- Title:
- A short story about my online identities
- Authors:
- Izuru Yakumo
- Date:
- Topics:
- Life
- Id:
- bpsn2d
(Year: 2020) After clearly losing my sanity a year prior, I began researching on ways to conceal myself on the Internet, because having my legal name exposed was nowhere near an option anymore. Given my own subtle interest in astronomy, I have had settled on the nickname 'Nova'. Months later, I had gotten closer to a person from a Telegram chat, and earned the nickname 'Champagne Supernova'. I've been like that for about two years.
(Year: 2022) For some rather odd reason, I felt that I did not want to be called 'Nova' anymore, and made up another name, that being 'Aoi Koizumi', It was based off one of my avatars I had made and published on Pixelfed and the last name of a character from Haruhi Suzumiya (the franchise). That happened around my early 21s. When I was in charge of KyokoNet and ShellTalk (IRCNow), I used that name. By then I was already retired from ActivityPub. It eventually turned out to be a mistake as I realized that 'Aoi' is typically used as a name for girls, and I was not going to pretend to be otherwise....
(Year: 2023) Around the end of the month of April, while I was gate keeping an abandoned house by then, I had an odd dream, Yukari Yakumo appeared on it, and proposed me to be her servant, just like Ran and Chen. When I woke up the next day, I've had renamed myself as 'Izuru Yakumo', and proceeded to erase any trace of 'Aoi Koizumi' online and replaced with my new identity. When I turned 22, I also had realized that I wanted to be a hermit and live in seclusion from society, and this name, once I found out what meaning it had, it kind of fit me like a ring in a finger.
If I eventually succeed in my life goals, I may eventually adopt it as my real name, because I'd like to be forgotten, in order to live a quiet and peaceful life.
To this day, while I still have the username 'novaburst' and the 'Champagne Supernova' nickname, I only keep them because I kind of like them.
That's all.