Whats in your character name?

[Jarre]

I can't find anything in relation to this on 6 searches so here goes...

How did you come up with your ingame character name? does it have any meaning?

To start oiff I'll give my 2 characters names.

Jarre - well easy really named after the French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre.

Brickshouse - During the 2nd world war, London got bombed very badly, most of the housing stock in the working class areas were the old small victorian terrace houses. each pair of hosues shared a toilet at the bottom of the garden. During the blitz the houses were destroyed, but surprisingly the little toilet at the bottom of the garden was the only thing remaining, untouched in alot of cases. These were built like houses out of brick. The term Brick-shit-house referes to these and is often used to describe "a very big person, normally male who is as broad as he is tall yet carries very little fat. Not the sort of person you would willingly upset." Hence the Uk slang term "he's built like a brick shit house" Merge that all together and remove the hit gives Brickshouse. Which the above description defines the Galka race perfectly.

So How did you come up with your characters name and what does it mean, over to you guys and gals.

[Ellipses]

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I started out with Ampersand as my main on my previous account. There was an episode of MST3K where one of the characters in the movie was named something like "Atlasan," but the way it was pronounced, the bots kept calling him "Ampersand." That and I just like the way it sounds.

From there I started naming my mules after various punctuation and typographical symbols (Ellipses, Octothorp, Obelus). When I signed up for Allakhazam's forums, Ampersand was taken, so I went with Ellipses, then brought that over here. And since that's the name on here, I decided I might as well make that the main when I started my new account.

[Kurb]

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Kurb my nickname short and easy too remember

[Ziero]

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RL knickname, that is all

[Amberly]

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Amberly is my wifes name and i picked it for 2 reasons.

1. My char looks like my wife

2. My wife cant get upset that I dont spent time with her now because of the game...cause I "Play" with her all the time.

[Dymlos]

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I took it from Tales of Destiny. My name is from the Swordian Dymlos.

[Armando]

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My real name. 'Cuz I'm "creative" that way.

[Lunaryn]

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A lot of thought went into my main character's name, trying to get a certain feel and sound to it while staying true to certain implications from the backstory. The biggest consideration was to try to create a name that follows conventions for a moogle name (drawing heavily from the Woolsified renames used in Final Fantasy III [sic] as originally released in the US on SNES, since a good deal of my own RP background drew heavily from the setting), while still not sounding too out of place for a tarutaru (in defense of dropping the usual naming convention, she's only half-Windurstian, born in Mhaura and raised in Bastok, and the name does sound as though it could be a shortening of a traditional female tarutaru name, e.g. Kumeimei). I also wanted to choose something that would convey a sense of falseness and mystery about her origins, as well as the fact that deception is key to her way of life (she survived in Bastok as a pickpocket after fleeing an abusive adoptive parent, and her main job as adventurer is Thief). Jim Breen's WWWJDIC lists the word くうめい (kuumei) as meaning "empty name; false reputation" which I thought worked reasonably well with the intentions I had in naming the character (nothing that I found with a closer meaning met the other criteria). I dropped the elongated う (u) sound to better fit the naming conventions, leaving Kumei.

Most of my other characters I simply tried for a name that seemed relatively average (e.g. Koren, Myrna), though for my Mithra characters I tried to follow the established naming conventions and use sounds that seemed feline (Moh Ryahu, Nya Mohrreh). Koren in particular I was trying to achieve something both average and more or less Bastokan, since her family is Bastokan.

[Feba]

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Star Wars name.

Been using it on the internet for probably a decade now.

[Olorin401]

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Many are my names in many countries,
Mithrandir among the Elves,
Tharkûn to the Dwarves;
Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten,
In the south Incánus,
in the North Gandalf;
to the East I go not.

It was the first time I used this name online, my long-time online nickname just about everyplace else outside the FFXI world is "Scoopster".

[Omniblast]

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Back when Final Fantasy VII came out there was a Limit Break Attack called Omnislash.

Well since I didn't like meleeing, and after watching too many Dragon Ball Z Anime, and Vegeta's "Big Bang" attack, I wanted a more mage oriented attack.

Thus Omniblast was born sometime in 1994.
The first time I used that name in a mmorpg game, when internet gaming was at it's early stages in Asheron's Call. If you search up Asheron's Call and my name you may run across someone putting it in their background storyline for a Monarchy called The Mysterian Knights (sp?) It may still be up in some Microsoft or Turbine webpage somewhere.

[Murphie]

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What's in your character name?

An M, an R, a P, an H, and some vowels.

See also: Xanth

[Silent Howler]

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I went through expaining how I came up with my name in another thread recently, and it's also covered in my journal, but I'll share it here too.

The name originally branched of from the character, Blue (yes, that was her name), from my favorite anime show, Wolf's Rain. However, Blue was already taken, so I had to be a little more creative. The mithra model I chose was 1B. I like the first hairstyle the most and decided to go with the second color because I liked the higher contrast. Light skin, dark hair, blue eyes. There is also someone I know who goes by the nickname Wolf Eyes, which probably had some influence in my character's name as well.

Also, this is kind of a small pet peeve, but it annoys me a little when people call me Blueeyes. There's no second "e" in my name and that was done intentionally. I prefer Blueyes or Blue for short. Blu is pushing it a little since it's also the abbreviation for Blue Mage and it can get confusing sometimes, even though it is one of my jobs.

[Aksannyi]

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Well I made this name up, and honestly it just came to me in the shower. I know, I'm weird. I wanted something that sounded like an RPG character name, something a little off-kilter and strange and unique, and also with a bit of Japanese flair to it.

After hearing how people pronounce it on Vent though, it seems my vision was not realized. lol.

[Pteryx]

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Quite a bit, actually. Kamiel's name is full of puns, references, and hidden meanings.

To start with: Kami = in Japanese, a lowercase-g god. -el = in Judeo-Christian mythology, common name ending for angels (see Michael, Gabriel, etc.) and reference to uppercase-G God. Thus, the name reeks strongly of divinity, and conveniently also sounds San d'Orian (which is where he was born and raised).

Kamiel's mother, Annene (my mule, just a basic Taru-sounding name that intentionally sounds a little awkward in English if pronounced correctly), was taken in after Chanandit d'Leon (my NPC fellow) failed to protect his father, Garisa-Modisa (just a random Taru-style name) while fighting alongside him during the Crystal War. Thus, Kamiel's full name is... don't hurt me... Kamiel Leon. *ducks* The pun also happens to refer to how his true nature isn't obvious, as well as to one of the jobs associated with him (RDM, my first to 75). There's also the nice oblique reference to courage suggested in the surname Leon. -- Pteryx