around 10 years ago!!!! i was playing a lot of online MUD games (none graphical multiplayer games) and eventually i worked my way up to the rank of 'builder' which basically ment i made levels for the game.....with this rank i was able to have 2 characters in the game....one a player and one an immortal....my player was jahlad and my immortal was vaul.
the names i got from:
jahlad: taken from a character mentioned but never actually seen on screen in the star trek the next gen episode : darmok
vaul: taken from a short story about the eldar weaponsmith god vaul in the warhammer 40k universe.
ive pritty much exclusivly used these names on every online game/forum since....with jahlad become the more common in the last 5 years. kinda geeky where they came from i know, but they are both pritty decent names for characters. jahlad can still be found in star wars galaxies pritty regularly and vaul is mentioned in the credits of more than one mud that still runs
strangly, in paintball circles i have become known in places as jahlad due to people knowing me from here and am oftern refered to by this name rather than my real name, personally im indifferent, its not really a nick name, more an alter ego.
i dont really have a propper real life nickname....tho various vampire references (pale skin) and mr muscle (skinny) aint uncommon! at work im know as yoshi! but only because 2 of the other guys looked like mario and luigi and they couldnt think of anything else to call me.