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

[Colino]

My real name is Nicolo' (which is Italian). You can make diminuitive versions of some words by adding "ino" at the end, so a small Nicolo' would be Nicolino.

Chop off the pointless Ni at the beginning and you get Colino which is how my family and close friends have called me since I was a little boy.

I only found out a good 20 years later that Colino is also an anagram of Nicolo'.

I created this name in XI when I was 16, now I'm 26! Back in the day I didn't know what MMO's were about, well the only thing I could think of was that I wanted to be that toon to always focus on helping and protecting the poor.

Gimme some gil please? I've got kids to feed!

[Solace]

My own meaning really.
Solace because I like to be alone sometimes. Often find me off by myself, looking at some scenery.
Trueblade has a double meaning. I tend to speak my mind truthfully and I make sure my aim is always true.
I like the addition of chocobo names btw..
Mine is Queequea.
I thought it had a nice ring to it.. Solace and his trusty steed Queequea.
Que is close to kweh. The noise chocobos make. :P
Neat topic.

[Fatestorm]

They wouldn't let me have 'Nique' because apparently in another supported language it's a swear word... in my haste to play I unknowingly called myself Niqote the Miqote... dang it!

Possible name change 2.0 pleases me lol

Long story short: Nique Amrita is a long running OC of mine, but Nique is my IRL nickname too ^^

Aww Niqote don't change your name, I always thought it was really nice every time I'd see you pass by. It's harder to come up with two names that sound good together than it is to come up with just one, and yours do.

[KaplanHomahru]

Kaplan is the last name of my favorite super hero, Marvel's Billy Kaplan/ "Wiccan"

In FFXI, my character was Sesshomarusan (I loved InuYasha). My oldest friend's name was Shahn, which I always pronounced "Shawn" and kinda just saw the 2nd 'h' as extra.

When I was trying to think of a last name for XIV, I wanted to bring part of XI with me, so I chopped up sesshomaru, and added an extra 'h' to reference Shahn. He liked it so much he made it his surname as well...then my brother and cousin started and we all became the Homahru Clan!

[Noblewar]

Gimme some gil please? I've got kids to feed!

Sorry its gone! Had to feed other peoples kids! I'll make sure to put you on the waiting list!

[Mortechai]

Mortechai: Name that's stuck with me since EQ1 came out @.@;; can't remember why I picked it XD. Hammerhand: Chose that as my last name because when 1.0 launched I wanted to play Pugilist as my main. I also had "Voidwatcher" as my legacy name in SWTOR as homage to the last content I played in FFXI before I quit(After 9 years, bless ; ; ).

[Dannythm]

Kenshiro Joestar... anyone who is versed in manga will know.

[Molly_Millions]

I'm a big William Gibson fan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Millions

[Mister-Wonderful]

I'm just plain Wonderful

[Goufunaki]

Gouki (Akuma from Street Fighter)
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Funaki (WWE, I just liked the name)
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Goufunaki



Originally thought of it for either part 2 or 3 of the tony hawk games I had on the dreamcast for some random character I was putting together in the editor. Was watching dbz at the time, so the idea of mixed names came from the fusion episodes.

I ended up really liking the name, though, so I just kept it, and used it for my own original character I created.