I forget if I've had this convo w/ Cenere or not... was your username made to be "Ash" after the Poke-mans character?
I hit that boat full front, and never left it /pokenerd As for the username, it is more of an overall trend for names in one way or another. I am horrible with character names, which means I usually get "creative" and use multilingual dictionaries to get fitting names. So no, not because of mr. catch-em-all.
@Zophia: I write Zophia when not talking to you out of some kind of habit, so it will be confusing as heck to have you shorten your username.