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For me Its quite simple. My brain decided it. Literally. The days I found out I'm trans, my brain would do this weird thing, where I could think about completely different stuff and suddenly my now chosen name would "fly" into my mental Field of View, like an asteroid in star wars or so. I told that name a close friend and 4 weeks later when we went to the club together I told him, that I will stick with it, because I didnt had a better idea (and it was the only name I really felt comfortable with).
I used it since I was 13 on IRC ""catfishing"", well it was not catfishing actually, it was me expressing how I wanted to live, but I didn't realised at that time. Then, I came out at 27 and remembered those days and rescued the name.