What types of character names are generally excepted in FFXI?

[TB_Iris]

Originally posted by Cooncon
Thereis a guy in my linkshell who use to be called Osamabinsmoking, they made him change it, I think they even deleted his character...

And I also remember seeing a guy named Bildo running around.

HAH, Phoenix server? He can thank me for that. I'm sorry, I can tolerate names like Gokusupasayajin and Bestfighterever, but a name like that...no. That I find highly offensive...and I know many others would feel that way too..

[GoBbLeGoOp]

My Taru's name is Rewah, and I originally got it by using the random name generator and then taking a few letters of of it. I was fine with it until some people told me that Rewah is an Arabian girl's name. >< Because I'm a guy and I don't want anyone hitting on me or anything. . . . . . (it actually happened once)

[Ketsuyo]

My Hume's name is Ketsuyo, it's a name I've been using for a long time on a wide variety of things.

The ironic thing is that the "Ketsu" portion can translate roughly when romanized into either excellence, or ass. I didn't realize this for 9 months (Sept 2000).

[Kyoushu]

Well, since my usual name (Kyoushu) was taken, I went with the name of the Japanese rock god Kageyama Hironobu. Call me a loser or Japanophile or whatever, but it's my name, dammit. :D

It's pretty fun, and I've met some nice Japanese people. I can hone my ugly, nasty Japanese skills and speak with them a little, but they also speak English. It's pretty cool.

[Murasame]

I skimmed through most of this and didn't see any one post this. In 'Vana'diel Tribune' issues 18-20, I believe, are the naming customs of the races of Vana'diel. I prefer in-character names, as I'm a bit of role-player. The names I realy hate are names that are just for the novelty of the word.

[Shedontusejelly]

Re: What types of character names are generally excepted in FFXI?

In Caitsith we hae some interesting ones...

Titrocker - a little taru dude
Shedontusejelly - hmm what does she use?
Rickjamesbiatch - oh no not another Chappelle spoof.
Methodman - an obnoxious spammer

Hee hee I am Shedontusejelly... It is not about actuallity..

I chose this name because Ben Folds Five covered the song She Don't Use Jelly by The Flaming Lips (it's polka style the way bf5 did it and funny) and my friend who got me interested in playing FFXI and I were listening to the song a lot and so out of randomness I chose the name. No matter what people "think" it won't change the reason why I chose the name.. lol btw titrocker and rickjamesbiatch had to change their names... mine isn't a sexual reference.. just a mere song reference.. mm and also I am a girl.. no manthra here =P and married in RL and yes he plays

[Deathguise]

Re: What types of character names are generally excepted in FFXI?

I started off as a Taru called Deathguise, which has been my alias for a while now.
Then I deleted that character and made an Elvaan named Valheru, taken from the book Magician.
Later I saw a Galka named Deathguise running around my server, hahaha.

[TGNExtendedGamer]

Re: What types of character names are generally excepted in FFXI?

I used an Elvaan name generator I found online. It is my real name translated. My in-game name is Arsilias. I usually have troubles finding good names, but I really like Arsilias.

[Byakko]

Re: What types of character names are generally excepted in FFXI?

Named 2 of my characters after trance artists.
1. Halcyone
2. Flutlicht

Named my Mithra Samurai Byakko.

Just sounds good.

Name in UO was Ozium. (Yes the deodorant).

[Lunaryn]

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Originality can be hard to prove. After all, two people can come up with the same original idea independently.

I have character names I thought were original or at least uncommon, then seen them pop up elsewhere. In fact, I seem to recall for some reason several of my original character names are coincidentally also the names of very minor characters in Pern novels. (Names I had before I ever read any Pern novels)

Shortly after the movie Mulan came out I took some crap on a MUCK where I had characters named Kulan and Kushu, since people assumed I derived the names from that. (Nevermind that the characters were around on that MUCK over a year before the movie came out)

Kirika, I discovered, is a fairly common anime name, though I'd never encountered it before when I first used it.

(Note: Kushu is not original, just kinda connected because of that situation. That was actually an imported character, sort of. FF3a. I had to create the personality and background from very little info, since 10 of the 11 moogles in that game had no lines at all besides "Kupo.")

[saige]

Re: What types of character names are generally excepted in FFXI?

I started off as a Taru called Deathguise, which has been my alias for a while now.
Then I deleted that character and made an Elvaan named Valheru, taken from the book Magician.
Later I saw a Galka named Deathguise running around my server, hahaha.

ive seen that name on lakishme " Deathguise"