My derby name is Daphne du Gorier. After Daphne du Maurier, who wrote the classic novel Rebecca. I like it.
Some people are like, roller derby is about sweating and being serious, and so I use my real name to be extra serious (and extra sweaty). Some people are like, when I’m on the track, I’m a different person who knows no fear, and my derby name is the name of that extremely fearless person.
My main thoughts when choosing my derby name were that I could get people to call me ‘Daphne’ and that would be rad.
Most people do call me ‘Daphne’, and Violet Attack sometimes calls me ‘Du Gorier’ which I enjoy immensely. Recently though, people keep calling me ‘Daffers’. It’s catching on and I don’t know what to make of it.
I mean, you’ve gotta admit, ‘Daffers’ and ‘Daphne’ convey two very different things. ‘Daphne’ is serious bananas; ‘Daffers’ is just bananas with no specified emotion.
I guess it doesn’t matter. It’s kind of cute actually. So long as the announcers don’t start using it when I get lead jammer.
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dontbearuiner said:
My real name is Jill, and my derby name is “Jilly Hitzinger.” I’ve hated being called “Jilly” all my life, until it came out of the mouths of skaters. Then it felt really, really right.
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