Naming Your Character In RPGs?

Thanks to InsertCredit for their feature discussing the player-inputted choice for character names in videogames. They discuss some of the joys of DIY character naming ("Some people will buy an RPG, only to name the characters after their favorite profane words"), as well some more unlikely pleasures ("I became obsessed with buying used Final Fantasy VI cartridges for 100 yen at a certain game shop in Akihabara, just to see what all the characters had been named.") Taking a lead from this distinctly unconventional article, what names have Slashdot Games readers entered for characters in their favorite RPGs, and why?

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here's my list :

[DrSkwid]

Quake : cereal
Half-life : King.Robo
Everquest : Cmunthen Alnawyer
DAOC : Urt Vert, Rong, Ryte
SWG : Bennt, '-'

A wise only RPGer will chose a short uncomplicated name

Azbywnwefcxxyxx-III Auctions 'Cloak of Thorns for sale'

/tell Azbywnwefcxxyx-III I'll buy that cloak for 5g
Azbywnwefcxxyx-III is not in game

/tell Azbywnwefcxyxx-III I'll buy that cloak for 5g
Azbywnwefcxyxx-III is not in game

/say sod it, I'll go buy one from the vendor for 10g

Real story. Very funny.

[Mensa Babe]

The only proprietary MMPOLRPG I have played was Ultima Online a year or two ago. My heroine had a greek version of my real name, but when I tamed a wolf, I named my beast "Assassin." Then, after clicking on my wolf I kept seeing "******in!" or something like that and I had no idea why. After few hours of playing I kept wondering why on Earth my other wolfs, namely Killer and Murderer, had no such problem with their names whatsoever, only to realise that Ultima Online was censoring vulgar language... I remember that I was really asshamed that someone could see me while calling my wolf and I stopped playing for few days.

Back in the days...

[grimani]

of PKilling MUDS...

my favorite has got to be mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm.

[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm has walked into room.
> kill mnmnmnnnmnmnmnm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmnmmmnnmnmnmm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmmnm
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm D - E - S - T - R - O - Y - S you with his backstab.
you are dead!

>FUCK!!!!!!!!

CarpelTunnelSyndrom

[johnkoer]

I named my DAOC char "CarpelTunnelSyndrom". I know it's spelled wrong, but I was drunk when I made the character, so lay off :). The reason I named him that is because the way DAOC displays kills. Whenever a I kill another player in combat a broadcast message is sent saying:

"XXX was killed by CarpelTunnelSyndrom."

Everyone gets a laugh on that one.

Zelda

[Antisthenes]

My younger brother named Link 'Zelda' when he played Ocarina of Time, just so that he could see the princess say "Zelda... that name sounds familiar..."

Not mine, but funny

[jvmatthe]

When I was Everquest Online Adventures there was this guy running around shouting "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"

His name, of course, was Verizon.

I just called my game Schnark. No good reason...just liked it.