Chimaera | firetongue ♣ The Chimaera breathes fire, and flametongue sounded stupid.
Kumiho | vexevix ♣ When Kuna was working on figuring out a username for Hojing, she was tossing ideas at me and suggested "vexedvixen." I didn't really like that, so I just started playing with different shortenings of the word. There were four different variations of the vowels [don't ask me to remember them] and I ultimately settled on that one.
Eve | imah ♣ "Ima" is mother in Hebrew, and "eema" is how it's pronounced--both were taken, so I slapped an h on the end and [after researching to make sure it wasn't a word in another language that meant something completely different] called it fair.
Boudicca | boudika ♣ Her username was almost "icenia" but I thought that was too feminine for her, so after wracking my brain and not being able to think of anything else, I looked through different spellings of her name until I settled on "boudika." I really like Ks.
Sloth | torpor ♣ "Daily Torpor, sometimes called temporary hibernation[1] is a (usually short-term) state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually characterized by a reduced body temperature and rate of metabolism." /wikipedia
Asteria | esteris ♣ I opened up the 'create journal' tab, stared at the box and typed "asteris" off the top of my head. Then I decided that was way too close, and put the e in front instead.
Melissa | fixedroof ♣ Have you ever heard the song "I'm Not Your Toy" by La Roux? There is a line, I am walking on a broken roof, while I'm looking at the sky, that stuck out to me when I was stressing over possible names. TMG [short for The Mortal Girlfriend] was taken, so I pondered "brokenroof" but decided it didn't define her well, before "fixedroof" popped into my head and stayed.