I was S8NSSON, which is Satan's Son, if you sound it out.
I was playing Descent for a while and sucked pretty bad. I flew under the name ENT which was short for Entwydimaylea, which was a gross misspelling of Ntwadumela, which is the name of a lion from a National Geographic special called "Eternal Enemies - Lions and Hyenas." Ntwaduela means "He Who Greets With Fire" in some African language.
I started going to local LAN fests every weekend and got lessons (my ass whooped) by the No. 1 player in the world on a regular basis. I asked him, and the others, to teach me how to play better and they rearranged my entire key config and had me get a Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick. It was very awkward and I totally sucked in online pubs with my new config so I decided I would make a new pilot to hold be through the learning curve. I wanted something evil sounding, but had to limit to the allowable eight character player name. So I came up with S8NSSON. As I adjusted to my new config I started doing so well I just kept the name.
Eventually (within the last couple years) I changed my name to lords8n, mostly because it's easier to type.