What's the story behind your name?

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Originally Posted by Illmaeran

I love Wagakki Band, good choice of names.

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Thanks

It's a so good band mixing Rock, Traditional Japanese musical instrument and Shigin (traditional performance of reciting Japanese & Chinese poem).

More Shigin: Queen of the Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoY5f979VtM

Strong Fate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyuzfQkUlyY


More Rock: Senbonzakura:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_xTet06SUo

Sun Wheel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr7oHjMXpgs


And Hanafugetsu is more traditionnal, composed of 3 core group members Suzuhana Yuko, Kaminaga Daisuke (shakuhachi) and Ibukuro Kiyoshi (koto):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMIv2lBF_w


Good discovery

Wagakki Band is great. Their performances together with Amy Lee are also very interesting.


As for my name, quite simple. First name is directly from Escaflowne. Last name is also from Escaflowne, but with 1 letter changed because I think it sounds better considering the character in Escaflown is a princess of Asturia (so Astor I feel makes more sense than Aston)

My name is simple, its the name of my Fursona. Yes, I'm a furry! And my fursona is really just the Furry me but I wasn't about to use my RL name... Mind I have about 3-7 alts I play in addition each with different reasons for their names.. My male lala is named after my deceased rl friends D&D character (Ilither), My female lala is named after my grandmother (Crystal-also deceased), My Miqo female named after the cat my sister and I had(Tishaba) My Hrothgar after a cartoon character (Kimba the White Lion- Kimba Snow) and my soon-to-be Bunny boy named after an anime character (Carrot Glace-Sorcerer Hunters), Elric Melinbone (My Au'Ra, after Michael Moorcock's character of the same name) and finally One named Luna Silvanyte, named after the guildmaster of the first MMO I played, Ever Quest, Lunasilva

BTW, yes, 1/2 of them have finished the MSQ and are ready for EW... well.. almost 4.. Ilither still has a few SHB quests to wrap up, but is essentially done.

Anyone who knows me can tell you about the long list of stupid usernames I've had over the years. 'Negative Space' and 'The Flow of Space' are the most recent ones, though one I only really use when the other isn't available for whatever reason.

The former came from an artsy friend of mine who said the art concept of 'negative space' fit my personality, and it stuck even though I'm not that artsy.

The latter came from when I was making a Twitch account, but NegativeSpace and Negative_Space were obviously already taken. What else do I like? Nature. What does nature tend to do? I dunno, flow? I was not completely sober at the time, but The_Flow_of_Space was chosen. (Note: Not a plug, I don't stream)

And now I use one or the other for almost everything online. When I first joined FFXIV, I saw that you could have a first and last name, and so the Rogaedyn known as Negative Space was born.

Fitting, because a lot of people just refer to me as Negative, and I can't get enough of being called Mr. Space.

I like ffix, like a lot, so Burmecia.

tl;dr bunch of words which i thought looked cool, stolen and made into character names

Let's see. My most played characters in ShB. I have no fantasia problem but instead I have alt problem, some of which I'll level up and gear properly, and some which I just don't

Garekin Hargal: literally my first character in the game, literally just some cool looking nonsense. Since he is sun-miqo I could change his name to G'arekin Tia or something, but for now he is just gonna stay like that.
Found the name from one of those 'here's some names!' sites, which literally described it like: "Old Armenian name of unknown meaning."

Ikaruga Kurai: I had a phase where I named a bunch of alts after birds, but sneakily. The name actually has connection to the shoot-em-up vg which I never played, as wiki mentions this bit of trivia about the game: "Ikaruga is the Japanese name for the Japanese grosbeak, a bird species." - Wikipedia

When I retired that first Ika, who was raen au'ra and begun raiding as xaela au'ra, my static of the time gave me idea to namechange back to Ika, because the name Ika generally had become the name everyone called me in raiding context. But since the au'ra was xaela now instead of raen it had to be "dark Ika".

Jitah'li Habhoka: RP character with RP-like name. Since moon-miqo NPCs have ffxi reference names left and right, his last name is just grabbed from ffxi too.

V'arekai Tia: RP character for private rp on infinite hiatus, but I bought him a house in ShB, so he was important enough for me to go through that house buying nonsense. Just another cool random word I learned from Cirque du Soleil's touring production, named Varekai. "Its title means "wherever" in the Romani language." - Wikipedia.

First rl name is Doc...Seraph I just yanked from the sky lol kupo :p

I'm sure I commented this before, but I can't find it in the old posts, so I 'll comment again. and Add all my Mains, and important Alts.


For starters, the Post ID name: "GothicShark" Well it's legally my Middle Name ( My Legal Name is R**** Mary Gothic Shark W**** I put Gothic Shark into my legal name as I was doing a legal name change as a part of my transition. ) Gothic is my aesthetic, music, and way of thinking about life the universe and everything. Shark relates to my time in the USMC when I was in Force Recon in the Early 90s I was a "Shark in the Water" and it became a nickname at that time.

Character Names:

Most my Characters have been named Mary or a version of Mary ie Mariel, Marielle, Marhiel, Marhielle...etc. This relates to why my middle name is Mary. Both my Grandmothers were Mary. It's simple and I wanted to give the maternal side of my family more credit.


Main Characters:


Marielle Sansoleil
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...acter/11396447
Mary Sunless. My Elezen was named using Elezen naming conventions. Her first name is the overly complex French version of Mary, and her Last name is from French Sans Soleil. Sans = Without, Soleil= Sun.

Mary Jigoku
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/29818998/

Mary Hell. My Au Ra, Mary -> Mariel -> Marhiel -> Mary Hell -> Mary Jigoku (Hell in Japanese).

Caitlyn'bhump Aliapoh
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/29836232/
Ok this is a bit more complicated. Long ago in an MMO lost in time City of Heroes, I had made an Alt that was purely for random fun, I closed my eyes hit Random 3 times, hit accept name used a random name method. (Head to keyboard) The character was a black skinned Cat Girl in a bright Yellow Pirate Costume while being a Katana Scrapper. Jokenly I RP'd her as a Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirl aka (S.P.A.N.C.) yes the Silly Card Game. For fun any game with catgirls afterwards I would make her as a house Joke. But last year as Cabin Fever started, I decided to write a fan fiction in FFXIV using Bhump as the MC. So I decided to make a Lore fitting name. So I renamed Bhump to Caitlyn Aliapoh, putting Bhump as her Nick Name. Aliapoh as it's the most common Keeper last name, and Caitlyn because "Cat" is the common nick name for Caitlyn. So you can call her "Cat Bump" as her nick name.

RP: She's an Isekai transgender Catgirl. Born in 2030 in the Bay Area, to North African and Latin parents, Azeem Garcia lived in a world that was dying, the Phantoms had all but killed most life on Earth. Azeem went to bed one night with his husband and woke the next day in a wagon heading to Ul'dah.

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Main Alts -

Mary Winter
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/11423404/
Me IRL as a Ninja Maid - Femro because I'm tall and look like a Femro IRl, Winter because it's my favorite time of year.

Mary Wintere
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/37934312/
Me as a Black Mage, same as Mary Winter on a different server.


Mehy Gumine
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/39216328/
Konosuba Megumin - I Even made a Macro that has her cast Flare with a long speech and then pass out as soon as it hits a target.


Bhump Dabhump
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/12886768/
Bhump in her Yellow Glory. Just saying she's kind of perfect, and random.


Ashett Tholl
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/22837444/
I wanted a Dwarf from the first, I wanted an NB RP Dwarf from the First, I wanted them to be able to enter the Dwarf house, and do a proper Lali-ho! Their name was specifically designed to be Lore Correct and gender neutral. Helmets on, Ale is consumed, adventure awaits.


Saroirse Ban'draoithe
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/22837683/
Saoirse = Irish for Freedom, Ban-Draoithe = Irish for Wise Woman. The idea is her name means she is a Free Wise Woman. RP - Female Irish James Bond.

Smashing the random name button in Everquest until I came across something I didn't immediately hate. It sorta stuck as I moved from game to game with the same group of people.

Chanze came from when the first time I went healer in wow they said they would take a chance on me and well that stuck as my priest name.
Leigh came from what my son's name would have been if he was a girl.
Lexie is another one of my healer names from wow just because I love that name.

I tried to give my character a name I use in a few other games but the man wouldn't let me so I chose the next coolest name possible.