Wow, so many awesome username stories! ;O
&& *sniffle* @ "I'm just a dream that is going to disappear someday & nobody is going to remember I existed." Me too..
Now for mine, it came from a bunch of a random attempts to go by a unique alias in the '90s, haha.
The most embarassing which was (pre-internet tho, thank goodness):
[ Simba-Randy Taylor Thomas ]
*shudders* Can you feel the geekery? Ahaha..
Soon after, I changed it to just initials: SBJP, which I began using on various stuff I created.
[ Simba / Balto / Jurassic Park ]
Until I officially got online & tho I briefly used "sbjp75" for a bit (# being birthyear of my fave Backstreet Boy, lolol), I wanted smth more "name", ~less initials.
And so I came up with Simbalto-Anya.. because at that point, I was also obsessed with ~Anastasia ;P
Then things kept asking for ~both first & last names, plus I kind of wanted smth ~more obscure yet passable, so I shortened it, dropped the hyphen, & added the last name of my favorite media couple, as well as a middle name inspired by the one they chose for their daughter, & voila:
[ SimbiAni (Maybelle) Buchman ]
..Buchman being from Mad About You & their daughter being named Mabel (which they explained as standing for Mothers Always Bring Extra Love, & that being smth I've always wished I had- a loving family) plus ~Belle my fave Disney girl.. sooo yeah xD
I've used SimbiAni everywhere since & altho the two halves have been separate in many places, they were never together in that way, that I could tell from my occasional in-depth research over the years; altho some similar ones have been popping up since too (including some annoying depression meds advertisements, ugh "Cymbalta" & "Symbicort" like seriously?? >.>) & the confusion Google gets sometimes is amusing (no, I did not mean "Symbian" lolol some platform of recent years apparently).
Taken another way, with some "poetic license", if "simba" means "lion" in Swahili (according to Lion King, anyways) & in some language, I looked it up ages ago but can't rember, I think it was Slavic or smth? "ani" means "beauty", then literally SimbiAni = "beautiful lioness".. sweet! (er, tho I'm not even really a fan of lions.. go figure, heh I actually much prefer & adore ~wolves!)
Of course, now that I'm into K-media, I've awkwardly realized how much it sounds like "nooo", "sorryyy".. (ahni/mianhae).. ^-^; lmao, oops!
xoxoxo