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    Nhai Tayuun
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    Black Mage Lv 92
    Quote Originally Posted by TaurielKyudo View Post
    Since I wanted to be a bard, I named mine after Tauriel from The Hobbit (cause she's awesome), and then Kyudo because its the japanese martial art of archery
    ..and you never once thought that combining an obviously Tolkien-Elvish name with Japanese would sound...weird?
    The same way it would be weird to name a child born to an US-family with German origins "Kyoko Mueller" or something like that?
    Don't misunderstand, of course you are free to name your character whatever you want and I'm sure lots of people have all kinds of weird thoughts about my name as well (gave up counting just how many times I got asked if it's some variation of "meow" - it's not ). I just tried to explain why stuff like that bothers me :x
    And the thoughts continue: "Couldn't she at least make an Elezen if she wants to call herself Tauriel? Why go with an Elvish name for a catgirl?" and so on.

    Of course, I could just turn names off and only show initials if it bothered me that much. But it doesn't bother me much.
    It's more like a minor annoyance, just like seeing characters which I consider ugly, or characters in slutty outfits with slutty make-up on.
    It would be a lot worse to not know someone's names when I talk to them for the first time. And I wouldn't see funny or cute names either. But that doesn't stop me from thinking "Oh god, this again" when I befriend the next Benjamin Uzumaki.
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    Last edited by Atoli; 02-16-2016 at 03:19 AM.