What's the story behind your name?

[RyuDragnier]

Hayk was the first name I had in my first MMO (Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent). It has stuck with me since then. Farsight was the last name I chose for FF14 on a whim, since most MMOs I played never had a last name to choose.

[cactusbees]

Yui is my favorite character from my favorite RPG, Xenogears. Fairly straightforward!

[BlastHardcheese]

Main:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwv..._channel=BCBud

Forum name: MST3K.

I am incredibly creative.

[Enkidoh]

Both my forum handle and my character's first name is a name I've used for nearly 20 years now online - it's how SE's original official English translation of the PS1 release of FFV spelled Enkidu's name, Enkidu being of course the wildman from the ancient Mesopotamian story The Epic of Gilgamesh, and also naturally Gilgamesh's close friend and companion in the FF series. I picked the name at random from an ancient issue of EGM magazine that had a FFV strategy guide; at the time I needed a new login name for eBay (my then normal name I used for internet handles already being taken), and I closed my eyes and pointed it at random on the boss fight section, finding it had ended up on the final Gilgamesh fight. Not surprisingly, Gilgamesh was already taken on eBay, but Enkidoh naturally wasn't. So I quickly changed that, and the name stuck with me ever since (my character in FFXI is also named 'Enkidoh' ).

My character's surname however was chosen by my boyfriend, who also used the name for his character (yes, our characters are married in-game ). I can't remember what he told me about where he got the name from, but the word of course is a type of soup base in French cooking (I believe it's also derived from rouge, which I understand is the French word for 'red', which is appropriate for Enki's red hair, but that's a whole different barrel of moogles.).

[Neoyoshi]

.....Hmmmm i don't... know....

i mean... what i mean is i don't remember, I've had this username since the 90's during the AOL days.

Only thing that's slightly newer is the Kaligawa, no clue where I got it from.

To be fair it was just Yoshi for a long time, then the Matrix film came out.

Oh wait, I remembered.

[BerryCharlotte]

...I really like desserts...

[Ultaniku]

Hilariously, I loved the singer JoJo from back in the day and my first character a Lalafells name was Jojoniku Ruroniku. So when I started to play again after a brief break I made my Highlander as JoJo Ryder and that’s been me ever since.

[SilverObi]

Story behind my character's name? This character came from 1.0 and at the time I had recently got a kitten that I named Kissa, "cat" in Finnish as it's a language I'm fond of and thought it'd be funny to have a cat named Cat. As for their last name, kotele is Albanian for kitten and it was mainly just a thing for fun to basically be named kitty cat.

Forum name? My character in FFXI was nicknamed Obi by the folks I knew and about 13 years ago I was racking my brain for a consistent online handle so I took the nickname and an item from XI, a silver obi, and made it into my name for everything I do online.

[Derby_Crash]

Me and my brother shared a Minecraft account back when it was in beta, and he chose the name "Derby_Crash" in reference to the late singer Darby Crash from the Germs. The name stuck like glue and I've used that name ever since even though I don't listen to them lol

[Coletergeist]

Cin Aamon.
Cin pronounced as "sin" because I'm edgey.
And Aamon as in the demon. Because edgey.

.....cinnamon. Spice boi. Edge boi.