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(Ok, I wanted to make a topic that was a little more interesting than Favorite Town, Favorite this, Favorite that, Favorite etc.)

Ok, when you played FF6, what did you do for your character's names? Did you leave them the original all caps names as it is default; did you change everyone's name to how it is proper (IE: Terra, Locke); or did you come up with your own creative names?

If the latter, what were some of your most interesting names ever made?

For me, when I started playing, I always changed the character's names to names of my friends, and I would usually be Edgar or Sabin. But most of the time I changed their names to the proper ones.

You gotta go with the ALL CAPS way.  Original is the best.

Anyway, I usually kept the names the same, except a couple times I changed stuff to like Tina from the Japanese version and Tarzan for Gau.  I'm not too creative.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

I keep them all in caps, I usually put locke as my name, cause
out of all the characters in that game i look like him the most.
and i put my sister's name in for Relm, cause their both the same
age and like to paint!
and I name GOGO, MUZZY, jus cause it looks funny when you
look at the name and status protrait when your in the menu.  

Other then that everyone else is just thier regular names..

EDIT: another thing ive done, in FF7 I put redXIII as nanaki
        and when you get to cosmo canyon the guy there would
        say "Nanaki is Nanaki!"



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Why do kamakazi pilots wear helmets?

I usually just leave it in CAPS.

But sometimes you come to a character like Cait Sith, and I call him 'Fatrator'  or something of a similar nature.  (It's Fat Traitor, shortened.)  I like Reeve. but not Cait Sith...I know it's not FF6, but...quiet!

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Really Random Quote of the Day: "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war." - Richard M. Nixon

So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

Hmm...Muzzy eh? BLAH

I have once renamed to these people in my life,
Terra=sister
Edgar=My older brother
Sabin=me..
Gau=Danny

hmm...that is all i can remember

and i also renamed RedXII to Tiger, since in the storyline It would make more sense if i changed it to a nickname, cause i doubt people would like to use a name like that...

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stupid horoscope
wrong again

It depends, by some strange reason I tend to change the first charachers name, but leave the rest. I change LOCKE into LOKE, and I usually leave the caps on.

I usually keep all of the characters' names as the all-caps originals, but sometimes I like to get a little creative.  Once in a while I name characters from TV shows or anime which I like, particularly if their personalities match.

Another thing I've done is to name all of the characters STUPID, if only for the fleeting satisfaction of hearing Locke say "I'm with STUPID!"  

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
~Dorothy L. Sayers

"The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
~T.S. Eliot

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!"
~ Bruce Lee

heheh, thats funny SM. Umm i come up with my own name for the characters. except for a few chars with cool names like Shadow.

Sabin-Hawk, it may seem uncreative due to my name but my dad always named his favorite char hawk, and sabin was always hawk for him too.
Terra-Terry, not too creative...
Edgar-Xero, could be hero, could be zero...
Gogo-Kain, i always make him a dragoon
Umaro-Krunk,Krumb,Or Krunch, i dunno these names just kinda fit him

I always named Red XII RedX cuz it sounded cool

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This one time I punched a bear in the forehead TO DEATH! I still have the scars on my chest. I am the manliest man that ever did man.

League: Z3roHawk
Steam: Zero_Hawk
Wii U: Zero_Hawk
FF14 - Goblin - Zero Hawk <Fiend>

I always used the original names of the chracters. The atmosphere wouldn't be there If I named them something else.

hmmmm.... I was creative.
The strangest (most origional) would be whan I named 'em after drugs.  The strangest one there musta been Relm named "Methy" and Strago as "Crack"

i used to do it proper cuz it looked nicer, but its annoying to waste time on it, and its easier in caps cuz you automatically see when a different person is talking.

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You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...

In VI I just changed them all into my friend's names, nothing too creative. VII was the one where it was funny to change them all:

SPOILER ALERT!  Highlight to view:

Cloud=>Zack Barrett=>Dyne Tifa=>You (just for the scene where Reno and Rude are talking about who they like. Creates some interesting dynamics between the turks.) Aeris=>Holy RedXIII=>Nanaki Cait Sith=>Reeve("So Reeve is...Reeve?")

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"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

I ALWAYS rename my chars. Either as people I know and usually - like (Terra = Tsumi), or as I please. (Edgar = Roy) OR as chars from other games I  played (Cyan = Gordon). Get the pint?

Sorry...meant point  



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"I fell off the mountain of words at around the 10,000ft mark. Tell my family...they owe me money." -Narratorway

"If you retort against this, so help me God I'll shove any part of your anatomy I can find into some other part. Figuratively, of course." - Josh

"We have more, can deliver tuesday." - Del S

Good old CoN

I change the capital names into proper grammar, because ALL CAPS IS ANNOYING.  I hardly ever, IF EVER, name my characters names other than what's suggested.

Well, for the characters I always change them to lower case, because I really dislike the all caps.

Normally I change the names of the characters into other game/anime characters, which somewhat resemble the character.  

Sabin=Gourry (If I could give him a last name it would of course be Gabriev), because they're both kinda dense

Terra=Amelia, despite the fact that Amelia doesn't have green hair...eh, I don't like either

Umaro=Imp, heh, can never resist making him a full time imp

those are about the most creative I've ever done, although they really aren't that creative, it's something I guess

Well because of the 5 letter limit, I never changed the FF6 names much. But for others:

FF7-

Red = Nanaki
Barret = Mr. T
Tifa = Britney
Cait Sith = Reemer

FF8-

Squall = Squeal
Irvine = Poser

And I had a bunch of other ones that I either forgot, or just won't post.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

i only really renamed characters in 7 and 8.
FF7
Barret- Mr T
Tifa- your mum (for the turks sequence)
aeris-redshirt
red xiii- nanaki/moggy
cait sith - killme!
8
squall-rinoa
rinoa-Squall
and yes, that really freaked a lot of bystanders otu!

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Now that the last two posts have made this a non-FF6 topic.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I used to leave them original, but I was thinking about giving their name same as their jobs   like "Theif" or Locke, "Monk" for Sabin.

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I will be there...

nowadays i leave them all the same in caps, but when i first started playing the original on SNES when it first came out i named all the characters after my friends, locke after me (of course) and mog after my dog.

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War is for the participants a test of character; it makes bad men worse and good men better. - Joshua Chamberlain

U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar

Well as for other FF games, I always changed the name of the hero to my name (Jason or Kritter), and the heroine to one of my female friends. (Alex or Rachel usually). But with the later games I just left the characters names as they were.

I was just digging through my stuff that I hadn't unpacked from hence returning home VIA Pennsylvania, and low and behold I found my SNES AND FF3. I popped it in and noticed that Jeff had saved over all my old games, so I loaded one and began to play it. First off he was in Kefka's tower with everyone at like level 38, which obviously means he didn't level up much.

But looking at his names, I became curious and I asked him online what most of them were. He said that he had gotten them out of some of his favorite books, and that some were names of dragons, or names of his furry friends. Some of those names included Arrev, Swift, Sarvn, Krit, and Ormr. (I haven't looked since a week ago).

The first time, I did change a few names...then I changed it to proper. But my own list goes something like this...

Terra: Juno
Locke: Rick
Edgar: Zero
Sabin: Maestro
Celes: Tron
The rest: I forgot

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Nine-hundred ninety-nine billion nine-hundered ninety-nine million nine-hundred ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall...

I usually stick with the origional but sometime when you get really bored you start naming them "gay" so they say "I'm GAY who are you?" and that.

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"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

why not name characters so that in certain formations they form a subliminal message?
eg
-Terra=drugs
-Locke=are
-cyan=bad
-relm=m'kay?
 if only it would work correctly!
or...
-Terra=dont
-Locke=steal
-cyan=cable
-relm=m'kay?

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Quote

-Terra=drugs -Locke=are -cyan=bad -relm=m'kay? -Terra=dont -Locke=steal -cyan=cable -relm=m'kay?

Hmmmm...funny. But I know people who disagree with both. (I know. I'm straying from point)

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"I fell off the mountain of words at around the 10,000ft mark. Tell my family...they owe me money." -Narratorway

"If you retort against this, so help me God I'll shove any part of your anatomy I can find into some other part. Figuratively, of course." - Josh

"We have more, can deliver tuesday." - Del S

Good old CoN