Forum name: All the way back in 1.0 I was a hot midlander guy with the name "Mikko Akure" for all of one week, but it happened to be the week that I decided to make a profile on the forums. After that week I decided to go back to my main since I didn't feel like doing everything all over again.

My character's name journey started in 1.0 with my first main character, who was a cute little lalafell named "Mido Azeri". "Mido" from the solfedge musical scale for "mi" and "do" and "Azeri" because it was Basque language for "fox" and I thought it sounded cool lol. When ARR dropped, I retired my 1.0 main (still exists on the server as a hot midlander guy with a different name and an inventory of 1.0 stuff), and started from scratch in a new slot with a male miqo since we couldn't play those in FFXI. I kept "Mido" but changed my last name to "Ajihri" since that was close to my original surname and was also a surname used by at least one mithra NPC in FFXI. When I decided to switch to female miqo'te, I kept the last name but wanted to have my first name be similar to my old name, while keeping the musical theme and still being something short that sounds it would still be a proper miqo'te name, so "Midi" was the obvious choice.

I've pretty much permanently been a midlander hyur now for a couple of years (minus a brief stint as viera) and have given up my miqo'te past, but I haven't settled on a new name yet. I don't RP, but I prefer lore-correct names for all my characters in all different games so it still bugs me. But at this point, everyone I know in-game knows me as "Midi" so it would be awkward to change anyway.