What is the story behind your character's name?

[Synrin]

I sometimes wish I went with a lore accurate name, but now everyone knows me as Mandar, so it seems silly to change it. Anyway, there is a story behind it: -bunch of cute stuff snip-

This is so sweet! But yeah, I know the struggles, old character names or even RL nicknames stick around. Same happened to me when I play ESO as 'Face of Melinda'. Been called Mel by most ever since..

[Nyxn607]

Hai all, I named my Elzen Gowther Herrit because of the anime The Seven Deadly Sins. Gowther is the goat sin and his bow or sacred treasure is called Herritt. Not the most original, but I like it

[Miles_Maelstrom]

It all started with a 3 year long D&D campaign. In it we had a player who had his character Phoenix Maelstrom. Phoenix was famous for doing dumb stuff, and our party in general was famous for accidentally producing kids. Most was through the DM assuming things when we got to drunk. Phoenix had a pair of twins with a human girl he abandoned like his father did to him. Eventually named Miles and Evelyn.

We decided to do a follow up game that involved the children, post the problems our original campaign caused for the world. We randomly decided who was going to play which of the kids, I got Miles. I even tried to make him a traditional final fantasy dragoon. Not that easy in that system. I cobbled together this weird mosh of classes and feats that sort of worked. It was fun but ultimately almost go him killed plenty, jumping off high things is not ideal.

So when I started this game I wanted to play a dragoon, and what better a character then my dragoon wannabe, Miles Maelstrom. While I couldn't match his race exactly because he is a Half-Elf (Fire-Elf), did my best to make him even look like how he was described in our game. Including the white hair with blue fire highlights. My sister had the normal black hair with red fire, of fire-elves. Or at least how our DM envision that race.

Edit: Because of archaic restriction on character limits that can be bypassed with edit, so why is it even a thing in the first place, and you'd think with server updates they could fix this too.

[HyoMinPark]

My main character's name is "Hyomin Park" (or Park Hyomin, if you want to go by how Koreans usually write names, with the surname first). I named her as such (not really intentionally ignoring Keeper naming lore, since I didn't really know much about it when I started playing FFXIV) because she's an OC of mine that I've had for several years (created around the time when I was hardcore riding on the Hallyu Wave). She is very near and dear to my heart, and I chose to use her name when I embarked on my FFXIV adventures a year and a half ago--especially since the friend that convinced me to finally start playing FFXIV is one of the friends that was around when Hyomin was born.

I'm not sure how many people are familiar with Korean names or with Korean naming conventions, but they are usually the surname first ("Park"), followed by a given name usually made up of one or two syllables ("Hyo-min"). While both are commonly written in plain Hangul (Korean alphabet), they also have Hanja counterparts (Chinese characters), where each character in a given name has a specific meaning--so kind of similar to Japanese names. Korea has a list of Hanja provided by the government for use in given names (Japan also has a similar list of Kanji for use in given names).

So, with regards to my character:

Park Hyomin
Hangul: 박효민
Hanja: 朴 孝敏

To break down the meaning of the Hanja:

朴 ("Park") - Hanja character used for the surname "Park"; means "Simple"
孝 ("Hyo") - Hanja character used for the first syllable "Hyo"; means "filial" or "filial piety"
敏 ("Min") - Hanja character used for the second syllable "Min"; means "clever"

I chose those two Hanja for my character's given name because she is extremely loyal to her family and those she considers family, as well as being extremely clever and quick-witted. I chose "Park" because it seemed to flow the best with "Hyomin" while I was searching through the common Korean surnames.

Ironically enough, there is a Korean idol named "Park Hyomin" (where "Hyomin" is not her given name, but a stage name) in a formerly popular Korean girl group (they are actually releasing one final album before disbanding soon...sadface). However, my character was not intentionally named after her, despite many people commonly thinking so upon first meeting me (though she did contribute to me actually seeking out this idol and listing to her group's music!). My character's name originated out of combining the names of two of my favorite idols at the time of her creation, and then I went a step further and chose Hanja for her based on her personality after researching Korean naming conventions.


Bonus: my character also has a twin brother, whose name is "Park Hyojin." I won't go too in-depth on his Hanja, but usually siblings in Korean families have similar names. I tried several different combinations before deciding that "Hyojin" sounded the best for him. He's my main retainer on Hyomin that holds all her dyes, glamour prisms, materia, and other important trinkets. :3

Family picture~ (best one I have since all my older screenshots are on my PS4):

Sorry for the long post, but I really get into naming characters, and will spend HOURS UPON HOURS researching names and meanings before finally settling on one. ;_;

[Synrin]

A lot of awesome background

You sound like me when I do research... Only I end up scrapping whatever I come up with and end up as Coconut Snowball.

[Hamada]

i was bad at making names but i wanted the name Hamada since its my real nickname and XI char name
so i looked for a cute name and i found aya from parasite eve
so i named it after her

as for my alt Ama
wanted a name same as aya
but i saw Ada and Ana alot
so i looked for a diffrent name
so i came with Ama

[BlueLulu]

Simple my favorite character in league of legends (next to poppy) is lulu and the lalafell remind me of yordles. Banunu comes from another character in the same game, nunu, which i liked since it rhymed with lulu but I combined it with banana because it sounded funnier

[spf1200]

Took my name form Magic the Gathering. Xantcha was Urza's companion in Plainswalker and Argoth is the name of the island where the Brother's war ended. Not very original but i liked the was it sounded.

[Crushnight]

Jets was an anagram of my initials while down refers to my favorite ff item phoenix down was not too original but my alt i just went dirty minded and went with Jailbait Bunny and yes its a dude who cannot wear that outfit /sadface

[SenorPatty]

So you know how Roegadyn Hellsguard is basically description and a noun?

At the time when I was going to name change (can't remember what it was before), I was playing yugioh online.

And I was making a water deck

And one of the monsters was SharkDrake Vice.

After fantasia'ing into my femroe, it looked like it would snap at any given moment. And thus, Vice Shark was born!