Help with a question regarding name
So to make a long story short I'm having trouble deciding what name to use and nothing feels right except for one (I'll get to that part in a second). I started tagging using my nickname my significant other had given me a while back but spelled phonetically to shorten the amount of letters. So, I was born and raised in this little town in the middle of fucking nowhere Southeast USA, to this day you could mention it to people in the same county and they'd look at you like you had worms crawling out of your eyes. It's a pretty distinct name, a butchering of the name for a tribe of Native Americans that inhabited the area in the 1700s. It's the only thing that feels right, each time I write it solidifies that fact in my mind, this is it but here's the issue: I currently reside in a bougie college town where I live in a sober living house (1 year clean and sober, yay me) that actually has a pretty active graffiti scene mainly centered around the downtown business area but it's everywhere really. I thought of using the name so I did some research on the local graff scene to see if anyone had and surprisingly turns out there used to be a stencil writer here who used the name of my hometown plus (I'm assuming) their first name and a stencil of a pissed off looking gopher (i assume it could be any other furry small animal). From what I can gather they were "tolerated" and "well liked" around town until they did a piece on a business that wasn't too happy with the free artwork and the public turned against them and they tucked their tail and ran.
The stencil and accompanying name has continued to appear sporadically across the United States (I found a few on Instagram and Twitter) which leads me to believe the original artist was a college student who liked the way the name looked but probably (like all the bougie assholes who have since gentrified my hometown to the point I could never afford a home or even land to put a trailer on) couldn't pronounce the name to save their lives. It's a long name which I know isn't ideal and not quick to get up but I've thought long and hard and tried 1000 combinations of names in my sketchbook and this is the only one that fits me. Just because a person at one point in time tagged using this name and really only part of it in the name and from what I can gather doesn't tag at all anymore or at least not locally would anyone give me shit for using it? I feel I should also mention the original name and artwork have become so corporatized that several local breweries have beer cans featuring it so I don't know part of me is like these rich douchebags are making money off the name, someone I never met who likely wasn't even from the place wrote it, why can't I? If the consensus is I should pick something different then idk I'll run through 2000 more combinations and ideas until I think of another.