i chose mine because i wanted it to start with exe so that people in mmos would just call me exe and i wanted it to sound vaguely feminine so i played with every collection of syllables i could imagine until something stuck. now this has been my primary username/character name/blog name/whatever on basically everything for like 20 years. lol
we iterated through every morpheme we could think of for the ending, evaluating it on how we liked the sound of it, on how many people were using it per cursor searches of social media (preferring fewer), on whether it was diminutive (preferring not), and then we came up with one that has a hidden meaning that people with the appropriate background sometimes recognize but that typically goes unnoticed although its connotations may have subconscious effect.
so we went with that one, because we're all about that sort of thing.
i feel no attatchment to my current username despite using it for probably about 4 years now, the majority of my time online. My only thing is that I prefer people to capitalise the L, but I don't really know why.
I'm way more attatched to my past usernames that I won't share here for privacy. They were way more creative but also hillariously difficult to read and even harder to spell/pronounce. Also one of them looked like it had "lewd" in it and i didnt realise for an entire year
