What's the story behind your name?

[Bunny_Margrace]

my cat's name is bunny and i like ff12

[Chekopacheko]

Cheko is my IRL nickname, and Pacheko just kind of rhymes

However, my initial intention was to name my character Cheko Pacheko.....but i messed up the names and put them backwards lol, on the fun side it sounds like a lala name

[Stormfur]

My main character is named Feral Savage because someone once remarked in a discord that "you fight like a feral savage!" I like the sound of the name so I took it and ran with it.

[Tsiron]

Tsiron's named after an ancient OC of mine (sort of, hers was Syron). I struggled to find a Mongolian name I liked, so it's fortunate that putting a T (like in Tsar) in front of that evoked the same feeling well enough I thought, based on my research at the time. I got Iriq from the official naming conventions thread:

Iriq: A tribe that follows the Borlaaq, taking on any male children given up by the female warriors and raising them as their own.

My original intention was to play a female Au Ra, but I couldn't deal with... the way they are, so making Tsiron look as feminine as I could manage was my compromise, and things developed from there. So their backstory's they were (seemingly) born female, except they didn't stop growing, and so the Borlaaq handed them over to the Iriq tribe. Tsiron took this badly and couldn't adapt, hence their becoming an adventurer and winding up in Eorzea.

... I eventually did make a female Au Ra alt, too: Shisen Akaitama! Neither her nor her family were important enough to have a surname, so her name's actually just Akaitama. She took up Shisen Akaitama (Akaitama no Shisen, "Gaze of Red Jewel", hopefully...) to make things easier for herself abroad, promoting her name to surname, and going by Shisen otherwise.

Probably easy to figure out why she was named "Red Jewel", but the reason I gave her heterochromia (as well as made half her face slightly darker) is because she's a chimera! As a result of also having her twin's share of a soul, she grew up way stronger than she had any right to be she's got the "Road to 70" buff, after all and left her boring mountain village in search of adventure!

The game doesn't necessarily need to explain why the WoL is as strong as they are since main character, you know how it goes, but I thought this idea too neat to pass up on. Works with the whole Sundering narrative and the split souls and everything, I think!

[BaconBits]

I like Dark Souls

[Haxaan]

When I made my character I knew I was going to predominately be a mage, but I wanted something different as I was hoping to make more of an Indian/Arabian/Persian stylized character. I stumbled upon an old Swedish movie and found the word Häxan [hɛksan] which means witch and thought it was pretty fitting. The name reminded me of an Arabic name Hassan/Hasan which means handsome or good. I decided to mix the two together and came up with Haxaan.

The last name was a little easier as I wanted something that fit the theme but also felt uniquely Final Fantasy and immediately thought of Shiva, who had a male counterpart named Shivar in the FFXII: Revenant Wings.

[Lunalepsy]

Some people think a long time before deciding what their characters name is. Some pick one they think sounds fun, or one to match their friend.

Either way, what thoughts went into your name?
And if your name in game doesn't match your forum name, is there a story there too?


For my in game name,
I choose Iiiiiiiiiiit's Meeeee because I was gonna play as a short little Lala that would be hard to see, so I wanted a very wide name so I could always see it amidst the other players and explosions. My name was basically made to be a big sign so I'd always know where I am lol
Also, so I could be very cheeky. When my girlfriend was trying to find me when we first met up in game, she asked what my name was and I told her "you'll recognize me when you see me. My name will let you know that it's me."

As for my forum name,
I was having a lot of errors when I tried to enter I"iiiiiiiiiit's Meeeee" in as my forum name and ItMe is just the first variation it took.

How about for you?

I don't kiss and tell. <3

[Breakbeat]

It's a nod to an old Beatles track from the sixties.

"I don't really want to stop the show
But I thought that you might like to know
That the singer's gonna sing a song
And he wants you all to sing along
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Billy Shears
And Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, yeah"

As for the forum name, I use Breakbeat in quite a few places.

- A 'breakbeat' is a drum break that is looped. Breaks have been used as building blocks in various styles of music since the 1970s; and
- It's a specific genre of electronic dance music that was popular in the 1990s. The grandfather of Jungle, Drum and Bass, 2-step and Dubstep.

[Gabadabs]

Well you see, it's actually QUITE IN depth.
My name is Gabi.
My character's name is Gabu.
I swapped a single letter, in a stroke of genius.
I use Gabadabs because in another Stroke of genius, I came up with it in like 2 minutes. It's really all just based off my name.

[Juun]

Alyss'ara was my DnD character. Its a play on my own name. As Im very bad at coming up with imaginative names as you can tell by my last name Windrunner. Which is an obvious take.