Sadly, I do not remember my original character's name, just that I started off on Sylph, and my first friend I made on FFXI was a galka named Biggss. Unoriginal of course, but I was amused anyway X)

I gave up because I just didn't have the dedication to keep 2 jobs leveled when I just wanted to be a white mage, and lost touch.

Later I joined a newbie/returning player LS on the Phoenix server as a Tarutaru named Saffire, which I followed into FFXIV's beta/launch and reinvented Saffire as a Lalafell named Seigyoku Cypher (Seigyoku is supposedly Japanese for 'Sapphire', and I was watching Legend of the Seeker at the time), but we all got disillusioned quickly, and I didn't have it in me to go back to FFXI. Still had 1 month's crysta left so I resubbed the first week of 2012 and FFXIV has been my favorite mmo ever since.