Back when Impressive Title did not feature accounts, I simply went by whatever my character name was. I happily told them my username from Wolfquest in order to identify myself (which most often was Dust), and that was that. During that time I had a main character that I clung to for a long time and eventually she died off, along with the chars of some of my friends. Well, about the time accounts were introduced to Impressive Title, we decided we wanted to bring them back.
So we had our characters reborn as new characters with new names. They'd discover their new identities over time. My friend's character Kiri became Ruya and my hyena Dust became "Silhouette", a winged feline. When the new accounts came out, there was a small, brief issue. The chat displays, unlike now did NOT give you the option to view the name being used in the chat (Meaning I didnt get to choose if it said I was "Silhouette" the character, it would show my username) and I found this to be rather annoying. I ended up making individual accounts for my main characters to combat this. When this bug was fixed, I then had a few different accounts, one of which was Rust (hyena) and the other, Silhouette. I ended up remaking all of my characters from the Rust (hyena) account over to the Silhouette one and I have been going by that name ever since. Bad part is, if someone even mentions the word, I'll perk up at it as if it were my own name. LOL