Did anyone ever name Red "Nanaki" on purpose?

[daggertrepe]

I can say I have. I just thought the name fit him better. :)

[Mirage]

Of course.

[BG-57]

I did, in the hopes that it would change some of the dialogue in the game. It didn't.

[Grazia]

I always do that.

After my first game, it just seemed like the right thing to do.

Plus its funny in the dialogue at Cosmo Canyon when the guy outside says to Cloud "Thanks for bringing Nanaki home" and Cloud says "Who's Nanaki?" and then the guy replies with "Who's Nanaki? Nanaki is Nanaki!"

I still get a chuckle out of that.. haha.

[LunarWeaver]

I sure did. :happybday

[d£v!l'$ ph0£n!x]

yup me too. a more interesting question would be who didn't rename Red to Nanaki after their first play through

[Captain Maxx Power]

If you want even more fun in the game, name all of the playable characters after any of the proganoists, with Sephiroth obviously producing the best results. Par exampler;


Sephiroth: Sephiroth... Don't listen to him... Close your ears! Close your eyes!

Sephiroth: What's wrong, Sephiroth? I'm not affected by it. ...I wasn't paying attention
to him.

Sephiroth: All that talk of Hojo constructing you is a lie. Don't we have our
memories together? Being kids together, starlit night...

Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha... Sephirtoh... Why are you so worried and scared by those
words? Hmm... Shall I show everyone here what's in your heart? Ha, ha, ha...
You look like you're not feeling well.

Sephiroth: ...Sephiroth? Is Sephiroth right?

Sephiroth: Sephiroth...

[Tallulah]

I always do that.

After my first game, it just seemed like the right thing to do.

Plus its funny in the dialogue at Cosmo Canyon when the guy outside says to Cloud "Thanks for bringing Nanaki home" and Cloud says "Who's Nanaki?" and then the guy replies with "Who's Nanaki? Nanaki is Nanaki!"

I still get a chuckle out of that.. haha.

Absolutely... and also when he says 'I am Nanaki, also known as Nanaki' i you choose him when you fight Palmer in Rocket Town.


yup me too. a more interesting question would be who didn't rename Red to Nanaki after their first play through

True, true... Though RatCatMoo and Gay Lion are fun as well.:D


If you want even more fun in the game, name all of the playable characters after any of the proganoists, with Sephiroth obviously producing the best results. Par exampler;


Sephiroth: Sephiroth... Don't listen to him... Close your ears! Close your eyes!

Sephiroth: What's wrong, Sephiroth? I'm not affected by it. ...I wasn't paying attention
to him.

Sephiroth: All that talk of Hojo constructing you is a lie. Don't we have our
memories together? Being kids together, starlit night...

Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha... Sephirtoh... Why are you so worried and scared by those
words? Hmm... Shall I show everyone here what's in your heart? Ha, ha, ha...
You look like you're not feeling well.

Sephiroth: ...Sephiroth? Is Sephiroth right?

Sephiroth: Sephiroth...

I named Cloud Sephiroth one time. That was a source of much confusion... :confused:

[Xatif]

*guilty for naming Red XIII "Nanaki"*
*innocent for naming Cloud "Sephiroth"*

[Jessweeee♪]

I did once...I got a kick out of the "Who is Nanaki?" part :exdee:

Only did it once though, I usually just leave it Red or RedXIII


...you know what's fun? Renaming Aeris to be Elvis. It's really funny at the end of Disc One and near the end of the game.

[Hambone]

On my current playthrough yeah.

[rubah]

I did. It was kinda surreal "Nanaki? Who is Nanaki?" "Nanaki is Nanaki"

[Psychotic]

"Who's Nanaki? Nanaki is Nanaki!"He says that no matter what you call him.

Yes, I have, and I've named Cait Sith Reeve.

[qwertysaur]

I do things like that all the time. It works well in FF9 to. I rename Steiner "Rusty" Vivi "Puck" and Dagger "Garnet" Once I got bored and named Aeris "Slum Drunk."

[Zeromus_X]

Of course.

I do the same in Chrono Trigger as well, renaming the characters to their 'real' names. Of course in that game you can change the names after a certain point.

I have yet to try a Sephiroth game, however. It sounds like great fun.

[Radje]

Try calling Aeris "my balls" and let the laughter flow

[Brennan]

Not really, it's been so long since my first playthrough so yeah.

[grim07]

I am proud to say that I have never named him Nanaki. His name is Red XIII to me, as that is what it was when I first got him.

Nanaki is a stupid name anyways.

[d£v!l'$ ph0£n!x]

did anyone rename cait sith to reeve after finding out who he really was?

[Hyperion4444]

Did anyone notice that Red XIII coresponds with FFXIII main character?
Red XIII. And the main XIII character has red hair.

Some could say it's a coinsidence
But it was made on purpose.

[Tigmafuzz]

Try calling Aeris "my balls" and let the laughter flow

hahaha! omg that is funny as hell roflmao

[ReloadPsi]

I go for whatever I feel like at the time: Shorten it to "Red" or change it to "Nanaki"... I actually prefer "Red" anyway. (Unless I'm playing my German copy, then he's "Rot XIII" instead. Cloud becomes Claud, Aeris becomes Äris, Yuffie becomes Yufie and Vincent becomes Vinzent... it came out in Germany before the spelling reform of 1998 so it doesn't look like it was deemed necessary to phonetically change the characters' names.)

Never called Cait Sith "Reeve" before, I'll have to this time.

[cloud21zidane16]

Try calling Aeris "my balls" and let the laughter flow

haha lol i bet theres loads of other funny parts too:p

I just name him Red, i tried Nanaki once though:)

[Bolivar]

Try calling Aeris "my balls" and let the laughter flow

oh man that picture is priceless..

[The Ceej]

I usually just leave names as they are, but I couldn't bring myself to leave Dagger's name as is. It just didn't seem right like that, so I changed it back to Garnet. I used to change names, but I changed that before my second time playing Final Fantasy VII.

[Dr. Acula]

Try calling Aeris "my balls" and let the laughter flow

Lmao! I HAVE to try that.

[Big D]

"Who's Nanaki? Nanaki is Nanaki!"He says that no matter what you call him.Indeed. That scene wouldn't really make sense otherwise, since the Cosmo Canyon bloke has no idea that Nanaki's been known as Red XIII. When he says that "Nanaki is Nanaki", he's saying "he is what he is", a deliberately vague and quasi-new-age way of summing up the character without saying anything genuinely useful.

I've called him Nanaki in the past; sometime, I'll do a run where everone's called Sephiroth or Aeris is 'my balls', since that one's a timeless classic. I called her Aerith one time, but it messes up a couple of lines where the possessive form of her name is usually given as Aeris'.

Hmm... maybe it could be fun to call Cloud "my angsty shadow"? Could lead to some entertaining lines.

"Because, my angsty shadow, you are... a puppet".

"I'm sorry, I'm going to stay here with my angsty shadow..."

"This is my angsty shadow. He's my bodyguard".

In some instances, it gives a pretty literal - if cynical - picture of Cloud's character, and how the other characters (especially Cloud, Tifa, Aerith) all act toward him.

To think about it... very soon, it'll only be through games like FFVII where we can have the fun of giving puerile nicknames to characters in an otherwise-serious story. Voice-acting might add something to a game, but it takes away one of the less-renowned replay options.

[Levian]

My cousin made me name it Jenny, and I've sorta gotten used to it now.

[Kanshisha]

Oh yeah.. here's some pics that i edited from Radje's pic about the " my balls " name change..

Hope you like it.. I'm acctually going to try some of these..

[daggertrepe]

I usually just leave names as they are, but I couldn't bring myself to leave Dagger's name as is. It just didn't seem right like that, so I changed it back to Garnet. I used to change names, but I changed that before my second time playing Final Fantasy VII.

Don't insult the name! :crying2:

Anyhoo, I can say I've never even thought about naming cait sith reeve. I just call him cait, most of the time

[Jessweeee♪]

"my angsty shadow" would be funny but it wouldn't fit :kaocry2:

I like to name Rinoa "Hotdogs" in FFVIII sometimes...it changes EVERYTHING, I'm totally serious! Try it and you'll see what I mean.

I've thought about trying it with Tifa or Aeris :p

[grim07]

The only instance where I think they SHOULDNT have let you name the main character is in FFX. They shoulda left it Tidus, so they could actually say his name.

[Radje]

I'm glad that last picture got a good reception. How about these others:

[Xatif]

Those pics are hilarious!

[Big D]

"my angsty shadow" would be funny but it wouldn't fit :kaocry2:Don't know how I forgot about the 9-character limit...


I like to name Rinoa "Hotdogs" in FFVIII sometimes...it changes EVERYTHING, I'm totally serious! Try it and you'll see what I mean.Oh hell yes. That would be truly awesome, I'll have to try it next time.

"Let me see hotdogs!"

"Because... I've fallen for you.... hotdogs..."

"Let's go find hotdogs!" etc.

The latest batch of 'my balls' pics are awesome, especially "they were talking about my balls... right?"
I'm definitely doing that one next time.

[Jessweeee♪]

"My balls will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...... or get
angry......"

[grim07]

"My balls will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...... or get
angry......"


lmao

or after he stabs Aeris, Cloud just says "My Balls!!"

[The Ceej]

The only instance where I think they SHOULDNT have let you name the main character is in FFX. They shoulda left it Tidus, so they could actually say his name.

Of course. Then there wouldn't be such a big argument on how to pronounce Tidus' name because you would have heard it spoken in the game. I mean, seriously. He's not a bad comedian with a short-lived sitcom. But that's a whole other thread.

[hanawa]

"My balls will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...... or get
angry......"

Lol! Thats a real... gud one!
:lol: :exdee: :upsidedow :thumb: :bgl: :bigbiggri

[Galvatron]

I keep Red's name as RedXIII, mostly because I never use him so I really don't care.

On my first FFIX save I named Steiner Obvious so he would introduce himself as "Captain Obvious" at certain points. Man was I corny back then.

I named Garnet "nope" because I couldn't be bothered to think of a good name for her. Later in the game I would get confused and think there was some error when "nope" was in the middle of a sentence.

[scrumpleberry]

Yup, just like you name "Dagger" (shudddddderrrrrr) Garnet.

I think I called him Fluffy once. I call all the cool characters Fluffy. Like Shadow. Or Flaafy, like the pokemon.

[Jessweeee♪]

Yup, just like you name "Dagger" (shudddddderrrrrr) Garnet.

I think I called him Fluffy once. I call all the cool characters Fluffy. Like Shadow. Or Flaafy, like the pokemon.

I called Barret "Fluffy" once XD

[Sword]

I think everyone has aimed for the "my name is Nanaki. Otherwise known as Nanaki" scene at least once lmao

[daggertrepe]

Off topic. Haha.

[Heath]

Perhaps I'm some kind of FFVII traitor or something, but in my latest playthrough of FFVII that I started last week I just left him as Red XIII. The two previous playthroughs I called him Nanaki though. Then again, I'm the person who called Dagger 'Garnet' in my last FFIX playthrough.

[Doomie]

No, but I once replayed Final Fantasy 9 with "Amarant" instead named Moe JUST so I can see the part where he calls himself the Flaming Moe, and laugh.

[Dr. Acula]

No, but I once replayed Final Fantasy 9 with "Amarant" instead named Moe JUST so I can see the part where he calls himself the Flaming Moe, and laugh.

:eek: That is so awesome! I have to try that too!!!

[Bolivar]

"My balls will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...... or get
angry......"


lmao

or after he stabs Aeris, Cloud just says "My Balls!!"

this is rediculous and those last pics had me dying just as the tseng one.

Grim, that's a good point, maybe Square intended us to do this? Because Aeris dying is a metaphor for Cloud losing his balls? And how not too far into Disc 2 you could say... he figuratively loses his balls?

[silentenigma]

I named Red XIII "Nanaki" on my first playthrough.Try figuring that one out.

[Fuzoya]

I've never renamed him to Nanaki, but in ff6 I have renamed Shadow to Clyde all the times after the first time I beated the game.

[6294]

I was going to, but I forgot and I named him Ted!

[Comet]

This thread is funnyyyy

[CloudDragon]

I can imagine anyone has experimented with the names for a comical effect. I just named all my characters numbers.

[Jimsour]

Yeah, my second time through it. First time I played the game I thought his secret name was "enigma" before I got to cosmo canyon, I was only 14 or something and didnt know what it meant.

Normally I all it "dog".

[Queen Anthai]

No, but I once replayed Final Fantasy 9 with "Amarant" instead named Moe JUST so I can see the part where he calls himself the Flaming Moe, and laugh.

Heh, I called him Homer just for that. It ain't a Flaming MOE! :-P

(My husband, who is slightly cruder, called him Queen. So he could be a Flaming...well, you get it.)

[Seal Evil]

When I played this game for the first time, I changed Cloud's name to Zack, only because I used to really like that name when I was younger. But that's weird, huh? :|

[Big D]

When I played this game for the first time, I changed Cloud's name to Zack, only because I used to really like that name when I was younger. But that's weird, huh? :|xD That must've led to some pretty confusing scenes - especially in Gongaga, and later in Cloud's subconscious.

[feioncastor]

When I played this game for the first time, I changed Cloud's name to Zack, only because I used to really like that name when I was younger. But that's weird, huh? :|xD That must've led to some pretty confusing scenes - especially in Gongaga, and later in Cloud's subconscious.

And it would explain Aeris' rather sudden feelings for the spikey headed blonde fellow.

In answer to the thread, I prettymuch always call him Nanaki, after my first time playing through.

I've been tempted to name Cloud and Barrett as "DONUT" and "LARRY", respectively.

[Mercen-X]

To think about it... very soon, it'll only be through games like FFVII where we can have the fun of giving puerile nicknames to characters in an otherwise-serious story. Voice-acting might add something to a game, but it takes away one of the less-renowned replay options.Unless, they're like SOTET allowing you to disable the voice-overs.


The only instance where I think they SHOULDNT have let you name the main character is in FFX. They shoulda left it Tidus, so they could actually say his name.No, they shouldadunnit like SOTET.


I named Red XIII "Nanaki" on my first playthrough.Try figuring that one out.
Simple. Your first playthrough was after finding out Red's true name.

A name that fits logically for Amaranth is Dragon. But, how about Fart, Gasblow, Backwind, Poo, and Snot. Also, Anus, Atheist, Crotch, Dork, Dufus, Irritant.

[Seal Evil]

When I played this game for the first time, I changed Cloud's name to Zack, only because I used to really like that name when I was younger. But that's weird, huh? :|xD That must've led to some pretty confusing scenes - especially in Gongaga, and later in Cloud's subconscious.
Actually, lol, I had to end up deleting my file because when I caught Yuffie, like an idiot I saved at the save point that you're not supposed to! :mad2: So I was stuck! I didn't even get to see those scenes! I had to start the game all over again, lol. :( But then I decided to keep Cloud's name.

[Mercen-X]

Actually, lol, I had to end up deleting my file because when I caught Yuffie, like an idiot I saved at the save point that you're not supposed to! :mad2: So I was stuck! I didn't even get to see those scenes! I had to start the game all over again, lol. :( But then I decided to keep Cloud's name.

How the hell did you get stuck? That's not supposed to happen. You just leave, dude.

[Seal Evil]

Actually, lol, I had to end up deleting my file because when I caught Yuffie, like an idiot I saved at the save point that you're not supposed to! :mad2: So I was stuck! I didn't even get to see those scenes! I had to start the game all over again, lol. :( But then I decided to keep Cloud's name.

How the hell did you get stuck? That's not supposed to happen. You just leave, dude.
Well I can't exactly remember, lol. I mean this was about *thinks* 7 years ago. :p But I lost my materia after I saved at the Yuffie scene; could I have just got it back if I walked out after that? Coz I don't know if I did. :confused: I really can't remember.

[arcanedude34]

I've never named REDXIII Nanaki, but I have named Steiner 'Rusty' and Vivi 'Puck.'

"Puck, huh? Kinda a funny name... Anyway I'm Puck!"

or something like that. ^_^