My forum name comes from 순규, which is the real first name of Korean pop-star 이순규 (Lee Soon-kyu) a.k.a Sunny of 소녀시대 / SNSD / Girls Generation. Soonkyu is also the name of my SWTOR Sith Assassin.

My first XIV character was Sunny Lee.

My second and main character is Ghent Marik. Ghent comes from Zakarisz Ghent, a slicer (hacker) from the Star Wars Extended Universe. Ghent was extremely intelligent, but also a bit naive. As it was my character in FFXI (which was my first MMO), I thought it highly appropriate given how clueless I was about the game at first (in the beginning I was DRG/MNK... /sob). Ghent is something one of my RL friends still calls me to this day, so I recycled it for XIV. Marik is a slight change from Marek (Galen Marek), which I came up with while spinning in my chair, trying to find a suitable last name, and happened upon my Star Wars: The Force Unleashed case.