Names?

[Marky Tee]

well for lack of anything better to do im gonna play through again and usualy i jus stick to the default names

but might aswell change the names this time eh?
and as i suck at coming up with anything interesting or imaginitive any of you guys got funny,insulting,interesting or downright daft names?

[TheSpoonyBard]

Vivi must be called Bates.

[trancekuja]

Steiner could be Rusty. Amarant could be Sideshow Bob. Zidane could be Monkey Butt. I'm done. Phew.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Zidane: Blank
Vivi: No. 288
Garnet: Brahne
Steiner: Beatrix
Freya: Fratley
Quina: Quale
Eiko: Mog
Salamander: Lani

I only set them to this using the Namingway guy when I got bored of looking at their default names while grinding Grand Dragons, but I guess it could make a few scenes nice and confusing if you used them from the start.

I also change Garnet's name to Sarah after making that revelation at Madain Sari, even though it kind of screws up the whole "Bring my beloved Dagger to me" line in the ending. :dagger:

[Heath]

In my last playthrough I renamed Dagger as Garnet because I'd really grown to dislike the name Dagger, regardless of its symbolism.

Otherwise, I'm a boring sod and tend to keep them as their defaults. I'm pretty sure Nemesis the Warlock mentioned in the past that he would name Amarant 'Bumrash' so that he would introduce himself as 'The Flaming Bumrash.'

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

In my last playthrough I renamed Dagger as Garnet because I'd really grown to dislike the name Dagger, regardless of its symbolism.

I did this my very first time through the game, following the lead of a couple other people at EoFF. Again, it kind of muddled the symbolism, but "Dagger" just hadn't grown on me yet.

[Freya]

I can't stand the name Dagger, I always change that one.

One time I named everyone their default names backward.

Zidane = Enadiz
Dagger = Reggad
Vivi = Iviv
Steiner = Reniets

Etc, etc

Also when I was younger I named Salamander, Homo so he'd be The Flaming Homo.

[G13]

Vivi must be called Bates.

I see what you did there. :exdee:

[Marky Tee]

might name amarang queen so that his is The Flaming Queen

wee Family Guy reference there :P

[Lacarus]

I usually name Amarant Red. Could be fun to call him Lips, though.

[oblivion161]

I didn't like the name Dagger, so I renamed her Garnet.

[Croyles]

Ill just tell you what I named mine:
Zidane: Zuzu
Vivi: Vivi (cause him and his name are too cool)
Garnet: Vahjaja
Steiner: Tetanus
Freya: Cecile
Quina: G. 4Man (:D)
Eiko: Mijminj
Amarant: (o.O) ?

[aquatius]

The most I ever do is change Freya to Freja.

[Shotgunnova]

I mostly stick with defaults but sometimes I get on weird kicks where I pick weird names: Lithium, Truce, Magna, etc. Of course, pocketing that Namingway card for future revisions is always a good idea. Pretty fun to load up old saves and see what kind of renaming went on back then.

[Crimson]

I usually name rename Quina to Shaq.

[Breine]

I usually go by the defaults nowadays, but I did play one game several years ago with other names:

Zidane = Nadim
Vivi = Tsu
Garnet = Duariel


... and those are the only ones I remember. Coming up with names can be fun.

[IXVI]

Zidane - Soljin
Vivi - IXVI
Garnet - Jessica/Jesse
Eiko - Zyk.
Amarant - Dirk
Steiner - Ruvyn
Freya - ....TBA, i forgot...

[Calarandir]

Any combination where a main character get's the name of someone to do with them could make a lot of scenes funny, such as changing Zidane's name to Kuja or Quina's name to Quale.

[Levian]

Ugh yeah, I always change Dagger also. I remember changing Vivi's name to Poe my first time around too. :D Only names I never change are Freya and Quina, those are pretty good.

[IXVI]

OH! I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT QUINA, LMAO. Well, I named Quina - Tu'Quai. I named amarant after my brother because that's his favorite.

[sir helix]

What i used on my first play though

zidane- Kora
vivi- Orcoe
steiner- Shiro
garnet- Dagger
freya- Dreia
quina- Naminon
eiko- Zelly
amarent

[IXVI]

zellys the name of my girlfriends cat

[Bolivar]

Never ever ever change the names. I think it's something that's outlasted its usefulness as RPG's have actually matured into meaningful stories instead of cliche generic takes on high fantasy.

[Black Magic Shopkeeper]

Ahhahaha. I remember all too well what I named the characters.

Zidane - Lysol
Garnet/Dagger - Febreze
Vivi - 409 (I hadn't intended it to be so similar to the BMs at the time. It was TOTALLY a surprise and a laugh for me the first time around.)
Quina - Tilex
Steiner - Oust
Eiko - Windex
Amarant - (the flaming) Pine-Sol