What is the story behind your character's name?

[Synrin]

My real name is Erik Mynhier. The sound of the last name and its odd spelling has lent itself to my character style well, so why not right?

Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

[Lawman]

I Liked a movie called Hudson hawk. It starred Bruce Willis who played a thief that timed all of his robberies with song. It was a fun watch. I kept the Last name Hawk but changed the 1st name to Harlequin as in a Harlequin puppet. Thus The Name Harlequin Hawk.

[Iromi]

Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

I would be a bit nervous myself using my IRL name! Erik is brave ^^

Hehe...my boyfriend uses my IRL name as one of his alts...well, first name only lol.

[Wintwyda]

I loved Sea Wolves from the moment I saw them. I also joined up with some RPer friends from WoW so I definitely needed a lore-appropriate name. Problem is, I don't like the idea of my toon having a name that looks like a giant scramble of letters and that's fairly unavoidable with Sea Wolf lore-based names.

Then I saw that Hellsguard roegadyn use translated versions of the old language names... so I made a weirdo wandering adventurer Sea Wolf who decided to borrow that idea from the other tribe. I looked on the "naming conventions" post and picked a name that I liked the sound of when translated, that also fit within the universe as a legit given name in untranslated form.

[Driavna]

I like "Elara" and "Hojaplateada" it's a surname I use for my DnD paladin long ago, is also is a way to let other people where I'm from.

Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

Only a name is not enough, you need more info to do more like know where he lives or a picture, in special for peasants with only one surname! :P

[Lissandra]

I googled Lissandra way back in 2010 (I liked the way the name sounded) and it said it meant defender of man; man's defender in Greek. I liked the meaning too, and decided to use it. As for my last name I was thinking of Kingdom Hearts for whatever reason, and decided I wanted heart in there somewhere. From there, I wanted something that sounded nice with the word and I came up with wine. In 1.0, I have had people ask me if I loved wine (cause of my last name), but no one has ever asked me that 2.0 and onwards.

For the record, I don't drink at all. No wine, beer, etc. XD

[Jattou]

I've been a Shadow fanboy since I saw him in FFVI(III for the US at the time), so when I started playing FFXI I wanted to name myself such.

It was, of course, taken.

So I started dipping into other languages and whatnot but all were taken, and then it struck me to start phonetically butchering it until something stuck. Jattou took shape as I started to tune it a bit to my liking. Aveiros just rolled off my tongue when thinking of a surname years later, and I've been informed since that it's similar to the name of a city in Portugal.

[Matrinka]

Catgirl. I couldn't go wrong with a name like Meowmeow. It made me laugh and was very Henrietta Pussycat-esque.

[ErikMynhier]

Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

No I've told people before. I sort of look at it as if someone wants my name that bad they will find a way to get it.

Can't live in fear.

[Aladire]

I am Cron Job. For those who do not do much programming and avoid Linux system, the task scheduler of that OS is known as cronjob.

Why? Because when I was at my previous job, my colleagues thought I kept referring to a sexual act as they never did programming. So, they convinced me that I should rename my character to that and it has stuck over the past couple of years.