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My forum name came from The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, by my favorite author. My FFXIV name, Lucia Vandal, I just chose because I think it sounded cool. My other character's name is Aldo Riot.

Edited, May 29th 2013 12:21am by Transmigration

Lol, it's ok. I really don't care if people use my real name or my in-game moniker. Amazingly, Bartel was a randomly generated name from the FFXI engine. Prior to that, I always used the name Seth for my characters in-game, based on the Egyptian God Set/Seth, the God of Wind, Storms, and War. I just always liked that name, but it was already taken on my server by the time I started playing (PS2 release). So I did about 100 random names until it came up with Bartel. I liked it, and the rest is history.

Yeah, I realize it's a pretty lame story.

Edited, May 29th 2013 12:38am by BartelX

Ray Goularahara... or Uraharay Goulet? Both sound pretty badass.

Edited, May 29th 2013 12:42am by BartelX

'Broken Fox' was inspired by Gray Fox from Metal Gear Solid and Broken Sword from Hero (the Jet Li movie).

Very nice! Now to pick. Lol I'm glad I started thinking about this stuff now... I could never make these kind of decisions on the fly....

My name in XI was Pangaea , the name of the super continent before they split apart. And in XIV is Ivo Thais ...Ivo is a "Cocteau Twins" song, and Thais is a "This Mortal Coil" song. My forum name here was from when I was trying to come up with a user name for something else (can't remember what now) and no matter what I tried using everything was already taken, so I took two random words and put them together for Marsupial boy.So I used that sometimes , wish I could change it now though. And no I'm not Australian.

My usual nickname for games is Teras wsich in my language it means monster (Τερας) but some times it is taken so I go with my second nickname Teravibe. It doesnt mean anything as far as I know I took it from a rock festival in my country.
Sometimes I use more when I need more characters like in eve online that I wanted to make a pirate char I named him Barbossa BLack.

I've used the name Damien in some way since I was about 12 or 13. Before I found the beauty of Starcraft or Diablo II I used to Role Play in Yahoo Chat like it was my MMO (OMFG Cheetah Chat FTMFWOMGBBQ). I met a girl on there and RPed a lot with her, eventually we had a non existent child after a 24 hour gestation period and she named it Damien. Oddly enough I had never really heard the name that much and thought it was pretty awesome. I RPed a bit as the "kid/adult/wtfever" and eventually adopted the moniker.

The Tweens are truly an awkward time, and back in my day we didn't have Bieber's to love/hate and focus our angst. Thank god for FFXI.

Well, my name is Louis, and some super clever bully realized that Louis sounds like "Lou Is" and said "Your middle name should be Gay. Get it? Lou Is Gay?"

This caught on with some people with variations like "Lou Is Ugly" or "Lou Is Stupid." When the original X box came out and I had to choose a name, I said "You know what? Haters gonna hate, Lou Is Cool."

In-game name is just a combination of that at the movie title Coolhand Luke, because I wanted to be a Pugilist.

Back in the old NES days and some SNES RPG's, we had the old 4 letter names going, so for a long time I went with Seth, even though my name is Nick. I think it was Breath of Fire that started that tradition for me, even though I was a HUGE fan of Shining Force and the guy's name was Max. Max just didn't seem powerful enough for me, but I suppose if my name were Seth, I'd think differently. I started writing a fantasy book in high school that an old floppy disk ate when it crashed (I'm kinda old), where the main bad guy was named Medieve, a play of medieval (necromancer of course, a year or two before Warcraft 1 was released and I've been called a plagarist ever since :D). The Hero I named Draven Knightfall, clever only because I decided he'd fall and be redeemed Vader-like. I thought I was being inventive, but really just copying various Star Wars references at the time. I still love the characters I made back in the day though, even though I can barely remember them anymore, so I keep Medieve as my single name handle, and Draven Knightfall when I can afford a surname.

Edited, May 29th 2013 9:23am by Medieve

Before I started posting on forums, FFXI Warrior was pretty much the loljob. It was slowly shedding the misconception of being just a subjob (Thanks, BradyGames!), and the /NIN thing was just starting. Well, by that time I was more accustomed to using a great axe, which by the majority of people meant it was the inferior weapon. I picked "lolgaxe" as a parody of the attitude of the time.

Atkascha is the name of one of the royal families in Final Fantasy Tactics. I read the in-game lore years ago when the game first came out. I thought the name was unique-sounding, so I used it for my first FFXI character. My XIV character was going to have the first name Yoshiyuki, which is the name of one of Cloud's katana-looking swords in FFVII that increases in power when party members are KO'd. But, surnames in XIV have to be three letters long... Let's just say my usual name doesn't fit this. I'll have decided on something else by the time the beta starts up again.

Thats just cold ACL.... 8 years running without a trophy and its hard to argue with you.