What does your username mean?

[Deceptic_Optic]

Just out of curiousity, what are the meanings of your username in Ozformers. Is it made up? a favorite character? you just picked it anywhere and used it as your user name? something sentimental?.... etc the list goes on. Care to share?

[GoktimusPrime]

So what does "Deceptic Optics" mean? Well, I know what 'optics' means, but what's the meaning behind "Deceptic"?

From 1993-1996 I used the online handle "Gokuu" as at the time I was a big Dragonball fan (not so much now tbh). Then after I started interacting with the online Transformers fandom I changed my handle to "Goktimus Prime" in 1997. So it's a combination of "Son Gokuu" + "Optimus Prime." In Japanese I use the handle "Son Convoy" but most Japanese fans just call me "Son" (similar to how most English speakers just call me "Gok") - although IRL I'm usually called "Goki" by both English and Japanese speaking friends alike. "Goki" was first coined by one of the executives at AniméUNSW; at a screening in 2000 I guess he decided he couldn't be bothered calling me "Goktimus Prime" all the time, so he just shouted, "GOKI!" across the lecture theatre, and ever since then the nick has stuck (as you can hear here).

[Deceptic_Optic]

So what does "Deceptic Optics" mean? Well, I know what 'optics' means, but what's the meaning behind "Deceptic"?

Its just means 'Eyes of a Decepticon'

Deceptic - short for Decepticon

and

Optics - I got it from Megatron saying to prime, "I'll rip your optics" to my guess he was talking about primes eyes? So Optics = Eyes

[sanbot]

Shazam is the name of a singer from some rnb group called H-Town. I first used this nickname back in the days of ICQ and I've been using it in other forums since then coz its easier to remember. But now I'm thinking I should change it to be more TF related.

[Zahhak]

Zahhak is name from an old persian myth/story, (im from iran you see) Zahhak was a king you was tricked by ahriman(a deamon/god of darkness) and subsequintly had two snakes grow out of his shoulders. He then had to feed the snakes a brain everyday or they would eat his. Oh and if you cut them they grow back yadda yadda yadda.
I use it cause I like the word and recantly I've been wanting to do a repraint of cybertron Scourge to make him into a transformer,

[Deceptic_Optic]

Zahhak is name from an old persian myth/story, (im from iran you see) Zahhak was a king you was tricked by ahriman(a deamon/god of darkness) and subsequintly had two snakes grow out of his shoulders. He then had to feed the snakes a brain everyday or they would eat his. Oh and if you cut them they grow back yadda yadda yadda.
I use it cause I like the word and recantly I've been wanting to do a repraint of cybertron Scourge to make him into a transformer,

+1 very interesting

[liegeprime]

Zahhak is name from an old persian myth/story, (im from iran you see) Zahhak was a king you was tricked by ahriman(a deamon/god of darkness) and subsequintly had two snakes grow out of his shoulders. He then had to feed the snakes a brain everyday or they would eat his. Oh and if you cut them they grow back yadda yadda yadda.

hmmm in Filipino Fiction Mythos ( comics superheroes/ villains) this sounds like Zuma, although his origins are more Aztec as he feeds on virgin hearts and he has two boas on his shoulders, he sired two mutant kids who rebelled against him coz Zuma is evil - Galema who has 2 white serpent on her shoulders whose venom can kill Zuma and Dino ( head of serpent, body of man big serpent tail and claws to boot.)

As for me liegeprime

liege - the titular given to the big bossbot for decepticons ( either that or lord)
prime - the titular given to the big bossbot for autobots ( either that or - hey you! )

I like decepticons better, I collected Decepticons first in most of the lines before moving to the Autos - even in Gi Joes I prefer Cobras ( thats another toyline though) so I placed liege ahead of prime instead of vice versa.

One back draw is it twists the tongue of some other members at first which I find amusing as they at times refer to me as Liger, or ligier - which is of course from Zoids and Jap mirage respectively. Both of which is WRRROOOOOONG! FUSION BLAST to the Cab!

[TheDirtyDigger]

Shazam is the name of a singer from some rnb group called H-Town. I first used this nickname back in the days of ICQ and I've been using it in other forums since then coz its easier to remember. But now I'm thinking I should change it to be more TF related.

Shazam =

[BigPenney]

BigPenney was my nickname at highschool. It started off as just Penney and then when my little brother came to the highschool it was changed to Big Penney and he became Little Penney . And because I lack imagination and I'm so use to being called BigPenney it's just what I end up using for fourms.

[Sky Shadow]

It was back in the nineties, and Beast Wars Sky Shadow was the first Transformer ever bought for me by a girlfriend. She came home one day with a Sky Shadow and it soon became one of my favourite Transformers toys (and he also had one of the best tech-specs profiles of his era.) Before that, I had the sort of Grimlockbunchofnumbers username that was so generic that even I can't remember it anymore, but after that, 'Sky Shadow' just kind of stuck.

(Great topic. And I can't wait to hear the complex stories about how Griffin, Paulbot, Blackie and Robzy got their names... )