I'm gonna have to beg pretty hard for this one 'cause I was an idiot and wasted my name change on something completely stupid a little under a year and a half ago, so I'm hoping that I can come under the "small chance for exception" criteria. I've finally decided on one that I'd be happy to stick with forever though, so I know that I won't regret this one like I did with the other one and, as such, will be fine with being barred from any-and-all future name changes.
Requesting a name change to
Martin. (with the period, as annoyingly Martin is taken). There are a number of reasons for this, which I'm gonna list below:
- I really like my IRL name.
- Over the past three or four months I've started using some variation on the tag Martin the majority of the games that I play (most notably SSB4, but most (albeit not all) games which use gamer tags at this point really) simply because I just really like having my name as a gamer tag.
- I've had my username changed to some variant Martin on most of the websites that I still actively use, and as such it would be consistent with the majority of my online aliases.
- I've not used my current username for anything other than Smogon since around 2 months after I signed up here, and as such I've made this connection in my head between the name gamer boy and my childhood (for reasons other than it having boy in it) that I want to be able to let go of, as while I have a lot of very fond memories under this name I feel that it is important for me to be able to let go of my past and push forward (something which I've not been very successful with as of yet) and begin to grow up a little more. I feel that it is finally time to turn over a new leaf, with this being the first step.
In particular, that last bullet point has been the cause of a lot of internal conflict for me, and internally over the past 4-ish weeks I've been going back and fourth on whether I've wanted to at least attempt for a name change (it was originally gonna be to Tiger Drive, but I decided that I'd much rather have Martin. over that) or whether I would be comfortable hanging onto my current name for the rest of my time here on the site. Ultimately I decided that I would rather break that tie to my childhood than have it looming over me forever, and as such I am making this post in the hopes that that small chance is in my favor.
Hopefully this was enough. Regardless of whether you let me get the change or not, I thank you in advance for at least taking the time to consider it. Have a nice day :P
zero exceptions, this is your last change - ante