers each chose our toon names (and in return, many of you shared your own stories with us, too). But sometimes, our names are long and, for whatever reason, they end up getting shortened considerably by our in-game friends. And those awesome names we painstakingly chose can get warped into something else. Let's take my many "Pixie-" based names for example. Pixiestixy, Pixielocks, Boypixie (on the PTR) -- they all inevitably get shortened to just "Pixie." And I'm fine with that. But then there's my main. Up until recently, I played almost exclusively with RL friends, so everyone just called me by my RL name. But then Locomomo joined a new guild, and my new crew still is split over what to call me. Some say "Loco" (crazy), and others say "Momo" (peach). I prefer the latter, but I suppose Loco fits me too, at times! So I decided I'd try to steer everyone to calling me Momo by creating an alt Pally named Momochi. But in the end, this may just add to the confusion because if I ever get her to level 80, then I won't know which toon friends are referring to if they just say "Momo." It's more confusing than I realized! Then, there's my husband. His main used to be called Horadric, as a tribute to Diablo. He liked the name, but not quite enough to adjust to people calling him that in guild chat and while on vent. Even worse - shortening the name led either to people calling him "Ho" or "Hor" -- neither great options. I went with "Hora," but I seemed to be the only one. So he changed his toon's name to Rolorolo, a double version of his nickname IRL. Now everyone just calls him "Rolo." It works. I suppose if you have a relatively short toon name with two syllables or less, you probably don't have to worry too much about what your nickname will become. But if you tend to the longer names, think first about what your nickname could become. You don't want to be stuck known as "Hor"... or do you? Has anyone else had interesting or unexpected nicknames stem out of their toon names?