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

A lot of mine were just made up. Trelose Avakiri, one of my alts, actually came from a character I made in Aion, a name which I made up! I think Avakiri came from too much Oblivion. I realized about a month after I made him how much his name sounded like Akaviri. >.>

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

My rep name is a play of letters with my favorite female Final Fantasy character, Rikku. I switched around the "u" and "i" and then added "rii" to it because it sounded fancy. Thus Rukkirii was born! (pronounced: Roo keer ree)

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Yru (Yura) supports the name Rukkirii (Rikku).

I liked the idea of the Band of Seven from Inuyasha. (Wasn't a fan of the series but I did watch it becauase adult swim and such) So in another old mmo where you could create affiliations and gang up on people, we created our names using their style. Bonkotsu is the only one I remember. It's been this way for years.

The Story about my name.. Well, When I was playing Suikoden Tiekreis, (first playthough) The Term "Mark of the Stars" was used in reference to the 108 people (Stars) that will save the world from destruction, and I ( the Leader of the Stars) was there to guide them to Victory, Thus my name then became "Starlord".

in my case Kaizuko (means pirate i switched the u and o looks better lol) cause im a big One Piece fan since it came out, and Hakupac was my FFXI name

thus !!!.. thats it.

There is a small story for each of my names.

Sevokevo

14 years ago, when I was 10 years old, back when there was only Dial up internet in the town where I live in (That I live in still to this day), you had to have a name that was not our RL name that my mother said.... When she told me this i was time for bed... while in bed I was pondering a name that I could remember that made since... My RL name is Kevin..... So I was thinking of what could be good... then it clicked.... Seven Kevin........ Sevokevo..... DING... I used that name on the internet every since...

Royuki

I wanted to make a 2nd character on FFXI because I fell out of sync with my Elvaan... I felt more of wanting to be a Tarutaru more then my Elvaan.... I also wanted that Tarutaru to be a PLD because I fell in love with the way the tarutraus look in Adaman Gear (I don't fully remember the name of the exact gear)... SO I wanted to make a name that meant Strong will... or something in that nature... Then I though about back in the move "The Ant Bully" where at the end the Queen of the Ants gave Lucas a Ant name that meant Strong will... or strong heart... I did not go into research to get the name correct so I just took a crack at the name myself and that is where I came up with Royuki.

My brother made a youtube account that had Mud spelled as Mudd
I ended up using his youtube name for my FF11 character in 07
Shortened it to Mudd for simplicities sake
and later added Vader at the end for availability, since Mudd is often taken.
Don't really remember what drove me to choose Vader though. I'm not a massive star wars fan or anything.

Jho was my first long-term FFXI character and who my current character is modeled after, her name was generated by the FFXI Mithra name random generator and I chopped off letters until I liked how it looked and sounded. Stumps was my last long-term FFXI character, and he was a Taru so that ought to be self explanatory.

One of my favorite single player games is Alice: Madness Returns so I picked Alice Liddel as my name. Though I wish Liddel was spelled Liddell instead because that is the correct spelling.

Tsuwu was my name back on Alexander in FFXI.
(I might be re-activating my XI account after 3 years, so if anyone is on Shiva, say hi!)
The random-name generator popped it up for me, I thought it was catchy and fit how Tarutarus sound, so I went with it.
Turns out it has some sort of urban gang significance...not my intent, at all.

Woodshire was my second choice of surname. I wanted to pick Alexander, since that was my XI server, but due to some complications when I was first registering my copy of XIV back on 9/21/10, I was unable to. In essence, I wasn't allowed to use that name because that name was reserved for me.
So, I picked Woodshire, because it got with the RP lore for my character.

This thread brought me out of hiding, just to reply. Lurked for about a year and a half now.

Reference to Ahri from league of legends which the add skin name. I find foxfire to be a nice name but forced to add a last name i always come up with no idea.

Even with the possible rename we might just get i want to change it but then again.. last name no idea.

I'm Spanish and I usually enjoy a smoke while playing (I know, awful habit... Don't smoke, kids!), so I chose the Spanish word for "smoke" (Humo) in the sense of the result of smoking, not the action of smoking itself. I dropped the H 'cause I like short names.
On the other hand, I'm a fan of Icelandic band Sigur Rós and they released a documentary film named "Heima", which translates into "At home", thus UMO HEIMA ("Smoke at home") was born :)

PS. Once more, kids, smoking is harmful!!!

I used the name "Slice Braver" in a story created to do an amatorial RPG.
Slice because the main character is a swordmaster, Braver from his main virtue and to remember the famous skill from FFVII.

(like an AA meeting) Hi my name is Behemoth, and I am a King. :p

I was sitting in high school in my 3rd year trying to think what I could call my FFXI character. I was playing DOA and used Kasumi quite alot. (obvious choice ;) ). Also was half way through FFX and got Aurons best weapon Masamune,

Combined the 2 names together to Kasumune....but added an 'i' to the end since I was a taru. So Kasumuni....

Everyone called me Kasu or Kas......so I split the name up for FFXIV.

Hence Kasu Muni the Taru

I remember playing a game called Requiem for the PC a LONG time ago, and the main character's name was Malachi, which was also the name of the final prophet in the Old Testament(I used to be a big Catholic back then). Since I was just getting on the internet at the time, I needed a handle, and Malachi was a natural fit. But then I decided I needed a little more pizazz, so I changed the 'ch' for a 'k' to Malaki. After that however I noticed that on many places the name was taken, so I decided to jazz it up even further by making it sound more like Nephilim(which is another biblical creature) to Malakhim, and so a start is born.

Estelle is a nod to my XI character Stellie, who would've been called Stella or Stellili had they not been taken at the time. Rather than use the exact same name for my XIV lala I thought it would be best to turn a new leaf, what with it being a new world and all, while trying to keep some ties to a game I greatly enjoyed.

Apart from the hair and eye colour, Estelle is designed from head to toe to emulate my XI taru; albeit being derpier than her ancestor. Though that could be arguable lol.

I played FFXI from 2004 until FFXIV went live. On Seraph I named my main Stahn and my alt Dymlos. The names are referenced from 2 characters from a game I played called Tales of Destiny. As soon as FFXIV went live I created both characters with the same name I used in FFXI but I included their last name on FFXIV, Stahn Aileron and Dymlos Timber.

The name Luna has the meaning of moon, which is reflected in my characters quiet relaxed personality and reflected in her last name. (The moon is said to guide and pull the tides of the ocean.) My name was also loosely based off of FF10. Yuna, is also a main character in FFX which was my favorite Final Fantasy game and where I was introduced into the series. Ironic, as sometimes in-game people would typo on my name and call me Yuna. Yuna was also a magic wielder in 10. -Minor spoiler alert- Yuna was the high summoner who could wield summons, and one of her companions and another main character in the game was Tidus. I always pronounced his name Tide-us.

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Originally Posted by Biggs

(like an AA meeting) Hi my name is Behemoth, and I am a King. :p

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Wait your not a Behemoth King, where is your purple fur and white mane? XD

This is the back story I had created for My character during the "Team Hair" vs "Team Stache" feud with Krausus Dracul waaay back in My early days with Seraphim on Mysidia.I apologize in advance for the long post.



A long time ago,in a galaxy far far away...That's a different story,for another time.As the story goes, our journey begins in the land of Eorzea off the coast of La Noscea, where the Grimlock family was on vacation.Out at sea on their vessel "Cait sith's Luck" when they where caught in the middle of a terrible storm.The only survivor was the young Grimlock child who was found stranded with the ships wreckage by the Dread Pirate Weasley.Now keep in mind that in those days DPW was a man to be feared,but yet he sensed something in the young lalafell and took him in as part of his crew on "The Pirate Ship Revenge".

Many years are have said to passed and Grimlock had become one of the most respected axe men in all the land.One cold dreary night the pirate ship revenge was attacked by a band of rouge pirates,intent on stealing the ship for themselves.Out of the corner of his eye,Grimlock saw a Roegadyn weilding an axe enter the Captains chambers,fearing He was too late Grimlock rushed in after him where he was greeted with a swing of the axe that cut right through our hero's mighty beard,like a clean shave to the chin.Grimlock watched as what was his beard fell to the floor,then back up...into the assassins eye's.The assasin now frozen in his track's was petrified not only because his blow had missed,but he had revealed the most glorious MOUSTACHE the land had ever known.His gaze was broken only by Grimlock's axe...which now was buried inside of the assassin's skull.Grimlock now rushed over to his captain's side,but it was as he feared the assassin had got to him first,but in his dying breath DPW said to Grimlock"My God,What a glorious stache!!!you shall be feared and respected by all...With that I leave you my ship...CAPTAIN GRIMLOCK" and then he was gone.

Years after assuming command Captan Grimlock discovered a chest in his captain's quarters labeled "Cait Sith's Luck" apon opening the chest he found some remnants of his past,which he had long forgot,including his fathers adventure's journal from the great city of Ul'dah.He thought to Himself..."Now the Adventure begins. Shortly after reaching Ul'dah the Captain partnered with a young Pugilist by the name of David Banner who was growing in reputation as "Hulk" together hulk and the Captain joined the ranks of Seraphim, a prestigious linkshell from what they had heard.Everyone in Seraphim welcomed The Captain with open arms,except one...Krausus Dracul,who hid his jealousy of the Captain because before "THE STACHE" arrived he had the best hair the linkshell ...possibly even all Eorzea. Now there is only one choice left to make;team hair or...
TEAM STACHE!!!

Not much to it.. Pretty random I guess.
I wanted a name with "lyn" in it because of an important person. I've always wanted to use "Isa" for the start of a name.. so they just sort of came together.

Vanille was just a random name I made up ages ago as a nickname because I'm pretty obsessed with anything vanilla. :) I just like names that end in "e" better than "a."

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Originally Posted by Rahsch

Wait your not a Behemoth King, where is your purple fur and white mane? XD

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Coming in 2.0!!!

I've always wanted to see a thread like this! :D (Never did one myself though.... That would have been a good idea I guess. Oh well!)

Rex has always been a name that I like. So, I picked Rex. As for the last name, Xylon... (pronounced Z-eye-lon)..well. I looked up male names that have letters I like. Like X, or Z. I came across Xylon, which means "Wanderer of the Forest"..and thought it was fitting because I had chosen Gridania as my starting City-State. Originally my last name was Xander..but that was in Alpha / Beta of 1.0.

I also like to make my character look like me. Luckily, for some reason, Square Enix seems to know exactly what I look like some how and my character is like a spitting image of me. (aside from the blue tattoo on his face)

So basically, the midlander Hyur in all the trailers and videos looks like me in real life! XD

So, Rex Xylon! My Alter ego. :)




EDIT: Saw someone post about their Chocobo's name! I wanted to share mine!

My Chocobo's name is Lyric! Named after a baby horse I met when I was a child on a reserve in South Dakota. I think it's a very fitting name for a chocobo! (Kweh! Kweh!) I wanted to adopt him so bad. But it just never happened. I wonder how he is...

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Originally Posted by Starlord

The Story about my name.. Well, When I was playing Suikoden Tiekreis, (first playthough) The Term "Mark of the Stars" was used in reference to the 108 people (Stars) that will save the world from destruction, and I ( the Leader of the Stars) was there to guide them to Victory, Thus my name then became "Starlord".

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Starlord, do you know your sig is different in the most current version of that footage? XD It's like they saw your sig and said "No, too many emotions in one second." And then changed it to be less drastic.

Aish, your sig is amazing. ugh. So good.

I wanted a name fitting of Ul'dah. I saw this city as middle eastern based, so I started researching middle eastern names.

I wanted something that reminded me of my favorite XIV character, Naja Salaheem.

So I started reading up on arabic names, and based on its pronunciation and meaning I chose this...

Majidah : Glorious
Sihaam : Arrows

(And I ended up being a bard, without planning on becoming one!)

My chocobo was named following the same trend. It's called...

Faridah : Exceptional, unique, precious

A lot of middle eastern gamers have asked me if I'm from an arabic country, so I must have done a good job ^_^

I was on my screen when I was trying to choose the best combinations of hair, voice, body and style about my Miqo'te, when while I was done with everything I was prompted to input her name.
The name itself was easy, I just had to think about something short and of impact, and of course in the Japanese style, so I hitted my face with a Coca-Cola can and I came out with Renshi.
After recovering from the can cuts I was prompted the Surname. This one I wanted it to be pretty unique and of impact. As soon as I thought of those, a bird flew and hit my window, and it was like "FWHYAH!" and flew away. Brain cells generating electricity made my head come out with 'Hyatsuki.'

Probably 10% of what I said is true.
Also, Renshi's character is born from my doggie's character, being excited, fiery and stuff~

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Originally Posted by Rex

Aish, your sig is amazing. ugh. So good.

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I know! I can't even take credit for it either! I remembered seeing a similar .gif waaaaay back when the movie 300 was released (with King Leonidas pasted over) and then out of nowhere I thought "Hey, why not make one for FFXIV?" I tried to make it, it didn't work out so well and when I mentioned it on the FFXIV meme thread, Digirotta went and made it awesome.

'Kibo' is Japanese for the pronunciation of my old online handle, which in turn is a derivation of my old childhood nickname. 'Kaseki' is derived from 'Kasei' which means Mars which I got from my real name.

I always try to make spin-offs of my own name or person when making online nicknames. It's a fun process, especially when you try to figure out a completely new name. Kibo Kaseki is a far cry from what I started out with. :>

Forgo is a play on the name Frodo from Lord of the Rings and the name of d and d chara I made that was a pld lol the name kinda stuck and I used it In ffxi as my first chara I made in that game. After I left ffxi to go to the army the old forgo from ffxi was lost and since you can't name a new chara with a old name on ffxi I decided to name my chara on ffxiv that. the cool thing is i was able to make a chara that kinda looked like the old forgo but changed him to suit the change in worlds lol

My name comes from my favorite game series, Suikoden. I took the names of my two favorite characters Killey and Georg Prime and mooshed them together. Not too creative but it ended but flowing nicely I thought, so I kept it.

My forum name comes from 순규, which is the real first name of Korean pop-star 이순규 (Lee Soon-kyu) a.k.a Sunny of 소녀시대 / SNSD / Girls Generation. Soonkyu is also the name of my SWTOR Sith Assassin.

My first XIV character was Sunny Lee.

My second and main character is Ghent Marik. Ghent comes from Zakarisz Ghent, a slicer (hacker) from the Star Wars Extended Universe. Ghent was extremely intelligent, but also a bit naive. As it was my character in FFXI (which was my first MMO), I thought it highly appropriate given how clueless I was about the game at first (in the beginning I was DRG/MNK... /sob). Ghent is something one of my RL friends still calls me to this day, so I recycled it for XIV. Marik is a slight change from Marek (Galen Marek), which I came up with while spinning in my chair, trying to find a suitable last name, and happened upon my Star Wars: The Force Unleashed case.

I have had the nick Deathstix (in one word actually, but in FF XIV I split it in two so it became Death Stix) ever since I had internet (maybe back in 1996). It was a "name" given by someone to a musical instrument that I sometimes play on, the piccolo. For those of you who know this, a piccolo in the wrong hands.... can kill! LOL. Kill your ears that is, hence the "deathstick", I changed it to "deathstix" because back in the old days of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) your nickname was limited to only 9 characters.

An unintended consequence from this is... sometimes ingame others address me by my first name... Death... when really it should be "Stix" if you wanna cut it short. So imagine this...

*prepares to take on Batraal*
<A> What happens if we stand over there?
<B> Death awaits you.
<C> death come here please.
<C> DEATH!!!!!!
<Death Stix> ohhh you mean me???? soweeeeee...(hurries over to stand by C's side)

My name ingame is "Jojimbo Matsumoto"

Jojimbo - Comes from Yojimbo which is my favourite Primal from FFX and i believe it means "Bodyguard" or "Protector"
The name Yojimbo was taken when i started playing FFXI, so I had to change it abit and I decided to stick with it in FFXIV.

Matsumoto - When I started to play XIV I found out that we could have a secondary name which I really liked, because now i could choose my name with more meaning. One of my favourite shirts had the name Matsumoto on it and I looked the name up and found it to be a family name with origins from a very long time back. It means "Pine tree" which i found funny, because I always found walking in the woods relaxing here where I live in Norway. And pine trees are my favourite tree of them all. In my younger years I had hundreds of drawings of pine trees in my drawing book, so it just fell natural for me to be the "Protector of the Pine tree".

I wish the Lifa tree to be a Pine Tree so I can protect it. XD
Anyways, I hope it is translated correctly.

The name Eekiki is nonsense. Meaningless. I made it all up.

As for my current FFXIV character: Wikipedia can answer better than me. It's a pretty sad story, I think...

Soukyuu (蒼穹) is "azure" or "azure sky" in Japanese, and I really like the color of the sky, especially right after clouds clear after a brief rain that clears out all of the dust. I've been using "Azure" as my nick for some time, but as you can imagine, it's quite common (one reason being that blue is one of the most common favorite colors). At that time I just started learning Japanese and heard the term "soukyuu" for the first time in Soukyuu no fafner. Since then, I've been using it as my nick.

Now, FFXIV was the first time a game wanted the first AND last name from me. In beta I just went for Yuri Soukyuu (azure lily) for my testchar, but at release I decided to play a male lalafell. So now I needed a first name...

I don't remember how exactly I ended up choosing Crim, but it was partially a certain game having the saying "crimson and azure become as sun", .hack//SIGN's Crim and a play on words "crimsoukyuu = crimson soukyuu = Crimson Azure".

So basically it ended up being a concept of the calm, blue sky and the crimson opposite.
A sort of ying-yang, I guess.

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Originally Posted by Valmonte

my mains a combination of my first Name "Ivan" and the sword of legend "Durandal".

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Oh hi, namesake :D

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Originally Posted by Talshara_Blade

Talshara Blade as far as I know was original. I didn't get it from anywhere that I know of.

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I keep reading that as "Tal Rasha" all the time!

I read all the 32 pages, lots of interesting stories. Great thread :P

I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and i am part of the same compost pile.

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Originally Posted by Phe

I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and i am part of the same compost pile.

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http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/540

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Originally Posted by Phe

I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and i am part of the same compost pile.

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I would agree with your statement and add that we are all the same in that matter. The question that remains though is-

What's your story?