View source for My game character names


==[[Dragon Quest]]==

'''[[Dragon Quest I]]''' GBC

<u>Hiro</u>. &nbsp;Simple name pun, worked with the 4 letter limit.

'''[[Dragon Quest II]]''' GBC

<u>Yuki</u>. &nbsp;For lack of anything better, took the name Hiroyuki and cut off the part I'd already used.

'''[[Dragon Quest III]]''' GBC

<u>Saki</u>. &nbsp;Continuing with the theme, I decided to use as much as possible of Iron Chef French [[Hiroyuki Sakai]]'s last name.

'''[[Dragon Quest IV]]''' NES

<u>Gordon</u>. &nbsp;With an unrelated game story came an unrelated name. &nbsp;Gordon means &quot;round hill&quot;, but why I thought it appropriate for the hero's name, search me.

'''[[Dragon Quest V]]''' SNES

<u>Elliott</u>. &nbsp;As the names for DQ 1-3 connected, so I decided to do the same between 4 and 5, so [[Gordon Elliott]] was the inspiration.

'''[[Dragon Quest VI]]''' SNES

<u>Shumway</u>. &nbsp;Well, Gordon Elliott didn't leave much room for growth, and I couldn't find his middle name, so I took Gordon in another direction. &nbsp;That's Gordon Shumway of Melmac, also known as Alf.

'''[[Dragon Quest VII]]''' PS1

<u>Meredith</u>. &nbsp;A fresh start for an unrelated game. &nbsp;So named after [[Stargate Atlantis]]'s Rodney McKay's ''real'' first name.

'''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''' PS2

<u>Rodney</u>. &nbsp;I know 7-8-9 isn't a trilogy like 1-2-3 or 4-5-6, but I still wanted some naming continuity.

==Other==

'''[[Glory of Heracles]]''' DS

<u>Sorbo</u>. &nbsp;You start as an amnesiac character who may or may not be Heracles. &nbsp;You give him a name as people want to refer to him as ''something'', so I named him after [[Kevin Sorbo]] who played Hercules in the 1990s TV show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

'''[[Mass Effect]]''' Xbox 360

<u>Fischer</u> Sheppard. &nbsp;Since the fixed last name of every character is a variant spelling of an animal-based profession, I decided the first name should be that way too.

'''[[Star Trek Online names|Star Trek Online]]''' As a game with a ton of people/vessels to name, it has its own page.

'''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]''' Xbox

<u>Lacto Bacili</u>. &nbsp;This one's a bit convoluted. &nbsp;Many years ago there was a segment on The View where they discussed this vaginal bacteria, lactobacilli. &nbsp;Great, right? &nbsp;But then-host of [[Talk Soup]] [[John Henson]]'s joke response was that it sounded like someone who would work with Boba Fett. &nbsp;So this is kind of my go-to ridiculous Star Wars-sounding name.