Callsigns are ALL like this. I know in movies everyone’s got cool callsigns, but you have to EARN a cool callsign. Most people’s are like, commemoration of something real stupid they did, or, like, “Carrots” bc “he ate carrots weirdly.” This database is a treasure trove:
Also unironically if you are nb and have an “object” name you can 100% get old republicans to use it by just claiming it’s for something dumb. “Yeah man I go by Brick because I dropped a bunch of bricks once and messed up a timeline on a job” will get everyone you will ever meet to call you that.
bro Cesar got robbed
college ultimate frisbee nicknames are like this too.
I know a kid nicknamed Porki Balls because when he was a dumb 6th grader he would moan to annoy people so AJ tried to kick him in the balls(many many times) and Porki went “No, my beautiful balls!” and because he was ginger and thus reminded Emo Velma and AJ of a pig, they called him Porki Balls.
Then there’s Emo Velma. He had a haircut similar to Velma but with side sweep bangs so we called him Emo Velma.
Then we have Triple-P. I’m pretty sure @benzel got that one started by calling him Pladapussy and idk how it evolved but it did.
Then we got MJ. She just reminds us of Zendaya.
Next, there’s Jacob. His name is not Jacob. His name is Dominick but @furiousdeertaco calls him Jacob sometimes.
And then there’s me. Genocide. Because my legal name sounds vaguely similar.
my friends nicknamed me Hurricane Katrina because a teacher kept accidentally calling me Katrina. (Also the actual event happened on my birthday, not in the same year though)
