You're Kidding! I thought "Darksheare" WAS your real name. ;o)
My personal thoughts on it are that a name is intrinsic and descriptive of the thing it names and describes.
So in some ways, it IS my name.
*chuckle*
At least it's more fitting than my birth name, and many have said as much to me.
*sigh*
Went online the first time in 1995, and that was the handle I chose.
It's been my online name for 10 years almost, and people who have met me after talking to me say that the name fits.
*shrugs*