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How did you come up with your characters name?
« on: November 01, 2016, 06:23:55 pm »
Well I wanted I unique and uncommon name so for Baine I basically got his name from the name of a character from World of Warcraft. For Segador I wanted his name to be Reaper, but that name is too common so I decided to translate the word Reaper into Spanish so it came up as Segador. I thought it was a good name so I decided to keep it. My other character Amon well I just searched in Google names of Demon gods because he is like a demon. Then I came up with a Demon God called Amon.

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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2016, 07:25:48 pm »
I came up with the name VortexAlive by thinking about what I keep doing with everything, the Vortex part comes from me continuously switching what I'm doing in a sort of circular rotating pattern. The alive part comes from me being the only "Living" Vortex that also still manages to leave an empty gap of space every time I do something. xD

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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2016, 07:27:55 pm »
While everyone else was actually creative and awesome at coming up with their character names, I just went online and looked around for one and Azura just popped out at me. I also use that for my online name.

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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2016, 09:45:34 pm »
Type random letters and see if its easy to pronounce and sounds like a name.

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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2016, 09:53:17 pm »
I'll look at name generators and depending on the name, I'll switch some letters around to make a new name. In most of the names I have, I start out with using one of my favorite letters and sometimes just build my own name from there, idk. I like the names you have btw (Baine, Segador, and Amon)
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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2016, 02:01:22 am »
Most of my character names are Latin and based of how they behave, ex. my characters Res (Truth) and Medax (Liar), some others are just random words like Red, my very unused character, or from generators, like my unused horse character Midas. There's one character I got a name from a dream for, modified the character a lot but kept the name (ShadowFang).
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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2016, 04:34:15 am »
Google LOL! Or I button mash and mix and match letters into something that sounds neat.


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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2016, 07:02:32 am »
i have terrible names because i normally name them exactly what they are...
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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2016, 04:25:17 pm »
I often use the 20000+ Names website and pick names that (supposedly) originate from the region their species usually lives in. Like, I use African names for lions, Native American names for certain kinds of wolves, etc.
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Re: How did you come up with your characters name?
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2016, 06:27:24 pm »
I think about what name is appropriate. For example, if they look like their name is Storm I'll name 'em Storm. Storm was my first OC. He was based on a plushie I had that had a blue collar and nametag that said 'Storm'.

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