GGaD » Galaxian and Eliza's Chat Thread (you know the rules and so do I)

Basket Cat · December 26, 2021 21:12:42

ÒwÓ

GalaxianExplosion · December 26, 2021 21:39:31

OwU?

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 26, 2021 21:58:39

ÙwÚ

GalaxianExplosion · December 26, 2021 22:34:21

OwU!

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 26, 2021 22:36:40

^w^

GalaxianExplosion · December 26, 2021 23:11:13

^*^

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 27, 2021 10:21:54

I never questioned your nickname but how did you come up with "Galaxian"

GalaxianExplosion · December 27, 2021 19:49:19

Oh ho how do I explain my thinking at the time
I went by Galaxian one year before I joined the forums, but the road to the nickname was rather long, I think. It had its roots 3 years before I joined the forums
Essentially I was a really big space fan when I was little (still am, but now I feel like I'm not smart enough to be a real one xD), and I really liked thinking in scopes that were bigger than what we can see. Galaxies and universes, essentially. I especially liked the Chinese word for the Milky Way galaxy, so that was basically what I liked naming myself as to myself (Yinhe, but Yinhexi or Xingxi is what I call Galaxian because I feel that to be the more accurate for him xD).
But you know, when it came to English, I didn't really like calling myself "Galaxy," and I didn't like "Galactic" much either, so it was when I came across Saint Seiya and one of the ultimate attacks of a character there, Gemini Saga's/Kanon's Galaxian Explosion, that I started using Galaxian Explosion as the English variation of my nickname. It was supposed to refer to how I was a Saint Seiya fan while still referring back to what I call myself in Chinese xD.
Essentially, "Galaxian" is kind of a stolen word based off an attack in one of my favorite series to convey the alias I identify with more in Chinese, if that makes any sense. But over time I've identified more and more with "Galaxian" as an alias, too.

How about your nickname? How'd you come up with that?

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 27, 2021 20:56:07

Wow I wasn't expecting it to be that deep

Ngl I thought you might have just spelled Galaxy wrong somehow and went "yeah sounds good" xD

So you might realize that I'm not creative when it comes to nicknames, uh....

I didn't want to use my real name, so what did I do? I chose a nickname of my real name for my nickname. Big brain moment, I know xD

GalaxianExplosion · December 27, 2021 21:12:05

Nah xD, I knew I was gonna go with the nickname for a long time, so I spent a month pondering it. For a while, I'd been pondering going by Cosmic instead of Galaxian, but then I decided that decision would feel like I was trying to bloat my own sense of self-importance, so I decided against it. (That's way Cosmic is a Flip Side persona's name xD.)

Oh, so I did remember correctly xD. Well, I feel like Eliza is a really pretty nickname. Though, not gonna lie, it would've been weird if anyone decided to call you by your (presumable) name.

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 12:36:48

Thank you o///o nobody has said my name's pretty before xDD

Yeah it would be weird ngl

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 12:41:11

Really? Bruh.
Though I have to say, I've been saying your nickname wrong this entire time. I pronounce it like "Eh-lie-zah" despite knowing it's probably wrong xD

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 12:45:42

Uhh...yeah. Compliments for my name is not something I experience xDD

It's pretty close, actually. I usually pronounce it as "Ee-lie-zah" but I've heard it pronounced "Eh-lie-zah"

I don't really have a preferred pronunciation, my name is pronounced in two different ways half the time anyways xD so it's fine

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 12:50:34

xD Well, I guess you probably get enough compliments for your art to make up for the lack of name compliments, hehe.
Oh, I would've thought that the "lie" part of the pronunciation would be the differing part. Ah well xD

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 13:43:38

...Fair lol

Did you think it might be pronounced "Eh-lee-zah" or something similar? Never heard it pronounced that way but it sounds pretty cool ngl

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 13:50:58

I thought it was something like "Eh-leh-zah" xDD
All pronunciations sound cool now that I think about it tbh xD

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 13:55:15

Maybe this means that I truly have the epicest name because it can sound cool any way you pronounce it XD

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 13:56:33

Maybe xD
Meanwhile I might have the most mispronounced name lol xD

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 14:00:19

RIP

I'd ask what it is but you might not want to tell me XDD

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 14:01:12

Sorry and thank you xD. Maybe if we meet IRL one day? Hehe.

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 14:03:56

Understood xD At least you can maintain your Mysterious Aura lol

You live in...Kansas iirc?

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 14:04:22

What? xD

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 14:06:27

idk I thought you said you lived in Kansas once

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 14:08:31

No xD I've never been in Kansas.
Though apparently by my dialect I sound kinda like I'm from where you are lol.

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 14:10:49

And there's my inability to correctly remember where people say they live xDDDD

huh, really? Gonna be honest, idk what kind of dialect I have lol

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 14:13:13

I think you take after Aereon, except it's actual forgetfulness xD
~~Record your voice and I'll tell you~~
~~Jk xD~~

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 14:16:40

~~sir my voice is terrible you don't want to hear it~~

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 14:17:05

~~I don't think so :D~~

-Galaxian-

Basket Cat · December 28, 2021 14:18:02

~~are you sure about that because half the time I sound like a congested chicken~~

GalaxianExplosion · December 28, 2021 14:19:17

~~I don't mean that I want you to record, 'cause if you don't want to I don't wanna force you to, but I do think you're probably wrong on your voice sounding bad lol~~

-Galaxian-