Contributions Mod Mistress Of The Obvious 67 Contributions Mod Share Posted January 21 I know a lot of us spend a good chunk of time figuring out our characters names. I'd love to know why you named them what you did. Did you love the meaning behind it? A certain sound or tone to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clipsed 231 Share Posted January 21 Most of my names are just things I stumble on and think "hey that sounds cool". Occasionally I'll go for theme names within a family -- for example, my resort owner's daughter is named Holliday, and she has siblings Somersby (like summer!) and Irene and Paxton (which both tie into peaceful/calm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerdust 622 Share Posted January 23 My current roster: Sephtis Yamir Azmaray Soren Vesper Firefly Calex Faux Quill Xeroth Royce Rizka Estian Raziya Lumi Nightshade Zophiel Lutao Foxy Albion Harlen Zelphyr This is on a private animanga fantasy rp, so the names can be out there. Quote Reality is an illusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menalippe 3 Share Posted January 23 I choose primarily based on where they/their ancestors were from, and whether or not their full name has a nice mouthfeel to it. For example, one of my characters is a Chinese woman, so she of course is going to have a Chinese name; additionally, when I registered her account, I put her family name first since that's usually the order someone would give their name (family then personal name): Xiang Yue My Belgian man had a different set of 'rules'; you might be more likely to have a German, French or Dutch name based on where in Belgium you are. This character is from Flanders, so his first and middle names are Dutch: Maximiliaan Emerens But since his father was German, his surname is also German: Maximiliaan Emerens Stahl My weirdest character name was born entirely from a typo; his name is Brody, but I mistyped it as 'Birdy' one time, and now that's his nickname forever. My remaining characters, frankly, were chosen overwhelmingly because they had a nice 'feel' to them. Nolan O'Rourke Sam MacLaren Liam Toland, Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerdust 622 Share Posted January 26 Oh yes, when I do RL settings, I also choose names that fit in with their family background. For example, a jewish character with a jewish surname, taiwanese-american with an appropriate name. Naming characters is one of the most enjoyable parts of creating characters for me! Quote Reality is an illusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elena 545 Share Posted January 27 I also keep into account their nationality, the period when they were born and the family dynamics. You cannot just choose a name because you like it, if it did not exist in that time or if it belonged to an enemy country when the child was born (and the family had no family ties to there), because it would outcast the child.... The favourite names I use in most writings are Marina (also became my penname when I got published), Roxana, Emilia (I would have named my daughters so, if I had any), for men Andrea/ Andrei (depending on nationality), Alexandru/ Alessandro (again, depending on nationality), Giuseppe/ Jose/ Iosif and a few others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr0sty_tbs 4 Share Posted February 12 Just going to post a few I've used and have actually developed over the years. Adam Kurgan Irvine Kinneas Vicious Jalik Himura Anthony(Tony) Redgrave Lance Grace Victor Grace Lillianna Grace Quote Forum || Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvintersoldier 3 Share Posted February 26 Some character names I've used over the years: Buckingham Zemo Evander Alastor Yushiro Maverick Quote join lost at sea rp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neowulf 3 Share Posted February 26 I have a tendency to use names starting with A, I, or M. I've mostly done animal rpgs - wolf or horse, mostly fantasy, but one of my main squeeze RPs is a realistic wolf rpg. Off the top of my head and the past 15 years: Adalwulf, Isa, Ice, Aiyana, Mauja, Aurora (Rory), Aamu Outliers: Sylvanas, Silverline, Waker In the much more distant past I had a whole lot more on a whole lot of letters. What I found a lot of us did in these rpgs is we named the character after we found fitting of their personality, a practice I partook in as well but also questioned. How would the parents have known, y'know? Currently I play a small posse. There's Kenza (I struggled a lot to name her, then somehow just sort of threw that together - her entire character was designed to NOT be what I normally played), Isanti (who re-uses Aamu's playby and I wanted to tie back to Isa, one of my beloved characters), Trina (named by someone else) and Malien. Malien is not pronounced like m + alien (aylien), it's pronounced with a long and lofty "aa" sound and no "ay" at all. Think Scandinavian. I wanted a name that felt like a mixture of angelic and evil, and I think it works pretty nicely! Quote KOTOLL - 18+ urban fantasy Home | Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juls 8 Share Posted March 5 Many of my characters have normal "boring" names. I've been into doing 19th RP for a while now, so if I'm creating a new main character or, more often, an NPC, I'll look at the census records for the area in that decade and pluck out a first name and a surname. (Frank, Paul, Joe, Dorothy, Fred, Jesse, Gertrude, Elizabeth) To liven it up a bit, I try to give at least some of them nicknames. One unfortunate soul is 'Skunky'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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