1. Who named you? Why did they pick that name? Does it mean anything special? Do you like your name? (If not, what would you want to be?)
Mom named me. My grandparents on my dad's side had some influence (they were catholics), so Christopher it was. Middle name Steven, which was after my great-great grandfather (I think it was his middle name too). My brother's name is Mark Samuel, again biblical name + a great grandparent. I like my name just fine. I have a fairly uncommon nickname in the US at least, Bobko. George informs me the name is Ukranian in origin, which makes sense considering my great grandparents on my dad's side were from there. We don't know much about them though, they got the hell outta there in the 20's and immigrated into New Jersey. I have always liked my last name, despite people constantly getting it wrong or mocking it in some fashion. And considering my choice of artistic expression, "A Chris Bobko Film" just sounds badass.
2. What about nicknames? What do people call you? Do you have any interesting nicknames for anyone else?
Growing up I was called Kit, Kitopher, and Kit Bobcat by my grandmother. I don't think my mom really ever had a nickname for me, but my dad calls me cheif a lot to this day. My brother got the strange nickname of Boolie which was later shortened to Boo by my mom. Have no clue why. In college I adopted Kit instead of Chris, since in our circle of friends there were like 4 Chris's. This lasted awhile, but everyone just ended up calling me Bobko. That seems to be the common use, people outside of family tend to just use my last name, which I don't mind. The funny thing is, my brother has the same thing happen, and when he later went through the same college program and people were calling him Bobko too, everyone got confused because they thought people were referring to me. I generally don't have nicknames for people, dunno why. I do have this weird thing where unless I get to know somebody, I don't like to say people's names in front of them for fear of getting them wrong maybe? I have no clue, but it's weird.
3. What about your username(s)? Does anyone call you by a username in "real life"?
My general nickname is ZephyrStar. It's one I've gone by since 1994 or so, when I first built a computer and got internets. It came from a story/comic I was working on at the time. I had a character who attained godlike powers to fight off a whole bunch of meaty aliens, and according to prophecy/legends, the title he was given in the lore was The Zephyr Star. I scrapped that project, but the nick stuck. For some reason, people generally think I'm female because of the nick. Online most people refer to me as ZS. I've also gone as hoshinokaze, which is the Japanese. Koop helped me coin the nick hoshinolamenobody, which was funny. Kionon sometimes calls me Zephykins. I think I'm responsible for calling Kitsuner "Kittles" and maybe in part "Kitler," but that was a group effort one year at AWA. When people first met me at cons, there was a lot of ZS.
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ARG WHY DO I ALWAYS FORGET CHAISE. Ileia calls me Chaise and I call her Iweia. Kristyrat I call Kart and he calls me Chairs.
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