I remember a great many of the muses I've had, but I'm spacing on

- okay interrupting myself because on a lark I did a search on LIVEJOURNAL for the oldest (and also very obscure) muse I remember, and I found my account

veronica_37.
Veronica Loughran from CLERKS. I also had Becky Scott from CLERKS 2 but that username was boring and the account's gone anyway. Kinda shows how my username tastes have changed. I'm surprised the Becky acct got purged but Veronica is still kicking. Wow

Tina Cohen-Chang (GLEE) was morbidbubbles. Based on the "Theatricality" episode: the normally goth teen girl is forced to change her style and it turns into one of Mr. Schue's improvised themes for the week and they do Lady Gaga covers

I think I originally wanted effervescentgoth but LJ had a character limit

"I love wearing champagne bubbles — I get to express a whole different side of myself. Because even though I'm painfully shy and obsessed with death, I'm a really effervescent person."

Just...how beautiful is that? I felt like that was the building block of my Tina muse, and I will spare you a recap (Gleecap? Oops) of how that series went on to do that character dirty

River Song: riverborntorun
Molly Hooper: (we)alldosillyth(i)ngs

I always get the Bruce Springsteen song stuck in my head. I'm positive that "A Good Man Goes to War" was the final catalyst before I made the account so I surely had that on the brain. I liked the wordplay of a running river and a running River Song. And then the wordplay of where that name came from because "The only water in the forest is the river."

(...goddamn i was really hot to trot. I made my first River on 5 June 2011. AGMGTW aired the day before)

But contrary to most of my muse names, that one wasn't so much of a direct quote. River's complicated. Confident, intelligent, flirty, snarky, mysterious. HAIR FULL OF SECRETS

Anyhoo

Molly's comes from her quote in "A Scandal in Belgravia".

LJ and its character limit I am THRILLED to be done with. I damn near lost my mind when I came to Dreamwidth and saw all these one word usernames and then saw the huge character limit.

Molly asks Sherlock a question, which he rather evades by asking a question in return: 'why would you think she's my girlfriend when i'm trying to break into her phone?'

Molly's answer, with the most beautiful smile and an innocent giggle, says "well, we all do silly things."

I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THAT LINE. How that scene captures Molly as a person.

Princess Abigail/Kathryn Nolan (Once Upon a Time) - untilmylipsbled

Again, direct quote from the character. For context, Abigail is the daughter of King Midas. She was in love with a man named Frederick who loyally served her father. In the course of his duties in protecting the man, Frederick was accidentally turned to gold from the touch of Midas.

True Love's Kiss is known to break all curses, and one of the 'main' cast asks if she tried that when they learn of her story

Abigail tried TLK again and again until her lips bled.

Fiercely determined but never giving up hope.

Lastly, The Red Queen/Anastasia from Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. loveisnotenough