When naming your characters how do your names usually go?

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Do you usually name your characters after people, yourself, food, or characters? Or do you just smash your keyboard and be like, “hm this is good.”

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I can’t imagine ANYONE naming their characters after food

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I just have one name and then I just use different punctuation, special symbols or extra letters to it :stuck_out_tongue:

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Neither can I, those people must be really weird.

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I know a friend who names his after drinks. Close enough.

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My characters names are mostly what I have played other games with. My main in WoW is something from a movie and my next character was a childhood nickname and was my main in EQ. This character’s name was used years ago in EQ and I have several variations of it for some alts here in WoW, it makes me smile. :slightly_smiling_face: Other random alts have also been goofy names that make me smile. Nothing random.

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Usually class related, with a bit of crude humour.

Druid = Skozzah (Slang for bogan/feral female in Aus)
Warlock = Ahsoul
Paladin = Figjam
DK = Necroteety (Yes, she’s a Tauren)

Got plenty of character names I grew to hate too, but those are ones that didn’t follow this making convention, so now I know better.

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Depends on the server and faction. Most are random names that I’ve tweaked cause I thought they sounded fitting.

This server though, I have all ‘real’ names. Tony, Eric, Jason, Dan, David, etc. No accented letters, of course. I cling to these boys now.

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I usually pick something you’d be called be a lover (baby, darling, love, honey etc) then add “kinz” to it.

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My name, music (like this guy), and anime usually. I also have just random names I like.

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I don’t know why, but every time I see your name I sometimes read it as “butkick”

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I think that’s kinda the point. :rofl:

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Better than butt tick or butt lick like some people have told me :laughing:

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I have a mental list of all the names I’d like to have in-game and when I think of a new one I add it to the list so that I can try to reserve it on my realm or some other full or high pop realm. I came up with Blinktron for a mechagnome mage for example, but I had to make it on Moon Guard

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After anime characters, or after whatever their purpose is. If they pass butter, I’m naming them Butters or Margerine, something like that.

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It seems to work for Saiyans! (Dragonball lol) Then again, the naming conventions in that franchise are weird all around. We got a family that name themselves after underwear garments.

As for me; I either spend a few minutes thinking of a name; failing that I use the Random Name Generator.

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I have two characters where I used acronyms and two where I used adjectives from a different language.

My original character name from back in 2009 was from a random name generator that supposedly did “elf names.” When I came back this year, I wanted a change.

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I have a really bad habit of using Tolkien names. I just race changed my shaman to a dwarf and named her Dís (Fili and Kili’s mother, the only dwarf woman to be named by Tolkien). Oooh, I did reserve Veeshàn for when dracthyrs come, which is an EQ dragon from back in the day. :joy:

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A mix of everything really. Except food. Honestly, I find people that name their characters after food as zero-personality NPCs IRL, no offense of course.

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I just go with the flow