History of your username?

[Platina]

How did you come up with your username, and what does it reference to, if any?

 

 

My username is not too special, but unlike what Wright commonly thinks, my username doesn't come from Aluminium in Spanish

I needed a new gamer tag that I can use but needs to be uncommon enough so I don't have to constantly worry it will be taken. Even though I have a previous one, I'm not a huge fan of it and wanted to keep it as a 'last resort' incase all other names are used. My older game names are mostly used offline so I don't have to worry about it being taken, but [DS] games often limited the characters so I had to adjust accordingly. So currently:

5 - Sylph (first heard from Tales of Symphonia, though is a common name so I can't use it online)
6 - Phanta (no, not a reference to Fanta, but to my previous username :p)
7+ Platina (my current and main username)

Platina is basically the direct translation of Platinum to Japanese: プラチナ (purachina), with the proper translation as 白金 (shirogane)
So Pura-chi-na -> Pla-ti-na is basically how I got the name. I first heard this name from Pokemon Adventures Platinum where the name is translated to Platina rather than Platinum. That volume itself is sub par, but the name stuck ever since and coincedentally is also my favourite Pokemon game :p