History
To start, I do consider NightMox to be my full actual name. While I was born with a different 'normal' name, I absolutely despise the firstname and find lastnames to have dumb standards I don't believe in. 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, I decided that I wanted to change my self-given name from XR to something else. In a mere instant, the name 'NightMox' came to me and I knew this was the name.
When I was about 12, I started to actually hate my birthname as it was genuinely stupid and caused real-world problems for me so I started to say my firstname was 'Night'. During this time I was on a few platforms in which I was NightMox but all of them either shut down or I changed my username as I no longer use the name for online accounts because of privacy reasons. Nowadays, I tell people in real life that my name is Night as people are too conditioned to the use of standard name structures to understand how my NightMox name works and it's safer to separate a name used online from a name used in real life.
What It Means
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 that the Night part obviously means nighttime or the night sky. Mox doesn't mean anything, it's just the name suffix that functions sort of like how a lastname would while also functioning like a title. People often get confused by this as they only understand the firstname-lastname name structure but pretty much, Night acts as a firstname while Mox is a suffix that functions like a hybrid of a lastname and a title. Another structural explanation is that Night is a noun and Mox is a noun suffix. People often mistake the Night part to be a noun adjunct and Mox a noun but this is not true thus making calling me just Mox an incorrect shortening; Night is the only correct shortening. The name must always be one word and the 'N' and 'M' capitalized. The Night part of my name can also be translated into any language while Mox must remain the same or only transliterated. If you're one of those people that 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 2024-4-1