What's the story behind your character's name?

Well Geesus is a name I borrowed from a GF of mine who passed away before XIV was launched. She was someone I met while playing XI (Remora) and she was a Whm. I thought it was a funny name since Geesus pronounced the same as Jesus was a Whm and well, Jesus "cured" people. lol Since she was unable to of course play, I promised to keep the name and the job class in her honor.

Ravenheart ... I live in Baltimore, home of Edgar Allan Poe who wrote the poem The Raven and is also the name of our pro Football Team the Baltimore Ravens. Also being a huge fan of History and Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels, Dragon Lance and David Eddings books, the use of the name <insertname>heart is abundant as it is in history, Richard "the Lionheart". So threw it together and got Ravenheart.

Chocobo is named after the aircraft carrier I served on while in the Navy; Kittyhawk. I felt it appropriate as it's part of my life and adds a little fun to the game for me as well as remembrance.

My XI character's name was named after my youngest son; Eireamhon which is Gaelic and the first true "King" of all Ireland. People use to of course just call me Eire which is the Irish Gaelic for the name of the island of Ireland.

Opabinia is a freaky sea creature of the Cambrian age (Dutch: Cambrium) with some special properties like 5 eyes and a grasping 'snout'. I liked the sound of the word, and picked other Cambrian animals like Pikaia and Hallucigenia for my other kitties. But long names tend to be turned into a shorter version, creating: Pika, Hallu and Opa (which means gramps in Dutch).

Aesop - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesopus
Loved the stories as a kid, also the name of my cat.

Squaresoft - pretty self explanatory

I made it up a lil' over 10 years ago after much thinking, way back in RO (Ragnarok Online). I liked it, I stuck with it, and use it for pretty much everything online since then. Heck, even some RL friends call me Klefth sometimes instead of my real name nowadays, lol.

Jinrya Geki (Gin-re-ah Geh-key)

I have 4 characters that I couldn't decide who I like more. Goku, Cloud, Orphen, and Hayate (Dead Or Alive), one day I decided to make a character that represented them all in a way. I created a character named Ryajin Geki (Ri-ah-gin) who became my Paladin-type character. Between Templars and Wizards, I had an equal interest in both. Seeing as Orphen had the least influence in making Ryajin, I made him a younger brother. A 9 year old master wizard named Jinrya.

Yes, lazy at the time but I can't bring myself to change it. Jinrya is just Rya and Jin reversed.

Geki sounded like a cool last name to have and found out it means "Strike". As for Jinrya and Ryajin, both names only have 1 meaning. Jin means "Benevolence or flowing". Rya has no meaning. :c

My current name Babydoll comes from Sucker Punch. :) The name I normally use though and am changing to in 2.0, Cesil...has a more fun story :D

One day my little brother and I were playing FF6...and we got to the part where we had to pick a name for Celes. So I had to run upstairs for a moment and told my brother to "Just give her any name, I don't care, pick a girl one though!" We had recently finished playing FF4 (For the 100th time lol) so I came back downstairs and saw he named her Cesil. I was like what is Cesil supposed to be...you meant C E C I L from FF4!? He goes NO ITS CESIL...its the girly way to spell Cecil! So...yeah..that kind of stuck with me. :D

and my last name...I got it from Selphie's ability in FF8 lol.

When I was a little kid, I used to love coming up with songs. One I came up with was a lullaby, but I couldn't write it down at that age so slowly forgot all but one line of it: moon beams and crystal dreams.

As a teenager, I was trying to come up with a nickname for an email account and many of the more traditional sounding names had already been taken. In frustration, and stubbornly refusing to add random numbers to my names, I tried to think of what wouldn't be taken and would never be taken by someone else so I could use it all over the place and not run into a me-1234. I decided to go with an acronym, but of what? Just as I asked myself that question, the old line from the long forgotten lullaby popped into my head. I went with n for and because I was a teenager and I considered 'n' for and cool XD Ever since, I've been mbncd.

After a while, I was coming across sites asking for my "real name" and I didn't want to give that information out (FaceBook and the like didn't exist back then, people were more careful with their private information) so I had to some up with a vaguely realistic name as mbncd just didn't cut it for that sort of question. I didn't want to come up with and learn a whole new name though so I just took the easy way out and used the last two words from the same line, calling myself Crystal Dreams.

I've been mbncd or Crystal Dreams for so long now that it feels odd when someone calls me by my birth name. I'm more likely to look up if someone says something that sounds like "em bee" or "Chris". I don't like being called by my full nicknames by friends as it seems impersonal; like mb is more friendly then mbncd and Crys is more friendly than Crystal. I don't recognise other variations like mbn or Cry though.

That's the long and probably boring tale of my name(s) ;P

Noblewar doesn't refer to me being "Noble Rich" and the "Warrior" class.

I created this name in XI when I was 16, now I'm 26! Back in the day I didn't know what MMO's were about, well the only thing I could think of was that I wanted to be that toon to always focus on helping and protecting the poor. Of course that still hasn't been the case with any MMO I've played lol. I expected a more action type of experience and what I had in mind was mobs chasing poor or untrained people and me going to save them.

My name fit well in the main stories but not so much in the general questing parts. The lore of my character is mostly helping people who need help, want help and always stand in front of them to be able to shield them.

Mine is Naraku Diabolos. My character on FFXIV is based upon the looks and name of my FFXI one, the blonde spiky haired Elvaan, Naraku. I'm a fan of InuYasha, so Naraku is the villain. It means "hell" in Japanese. I was on the Diabolos server, so I used that as the last name. Basically I'm "hell devil."

My other character on FFXI was a secondary and/or mule named Hayley. She's named after my favorite singer, Hayley Westenra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Westenra http://www.hayleywestenra.com/ I will be making a character on ARR named after her, so she'll be a Bard. I also plan on naming a daughter once I have children named Hayley, too (Hayley Oceana, Oceana because I love the ocean).

My chocobo on Version 1.0 is named Avalon, as there is a music brand that I like called Avalon Music (they make really great CD albums; you can find them and the Solitudes, LifeScapes, and Reflections brands in places such as Hallmark, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, museums, aquariums, and even Busch Gardens).

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Originally Posted by Babydoll

My current name Babydoll comes from Sucker Punch. :) The name I normally use though and am changing to in 2.0, Cesil...has a more fun story :D

One day my little brother and I were playing FF6...and we got to the part where we had to pick a name for Celes. So I had to run upstairs for a moment and told my brother to "Just give her any name, I don't care, pick a girl one though!" We had recently finished playing FF4 (For the 100th time lol) so I came back downstairs and saw he named her Cesil. I was like what is Cesil supposed to be...you meant C E C I L from FF4!? He goes NO ITS CESIL...its the girly way to spell Cecil! So...yeah..that kind of stuck with me. :D

and my last name...I got it from Selphie's ability in FF8 lol.

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Loved Sucker Punch. It's one of the few movies I own a hard copy of.

Ksenia?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0989959/

Usually it's Ioci and I have an Ioci in FF14. She is a random gen name from SWG and has been in every MMO I play.