Back in my very first RPing place, a webpage-based chat, a friend and I decided to make brother characters. Though a bit corny, we named them Light and Flame. After a bit, his character was 'adopted' by one of the main families of the RP community, the Rockets. So, I joined him, and we became Flame Rocket and Light Rocket (eat your heart out, corn, for I am cornier!)
Even though I haven't a lick of serious RPing in a long time, LR was always the closest character to my real self, so I started using the name as my alias a long while back, and it sort of stuck.
The rest of my character names come from David Eddings' book series. Most from the Belgariad and Malloreon (I think I remembered those right), but a couple came from the Elenium and the Tamuli instead. I started this tradition several games ago, when I started my habit of making so many characters that I didn't really want to name them all myself.
Five hundred doors
and forty more
I think are in Valhalla:
Eight hundred heroes
go through a door at once
When they go to fight the wolf.
