Most simply it’s a combo of pansy (my favorite flower) and periwinkle (a word I like the sound of)!

A couple years back I was in search of a new username, I wanted something that felt like me & was a single word that was easy to say and remember. I used my word list (mentioned previously in that ask about writing tips) and just tried out a bunch of combos of sounds!! I was hoping I could hunt down the sheet and give examples of rejected options for funsies but alas I couldn't find it.

Pansywinkle won out. I like the double meaning of like…timid & wimpy hahahh. And then -winkle is just such a fun sounding suffix, reminds me of twinkle, crinkle etc. i think it sounds cutesy!

is on a tangent now I have this repeated affinity for words that begin with P! Mysterious & intriguing to me hahah. Would have expected L/A/M/J or even S to be preferred. A fun benefit of a favorite word list is observing such things…