The NAME!GAME

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If you're like me, and your family happens to be filled with ironic smart-arses, than you may have picked up on our lovely site-wide tendency to name our characters such ridiculous things that it makes me think the name "Apple" or "Bandit" for celebrity children are normal. This is a thread where you get to justify ONLY ONE of your characters names. Go through their whole name and tell me why your character, Saoirse Sansa Safrash Sascha Bellemimi Gordon is named what she's named.

Limit yourself! Only one character explanation per response, however after three other people have responded, you are allowed to post about a second/third/fourth/whatever character.

Happy explaining!

I'll start us off with my first ever character:

Dittany Briar Grey

Dittany comes from a book of herbs I had just gotten from a Getty museum in Malibu, it was used by ancient peoples for something cool, and I thought Dittany was a nice alternative to Brittany, although it is pronounced differently.

Briar was one of my favorite "Warrior Cats" characters, Briarcloud, who was my first appointed character on a website. This was a site I left just before joining Aya's old site, which led me here. So I figured I should take a piece of my old character, who resembled Dittany, to HGRPG.

Grey is simply the color of Dittany's eyes, and I always thought it was a nice word. Especially considering my name is "Cinder" so I like to play on ash/grey/gray/soot sort of words c:

[Morgana]

Nimitziminy O'Blen

She has a middle name, I think...but it's written down somewhere at home, which is currently two hours away by car. So maybe I'll edit that in when I get home?

Nimitziminy: I actually got this name from history class. I can't remember what we were talking about, but there was this guy with the last name Nimitz. I thought it was an intersting name, and I was trying to find something for a new character idea I'd had. So I feminized it by adding the "iminy."

O'Blen: I figured that if she had a crazy name like Nimitziminy, she had to have a nice, simple last name. I was thinking Ogren at first, or Blen, so I just fused them together and made O'Blen.

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STFU, I would name all my children Lalik. |< Not really. Of every name for my chars from this site, Cadia's real name is the one I'm least proud of. D: Lalik? What the hell was I thinking?

Most of my earlier characters' names were made up on the spot. Aranica was one of those. I thought up and rejected a number of names, trying to incorporate something that sounded like "rock" (for obvious reasons). Eventually I ended up with Aracina; I wasn't in love with it, but I liked it well enough to use it as a temporary name. While writing the bio I made a typo that turned it into Aranica, and fell in love with that. Aracina became the rocks' occasional nickname for her.

[EDIT: I suppose I should also note that I later found out that Aranica is the species name of the Aran rock lizard (Iberolacerta aranica). Go figure. xD]

For a long time she had no surname, because she was a wolf for the first two years of her existance and I didn't bother to give her one when I moved her to this site. When she was Reaped I decided she needed one, and went to find one that meant rock or stone or something similar. Originally I wanted something Asian, because she has a significant amount of Asian lineage and I wanted to make that a little more obvious, but I was more concerned with having something that sounded good. Petros both looked and sounded nice to me on the end of Aranica, and that was that. *shrugs*

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Well, most of my names are pretty generic, they still have meaning to the Characters. So, Lexi?

Alexiandrah Hannah Fallon

Alexiandrah - - Alexandra means "man's defender" or "warrior", being the female version of Alexander. I thought this played in pretty well because she's kind of a whore and she'll fight for what she wants. While thinking for a nickname, I thought of Lexi, and after popping it in to the name more, it just sounded more unique. Kind of a simple name just played around with.

Hannah - - This was originally done for Pika but after reading the definition, I kind of laughed. A site says that it is "He has favored me". And well, she is kind of a whore so I'm guessing guys would favor her?

Fallon - - The meaning of Fallon is superiority according to one site and Lexi kind of thinks she's the greatest thing ever and thinks everybody should like her. And I thought Fall-on was good because she seems to rely on people to fill her sexual desires.

[Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy]]

Seaborgium Storstrand?

I'm 75% sure Phunke wanted me to make a character named Seaborgium. I already had two element-named characters (Mercury and Antimony) and he was just another. Plus, I wanted a Career because I killed off the last one I had (oh the irony, he's going to die now too) and I wanted to nickname him Seah to be in District Four. The h is pretty much pointless.

As for Storstrand, it came up when I searched "Beach" as a meaning on BehindTheName. Simple enough.

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Rashta Delana-Danae Minthe

Rashta is a play on the name "Raksha" which I read somewhere and it supposedly means demon. Rashta is red-haired and looks very different to her relatives, so they kind of assume she isn't actually their child, like she's a demon!child. And its ironic because she was the one keeping her siblings well-fed. Rashta is a combination of Raksha + Rashel + Rasta

Delana-Danae is a middle-name combination of Delana, the name of a singer I like, and Danae from mythology. Back in my early days on this site I was caught up in a lot of myths, so names from them were my go-tos.

Minthe sounded like the sort of thing a District 12er would have as a last name considering many of the D12ers had herbal names. c:

[aya]

Arbor Caden Halt:

Arbor — Latin meaning tree. Considering how his District 12 seemed to enjoy plant names, I found it appropriate, and I liked the way it sounded.

Caden — mostly I just liked the way it sounded (I'm a sucker for anything Irish, and it's derived from a surname (Irish surnames <3) but I'm fairly certain I'd been thinking of it as an offshoot of "cadence" which is a word that I particularly like.

Halt — Less of the verb, more of a nod to Halt of the Ranger's Apprentice series (which I only read the first of, despite admining a RPG for a few years up until... oh, wow, I guess I'm still an admin xD) because for whatever reason, I really like last names that start with H. And it sounded nice.

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D12 PLANT NAMES, FTW.

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Devroux Southern-Hymn Creighton


Devroux - A derivative from the last name of a guy I know. xD Or knew, rather... he's off at college now. I love the name. <3

Southern-Hymn - This is actually the name of a song we played in band once called Southern Hymn by Samuel Hazo. I love the song because I think it's one of the most moving pieces I've ever played/heard. <3

Creighton - ...... no idea why I chose this, actually. No, actually, I remember. xD I got this from Creighton University in Nebraska. Woot? :D? xDD And I think I was wearing a Creighton shirt when I came up with his name....

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[ja'mie]

Wilhelmina Jade Jaciak...

Wilhelmina: Soo, I've actually always disliked this name, and just recently I went, "Oh wait, I like this." I think it's mostly because I adore the nickname Willa (which kind of reminds me of Wilma from the Flinstones <3). I also really like the name William, so I mean... just kind went with it.

Jade: Alliteration with Jaciak, so yay! This is actually based around my friend (her name is Hannah too, lol). Her middle name is Jace, And she always complains, because her little sister was given the middle name Jade, haha, so. I love that whole family to bits. <3 I was debating back and forth between Jace and Jade, before I went with Jade.

Jaciak: Rofl, oh god. I wanted something with a cool pronunciation, so I literally looked at my faceclaim list, which is mostly made-up of models, and models always have the coolest last names. So I ended up going off of Jagaciak, named after Monika 'Jac' Jagaciak. Just modified it a bit.

[Rosetta]

Claustrum Mallor:
Claustrum: it's the Latin word for prison. Claustrum lives in D13, and feels closed in and trapped. She wants to run underneath the stars, climb trees, but instead, she's stuck underground. However, the girl has an extremely open mind, and is imaginative, therefore she is seldom trapped in her own head. Both ironic and symbolistic.
Mallor: it just sounds nice.

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Willow "Will" Kaveh Alkaev is one of my more realistic names. I wanted a girl who went by a boy's name despite not being particularly tomboyish, so I chose several simple boy's names and played around with female names that contain them. Simple but not terribly common was my target (I didn't want a Samantha who went by Sam, for instance), and Will ended up being the easiest to work with within those parameters. Plus, Willow gave me an easy excuse for the nickname- Will is the center of the universe, don't you know? Why would she want to be named for a tree? Gosh. *insert dramatic eye roll here*

Kaveh is a Persian name. Typically masculine, it means "royal" or "hero" depending on who you ask and was the name of a hero who led a rebellion against an evil ruler. As noted above, Will tends to think she's the center of everything, so there you go. =P As for Alkaev, I wanted a Russian surname in honour of Will's FC, the lovely Yulia Savicheva, and I like how Alkaev sounded both on its own (A, L, and K are three of my favorite letters). It comes from the Russian verb alkat, "wish."

Her little brother, Chepi, was made up on the aim with the intention of being cute but sort of grating. Her parents have Russian first names, though.

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Lane Fox Ralyks


Lane - - This was probably the hardest name choice that I made. Which is weird considering it is a simpler name. I chose this originally because a lane is basically a path, which relates to him because he definitely took the wrong path in life.
Fox - - Foxes are sly and Lane is a carefree killer and is very calculative, kind of similar to a fox.
Ralyks - - Reverse of Skylar. RAL-ICKS. I ran out of names that might sound good (I have a notepad for it xP) and when I saw Skylar's name in the cbox, I thought that Ralyks actually sounded pretty good.

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ESSENCE - I was watching TV and saw a commercial for this, and plus, it sounds pretty.

Allyson - Her FC is Aislinn Paul, and so yeah.

NEMAD - Obviously Damen backwards.


My character names don't have much meaning xD

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Razor Creel:

Razor:
The first Online RP character I've made that's a total jerk.
The character of Razor likes to cut people. Not with a blade, but with words, his attitude etc. He is also somewhat of a masochist. He's not happy unless he's worked himself to the point of exhaustion. I picked the name Razor because I wanted something that sounded like a name in Panem, and was also connected to district two's industry. Naming him Carver, or Cutter seemed fa bit, I don't know, generic. Though I'll probably name characters that in the future.

Creel:
This last name was taken from a character named Panamon Creel from The Shannara Series by Terry Brooks. The character is a minor one, a mercenary whose destiny is inexorably tied to the protagonist. I just happened to like the way Creel sounded with the word Razor in front of it.