Ironic character names

[NinjaTaru72]

I've seen it on Balmung lol. I've seen the Obamas, a ton of Targaryens. I'm buddies with one Targaryen lol. I've also seen alot of people named after food. I always wonder were they hungry when they picked their name. I think I saw the Lanister brother and sister. XD Have also seen sith lord Vader. I've seen a mixture of the anime Fairy Tails names. I think the strangest named I saw was something along the lines of Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv VVvvvvvvvvvv.

(by the way, I'm using examples of the names, not the actual names, so get your hands away from whatever forum banhammer button it may be floating over.)

My character is Reeses Cup. Lol and I was eating a Reeses. A Halloween pumpkin Reeses when I was making him

[Tattered]

I've also seen alot of people named after food. I always wonder were they hungry when they picked their name.

Chilean Seabass representing the food names. Did a long binge on Food Network before picking that one.

[XiaoliVorgan]

Chilean Seabass representing the food names. Did a long binge on Food Network before picking that one.

My character is Reeses Cup. Lol and I was eating a Reeses. A Halloween pumpkin Reeses when I was making him

lol, then you guys are one of those people who always make me hungry when you run by. This one guy, I see all the time.. I think his name was something like Pork Buns... omnomnom

I named mine Xiaoli because I like the name lol. My boyfriend and I were trying out some MMO a few months before FF came out.. I named my character Xiaoli Mei and when I got over here I figured I would use the name again. My boyfriend chose Vorgan for out last name though. No idea where he got it. I should probably ask lol. (nevermind, just googled it and saw one of the results came back from swtor.. that's def where he got it. loool)

[AiChyan]

My favorite is a massive Roe who calls himself Fairy Princess, always grin when I see him

[Kiroh]

My favorite is a massive Roe who calls himself Fairy Princess, always grin when I see him

There's a M Roe on Balmung named Healery Duff too. xD

[Kuwagami]

My favorite is a massive Roe who calls himself Fairy Princess, always grin when I see him

Haha so true
He was in my Coil group back in December, and it was pretty awesome to see our "litte princess" rushing to tank the damn snake and the huge ball

[Gramul]

Here, my characters name is German for "Iron Gram".

In XI I was a galka named Table.

[Mirakumi]

Some people tell me they get happy when they see my characters name. Like re-living their childhood. Also find it funny how Hyperion is flooded with most of the Sailor Sensei and none of them are alts/ played by different people.

[BobbinT]

Don't know much about irony itself.

I admit name I'm using right now came from vintage game protagonist. And I'm not even live on same region with the game maker itself. But the game itself means much more to me personally, in which was the reason I'm sticking that name for almost everything I register in online stuff.

Too bad I can't use the name in XI since it's too long, have to truncate it to Bobbinthrdbare.

There's also rare case where I cannot use this name in certain MMO since it's under same company, so I had to use substitute which related to same game too. Also, I use this when I'm making new character on different server. If you happen to see a name goes by "Rusty Nailbender", that's also probably be me too.

[Ryuko]

I think people seize the opportunity to play something 'different' than their normal self in MMOs and games in general -- often, the names fall into a different language. My character's name is totally Japanese, but not from an anime (although I've been informed that both parts of my name are very similar to anime names). Ryuko literally means 'little dragon' and was a term of endearment a friend gave me to describe my personality when I was something like 12-13 (I'm very petite but have a LOUD personality, apparently... also born the year of the dragon if you pay attention to that stuff).

I first used the alias "Ryuko" in FFXI (Diabolos server), and I'm 25 now. Kanzeon is the Japanese name of a bodhisattva (Quan Yin in Chinese). I originally used the name for my Resto Druid in WoW, because Kanzeon roughly translates to 'hearing/observing the cries of the world'. There is a very popular legend about her wanting to help the world but simply being unable to on her own, so her arms split into thousands of pieces in an attempt to reach out to everyone. Anyway, it seemed like an awesome name for a nature-themed healer.

The name stuck with me, and when FFXIV came out, I combined my two MMO names into Ryuko Kanzeon. I am told the name Kanzeon DOES appear in anime, although that wasn't my inspiration or intention when using the name. I've also been asked more than once if I got my first name (Ryuko) from the anime Tenchi Muyo (Ryoko) but that is also not the case. I am an English-speaking player and know only very little Japanese. It's a wonder I haven't used Italian names as that is a language I can actually kind of speak.