What's the story behind your name?

[Jus71n]

I like the YouTuber call me Kevin like a lot

[LisSquid]

I like the YouTuber call me Kevin like a lot

I feel fear.

[Disfaceplank]

I wasn't really creative with my name when I decided to go with "Ark" and "Flxn" I was around 13 years old when I created my name. One night I brainstorm and mix something with the letter F for my last name. Though I'm unsure if Flxn has any meaning behind it. But after playing multiple MMO games it just stuck so people just casually call me Ark or Flxn sometimes.

[van_arn]

I resented being forced to have both a first and last name, so I mashed letters together until I had something that worked with six characters.

[Haprimac]

My viera's name I just wanted to make close to FFXII viera names, to have minimal vocals and use the Nordic J. I tested out what letters worked together and sounded pretty until settling with Fjrwn. Ymir I chose as her village, because of its Norse mythology roots.

My original roegadyn's name from ARR-ShB was Haprilona Sunnwyn which meant Gatherer of happiness, daughter of Sunn. It was taken from my Lord of the Rings Online's hobbit character Haprimac, whose name in turn was inspired by Meriadoc, as I wanted to be called Happy, like Meriadoc was Merry.

And my roleplay character is Étoileaux 'Charbonnier' de Veilleuse. Little star 'Coalminer' of Nightlight. His name I got from my pet bunny who was at the time staring at me with his twinkling little star eyes while I was trying to think of a name. Charbonnier I chose as his ingame surname initially because I gave him black skin+hair+eyes and he looked like he had been rolling in soot all day long. Later I made up a lore reason that he was a sold to a Coerthan coal mine and once he managed to escape from there and was recruited to Ishgardian military, the squires called him 'Coalminer' or 'Sootface'.

[DontReadThis]

1. Hellsguard have the best naming conventions.
2. Mashed the random name button several times, every decent name was taken.
3. Took the last name of one of the generated names and chose a monosyllabic homonym for the first name.

Now I have a name that's short, memorable, and adheres to the established naming convention.

[Genjuro]

Originally in 1.0 my character's name was Kitara Kitty, but after the calamity my character changed to Hyacinth Feng along with her hair color. I chalk this up to Dissociative Identity Disorder. Hyacinth was actually a mule from my old FFXI days. It was an uncommon name so it was easy to pick.

[TattersailNightwish]

My first name, Tattersail, is a character in The Malazan Book of the Fallen, an epic fantasy book series by Steven Erikson.
She is the head of a company of mages in a huge militaristic empire, kinda lusty, funny, and although she dies in the first book, in true fantasy trope, isn't really dead.

As for my last name, Nightwish, Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from (mostly) Finland. My favorite band over the past seven or eight years or so.

[Catwho]

Lore appropriate Miqote Moonkeeper name.

I was a cat at the time....

[Katiyana]

*ahem*
Nerifes is portrayed as a divine entity, in that, the Light element is referenced as Sea in Tales of Legendia. There are two entities on Shining Blue called "Nerifes"; one that which leads the Ferines, the will of the great ocean, and the other, smaller Nerifes within the hull of the Legacy called the Quiet Lands. To differentiate the two, they are first referenced as the Raging Nerifes (猛りの滄我 Takeri no Souga) and the Quiet Nerifes (静の滄我 Shizuka no Souga) respectively by Will Raynard. After the calming of the Raging Nerifes, it is renamed as the Great Nerifes (大いなる滄我 Ooinaru Souga).

I've typically gone by "Nerifes" in many online games through the years.
I took Raging Nerifes because originally I was a lalafell and I thought i'd be funny to be a little character that had "Raging" in his name.