History
To start, I do consider NightMox to be my full actual name. While I was born with a different "normal" name, I long ago abandoned it and name standards are just the result of cultural normativity and/or legal mandates. As a child, I never considered my birthname to be my actual name so I called myself XR, pronounced "eks-er". I don't know why I called myself that but I somehow came up with it before I could fully form memories.
When I was about 9 or 10, I got into Minecraft and one day realized that I would need a username for stuff and since I couldn't use XR, I would need to come up with something. Eventually, I came up with a username but I was too young to have an account anywhere and didn't understand how that stuff worked. The username I had in mind remained a concept for a few months but I ended up never using it. Then one day when I was 10, I decided that I wanted to change my name from XR to something else. In a mere instant, the name NightMox came to me and I knew this was the name.
Awhile later, I was on a few platforms with my name NightMox. I call this the Proto-Moxic Era which includes my Kamcord Saga and the first two trolling sagas in Tales Of A Little Trolling. Then pretty much everything I was on shut down and I had become privacy conscious, laying low for about five years and pretty much only being active anonymously on one platform. I call this the Dark Era which includes everything in Wacky Individuals that isn't post-2021. Then I decided to make this website, making myself publicly known as NightMox again in the Neo-Moxic Era.
Meaning And Structure
Some people have asked what my name even means or "What is a NightMox?". Originally when the name first came to me, I had no meaning assigned to it. There still isn't really a meaning to it other than the Night part obviously means nighttime or the night sky. Mox doesn't mean anything; it's a name suffix that functions like a combination of a surname and a title. Grammatically, Night is the base and Mox is a suffix that can also be standalone. People often mistake Night to be a noun adjunct and Mox a noun but this is not true thus calling me just Mox is an incorrect shortening; Night is the only correct shortening. The name must always be one word and the N and M capitalized. Night can also be translated into any language while Mox can only be transliterated if written or adapted for phonology if spoken. I have a strong preference for incorporating Mox into naming things; I rarely incorporate Night into naming. I never incorporate my entire name into anything. If you're one of those people who insists on calling me Moxy, that is how you spell it when referring to me as opposed to Moxi the writing system or one of the dumb spellings involving a double-x and/or -ie at the end.
Written 2021-7-9 Published 2021-8-1 Updated 2026-7-1