i was in a group roleplay and we ended up calling each other who we were in the roleplay
from that point forward i was known to my friends as gerard
it just kind of stuck, we never stopped calling each other those names
some friends still call me washo or washomen, a weird name i had back in my animal jam phase
i still get called washing machine on occasion lmao
then there's emo darklord, there were two people in my friend group who weren't really being friends. we decided to come up with codenames.
so the most mature of us was named mom, i was named emo darklord, etc., and those two people were named mistake #1 and mistake #2 haha
we still use those nicknames today
then there's fern, a misspelling of fren that just kinda stuck