Name submissions thread

There is different ways to spell mallory :-)

Malory
Malary
Malori

Can you pick one for your official submission?

Fun fact: there are 16 characters unused character names in FF6.
TORK
JADE
CUSTER
FABIAN
DRAKE
SARA
CASE
SIELE
RAY
REIKER
LANCE
BOB
PEPPER
TAU
VICTOR
HO
Jade and Sara could be nice.

Actually, Sara would be a good one as a throwback reference. A lot of FF's have Sara and the name was noticeably absent in FF6.

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I love names. It always takes me as long to name a character as it takes to create... However, my official submission will be:

Iris Havengard

I pick this for a few reasons:

First of all, it came to mind the first time I saw the sprite...

While the name sounds very forceful, it actually has a very soft meaning beneath it:

-Iris:

"Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow. This name can also be given in reference to the English word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the name of the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye."

Iris' meaning of "rainbow" fits the Final Fantasy motif of naming characters based on weather phenomena rather well.

The eye thing, to me, is especially fitting because of her disfigured left eye.

Also, the fact that it is also a flower gives rise to the idea that there is something soft and delicate behind it. A woman in Iris' position would be haunted by the fact that she might not be worthy of love with what has happened to her and will likely blame herself. Acceptance will definitely play a big roll in her story.

-Havengard:

lit. Garden of Refuge. First, it ties with the first name's flower meaning. Secondly, having been passed around from guardian to guardian her whole life, and finding death and loss at every turn, there is nothing Iris would be seeking more than to create a world where she can have refuge. THIS is her driving force.

Haven also has Old Norse roots meaning "harbor," which also has connotations of safety as well as fits with her backstory as coming from S.Figaro.