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Post by ayden on Oct 7, 2011 14:57:42 GMT -5
Kay, this game is as lame as it sounds. Pretty much you're going put the names of your character, and tell us why that name. I guess it just helps other people understand why the hell you chose such a weird ass name understand the depth of your character.
HARLEY LILITH JOHNSON ;;
To be honest, with Harley I'm not entirly sure why I chose this. I like unique, and weird names. Harley is just one of those names you don't usually see. But there was this girl that worked at Kroger (food store btw) and her name was Harley Davidson. No freaking lie. Anyways, Harley's middle name has always struck interest with me. I am huge on like religion, and getting into the mythology of it, and the name 'Lilith' comes from the supposed first demon of Lucifer. I am not a devil worshiper, fyi. But, it always struck me odd that she was labeles a demon because she refused to lay down for man, and as punishment was cast away into Hell, and was unable to produce children. She is also known as the Mother of Demons. Her children were stillborn, but she made a deal with the devil, but her children would bear a mark of him. Blah blah blah. I love that name. I think it fits Harley's personality. Her last name I got from my friend Micheal <3 lol.
ROMAN KRISTOFER LEVRIT ;;
So, Roman is NOT a typical name. If anyone has realized by now, I am not your typical person xD Roman is a very formal, and manly. I consider a strong name cause...you know...the romans xD I don't have a super long explaination like the one above. Kristofer is just another weird thing from me. I like to come up with my own spelling though I totally got this from a book and just make it different. Levrit is a last name of a friend c;
AYDEN LIAM TYLER ;;
Well I was given the first and last name..BUT my 2nd cousin has this exact name, minus the Tyler. I thought the spelling was just adorable, his middle name fit perfectly. So..yeah. He is pretty much named after my cousin <3
Now you know more about why I named my babies this. Obviously Harley's is the most detailed. She is also my main, and the one I put most thought into. c: So, I mean..yeah. I'd love to read about everyone else and see if people do research like me
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Post by brett on Oct 7, 2011 16:10:30 GMT -5
BRETT HARVEY BLAIRE
In all honesty, the whole name revolved around the Harvey bit for a while. I was going to name the guy after an imaginary bunny from an old movie and an older play, but I figured no one would think someone named Harvey would be the wild child that I wanted him to be. I don't usually use common-ish names, so it was hard to find one that fit my darling thunder. So after a while, I turned to characters I'd retired. I revisited a dissociative identity disorder patient on an asylum RP named Brett (or Iggy) Maddox Darcy, and figured I'd just use the entire old name, scrapping the whole Harvey bit. Unfortunately that really didn't pan out because once I finished my app, I noticed that there was a wip ironically named Darcy Chase Maddox. What are the odds, right? So anyway, I was chatting with a friend, and she's like "use alliteration" I don't know why, but I love her, so I decided to give it a go. Blair came from the Blair Witch Project, which I was watching while making him. So adding an e, Brett Blaire was born. Adding the original Harvey back into the picture as a middle name helped me complete the name. Still, without a movie about kids being attacked by a ghost witch, and another about a 6'3 1/2" invisible rabbit, Brett's name would be entirely different.
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Post by ASHTON CAMDEN RALEIGH on Oct 7, 2011 17:28:15 GMT -5
joshua donovan dale ,
Well, his first name is after the lead singer of Marianas Trench, Josh Ramsey. Lame, right? xD I needed a name so I just pulled that one and voila. The rest of his name just kind of... fell into place o.o He told me that his family has a tradition where the middle name of the (firstborn) son is the name of the father so that's why his middle name is Donovan, and as for the last name it just... clicked. As for the literal meaning, as in what the names mean (though I didn't chocse them for their meaning)? Joshua means something like God is Salvation which made me laugh since Josh is as Atheist as they come. It's Hebrew I think. Bible names, yay? xD Donovan means like... Dark Warrior or Dark Chieftain. Pretty sure I read that it was Irish or Celtic or something. I got a real kick out of that one. And Dale is... it's a valley of some sort. So no, Josh's name doesn't make any sense but it wasn't supposed to, so.
ashton camden raleigh ,
Ashton is actually the name of a female friend of mine. I needed a name that sounded kind of... nice? Gentle? I didn't want to go with the sort of tough-sounding name or anything so I just stole her name because I knew it was unisex. Congrats, Ashy bby, you're named after a chick. Camden just sounded cool. I found out later that it's a place in New Jersey which is actually pretty funny considering his last name (Raleigh) actually was named intentionally after the city in North Carolina. It's where a favourite band of mine is supposedly from and it sounded interesting in combination with his first and middle so I slapped it on there and Ash was born.
rowena audrey bennett ,
Rowena is after Rowena Ravenclaw in Harry Potter. Go ahead and laugh xD I'm fond of the Ravenclaw house in the books and I really liked the name Rowena so I just decided to go with that. Audrey is the name of my Mum's best friend from childhood and I really liked it. I've never met Audrey in my life but I thought the name sounded pretty. Bennett was decided by Lace, Stark and I over a skype call. No story behind that--we were just looking up names on Google and we went with that one.
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Post by xmarci on Oct 7, 2011 19:02:38 GMT -5
Deirdra Athena Megami Rosewood;;
[/i] Well, her name came to me in a very odd way. Deirdra is a character who was so crazy and different from my norm that she somehow managed to smash her way through my writers block. Her first name I got from a show called Hellcats, and while I had no idea how to spell it it just stuck in my head as being really unique. It also made my think 'demon' every time I heard it, and somehow it just fit for this insane chick here. Then, to offset it, I chose the name Athena, who is my favorite mythological god, the goddess of wisdom and someone I always saw as being one of the purer of the mythological immortals. It was my way of sorta reminding myself that while she's extremely troubled, she's still a kindly girl on the inside. Cliche, I know. >.< Megami just came to me, I really have no reason for it. And Rosewood, I'm pretty sure was just buried in my subconscious from watching Pretty Little Liars nonstop one day. All in all, I thought about what I wanted to think about the character in her name. And as an added detail, I also thought about what her insane, obsessive father would have named her. Athena because he thoughts she was beautiful, Deirdra because she reminded him of her mother and thus something that should be crushed. Four names because he knew she should be special and set apart someway. All of it was chosen in a sick, sick light by her father, but it did influence how I named her. Andrea Loreli Skye;;Here I'll start with the last name, because it's the easiest. A family of proud wind elementals, I imagine, who have a name like Skye or the like. I also love the way it sounds, and the way it looks when I add an 'e' onto it. :3 Loreli is pretty simple, also. The name has always made me think of innocent, sweet, young girls, who maybe don't quite understand why the people around her don't treat her as nice as they could. It speaks to the part of Andy that she tries to keep hidden even more than her job--if all had been well, she might have had the personality of an earthie. As for Andrea, well I wanted a more pompous sounding name because of her family's pride. I also wanted the name to be able to be shortened to something more androgynous lie 'Andy', because a big part of her personality is her shut down from her family. She wants to bring herself down, make herself less elegant, and not be reminded of her dumb stupid family. It's a way of acting out, really. Thus, Andy Loreli Skye was born. [/blockquote][/blockquote][/justify][/size]
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Post by NELL DOE DALE on Oct 7, 2011 19:20:40 GMT -5
nell doe shepherd
Nell had always been my favorite first name, and she was my first character so she’s like my baby. It means ‘light’ in Greek. As for her middle name, I wanted Nell and her twinny to match. I named her sister Till because it sounds similar to Nell (mono-syllablic and four letters), and their middle names Doe and Rae are based off musical notation. Yeah, creative right.
Her real last name followed Spanish tradition with the mother's and father's surname. Her mother’s family name is Sinclair, and I really just chose it because it was French and European sounding. Fuentes is her Spanish family, and when you put that together you have Sinclair Fuentes. As for the last name she came up with, I had to think of what she’d name herself. And it had to do with food, of course. Since her favorite food is shepherd’s pie, there you have it.
samson ulysses fisher
I AM TOTALLY NOT FANGIRLING BECAUSE BOTH HARLEY AND SAMSON HAVE BIBLICAL NAMES NOPE. >> Samson's name comes from The Bible. The strongest man in the world who gets his hair lopped off by a bitch paid by the Philistines. And then he's blinded. SO THIS IS MY OWN VERSION OF SAMSON, BUT HE’S A MUTE. Also, Regina Spektor is my favorite musician with a song named Samson, and I'm stupid like that. His middle name? Okay, yes, I named him after the president Ulysses S. Grant. Aannd it’s the latin name for Odysseus, and since Samson's character ironically has a lot to do with the sea, it just fit. I don’t even want to admit his last name, but yes, I named him after fishing. Don’t judge me.
altair sabina bennett
I forget where her first name came from, actually. I know that it means ‘Bird’ in Arabic and yeah… Her middle name was picked because I thought it sounded good with Altair. And her last name—as Tay said—was decided over Skype for the triplets.
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Post by DAYONE LEO TYLER on Oct 7, 2011 20:36:06 GMT -5
So I guess I'll play too!
Ace Ispada Lupus So Let's see.. Ace's story is pretty boring. You see. Ace was named after the Ace of Spades. Why? Well because at the time that was my favorite card. Still my favorite card of course. Then his middle name Ispada. Well Ace Spades didn't really ring for me. And i wanted him to be a bit more, well ethnicish i guess? Anyway. Spades used to be Swords when Cards where first made, than Ispada is spanish for swords. Yes. And then Lupus. Well Lupus because Back in one of the other incarnations of the site, he was a Werewolf. Yep, so just one of those reasons..
Leonard King Maron Well, I gave him the name after he was created. The name because well Ironically Leo is very, cowardly i guess. And he doesn't protect himself much. So what he lacks is courage. And what other animal is assosiated the best with Courage other than a Lion?! So his name became Leonard, Leo (the Lion) for short. King well because of Leo really. Just so i could make a Lion King reference in my wee little charrie. So yea that's really it. His last name i just got from a random name generator and i kept clicking until one sounded good.
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Post by ged on Oct 7, 2011 22:03:25 GMT -5
*flail* this makes me want to explain the names for all of my characters, but it wouldn't make sense because you guys don't know most of them =( So I guess I'll just do Ged for now.
Gerard R Jackson
Well...I don't really remember how I decided on Ged's first name (even though it was only about a month ago that I created him)...I do know the "Ged" came before "Gerard." I was trying to think of something fairly simple, pretty short, and I was building him as another version of my main char I usually use on sites (his name is Devin, you might hear more about him later). So Dev turned into Geb, which makes me think of Neb for a nose, and then I remembered Ged. Ged, for those who don't know, is the name of the Wizard of Earthsea fame. Earthsea Ged travels around a lot, and my Ged is a complete drifter. His character basis comes from the movie Chocolat, which everyone should see. It has Johnny Depp in it, and lots of yummy chocolate. So Ged's name had to be short and sweet and a balance between nondescript and unusual enough for him. So Ged worked pretty darn well. Then, I had to find a full name for him, because he is from a lower-class family. His mother has probably read the Earthsea series, but she would want to give him a name that sounds more impressive (she's a very interesting character in my head as well). Gerard could have Ged as a nickname, and it sounds very...romantic. Softly rolled rrrs, the growling g at the beginning...so very not-Ged-like. It means "bravery of the spear" or something like that, and is of a weird French/Irish mix origin of some sort. Basically, Ged needed a pretty name that made him stand out from the Jacks and Jills of his hometown. His name, while fairly normal, just sounds so different from the strong, extremely British syllables of his last name.
Ged's last name and middle name are much less complicated than his first. I needed something strong and suite ordinary for his last name, since it comes from his father. Ged's father is the classic tall, strong, blue collar worker, and I feel the nickname Jackson fits that. Ged's middle name is exactly what you see. I had to state my case for Taylor and Stark before I was allowed to leave Ged's middle name as only the letter 'R.' Ged isn't sure where it came from. His mother filled out his birth certificate because his father was out of town and didn't hear about the birth until two days after the fact, when Ged's mother had actually already left, leaving only newborn Ged and the birth certificate behind. What did Ged's mother mean to name him? Did she truly decide to leave him behind half-named? Did a nurse just fill in a letter because the form called for one? His middle name is an R, without the period afterwards that would mean the R stands for something. Instead, there is no period, which really makes you think someone just started writing down a middle name, but left after the first letter for whatever reason.
So yeah, that's where Gerard R Jackson comes from. Overly complicated story and everything, lol, with a ton of headcanon mixed in an extraneous details.
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Post by dannica on Oct 9, 2011 0:33:52 GMT -5
DANNICA LEE JOHNSON
[/left]Well, I like the name DANNICA. In fact, that's the name I plan on naming my first female child. The meaning of it is hebrew origin and means "morning star" which I think is really pretty. The "LEE" part is random. I wanted "Marie" as her middle name, but at the time that middle name was already taken by a character, I didn't want to copy them, so I chose something that I thought would flow, and Lee it was. JOHNSON was random as well, and I just chose the first last name that was in my head. XAVIER MICHAEL BELTON
[/left]XAVIER...I don't know where that name came from. I asked someone on the C-box for an awesome name of a male, and one of the people said Xavier, and I stuck with it. MICHAEL was just a random middle name I thought up, and right after choosing MICHAEL, I chose BELTON. ARIELLE KAIYA FRANCIS
[/left]ARIELLE, for me, is a very important name. ((A little fun fact for you guys)) It's in fact a variation of my own name, which is Ariel. Since she's sort of based on me, I decided to share my name with her. It means "lioness of God" I love it so much! KAIYA I came up with myself. I thought it was pretty, so I just chose it as a middle name for her. FRANCIS is a last name that's from my ancestors. I didn't want to put my real last name, so I settled with something that was close to me already. ((I hope I didn't give away too much of my identity >.<)) SEBASTIAN THOMAS FREEMAN
[/left]While I was thinking names for him, I was thinking of a name that related to the sea. So, I thought up SEBASTIAN. Later on I realized that I had two major characters in Disney's The Little Mermaid. THOMAS is in fact, the first name of the pb. His full name is Tom Welling (( WHO I LOVE SO MUCH <3333)). FREEMAN...was yet another random last name I thought up. [/size]
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Post by TAYLOR THE CANADIAN on Oct 9, 2011 0:45:21 GMT -5
((I hope I didn't give away too much of my identity >.<)) First thing that popped into my head was, "We gonna find you, we gonna find you." xD And now I have it stuck in my head.
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Post by HIRO JUN MIZUSHIMA on May 17, 2012 0:41:48 GMT -5
KAI LEE JACKSON I just love the name Kai mainly because of a number of character that I love are named Kai, the same with Lee. As for Jackson, I wanted to give him more of an American last name since he was born in the states. It Probably makes no sense but yeah
BASTIAN RAY HAWTHORNE His first name was going be Ray but as I was looking for good combinations of names with Ray I stumbled upon "Sebastian Ray"....Sebastian was definitely one of those names that I just love the sound of as it rolls off the tounge. At the time I was making him though there was a character with the first name Sebastian and so I didn't want to make another character with the same first name. That was when I thought of the "NeverEnding Story" and the main character Bastian. Hawthorne was just another name I liked so I went with that one.
HIRO JUN MIZUSHIMA This one was actually pretty easy. Hiro again is just a name I love the sound of. Jun is the name of my PB (Jun Matsumoto). I wanted a Japanese last name and Mizushima was the first name that came to mind. Funny enough it wasn't until after he had gotten accepted that I realized that if you removed the "Jun" from the name it actually makes the name of another Japanese actor I absolutely love.
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Post by SKYE JESSICA FORD on Jun 29, 2012 23:38:25 GMT -5
skye jessica ford lol oh, i have a real story for this one. originally skye was made on a cartoon spirits site... as the spirit of jessie from pokemon. LOL she's gone through some mad transformations since then and she's really nothing like jessie now, as far as i can tell... but that's how it started, word up. so her middle name, jessica, obviously comes from that. 'ford' came from a friend of mine whose last name is actually hyphenated, so originally skye's was too as ford-cook (which is not said friend's real last name, fyi)... but i think because of the no double names rule here at aote i decided on just 'ford'. for good measure, her mom's maiden name is still cook, but i don't know if i ever said that. as for skye, funnily enough, her first name is the only one i don't have a story for at all. i don't even remember where it came from.
sandra haru chang lol she was... originally made on a harry potter site... as a relative of some kind of cho chang's, LOL. .___. so that's the chang part. 'haru' means 'spring' in japanese, and it is the season she was born in, BUT FUNNILY ENOUGH, i had forgotten this and i wasn't even thinking when i did her app for aote and made up her birthday and it almost ended up being in august. then i read the age thing in the important reads and decided on june instead, so she made it into spring by all of two days. i only realized after (when cassie asked about whether matthew's middle name should be a season too) that her middle name almost made no sense for a while there. fail, an. as for sandra, again, i have no recollection of how this came up. XD;
logan christopher seok word, okay, he's actually named after a character a friend of mine had way back in the day on like, neopets roleplaying. which is a mess, but you know. it's what it is. so his name is logan, and i picked his last name off of a wikipedia page of korean last names, and i think i just picked christopher because it sounded nice.
christina mae smith she was... also made originally for a harry potter site, lol. i used to live on them, okay. XD; in this case, a relative of some kind of zacharias smith's. she was actually named after christina aguilera because it was late, i was running short on ideas, and i just scrolled through itunes and picked it. (also, i just loved christina aguilera at the time, LOL.) mae... i also picked because it sounded nice. then her birthday was made in may for obvious reasons, not the other way around.
(this was totally pointless. if you read this... good job? i feel like my stories are so boring compared to everyone else.)
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Post by crystal on Oct 5, 2012 13:29:22 GMT -5
Crystal Marie Donavan Previously Crystal Star Stream
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[/right] Well I might as well start with the older name, but i have no idea where Crystal came from. I claim i was to young to know a dumb idea when it slapped me in the face. But that is besides the point, this was back in the days when people had last names that were, well cringeworthy. Her middle name just sorta fit with the rest of the ridiculous names that came out of my keyboard. Gotta love revisiting those days.
Now her more recent name needed a revamping. I stuck with the first name cause it really fits her character the overly helpful personalty she is but I couldn't really keep her old history or name. So I got her last name from warehouse13 and Eureka respectively and then proceeded to laugh my ass off when i realized that Tay used the same name for Josh. Now the name Marie I had just recently used in a criminology project it it was the perfect bridge between the two names, so I used it.[/justify][/blockquote][/blockquote]
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Post by deane on Dec 1, 2012 10:09:08 GMT -5
Deane Clark Dickerson's name was originally Logan Clark Dickerson, actually. 5 years ago, at any rate. His name began with his parents, of course. His father was quite a comic book fan, and he loathed Deane basically from the moment of conception. To try and spare her son as much hate as possible, Deane's mother allowed his father to name him. As such, Eric, Deane's dad, named him "Logan" after Wolverine from the Marvel Comics and "Clark" after Superman from the DC Comics.
The last name was originally obtained through a dense surname search. I wanted a name that had some general roots in England, but couldn't exactly be traced back very far. It needed to be modern, American-esque, and perfect for Deane's father's family. I stumbled across the name "Dickerson" and it fit perfectly. Not only is it hard to trace the ancestry, but Eric is quite the "dick" so to speak. Voila!
As for the name change, unfortunately, about a year and a half after I made Logan, I joined a site that only allowed one character for each name, and there was already a character who had claimed the name "Logan." I was forced to come up with a name lickety split, and I hate to admit it, but I went to a name search bank with no specific purpose or meaning to search for. I came across the name "Deane," and if I'm honest, I originally didn't like it much. Over time, though, it has become my all time favorite name.
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Post by kod on Dec 4, 2012 16:06:13 GMT -5
KEDRICK ORPHEUS DALAIS Well, when I wanted a Darren Criss character, like any character I make I went to my trust baby name site. And the name Kedrick stuck out at me. Its old English, and means 'kindly and loved' Although this is kind of the opposite of his personality. I just really loved the name. Now Orpheus, that fits him much better, Its Greek it means 'beautiful voice' (What the site says) In Greek mythology, Orpheus was given his lyre by Apollo himself. Trained by the Muses, he developed into a musician so talented he could literally move mountains with his song. When his wife, Eurydice, died from a snake bite, he descended into the realm of the dead to win her back to life. The gods were so moved by his music that they agreed to her return on the condition that Orpheus not look back at her as he led her upward to the sky. He could not resist glancing at her, and she vanished back into Hades. The tragedy of his gallant failure has been made into several operas. (credit HERE) All of that said this fits Kedrick perfectly ♥ Now Dalais was just kinda random. I'm not sure what It means. I beleive I found it on a Welsh surname site. That I can't find anymore. But I still use it because the whole name together sounds perfect <3
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Post by JUSTIN DANIEL DUVAL on Dec 5, 2012 0:14:42 GMT -5
Everyone has these awesome stories.... Mines super quick XD
Justin Daniel Duval - I had recontly gone a cruise and met this guy (no, I'm NOT maryann in my app XD). He. was. perfection. Seriously, like everything he did I was bowing at his feet pratically. Sang to me everyday. Super super good looking. He actually did crazy magic, he was sociable. Just like, all these things. Justin did tell me I was pretty and I was going jioefpawjpoifewjoip cause you know, I don't get that O.o but he had a girlfriend back home (actually named Emily but yeah) so he didn't do anything else. That was kinda where the brain baby came out. But THATS PRETTY MUCH IT <3
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