What's the story behind your character's name?

[Linkschildhood]

Links Childhood

In FFXI I wanted to be Link! However someone that was on before the PS2 release happened to be Link for a mule. I am a huge Zelda fan...

So I was going to create an Elvaan to be Link, so when I couldn't cause the dreaded "Name already taken" I switched to a Tarutaru and became "Links Childhood"

He more or less looked like the original Link from Zelda on NES.

That name has carried over to FFXIV, since Link never had a last name, I used "Links Childhood" and now I am a Lalafell!!!

[Majoga]

Aeiouk- I had a Galka in Xi by the name of Aeiou, started as a mule but ended up playing as an alt. When server merges happened I got deported to Valefor and another mule that had been inactive (according to ffxiah) got the name. So I added the -k at the end to represent Kujata. Now I just use that as a surname for all my characters.

Mariko is from Elfen Lied even tho when I was trying to think up a name I started with Mari from Evangelion and just added a -ko to the end of it without thinking about it later.

Reisaki I used Rei from Evangelion and just added -saki to the end of it because of Katsuragi. This was also my main character in Xi.

Majoga being my screen name here I usually use as a character but I never created in Xiv. It's a combination of the first 2 letters of my name's put together. MA-tthew JO-hn GA-rcia

[REDace0]

This'll probably get buried and I've posted it before, but here goes.

Robert is my name IRL. Keeps it simple!

"Redensa" started as the Dutch for "reason", which I adapted into the pattern for "Bunansa" from the Ivalice Final Fantasy games, because I'm a huge FFT fan. I studied mathematics and logic, so the concept of reason has a deep appeal for me.

[Skullmaker]

I used to play several space battle type games, (homeworld, warheads, etc.) where I would always call myself "The Skull", which was the name of a space ship in a show from the 80's that used puppets, I was fond of. It was called Starfleet or something like that. (To my friends' amusement, I would almost always end up destroying my own ship by accident.)
Around the same time, I was a regular at several naughty chat rooms, where my handle was Baron von Knotty, which has it's own back story I won't get into (sinister laugh).

When I got FF11, I was going to call myself The Skull, but my friends exclaimed it was surely cursed, considering my losing streak using that name. After a bit of thought, I took Baron from my chat-room persona and Skull from my gaming persona and stuck them together, which seemed quite appropriate as originally I wanted to play mainly as a dark knight.

I've stuck with that name through several mmo's including rappelz, perfect world and of course ff11 and 14. Typically, folks just call me "Baron" in party situations, (although I occasionally run into someone who refuses to call me by a royal title).

[Xeroeth]

My name is totally self made, I wanted something with fantasy feel and as unique as it can be. However surname was based on Lina Inverse ... yeah, I know what you want to tell me right now heh.
If there will be any chance to change it, I will surely use it ... to many people use it and nobody wants to be compared to a little flat chested magician, who could annoy even buddha itself

[Artiss2k]

Due to the Game of Thrones series on HBO i'm sure the history of my character name is widely known lol.

I'm a big fan of A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R.R. Martin. Being that he likes to kill off characters so much I chose one of the safest ones I liked. Benjen of house Stark, one of the 4 great houses of Westeros and first ranger of the Nights Watch. Benjen went on a ranging in book 1 and has been missing ever since. there has been 4 books since then. since no one "really" knows what happend to him I figure it's a safe play to use his name lol.

I've seen a lot of Starks running around though, and i may change it in ARR also due to the fact there wasn't too much thought put behind it and my character looks nothing like him.

[Hestern_Nestern]

Around the time I was creating my character, Ferne posted a thread about Lalafell naming conventions. Based upon those conventions I made up my name: Hestern Nestern. It is rather simple but it is also rather important to me to maintain the authenticity of the world (I'm a roleplayer).

It was only later that I realized that HESTERN related to YESTERDAY and NESTERN is (possibly) a German word meaning NESTS [possibly without the N at the end]. So...Yesterday's Nests. :P I feel awesome right now.

I am loving this thread by the way...so many pages to read! It will take me a long time to read through them but I really want to -- I am actually learning a lot of really interesting stuff...and I am reading a new manga thanks to Zetsubou!

Thank you LapuLapu for this marvelous thread!

[Klefth]

Horokeu comes from a characters name in one of my favorite mangas.

Which is an awesome manga, btw.

[Diyne]

Diyne is a chemestry term, though the name was originally meant to be 'Dyne' which is a measurement of force in Physics. When I couldn't spell it as such in World of Warcraft, I spelled it Diyne and have kept with it ever since. I still use Dyne in some single player games. It worked ironically well in Skyrim, and I had a good chuckle when the first dragon shout you got was 'Force'. It felt like a good name being a knightly sort of character. Like an immovable object. A force to be reckoned with, sort of idea.

I needed something to rhyme with the first name, being a lalafell. One of my favorite foods is squid and I like evergreen trees, so i used the japanese word for squid (Ika) and Pine. So Ikapine. Though, pine can also mean "to yearn or long for deeply", (typically used in a romantic sense when 'pining' after women.) This wound up with some friends and me joking about me having some kind of obsession with squid, or that I call at them. So nicknames like 'Squid caller' came up as well.

And no, I don't have an obsession with squid, but they are kind of cute. And delicious.

[Alteiriaa]

Mine is..... not terribly interesting. =w=;;

Way back in high school I was registering for a forum, and I wanted a new username. After several minutes of derping around, I remembered a certain fluffy blue dragon-bird from Pokemon, and tried to use that. I can't spell very well at all.
A few years of adding a's and moving things, Alteiriaa happened, and I've stuck with it since.
Advance years forward from that point, I was just creating my cat, tweeking until I was pleased with her, and got to the naming bit. Normally, I would use forementioned username, but then I'd need a second one. So I went eh, cut the name in half, and swapped the ends around.
Poof, Riaa Alteir!

Some of my alts I put slightly more thought into. Ryue Heirhyn (and even this may be misspelled. XD), who I made first really, was ment to be sorta close to Red Herring. Rumour Hasit is pretty self explainitory. Both are Lalas, and I really like them even if I didn't play with them much. ^^;

My chocobo is Worf. Partly because Star Trek, and partly because it amused me greatly to be traveling Worf Speed.