Ha, my old username was Cendrillo, and I stole it from my ex-husband. He was working on a Tolkien-esque mythology, because he actually aspired to be a writer (his plots were slow, his descriptions simply TOO FUCKING MUCH, and really, he idolized Tolkien too much). Cendrillo was a character that was basically a world shaper in his mythology of not!elves, and I found that to be a good meta. This is also where all the armadillo jokes that Drak makes about me come from (Cendrillo rhymes with Armadillo, she even said she imagined me as an armadillo with a lab coat.

Then I started AIM chat with some chicks on a forum I was on (which included Drak, that's how we, ah, met, not through LJ, this was pre-LJ) and they were like, "OK we need to call you something".

And Drak went, "Cendri sounds like a good shortening, she seems cute."

Which is kind of funny, considering I was a lot less... well, I was mousier back then, online, because I was afraid of offending people. I didn't even curse.

But it did start as a mouthful. XD I'd have prolly shorted YOURS to Ais, just saying.

~Cendri