What's the story behind your name?

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Originally Posted by Kakurady

I've had a few people got excited about the name "Mango Durango", and it's a little embarrassing since it came literally in an hour... I found the generated names not grand enough for an RPG protagonist, and after asking a few friends, apparently Lalafell PCs have this food theme going on. Luckily, plainsfolk have the least restrictive canonical name pattern, so the name is almost lore friendly, but had I known better I might have picked something with less real world references - but then, it wouldn't be as cute.

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To elaborate a bit more: previously when I created characters for MMORPGs I went for whatever sounded nice. "Kakurady" is partly that, and partly inspired by Pokkle, the protagonist of Zwei: The Arges Adventure.

Having went by some variation on "Kakurady" since grade seven, I've decided to use a more meaningful name for my first (and so far, only) FFXIV character. "Mango" is the cute first name, which keeps the food theme, while "Durango" would be the more serious last name used for more formal occasions.

As a bonus, it's reasonably pronounceable in Japanese and fit the AB CB name pattern for male plainsfolk lalafells.

Riku is for the MTG card Riku of two Reflections and Reinhart because it's alliteration and sounds nice.

I have a bunch of names that I've been using in MMOs and TT games for over 20 years, none of them mean anything. They just sound like they would fit in the world, nothing else.

I love hearing everyone's story

Honestly, back in middle-school I'd played around with making my own comic. Super cringe now, but I'd planned on having this character being an ancient holy warrior or templar, who wound up in modern-day. The character was going to have Celtic origins, so I chose the name "Daemon Gildas"; Gildas meaning "He who serves God", and Daemon having two radically different meanings; one is "Demon", and other is "Guardian". So depending on context, you could read it as "Demon who serves God", or "Guardian who serves God".

For some reason, I just wound up reusing the name over the years. What's ironic is I don't actually LIKE the name very much; I just can't really think of anything better.

The name I WISH I could use, is simply "Terin". Back in the days of the SNES, my dad bought Mystic Quest (for himself, not necessarily for me). It was one of the coolest-looking games I'd ever seen! But I couldn't read (I think I was 4, slow to learn to read), so I'd try playing the game learning to read as I went.

Well one day, I accidentally save over my dad's save-file. In hindsight, I think he'd probably just stopped playing the game, but at the time I was FREAKING OUT he was going to kill me!!! So I tried to remember what his character's name was -- again, I still couldn't read well, but I could kind of remember the shapes of some of the letters. So I created a new file, and starting playing all the time, hoping to catch his save-file back up, so he wouldn't notice. The name my dad ACTUALLY had been using was "Tyrone", but I like to think I came admirably close, with "Terin". And so, I use the name "Terin" in virtually every RPG I'm able. Problem is... I don't have a good "last name" to pair it with.

There was one MMO I played back in like 2000 called "Asheron's Call". Because the name "Terin" had been taken, I'd somehow landed on the name "Terin Gigaslash" -- I was like 12, cut me some slack. It's one of those names that's "so bad, it almost seems kind of endearing", at least to me. I've thought about name-changing to that, but... honestly, I really like Lore-friendly names when I play RPG's now. My original Miqo'te Monk, I wound up calling "Desmond Tia". And granted, "Desmond" isn't exactly lore-friendly, but honestly, it just *looked* like that would be his name.

I love the Xaela's lore and naming conventions, but I just couldn't land on a Tribe that would make sense for my Warrior of Light. And besides, if for some reason I ever DID decide to race-change my dude, I'd like a name my friends could still recognize me. So I'm kinda leaning towards something with "Terin" again. Just not sure on a last-name. "Gigaslash" sucks, but I remember pondering how surprisingly similar it sounded to "Gilgamesh", wondered if that would be any less cringey?

Valamist = The first fictional character I created when I started writing properly. If memory recalls, he was a gay demon who wanted to be more like humans.

Hurlstone = An old family name which has unfortunately been lost now. I like to keep it going in games and fiction.

I am a hrothgar, of the lost.

My name needs no explanation. No queen, no horn.

Endwalker is bringing in some new faces.
If any of you are up for sharing the story behind your name I'd love to read about it~

I made my moon kitty here during an All Saint's Wake event so I wanted to make a Halloween kitty. Black hair, pumpkin eyes, boom boom magic.

Licorice because it's black candy. And I watched an anime with a character whose name was Licorice and I thought it was really cute.

Nightshade for deadly nightshade which is another name for the belladonna plant.

I got a pretty simple answer to this one. My name was actually a name I came up with long before I started playing this game, which I believe was a month after shadowbringers first coming out.

Pandora being based on the greek mythology of pandora's box, and the box being considered an object of great curiosity, just that raw need on knowing things, since I'm a very nosey person and tend to be too curious for my own good it suits me.

Nychta just means night in greek I just wanted to literally go ham on the greek based words. Sorta stuck that way since, occasionally I wanted to make my name more realistic to miqo'te standards like p'dora or something but it's honestly way too much effort given how the tribes are with miqote so I just based it around something else to make it work.

That's the story of my goofy name, People usually call me Pandie or Panda (I hate being called a panda but I just roll with it now) and it's been like this ever since.