What do you put in when a game asks you to write a name and why?

[Corrupted Unicorn]

Usually for playable characters, whenever there's a chance to input a name (or any writing of your own) in a game, what do you put and why? Here's a few things I do 

- The classic: write your real name. I usually do this but there's two exceptions that come to mind:
       - When I was playing all Pokémon generations, I would name each consecutive trainer after a shiny I got on the previous one (for example, after playing Fire Red and getting a shiny Onyx, my HG/SS trainer would be named Pyrite, since Johto is the home of the red Gyarados my Emerald trainer would be named Ruby; when I ran out of shinies, I used Erro (as in, error: name not found  ) , Ross (because of Ross' Game Dungeon, pretty much) and Ashley (because of the shiny Roselia I got traded as a kid, that had a dark grey flower)
       - Sometimes I record games in the case I want to make a little YT channel: on those, I just go by Corrupted (which is fun because it makes it look like the file/game is actually corrupted  )

- Naming playable characters after assorted things: good for Pokémon, Sims, Miis... I have a long tradition of silly Pokémon names.

- And when I really run out of ideas:  purposefully stupid names  . Like the name of my Pokemon Mystery Dungeon team (Team Skibidi, only because my playable character was a Skitty) and my latest one for the Sim I use to 100% the game: Princess Pwnage (which I took from a very cheesy article about "gamer names for girls".) I could tell you about my Mother 3 save too, but those are quite inappropiate to share here 
     
So yeah, there's a lot in a name, especially in the virtual world where you can call yourself anything  What are some memorable names that come to mind, either from yourself or others?

[lucky]

Ahhh fun question

If the playable character has a canonical name I'll go with that, like Link in The Legend of Zelda or Chara in Undertale. Sometimes I'll go with my real name or make something up on the spot. Recently I've been using names of other characters I like, I named my Degrees of Lewdity character after Tetsuo from Sweet Pool for example. I haven't been an avid gamer in years so I haven't had to come up with too many names recently though!

[Twigz0n]

As far as I can recall I probably used my real name in the first few Pokémon games that I got. But I distinctly remember when I was 13 I would name my player avatar after an oc I had at the time named Lilac. I thought it was cool to imagine my oc in a video game like Pokemon as it could be a sort of alternative universe storyline for her. I think that was my reasoning behind it anyway.

When I started to play Pokémon mystery dungeon for the first time I remember I’d never use a custom nickname for either my main Pokémon/partner because I thought it was weird that every other character would go by their Pokémon names except for two exceptions. I think it broke my immersion or something lol But when I replay mystery dungeon these days I usually go with my online alias “Twig” and name my partner character something random usually.

[AY38910]

Either THAT soundchip, or plain keysmashing. Sometimes random hexadecimal. Or even Assembly code.
That, or me holding down a key (e.g. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"), or HTTP errors. Or BSOD ones.

List of some names I've used in games:
* 404
* int10h
* fgfdmydjtskyhtfjdt
* hhhhhhh
* 0x6f7d
* irqlnlessoreq
* ay38910 (duh)

[shapezncolourz]

i usually just use the first letter of my real name ^^; not sure why i don't use my actual name lol

if i have the opportunity to make multiple characters then i'll usually make ocs instead! this is what i've done with peak, i have a scout for every colour (9 total) and they all have their own names :3

[juanp32]

if its a multiplayer game something recognizable and inn the profile mention my other online handels (like minecraft or kol)
else, usually its keysmash bc i SUCK at naming lol