What is the story behind your character's name?

[AlphaFox]

Higurashi anime, bout all I can say. Do kinda wish I had gone with something different but my usual username wouldn't work (as most mmos I play dont require a first and last) so just went with the current anime I was hooked on at the time. Do enjoy the reactions I get from some people, thought it was funny doing an Aurum Vale run had a person get mad, not because of my name but because the name she tried (also a character in Higurashi) was not available.

[RLofOBFL]

Simple meaning. Raen lore friendly. And it sounds cute.

[Bjond]

The only interesting name story I have is for my alt, "Vhalla La", which is a name I've used for alts in other MMOs (including the last name). I typically create her as a rather statuesque nordic/valkyrie type. So, she was born in FFXIV as a Highlander. This was an alt, so when it finally struck me after several weeks that just by name she HAD to be a Lalafel, I was fairly embarrassed that I didn't see it right off.

Needless to say, she's now a cute lil blonde Lalafel valkyrie thanks to fantasia.

[Joe_Schmoe]

Mine was a carryover from my Runescape playing days, which was mostly played by teenagers with names like "Ipwnj00noob", "Psykogodkilla", "l33t badaz", "Ipwnurmom", etc. With a name like Joe Schmoe there's no way I'd be mistaken for a 12 year old.

[Coratanni]

Whispering Whiskers, a fitting Ninja kitty name I thought.

[Snapdragyn]

Kavan Longfellow, Midlander Hyur. I like picking names that fit the ingame naming conventions used by devs. I researched & found that Celtic names were used for Midlanders, & found Kavan in a list of names there. Longfellow fits the surname style, & makes a fun play on words (he isn't particularly tall, you see).

[Rilasha]

Both my first and last name are names I made up for some pets when I was still playing Mabinogi. Rilasha is the first and I dropped the i for an apostrophe to make it lore friendly. Nereshyl is one I chose because it fit more than others I thought of at the time, and to bypass the convention I'd make a backstory to say that she's mixed Seeker/Keeper and that the last name is her mother's. Looking at it now, I'd most likely change her last name (if I can be bothered to spend the money) to Feyndra as I've been using that for some other characters as well as my online persona.

As for my alt, Yukikaze Yumishi, the first name actually comes from the series Dog Days (from Yukikaze Panettone), and the last name was a lore friendly name that fit the class I leveled first (Bard), since Yumishi means bow-maker. Also, alliteration!

[The_NPC]

Techically the name I've been using for my 1st (& usually only) fem avi in any game for years, however the her "last" name existed a year beforehand. First name comes from a combination of 2 anime/game characters I liked, Riza Hawkeye from Full metal alchemist & Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, Solair is as it looks, Sol (name for our sun, warm heat) & air (also known as the stuff we breathe or wind, usually givin the elemental color green). Random headcannon is she's my avi from White Knight Chronicles as both games have a Void rift like side-planes and traveled to Eorzea threw it by accident (was try'n to go to the Geonet, that games version of a forum & instance hub, but as the servers are gone who knows what "error's" can do)

[Alynn]

I got the name Alynn from an Otome game, and I just fell in love with the knight (Alyn Crawford). I originally used Xinlu as an indication of my Chinese roots and I liked the way it sounded, but I changed it to Kertia recently. While I made fun of people for having seemingly "weeb" names, I finally understood why people named themselves after characters. Rajak Kertia was one of my favorite characters in Noblesse, and I fell in love with his attitude and character in general. When he died, I felt immense heartbreak and cried for a good while mourning.

[Apoptomon]

The honest, boring, and probably egotistical answer is that it's a vaguely lore-appropriate fantasy-style mangling of my irl appellation (which shares similar roots to the fictional roegadyn dictionary).