Alesium was a character from an older story I had worked on writing several years ago.  This character was able to switch genders and sexual characteristics from female (Alesium) to male (Aselium).  In a way, this character also had a split personality depending on whether Alesium or Aselium was visible.  I started using this username for a few things online about a year before realizing I was transgender.  Funny how that worked out...

Toodles from TN,
Ales

Too many Kim's here and I'm big so that's how.

Mitchell is my preferred name (not legal, yet!) and Deathbell is a plant found in the game Skyrim, lol. I like Skyrim.
I thought Mitchell and Deathbell kind of rhymed. Or at least they visually rhymed (both end in "ell")

i came here as an "explorer", but i soon realized that's no good name for a person.
so i took an old nick over here. got so used to being called taka on some other forum that it's just weird to be called anything else.

someone on the chat thought i was japanese, because all the takas they knew were japanese.
and it's kind of right, because it is just a shorter form of takamura (i must be the only person who still thought they were a girl even after choosing this nick at some gay forum...)
but i'm not japanese, just a fan of hajime no ippo, and the manly comedy man takamura.
funny how i chose that name, didn't feel manly enough so i made up for it with... well...

now i'm just taka though. takamura is too long to write, so people soon ended up shortening it to taka-chan. which isn't really shorter, but a lot cuter.
and i like hawks, so that's more than enough for a name. my given name is the eagle, which is also a kind of hawk (though a more majestic kind).

I did not choose my name, it just found me one Halloween night many, many years ago. I went to a club that Halloween with a friend of mine as myself and a person mistook me for someone he knew. It's been my name ever since.

A Sephirah is the singular term for one of the points of the Qaballah Tree Of Life. The plural is Sephiroth, or Sephirot (yes, that's where Square nicked it from for Final Fantasy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot

That and I just rather liked it. There are enough Laurens floating around.

You can all thank her ^ for my adorable forum name, hehe.

I wanna go back to being big head horsey-face.  I miss that name, I felt it fit me best.

My older sister named me Tessa and treated me like a sister when we were kids.  She teased me about that frequently as an adult but like too much of my life I simply blanked it out and remembered nothing of it.  Transitioning later in life i want to honor and recognize my history and so changed my legal name to Tessa James with James being my old first name and now my middle name.  It has helped in my non binary and not always passable life and now, in my second year of transition, i more often am happy to be Tessa J or simply Tessa the tall and terrible.   Seems i can't resist those wizard of oz references.

When I first got here Cindy James was and remains a popular friend and, like her, I am now content to let that created guy who carried me so long, to just lay down and retire.

Quote from: Cindy on October 11, 2014, 04:10:00 AM
An interesting start to a post that may well reflect things. I started off here as Cindy James; a mix of my new and old. As I 'became or accepted' Cindy; James died, so I changed my name to Cindy - and that is who I am!

Funny, I was talking to my original psychiatrist recently and he asked me what my male name was? He couldn't remember and I struggled to remember. He has gone and I do not miss him

I always thought James was your surname.

Quote from: Sephirah on October 14, 2014, 01:39:17 PM
I always thought James was your surname.

Me too, lol. Guess I shouldn't make assumptions.

Davida is the name that my wife first called me after I came out to her( my name with an "a" on the end). I do not intend to keep the name as it does not fit my personality and my daughters are tryin to find a name that they think is more suitable for me.

I LOVE my DAUGTERS.

we have a friend in Portland that went from David to Vada.

Yes, my forum name is my real name. But I chose Alice for several reasons.

I love the connection it has with Alice in wonderland, I viewed my transition as a journey into a new world, through fantasy and through the trials and tribulations it brought with it, I emerge stronger and a better person for it and surely so did Lewis Carolls Alice....

I am living my dream, and loving my life, and maybe even liking myself now!

Alice
xx

Delsorou was originally the last name of my character in Uru - Ages Beyond Myst.  Then, when I was still completely closeted and subjecting myself to the fantasy that I would be able to live two lives, it was going to be my "female version's" last name.  On that pretense I used it for my gmail account.  Once I realized that the "male version" that I kept trying to acknowledge and build up wasn't working because it just wasn't there, and that I could and should just come out and keep my existing family name, I already had been using Delsorou everywhere.

After that, it kind of grew from the convenience of the fact that it's NEVER already in use when I join a group.    It's actually really, really convenient for that.  I've never seen it already be in use.  Considering the name was the product of a decade long self-deceiving coping mechanism that put off my transition, I felt it was healthier to own it and put it to good use than to try and bury it. 

And that is the story of my online nickname.

For reference, my legal name is Aaryna Irwin.  That first name has its own origin story.    I keep meaning to make a signature with it and I just haven't got around to it.

Quote from: Tessa James on October 14, 2014, 02:13:03 PM
we have a friend in Portland that went from David to Vada.

That is an intresting name. Is there a story to that?

Mine is a character from a series of Get Along Gang fanfiction that I write. She's the one on the right. Her girlfriend is the one on the left. I chose it because I like it.

There are a lot of Janets here. So add cg for cross gender and tv for transvesite. I didn't like Janet123456

Several years ago I decided I would try my hand at writing erotic fiction, hopefully to provide a new career and enough sales to afford transition. I eventually published several novels under the name Traci M Knight. I chose Traci because Traci Lords was such a naughty young girl. M came out of no where but I decided on Melissa, the name of my therapist who helped me get out of a major funk and gave me a letter of recommendation for hrt. Knight just sounded cool plus a play on the word night evoking thoughts of dark and shadows. Hence traci_k just shortening my name for when I do transition.

It's just a mix between Marcel and the nickname Marshmellow.