Viera naming convention

[stormygabe]

I love how with every thread about viera that pops up, males are mentioned. SE, take note! Give us what we want! Well...most of us anyway. That said, I imagine if they go off of FF12, their names would be short, one or two syllable words with exotic pronunciation and spelling. (Jote = Yo-Tay, Mjrn = Mee-Yern, etc.) It would be cool to see what the male names would be like as well. I bet they'd be the same. But...well...ya know...SE would NEED TO ADD THEM. Come on SE! You know what needs to be done. Alright I'm done. They ain't reading this mess.

[Iscah]

I love how with every thread about viera that pops up, males are mentioned. SE, take note!

As much as I want them to, adding males or not isn't relevant in this case. Whether they are officially implemented as characters or not, they still canonically exist, and people are going to be fanficcing off those concept art images if nothing else. If I was doing that then I'd definitely still want to get their names right!

That said, WhiteArchmage is probably correct in guessing that they wouldn't actually have gendered names if their gender can't be recognised at birth - unless there was some kind of tradition where they don't actually get names until they mature, or child-names aren't carried into adulthood, or something like that.

[stormygabe]

As much as I want them to, adding males or not isn't relevant in this case. Whether they are officially implemented as characters or not, they still canonically exist, and people are going to be fanficcing off those concept art images if nothing else. If I was doing that then I'd definitely still want to get their names right!

That said, WhiteArchmage is probably correct in guessing that they wouldn't actually have gendered names if their gender can't be recognised at birth - unless there was some kind of tradition where they don't actually get names until they mature, or child-names aren't carried into adulthood, or something like that.

Oh, I totally agree it's not relevant here. I just wanted to mention it because that's how thirsty I am for them. You raise a good point about them not having gendered names. And honestly, excepting a few, most of them seem fitting for either male or female characters.