Oshawhat?
This was the OG username I went by on a defunct forum I joined back before Black and White were released. I had chosen Oshawott as my starter when the game came out and thanks to the adorable artwork pre-release, the usage in game, and the Oshawott character in the anime, I was able to say that Oshawott was my favorite Pokémon at the time. And the -what? part was just a play on words that I thought I came up with (was 11/12 at the time). Eventually the ? was dropped.
XxOshawhatxX
After the switch to Curse, I believe the ? was unusable, so it got dropped. And simply being called Oshawhat felt naked to me. Around this time I played Call of Duty Black Ops and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, where a lot of usernames had the Xx xX on their name, so I incorporated it into my name. And I still use that name for various things, like my nickname in Pokémon GO. It’s been a name that stuck due to personal growth and memories attached to it.
Rhize
Very short lived, Rhize was a name I just found cool for a short time in 2013/2014 due to an online game I was addicted to at the time. This was also the time when my forum activity dropped, so there wasn’t any time spent growing attached to the name. It eventually shifted back to XxOshawhatxX.
BasedOshawhat
After a hiatus from the forums that lasted a good 1.5/2 years, I made what I thought would be a return to the forums in 2018. Come to find out Marriland was shutting down and they had started a Discord server, which was just more efficient. So I bided my time because a new forum was coming. When November 1st hit (because the greedy mods/admins wanted all the first posts the day before), I made my account. The Based part was incorporated because on Discord I had started going by TheBasedJarrod. But also I wanted people to remember me, so I took Oshawhat, performed the fusion dance, and BasedOshawhat was born.
BasedJarrod
As I entered into the new year, I decided to part with some of my old memories. Oshawhat? was one of them. I was way more immature, naive, and younger at the time and that’s not what I thought of myself at the time I decided to change my name. BasedJarrod is a shortened, cleaner version of my Discord name, which incorporates my real name. Though every now and then I get people who call me Osh or Osha in remembrance. I like BasedJarrod a lot more, and who knows? Maybe it’ll see another change before I leave for good in the far future.