Naming Your Characters

[arcanedude34]

Coming up with stuff on the spot. It's how I got names like Danim, Bins, Vasil...

Sometimes I'll name them something that means something. For example, Terra and Celes are meant to contrast in almost every way, so I usually give them some kind of naming scheme that in (Jade/Ruby, Violet/Indigo, etc,)

Play through Chrono Trigger with Marle named Nadia, Frog named Glenn, Robo named R66-Y, Magus as Janus... it gets funny at points.

[Breine]

I don't know, I just try to come up with names that I think suit the character I'm naming.

[Yeargdribble]

Some people have poor foresight when planning MMO character names. Always hated seeing someone in FFXI whose name was "Healeroflight" who was playing something like Dark Knight as their main. This happened soooo often. XxAssassinxx would be a White Mage obviously.

Happens also in WoW with people ending up playing a totally different spec even though they obviously planned to play one that matched their name. Flamesthatscorch playing a frost spec Mage... /sigh


EDIT: Oh... and an addendum. Making a partial sentence into a name is effin' lame. It's also harder to make the above mistake if you actually pick a name. Names like "Imeltfaces" are so friggin' retarded. Sometimes they may have some irony value, but usually you can tell they are just made by some 13 year-old jack@**. More often than not people will these types of crappy names are the types that feel good about themselves for sitting around one-shotting people who are 60 or more levels lower than them to make them feel better about their tiny little e-penis.

[Bunny]

Oh... and an addendum. Making a partial sentence into a name is effin' lame. It's also harder to make the above mistake if you actually pick a name. Names like "Imeltfaces" are so friggin' retarded. Sometimes they may have some irony value, but usually you can tell they are just made by some 13 year-old jack@**. More often than not people will these types of crappy names are the types that feel good about themselves for sitting around one-shotting people who are 60 or more levels lower than them to make them feel better about their tiny little e-penis.

They are also against the terms of service for WoW and I make a point to report them whenever I see one.

[Yeargdribble]

Ooooh... I thought that was only true on RP servers... if it's true everywhere that's good to know.

It's still too bad you can use any bastardized form of Legolas (or something similar) that you like. Really hate seeing these.

[ljkkjlcm9]

Jackel, Kaine, Leonard, Kailah, Sarah, Skylash.... or any combination of those names usually serves me pretty well.

THE JACKEL

[Blue Harvest]

I use my one of my screen names or nicknames. My Warrior on Oblivion is named Anduril (username on another forum)

[Sephex]

Well, before I used Sephex as a screen name, this was my original name I use (and still use) for main characters/profiles/file names if a game lets you do that.

However, when playing Castlevania games, I have to name the file "J-Dawg". I don't know why.

[smittenkitten]

I keep them linked to my username smittenkitten so smitten, smitzy and so on. ^__^ I try all those three and if no luck then I just think of names I like for example Terabithia.

[Garnie]

Garnie!

It's always been Garnie! Unless someone has taken it then its
Garnz

[Iceglow]

I have generally used the names:

Beoran (mix of viking/tolkein's elvish)
Lasuria (made up by myself)
Iceglow (my nick)

In guild wars I have several characters my main ones are called "Marilith Exodus" and "Kailas Stormborn"

[Quindiana Jones]

I use my one of my screen names or nicknames. My Warrior on Oblivion is named Anduril (username on another forum)

Anduril as in Flame of the West? That's tres cool, monsieur bleu.

[Markus. D]

I like to include in names:

Hinanai, Calyce, Bernelli, Idge and Adelina.

[Blue Harvest]

I use my one of my screen names or nicknames. My Warrior on Oblivion is named Anduril (username on another forum)

Anduril as in Flame of the West? That's tres cool, monsieur bleu.

Yep.

[Carl the Llama]

It normally depends on what im reading at the time I name the character but sometimes I just think of random names, for instance now im playing FFVII again iv named Cloud as Endless (for some reason I always end up naming him that) Barret as Chase and Tifa as Valkyria, when I name Aerith I'll name her Valhalla, havent decided what ill name the rest yet.

In MMO's I ted to try all the usual names only to find them already taken, although suppriseingly I managed to name my character Pug on a new game iv been trying out. That aside I will sometimes come up with a very obscure reference to a program or book like in wow my Warlock is called Jazizikiki, which to date (almost 4 years now) only 2 people have know where the name originates.