Oh! How this brings back horrible memories.
It all started way back in Junior High. People were teasing me about my real name, John. They were simple things at first, Johnny, Johnny Boy, John Jacob Jingle Himer Smith (Which brought back horrible memories of Barney.), etc. Then someone started calling me a toilet and it then lead to someone calling me a "potty mouth". It was horrible. I had enough. My actions from then though nearly got me suspended. I then got consoling to find what the problem was. It's kind of sad from there. No matter what I did to tell them to stop, they just didn't. Evil thoughts invaded my mind. I wanted it all to end. I even felt like taking a weapon to school and killing those who were making fun of my name. However, I knew better than that and continued to surpress such thoughts. By then, I was entering my final year of High School, and I thought I wouldn't be able to hold back the thought of killing someone.
Then one day, someone was making fun of my name once again and I was about to engage in actions that would probably end up getting me suspended, when someone just stepped up and defended me. After the punk that was teasing me left, I then introduced myself to the one that stood up for me and found him to be a friend of mine from elementary. He and his friends had seen everything and we talked about my past. They decided that since they were such good friends of mine that they would be my bodyguards throughout my final year of High School. I tell you now, I never felt so relieved then I did right there. Thanks to them, I was able to survive my final year of High School and graduate with a 4.00 in CPA. My grades may not have been as high, but that CPA showed just how blessed I was to have friends that were willing to stick up for me.
It wasn't long until then that I had gotten into the internet. I was about to register at GameFAQs.com and about to put my real name at "Username", when I suddenly stopped myself. All of the horrible memories started to come back. I didn't want that again. I thought carefully about a name I could use to keep that from happening on the net. I then came up with the name YellowandGold251. It basically defined the Pokemon games I owned at the time and the number of pokemon that were in the game at the time.
For a while, things were okay. Then one day someone called me YAG251. I didn't think of it as anything bad, just someone doing initials to make talking to me easier. Then some n00b comes around and not only removes the numbers, but does the initials backwards and saying that it was what my nickname really meant. Okay, making fun of my real name was bad enough, but calling me a homosexual? I then decided to suspend my account and go somewhere else. By then, I had discovered Serebiiforums.com. It was a rather nice place. Best of all, the mods weren't willing to have anyone be flamed, bashed, trolled, teased, etc. They took the job of a mod rather seriously. For those reasons, I decided to join, that and by then I had done a story for the franchise and wanted to show it off in the Fanfiction section.
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I then came upon "Username" once again and thought carefully about what I could put in. I then decided that since I was such a fan of Pokemon, I would use that as part of my Username. I knew I needed something more though. So, I came up with the simple idea that I was just someone who played pokemon, and thus the name Pokeplayer was born.
The numbers? Add them up and you'll know the age I was when I inherited such a name.
No teasing of my name since that day. Anyone who does though will be up against an army since there's such a huge fanbase in the franchise and quite a number of people willing to stand up for you. The calmer community of Serebiiforums.com gave me the will to start standing up for myself. It was because of them that I was able to mature and find more peaceful ways of dealing with those that just make fun of others because they have nothing better to do.
Pokeplayer984 is more than just a name of some fan of Pokemon. It tells the story of someone who wanted to be more known that just a kid with some name. It is a triumph over the adversity of evil.
And you know what? I couldn't be happier with such a name.
