There is no deep meaning behind it or a great story to tell how I came up with it.

It happened at a "made from scratch" ramen party organized by some Japanese art students in the beginning of 2016. Somewhere between slurping this amazing ramen (completely made by our host Gaku-san, including the fish sauce for the stock!) and discussing our semi-masochistic love for the super thin Namura brushes, the topic shifted to discussing artistic names.
Now, I don't remember who or why decided to give me a Japanese name. They asked me my favourite characters which were 風 (wind) and 深 (deep), which put together produce Fuuka quiet a normal women's name. Then I added 子 at the end:
「ふかこちゃんと呼んで」

"Call me Fukako from now on"

I'm Alina, it's a pleasure :D

If you met me at the SF2 then you know my real name ^^

I didn't like my real name as a kid, because there was no one else around with it. This has led to not getting any nicknames while at school :D

When I came to Japan my real name became obsolete and suddenly I was known as Ariina.

I also had a thing for changing my family name on Facebook to places I would move to while in Japan. So for a long while I was known as Alina Yokohama, then as Nakano, Yakuooji and finally as Asakusa (I've even used Alina Asakusa at a couple exhibitions).

After leaving Japan for Moscow and then for Zurich, neither of this cities made me want to change my FB name, so I decided to translate my real family name (which literally means "daughter of the treasure/honey king") into English and thus Honeyquin was born.

So my friends from the Zurich era call me Honeyquin-chan.

I quit Facebook last October because they couldn't really pinpoint where and who I might be even with all that info I fed them. I still use Instagram but based on the badly aimed adds they should work more to improve their software :D

Lately, my Dutch prof. has nicknamed me Kalashnikov, because there is one other Alina in the class :D

A different username?

I was thinking about Honeyquin from the beginning, but fukako was shorter.

Plus nothing beats telling Americans who just have to know my handle FU...kako :D

I was nominated by @m31, @shogo and @denjiro for this challenge. This post became so long, so I'll add a Japanese version to another video I make.
@shogoさん, @denjiroさん ノミネートしていただきありがとうございます。英語の投稿が長くなってしまいまして、日本語バージョンを次回載せていきます。すみません！

1. Tell us in a post how you chose the current Steemit username you have. The story behind it.
2. Tell us your real name!
3. If you could change your current username, which name would you choose and why? If you have a possible usernames list, mention it!
4. Use the tag #steemitnamechallenge
5. Nominate 5 people for this challenge

I'd like to nominate @ramengirl, @acromott, @karensuestudios, @karencarrens and @ludorum :D

Song: Utada Hikaru - Kouya no Ookami

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by Fukako

(sign made by @atopy)

My video is at DLive