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Why your characters name is ***insert your name here***?

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Zey Nadar
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#341 - 2012-01-08 07:18:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Zey Nadar
My name is a twist from two words: "zenith" and "nadir".

- The zenith is the direction pointing directly "above" a particular location.
- The nadir is the direction pointing directly "below" a particular location, opposite of zenith.

Just had to think of something, really.
MajesticParadise
Dark Secrets
#342 - 2012-01-08 15:39:24 UTC
The name MajesticParadise comes from my bio on my other account SilentSentinel....a bio that came to life in EVE.

"Ambiguity of the truth can alter one's perception toward the realization of events surrounding reality. A Cup of Tea to my friends and my Sympathies to those that entertain the undesired events of the surreal. Anonymous are the Silent, inevitability surrounds the contemptuous.

EvE is the paragon from which my inner pshychopathy emanates and eludes to a majestic paradise, torn between the gardens of good and evil. Never has the fruit tasted so everlasting and yet evasive to this fractured soul. My mind's salvation will forever reside in a perpetual state of paranoidal deja vu.

My memoires let me walk in the dark, wondering in a void of solitude, untouched by the truth, and hidden within the folds of my mind. The screams of the damned resonate unbidden within this surreal nitemare that I, as it's only witness, believed to be an idiosyncracy of fate.

Cheers
SS"
Aus Mote
SERRCom
#343 - 2012-01-08 19:33:38 UTC
Balnir Morlemaine wrote:
I am named after a character from a book.
Don't spend time trying to figure out what book, however... I haven't published it yet. :D


Hey, same here! (I got my corp name the same way.)

I recall someone pointing out that "Aus Mote" means something in... some language or another. I forget.

Fake edit: Apparently "Aus Mote" means "Honest thought" in Estonian. I like that, I think it works. Cool
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#344 - 2012-02-18 13:14:09 UTC
Great stories - keep em coming :)

Get classic forum style - custom videos to captains quarters screen

Play with the best - die like the rest

Raiz Nhell
State War Academy
Caldari State
#345 - 2012-02-18 13:40:48 UTC
Played under this name since Doom2... It's what I do...

But really all I do here is stress GPU's with my pretty explosions...
And I love it...

There is no such thing as a fair fight...

If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.

O Dio
Good Faith Arsenals
Goonswarm Federation
#346 - 2012-02-18 16:48:24 UTC
Live-a-Live
Probot
Strategic Exploration and Development Corp
Silent Company
#347 - 2012-02-18 16:51:27 UTC
I was sat at character creation trying to think of a name, and Probot was the name of a CD I had nearby.

I hate the name btw, wish I had found a better CD :)
Captain Praxis
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#348 - 2012-02-18 19:39:50 UTC
I'm terrible at coming up with names, so I trawled the net for Latin/Greek words that I liked the sound of ...

In the navy, any officer who commands a ship is customarily addressed as "captain" while aboard and in command. Since the point of EVE is that you're a near-immortal who commands spacecraft, it seemed appropriate to me ...
Tarn Kugisa
Kugisa Dynamics
#349 - 2012-02-18 19:43:08 UTC
First name is from The Burning Life
Last name was Random

Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to troll everyone you meet - KuroVolt

David Estarra
Starside Lost
#350 - 2012-02-18 20:34:43 UTC  |  Edited by: David Estarra
This character was originally created as a scanning alt of another char of mine, Karen Estarra - I needed someone to leave in a WH system should I ever get podded out of there, and thus Karens brother David was born.

As for the origins of his name, I already had Estarra, which was taken from a character in the Saga of the Seven Suns series by Kevin J. Anderson.

I needed a first name though, so I just plumped for the name of my favorite actor.

David has come a long way since then, I haven't lived in the WH for a couple of years now so he's been fleshed out and become a very capable character in his own right, and has replaced Karen as the main on the account.

Also, David looks like me IRL, even down to the hair! People often ask how I managed to get my picture in the game, lol Smile

[IMG]http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/ChrisW73/DSigFinal.jpg[/IMG]

Aerethir El-Kharisti
#351 - 2012-02-19 17:15:36 UTC
First name was a blood elf I never got to play, and last name is a derivation the first name of a girl I wnt to school with once (Charisti) Cool

With great power comes great electricity bill.

Grumpy Owly
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#352 - 2012-02-19 18:11:32 UTC
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#353 - 2012-02-19 18:26:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Gogela
"Gogela" was just the first name that popped into my mind when I set up my trial account. Big smile

*More than that, I have a tendency to grab up namespace every time I create an account on something... force of habit.

Signatures should be used responsibly...

Kha'Vorn
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#354 - 2012-02-19 18:43:13 UTC
My first ever eve character was named after a name I used all over the internet. I knew not what eve was like. After emails, chat requests and all other services I used that name on getting various brands of attention, I created a new character.

I have no idea how I came up with Kha'Vorn, I really dont. But I kinda like it.
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#355 - 2012-02-19 18:47:00 UTC
My first toons were from nicks I use everywhere online but this toons name is latin. Eternus Lux Lucis. Eternal Light. The breaks, cuz back when he was created I couldnt do 3 word names and CCP wont let me change it now, are actually eights and not Bs like everyone always thinks they are.

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.

SkiD-MaRk
Wambulance
#356 - 2012-02-19 20:55:21 UTC
For this char. the first thing that came to mind.


For P42ALPHA, I got it from Hitch Hikers Guide. But seems too pass way over most ppls heads. And the rest probably never heard of the book.
Harbngr
NEIN Industrial Works
#357 - 2012-02-20 15:22:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Harbngr
Name I have always used since I started using BBS, had aspirations of being a bad ass hacker and wanted a cool name to go with it. Never happened.

Then CCP added in the tier 2 BC’s and now it just causes hilarity in fleet fights, especially if there are no Harbingers around.


Also it just hurts when I kill a Harbinger, its like killing a small piece of myself.
Inkdew
#358 - 2012-02-20 17:01:15 UTC
Because I was sitting outside on my laptop and there was dew on the grass and ink in my pen.
Mumtaz Khan
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#359 - 2012-02-20 17:12:38 UTC
Mumtaz Khan, because:

1. Because all names are better when taken from Ratatat songs

2. Because all names are better when you can scream "KHHAAAAANNNN"

3. Because **** you.
BIGTEX123
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#360 - 2012-02-22 05:00:34 UTC
BIG: I used to always put "short" as the first part of my names in relation to my height obviously but as a I grew it seemed fitting to put the opposite and use "big".
TEX: I'm from Texas and felt I needed to represent my home. I've also always loved that particular nickname for a person.
123: BIGTEX was taken so I added numbers like any non creative person would do. Big smile