Name submissions thread

[B-Run]

Moving along! Things are going splendidly with the project and I am loving the participation we have been getting. Have a look at our 15th Man!

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Code:

The Implacable Experiment

This character is an individual who has had close contact with the Empire after being used for human (or esper) experimentation in the Magitek Facility and has taken on a grotesque appearance. This character is aware of their disturbing appearance and their primary drive is to seek vengeance against those who have wronged him/her and to see that they are brought to justice.

This character would work well in FF6 as they would serve to show the more cruel and inhumane side of the Gestahlian Empire, especially when you consider how much Terra's past is lacking in filling in the darker parts of the Empire's history. This character would also ideally have a somewhat strange fighting style which would vary from the other characters, they also by merit of being a Magitek experiment could have a natural magic learning list.

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Code:

The Betrayed Young Citizen
Gender: Female.

Back history: This daughter of a South Figaro sailor was raised by a lonely old woman from Vector after the boat transporting her and her father sunk near the Southern Continent. She was then taken prisoner by the Empire in her teenage years after the old woman died an that Emperor Gestahl adopted a secret law to capture homeless [and unwanted] citizens for Magitek experimentations. During her captivity, she developed her hate towards the Empire that she was considering once her second home.

Possible encounters: She might have been in contact with Cid and/or Kefka and/or Celes during her captivity. She might also have been in contact with some Espers and talked with them. This all depends on how we want to develop her back story and the game events.


Pros:
- Rich backstory and relations with the actual characters of the game if we want any.
- Explain well why the character feels doubly betrayed by the Empire and explain her hatred.

Cons:
- Might require a lot of event creation, but isn't this the goal of this hack? ;)

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That's right. TWO submissions threads running simultaneously! I just realized we can't call this the 15th Man forever. That's right, we need a name for the new PC that already has a lot of uniqueness and character built in. So I want to know what YOU want to call her. Remember our theme's and tell us why you chose the name you did.

Happy Hacking!

[Gi Nattak]

My official submission is:

Ursula Bishop

[Astaroth_]

Mallory Costa

Mallory, it is an old french name meaning: unlucky
It also means tower of strenght

[Gi Nattak]

Well Mallory is 7 letters. Unless we are planning to also expand the amount of letters for character names to 7 (or more) for this project to allow for this, it won't fit! =X

[Astaroth_]

There is different ways to spell mallory :-)

Malory
Malary
Malori

[Gi Nattak]

ahhhhh yeah lol, okay then no prob ^_^

[Lockirby2]

Urghhh...I suck at names...There's a reason why my Brave New World characters are named after YouTubers and most of my Pokémon nicknames are Final Fantasy characters or based on their look/original name. Or just something else backwards or mixed around *cough*.

My submission will be Suris Frigon. I wanted to choose something that wasn't actually a name, because many of the names in FF6 are things that sound like names but nobody in real life (well, not around where I live, anyways) would name their kid. Also, it avoids sounding like a particular nationality, which I like, to be honest.

[daemoth]

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.

[B-Run]

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.

[Gi Nattak]

Could Jade and Sara maybe be part of the final poll without anyone submitting them?