Who actually named her Dagger?

[Arylett Dawnsborough]

I mostly also keep default names in FFs. So it was always Dagger. Except for these two times where I named her Arylett because I was naming the characters after characters in an RP of mine. I really liked that word and the way it sounded since I first played the game anyway, so that's also why I kept it.

[MJN SEIFER]

You know that she was a princess right and everyone on that continent knew her name?

Yeah, I get why the "Dagger" storyline was done, but the danger of people realizing she was Garnet never really surfaced, and when it did, it was characters who would never have been fooled by a false name anyway. I probably wouldn't have minded if she didn't a "default flase name", and we could just decide what to call her if we chose to - the fact that Zidane just so happened to drop his dagger seemed too contrived, and the scene was basically "I will be known as this random object I just picked up from now on" (one person did a photoshop of that scene where Zidane drops a condom, so Garnet gets called that, showing how silly the scene is). It's just, a storyline where a character has to hide her idenity with a false name is a nice idea on paper, but it just never worked in my eyes, and at best should have been something attempted in one moment, and then forgotten. The fact that Zidane still called her Dagger (SPOILER)in the ending just made an otherwise beutiful and romantic scene look stupid, unless we're meant to assume that as they both chose the name it's supposed to have a deeper meaning or something (like it's a special nickname or something).

[Jiro]

supposed to have a deeper meaning or something (like it's a special nickname or something).

That was the point. To Zidane, Garnet was not Princess or Queen Garnet at any point. He didn't love the rich fancy uptown girl. He liked Dagger, the girl who worked hard at seeming common and who got up to shenanigans with him etc etc. This is most evident when he gets hammered when Garnet ascends then throne. He's not interested in that trout.

[Kyros]

Its not like I looked at the name often anyway since Eiko's a billion times the character in battle Garnet wishes she could be.

[Gamblet]

Its not like I looked at the name often anyway since Eiko's a billion times the character in battle Garnet wishes she could be.

Garnet has Odin.

I always pick my party for the looks and stuff, not the best characters. Garnet's trance outfit looks good.

[Jiro]

How often would you see Trance mode Garnet though? I think I've seen it twice, ever xD

[Depression Moon]

Yeah, I think on average I get it once per playthrough.

[Gamblet]

Hmm, I got it at least 5 or 6 times on my last playthrough.

[Wolf Kanno]

I changed it to Garnet once just cause I like screwing with games like that. It was especially amusing in Chrono Trigger cause four of the seven cast members don't go by their real names. I didn't think changing her name to Garnet was as amusing. On the one hand I never cared for the name "Dagger" which is why I've always tried to refer to her as Garnet only, but I'm also too lazy to change her name and outside of insults, I can't think of anything fitting for her.

[Freya]

To be honest. Chansey is the best name.



Also Pierre is much frenchier of a name than Zidane.

[Gamblet]

To be honest. Chansey is the best name.



Also Pierre is much frenchier of a name than Zidane.

Oh noes! THE Pierre from Chrono Cross? *hides in the bushes*

[Jiro]

I'm gonna make a bold and completely unresearched claim right now, so everybody hold onto your hats.

There is no better frenchman than Zinedine Zidane. The man headbutted a sucka for talking smack and got a high five off the French Prime Minister or President or whatever they have. Pierre is a pussy name in comparison to the French hero Zidane.

(Pierre sounds Frenchier though, I'll give you that.)

[Freya]

Yeah but THIS Zidane doesn't headbutt people. To compare them to each other is just kinda mean.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I called her Dirk (alternate word for dagger) one time, but in subsequent playthroughs I've just kept it as Dagger. I usually don't change the names of characters anymore - there's something more authentic about keeping the names the developers chose.

[ReloadPsi]

I'd totally date a girl named after a small, deadly weapon. I'd also fear her, but I'd totally date her.

I called her Dirk (alternate word for dagger) one time, but in subsequent playthroughs I've just kept it as Dagger. I usually don't change the names of characters anymore - there's something more authentic about keeping the names the developers chose.

Dirk is an actual boy's name. No, it really is.