User name meme
Feb. 28th, 2007 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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jadeblood
Post the explanation of where your user name came from. Then tag ten users whose explanations you would like to hear. If you are tagged, post your explanation to your page.
Okay, long story that starts out fairly simply: Whilst moderating on a Star Wars forum, I met another Dune fan; he called himself Maud'dib, so I started using Ghani (as in Ghanima Atreides, Paul Maud'dib's daughter). To make it more Star Wars-y, I added a 'Skywalker' to the end of it and became Ghani_Skywalker. The name took. I wrote her into a Star Wars fanfic and she became my most prominent OC, a series staple. When it was time to write a fic that leapt ahead quite some years--according to Lucas, the whole saga is as told to the author of the Journal of the Whills, which appeared as a quoted religious text in early drafts of the first movie, by R2-D2 hundreds of years in the future. Ghani then took on the Irulan-ish role in my fanfic of Journal of the Whills scribe with the surname Starkiller, the original last name of the Luke character in, again early drafts of the first movie.
On reflection, it would have been a little easier for my friends to grasp if I had used Skywalker instead of Starkiller 'cos I would have been able to put an underscore there. But the idea was that my LJ was my own personal Journal of the Whills, so it felt only fitting that Ghani Starkiller should preside over it.
I don't do tages, so anyone who wants to do it, feel free :-)
Peace, Ghani
jadebloodPost the explanation of where your user name came from. Then tag ten users whose explanations you would like to hear. If you are tagged, post your explanation to your page.
Okay, long story that starts out fairly simply: Whilst moderating on a Star Wars forum, I met another Dune fan; he called himself Maud'dib, so I started using Ghani (as in Ghanima Atreides, Paul Maud'dib's daughter). To make it more Star Wars-y, I added a 'Skywalker' to the end of it and became Ghani_Skywalker. The name took. I wrote her into a Star Wars fanfic and she became my most prominent OC, a series staple. When it was time to write a fic that leapt ahead quite some years--according to Lucas, the whole saga is as told to the author of the Journal of the Whills, which appeared as a quoted religious text in early drafts of the first movie, by R2-D2 hundreds of years in the future. Ghani then took on the Irulan-ish role in my fanfic of Journal of the Whills scribe with the surname Starkiller, the original last name of the Luke character in, again early drafts of the first movie.
On reflection, it would have been a little easier for my friends to grasp if I had used Skywalker instead of Starkiller 'cos I would have been able to put an underscore there. But the idea was that my LJ was my own personal Journal of the Whills, so it felt only fitting that Ghani Starkiller should preside over it.
I don't do tages, so anyone who wants to do it, feel free :-)
Peace, Ghani
