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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2007 13:25:03 GMT -5
I'm sure I'm not the only person here who puts a lot of consideration into his RP character names. Post the thought processes that led to your characters' names here.
TERRIAN BROGUE: As I said when I posted "The Operation", the name was nicked from a character in that play. At the time of writing "The Operation", I grew very fond of the name Terrian Brogue, since it's unusual yet still simple, straightforward and down-to-earth (as opposed to the over-the-top exotic flair of Kalista Onuris). I then dubbed my RP character Terrian Brogue for ironic value: the character in "The Operation" is proud, kind, polite, and devoutly religious, while the RP character is charming but mischievous and frequently underhanded. And there is the second level of irony that the first character is violently opposed to contributing to a process of immortality which involves cloning, while the second character clones himself on a daily basis. They would be more than a little surprised to find that they shared a name.
RHOMETER AND HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY: Higgledy Piggledy came first. I had got as far into developing these characters as to decide that the chaos spirit had the prerogative of naming the order spirit. I looked around for a suitably absurd name and decided on Higgledy Piggledy, which is the name of a style of humorous poetry I thought the chaos spirit would enjoy. From there I decided that the chaos spirit should also have a name with poetic connotations, so I started with the simple portmanteau "Rhymeter". At last I decided on the slightly more subtle "Rhometer".
CHARLES TANNER: Derived from "charlatan". Charles chose the surname himself, but I'm not sure if he intended or is even aware of the inherent wordplay. Possibly he just picked "Tanner" since it's simple and incongruous, thus making it easier for him to conceal his identity from his family. I haven't made up my mind about this and I probably never will.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 27, 2007 14:33:16 GMT -5
Oh, you have no idea. Names are what delay me most when making a character.
Andrew "Ender" Kimoned - As you all know, Ender is a direct rip off from Ender's Game, including the part where the name came to be when Ender's sister kept screwing up "Andrew" when they were little. Yeah, he has a sister, who I had as a character at one point, but I dunno what happened to her. The last name, Kimoned, is Demonic spelled backwards phonetically and lysdexically.
Cobra - He manipulates ropes and chains and stuff like that. So I thought "Snakes!"
Ysane Tranquility - Obvious irony in the last name, and Ysane sounds a lot like Insane.
Nick Taruic - I have a friend named Nic who's really good with tech stuff. I just added a K. I don't remember where Taruic came from.
Rie Nepas - In French, you can see the name as "rien pas" which translates to "nothing" which was her ability to phase through solid matter.
Jennevieve - I have a friend named Jennevieve, and when I learned her name wasn't simply "Jenna" I thought it was really cool. I don't know how I didn't know her full name until this year, since I've known her since I was a freshman. So I just thought she had a cool name and made a character named after her. Kinda.
Johnathon D'eau - Johnathon D'eau = John D'eau = John Doe. Huh huh. It's funny cuz he's dead.
"Artifex" Laxel Ratir - I believe his real name came from an online name generator. >.> Artifex is a respelling of a Latin word for, I think, creation.
Lexi LeGrand - Lexi LeGrand = Alexandra LeGrand = Alexandra the Great = Alexander the Great. That's where the last name came from. Lexi came from a discussion with a friend, thinking of other possible nicknames for her (she goes by Al).
Astraea - In Greek mythology, Astraea ("star-maiden") was a daughter of Zeus and Themis or of Eos and Astraeus. - Wikipedia. Yeah, I used Wikipedia to find a name for Lexi's ship.
Ethan O'Connor - I took Ethan from Ctrl-Alt-Del even though their personalities don't line up at all. I just liked the name, since it was relatively normal. O'Connor was also very normal.
The common thread through all my characters' names, at least for my more used ones, is that they're not overly flamboyant.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2007 15:37:00 GMT -5
Good Gladsheim, man. You amaze me. Especially the explanations for Rie Nepas, Johnathon D'eau and Lexi LeGrand.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 27, 2007 15:38:25 GMT -5
What, at how complicated my naming process is?
This is why it takes so long for me to make a character.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2007 15:42:32 GMT -5
More like how inspired.
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Post by Ocelot on Jun 27, 2007 16:22:35 GMT -5
So Phohatu what gave you the idea for the whole King of Clubs super villain type thing?
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Post by kazkame on Jun 27, 2007 16:28:03 GMT -5
Shant: named after a guy in a band that i like
Jason Cromwell: the first name was inspired by my friend Jason calling me exactly when i was creating him. and the last name came from a history book that i was forced to read.
Steven Voltaire: first name came from the champion from ruby and Sapphire versions. the last name came from the poet.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2007 16:30:04 GMT -5
I was researching Batman villains, which set off my creativity gears into motion. At least, I hope the idea of card games, board games and other such fare as a supervillain theme is fairly creative. I couldn't think of anyone with that gimmick. Anyway, I really wanted to have a villain of my own to play with, so there's the King of Clubs.
This discussion would be more appropriately continued in the "Character Inspiration" thread, though.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 27, 2007 16:33:46 GMT -5
But this is more fun here in a new thread.
And Gambit uses playing cards. Not board games, but I'm sure he could.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2007 16:39:20 GMT -5
That isn't really his theme, though. Throwing cards is just one of his many talents. Plus, I wanted to focus on making sure I wasn't creating a carbon copy of any villains. Sharing powers with any heroes was less of a concern.
Having said that I have no doubt that someone will find a comic-book villain with exactly the same theme as the King of Clubs.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 27, 2007 16:47:35 GMT -5
There's a comic book hero and matching villain for everything.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jun 27, 2007 22:45:53 GMT -5
I've got like a dozen characters to put in here, so, with no further ado: Zebedee Taylor/Lee Tupper: Lee Tupper was my own name, though Zebedee dropped hints all throughout the Lee days that it wasn't his real name, just a pseudonym. Zebedee comes from the father of two of Jesus's apostles, and a desire to match my name scheme roughly with a fairly uncommon, 19th century name followed by a common english surname. Taylor comes from the story of Ned Taylor, one of the few people ever to best Mike Fink, king of the riverboatmen. He was noted for being continuously melancholy and morose, but insanely capable in a fight.
Elm: Duh. *shoots a noob.*
Miko: Miko was a heavy duty tribute to my early days of RP, back in K-Battles. He's based namewise off of a character in a cancelled Toho film, and his summons have been created likewise.
Maude: Derrived from the folktale, Maude and the Wyvern, about a little girl who charms a dragon with her innocence and love.
Sylvia Natalie Ulima: Hammered the name meanings here. Sylvia is derrived from sylvan, or the woods, while Ulima means Wise. Natalie was just in there so she could go by Nat, following the law of three letters. (Ask choobs.)
Thyra Russell: Thyra means "Shield Bearer", for a forcefield using character. Russell, because I needed a good, non-cliched African American name with some connotation of culture.
Tsubota: See Miko's name origin.
Joseph Rednael: Another rearrangement of my name. See his origins and note the irony of patterns, if you're willing to try and explore the depths of my characters.
More later. I've got a large stable.
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Post by Q on Jun 27, 2007 22:56:31 GMT -5
Hm, let's see how well I can even remember where my characters' names came from.
Max Milen: Truth to tell, I have no idea where this one came from. I know it came out of a discussion with a Pokeschooler, but that's all I remember. It bears no resemblance to my real name. I know I did the alliteration on purpose.
Joseph Halzed: Joseph is my middle name. As for Halzed... dunno. It just sounded cool to me at the time.
General Tactitus: Just what it looks like -- a play on the word "tactics". I have no idea what his first name is, if he even has one.
Cal Mazone: Just as it looks like, it's a bit of a play on "calzone". I was looking to make a villain, and what villains are better-known than the Mafia? I'm not sure whether Cal's actually supposed to be Italian, or whether it's just a fun play on words -- and an excuse to give him a nickname to hate.
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Post by bulbaboy on Jul 3, 2007 12:23:56 GMT -5
Lets see.
Characters
BB/Sly/Salon-Learwie-Yardic: BB- Well back in the day when it was rather uncommon for people to have more than two characters max, most everyone had their character go by their screen name. At the time my screen name was Bulba_Boy, so I named my character BB. Eventually I worked the story line that BB was his code name for Team Rocket and reviled a real name, Sly. Sly- (Sly was the first three letter namer before it was even a rule[ask choobs]) Sly was just based on the fact the character could get away with anything he did on the count of his ability to morph. Eventually I decided he needed a real Andalite name that tied in with his nickname and thus I created Salon-Learwie-Yardic. Salon-Learwie-Yardic – This one comes back from the days when I carried a notepad and a pencil around in my back pocket all the time. I was riding in the car with my mom and I wrote random things I saw on signs. “Saloon”, “do no Lean on Wire”, and “Yard Sticks half off.” I cobmbined all the capital letter words to make his name… it really has no meaning…
Rick Jora Yardic: Being Slys son the last name was a given. Rick was just a nice common name to throw in. Jora is the first name of Slys fathers’ name. (Don’t ask me for the rest of Slys fathers name because I have completely worked on it yet.)
Mew: Self explanatory.
Merlin: I wanted to make a character that fit in with all the high power people so I made Merlin (Merlin was before Rick.) I choose the name Merlin because the characters lineage traces back to the original Merlin, or Myrddin depending on what texts your reading from.
Rampage: Watch Beast Wars.
Micheal Eshman: Michael simpley because it goes with the angelness of the character and Eshman is part of a pen name I use for myself.
Amiila Strausser: Strausser was ripped from an author I liked at the time and I really can’t remember where ‘Amiila’ came from.
Alexandra/Ally and Jeffery/Jeff: Two very sort lived characters. I just through a bunch of names in a hat and choose basically.
(I think that’s all the characters.)
Ships
The Funny Farm: One of the few things that got pulled with Sly into this dimension when the reactor of Slys ship blew. It’s a normal Andalite war-fighter. The name was burned off the side so Sly called it the Funny Farm. This was based on people telling Sly that if he kept talking about the ‘other dimension’ that they’d send him to the Funny Farm.
The Shova: Slys modified Andalite war-fighter. Shova in Stargate Tv Show is suppose to mean traitor to ones beliefs. Sly turned his back on the Andalite law that you do not give or allow lower species access the Andalite Technology.
The Tsunami: Tsunamis are big. So are dome ships.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 3, 2007 12:28:48 GMT -5
I thought the middle name of Andalites was the family name... I'm probably wrong.
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Post by bulbaboy on Jul 3, 2007 12:48:43 GMT -5
Theirs a bunch of diffrent ways they explain the Family name. I like the one that is 'Salon second son of Jora'. And just tracks you by your father and his father.
Sly started useing Yardic as the family name to fit in more with the norm of this Dimesion.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 18, 2007 16:18:40 GMT -5
Samuel Acomada - So this guy was particularly uninspired. I was sitting in front of my computer, then suddenly I was all like "I need a character named Sammy or Sam or something." And then I was watching Battlestar Galactica, and I was all like "Hmm... Adama... wait, that's too obvious." Then I looked to my right and saw my external HD, which was labeled "Acomdata". Then I made "Acomada". Yeah.
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Post by Loogs on Jul 18, 2007 21:05:45 GMT -5
Hector - It's a tribute to what may have been the stupidest yet funniest character of my favorite cartoon, Ozzy & Drix. Yay stupid!
Ivan - Golden Sun adept, n00b!
Vathale - Nothing too fancy here, I just made it up.
Epsilon - Come on guys, learn Greek.
Nadeshi - Again, made up.
Yuni - I randomly picked a name this time.
Dimitri - A Russian name with such a cool sound. I had to.
That's all I can think of for now.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 18, 2007 21:26:54 GMT -5
How about Opelia?
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Post by Loogs on Jul 18, 2007 21:50:03 GMT -5
Opilia was actually me not remembering how to spell Ophelia. =p
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 18, 2007 22:17:59 GMT -5
So after watching more Battlestar Galactica, I realized that Samuel was the name of a main character, and that's probably why I thought of the name. >.>
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Post by Loogs on Jul 27, 2007 12:18:00 GMT -5
Info on my newest character:
Rehncrek Gentoo: Spell the first name backwards. That's all I'm explaining. And Gentoo is a species of penguin, which is what obviously inspired part of his appearance. He's like my symbol of neutrality. =)
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Post by Damien on Jul 27, 2007 21:34:46 GMT -5
Six - Comes from the fact that I was born on the 6th of march and also because of my name everyone around me has always made references to the number 666. Dente - I really don't remember why I chose this to be honest. Cole Optera - This name actually came from this: www.insects.org/entophiles/coleoptera/cole_015.htmlWhich gives a little clue in to the "changes" that I talk about in Dregs of the setting sun. Damien - I think this is a tad obvious, my name is Damien and basically I wanted a character based on myself. ;P
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Post by renton on Jul 27, 2007 23:04:37 GMT -5
Prime - Primal shorted down, nick of a nick, basically the assumtion that the person will fight like a beast to its greatest limits.
Diamond - We all know how hard Diamonds are, my point was partially to drive home her rigid morals and ethics.
Drake - Drake was the most awesome character ever created on a different account that I never told y'all was me. I called him Drake because his dragon-blood tattoo's were his power over magic, and also his father was a demonic dragon. Thus Drake, an adaption of Draco, seemed appropriate.
Demos - A flame and shadow adept, it seemed an appropriate name since Demon orbits mars like a small moon, and we only ever see it when its in shadow, despite the fact that it orbits a planet that shows up bright red in the night.
Can't really remember any others at the moment.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Jul 28, 2007 21:19:20 GMT -5
Well, everyone else is..
Yoshimitsu/Naruk: I'm a SC2 fan, and Yoshimitsu was my best character. So I nicked his name. The character himself was more like an extension of me, though. His other name, Naruk, was basically me throwing random letters together to get something unusual sounding.
Vincent Li: FF7 fan. I'm very, VERY unoriginal with names. As for Li, I was thinking of random surnames that sounded like they'd suit "Vincent", and Li just came to mind.
(Edit) Yisimentsu A combination of Yoshimitsu and Vincent. Yoshimitsu + Vincent = Yisimentsu + Vonchit. Apparently. o.O
Clen: A character in FFIX is called Blank, and both characters share the leather headband thing. My train of thought went: Blank - Clear - Cler - Clen. Because 'r's and 'n's look similar. No, it makes no sense.
Saturos: Golden Sun 2. Yes.
Alexxia: I have a friend IRL called Alex, and he came to mind when I was thinking up a character for some reason. However, the character is a girl, so I thought of Alexxia instead.
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Post by Kuroboom on Aug 1, 2007 18:23:22 GMT -5
Kuro: Someone suggested it to me when I asked back on Pokeschool Rain: He has a grim/gloomy personality, so I chose a stereotypical name for such a character. Karcharos: I actually put some thought into that one. I won't say why though.
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