the "riful from claymore" trifecta of amivoringyou / prettygirlsmakegraves / calldownthevulture is still a run i'm fond of, both for the absolutely awful pun of the first account and the pointed song choices of the latter two

"She wants it now / And she will not wait / But she's too rough / And I'm too delicate"

"Live by the sword, die for the lord / Call down the vulture to dine on the corpse / / Cursed are the places you have been / You lead us there and forced us in / Take the girls to become the daughters / If the horses won´t drink drown them in the water"

fitting, for a monstrously immortal, cannibalistic abomination of a not-child who forsook anything but the most vindictively feral way of approaching her problems

crowskinovercoat for velvet crowe from tales of berseria at legion was also a pun, off her last name, but a reference to another song, "the sweetest curse", which was a stoner-metal sea shanty, which was fitting for velvet, given that she's a guts-from-berserk homage who's also an actual loot-and-pillage pirate

fasterpussy for akito from fire candy is a terrible terrible punning reference to the movie title "faster, pussycat! kill! kill!" because she's a catgirl on rocket skates who literally explodes from having really good sex once but i stand by how much this is a joke she'd ICly make at her own expense if she could, therefore it's necessary

ifyoureharpyandyouknowit is ... another pun. she's literally a harpy-themed magical monstergirl who is ferally cheerful all the time. what else can you ask

undergarments is also a pun and a fittingly obscene one for a character i'll basically never play except in PSLs/meme because i'm uncomfortable ever trying, much less condoning the show she's from, but if you know ryuko matoi from kill la kill you both understand why this had to be taken up as a username for her and probably are infuriated by that too

surfingthevoid is a warframe OC based off the tenno/operator storyline in that, referencing the album of the same name by the klaxons, which is very much the vibe of warframe, generally, i think, and is also funny because "surfing the void" for a shithead void-powered spacewitch teen, get it

bidenhander is a term for a sword you need two hands to wield, and for a character like the sword of heaven who is literally someone who is the embodiment of the concept of "sword" but also a person who only needs two hands to murder you with, it seemed appropriate

passifloraincarnata is a variant of the passionfruit flower, from whence setsuna higashi aka cure passion gets her magical girl name, and also another slant pun because if you read it too fast it looks like it says "reincarnata" instead and the implications of "(re)incarnation" &c referring to setsuna who literally dies and rises again were too funny to me

also making it not quite be the correct flower fits setsuna, to me, who is always never quite what she wants to be, but has to learn to love herself as she is anyway

amazingly, claiming monstress on plurk wasn't already taken, despite the rp community's love of preemptively declaring ourselves some variety of evil or monstrous in a username before anyone else can, and it was a name i liked, and is also a reference to a comic book i love about war, and bodies, and the nature of violence, called, ofc, monstress

monstress is also a codename for a legionnaire from the legion of super-heroes, who dies horribly but in a fitting and emotionally lasting way in legion lost, which i've never really forgotten, lol

I'd figured it was for the comic.

tirant seemed fitting for the specific AU version of saber alter i once played, considering that it translates to "absolute ruler" and her grail-corrupted outlook on how she decided she should've ruled britain instead, after being summoned into that ruined grail war, was more or less that

oh right the other all time great riful pun username - theyawningabyss, which i'm sad i never used, for actual canon riful ... because she gets bored of anyone who isn't herself very easily, and she's an "abyssal one". and you don't enjoy talking to her, because that is an abyss that gazes also

one day, someone into homestuck will absolutely murder me and loot my corpse for sitting on dogtier for jade harley for basically a decade and doing absolutely fuckall with it but i'll die a fucking happy death, my trolling duties here complete

greatestrobot for atom, aka frigging astro boy, from urasawa's retelling of "the greatest robot in the world" in pluto, was just the easiest and saddest of all usernames to pick

ddrychiolaeth is welsh for "phantom" or "ghost", hence perfect for miria from claymore, referred to by the nickname "phantom miria" for her signature technique and also the leader, despite herself, of the group of dead claymores walking sometimes referred to as the seven ghosts

yourbloodycoffinnail for walter pleasedontaskmetospellhislastname from hellsing aka the worst incel twink in the world and the dictionary definition of a bad gay is, as i suspect is beginning to be an obvious pattern here, a punning username whose punchlines are richly layered in their terribleness

and, ah, as for my personal plurk, lacerata - it is the feminine singular declension of laceratus, the perfect passive participle of lacero, and it translates to "(a woman) shredded"

I still think about "if you're harpy and you know it"

sorry, *having been shredded, to be specific

somarysueme: CLAP YOUR HANDS

Femme Shred

ichtreteihrgesicht is as close to a german translation of someone screaming "I KICK YOUR FACE" as you can get, and thus, for asuka langley shikinami post-evangelion 2.22, extremely and pointedly fitting. i think i also claimed ikickyourgesicht or something similar for a CRAU'd version of her i played once or twice? but yes.

once 3.0+1.0 is out in the world and khara have either answered all my questions or given me a whole new set of problems to live with i will probably remake all her icons and app her from wherever that leaves her off at somewhere new, you have all been warned. i loved where 3.33 took her and am deeply committed to waiting

oh so that's what your personal plurk username means

makes sense

(also please don't kick gesicht he's been through enough)

paperbacks: yeah, there's a real rotten and raw self-deprecation in naming your personal acct "a woman having been ripped to shreds" i suppose but mostly i meant it to come off metal as hell

obligatory shoutout