On the subject of this username

[kiya]

'Cause some people have asked.

It used to be I would pick mail services by whether or not my handle was available as a username. These days, this is much, much harder to do; 'Darkhawk' is pretty commonly taken most everywhere. When I started up this account, I didn't even bother to check; I used Lilairen instead, which has the important commonality of being an eight-character name. (Yes, oh power-of-two fetishist reading this, that was a major contributing factor. Have a nice smug or something.) (After I started the journal, in a moment of boredom I went and checked; I was right, it's taken.)

Anyway.

Darkhawk as a handle is the given name of one of my personality-facets, the one that gets the most public airtime. I've got a lot of these, surfacing in different situations; I can convey a good bit to people who know me by whether or not I sign off with a particular one of these handles.

Next thread: some time ago, I was code demiurge for a MUSH that silmarian was running. I decided, for lack of a better idea, that I'd take one of my handles as a character name, and I picked the one I call Songdragon. Songdragon wound up as Professor of Music at Hilsar University; her actual given name was Kiralaservissalae Lilairen. So, Professor Lilairen. I think it's which mountain she hatched in or something; I don't know what it means precisely aside from some sort of family name, but I suspect that's because I don't speak dragon.

And I figure that since I don't know anyone else who speaks dragon either, I'm not that bloody likely to have issues using 'lilairen' as my default username when I need one and can't get my name.

So, now y'all know.