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What did you name the characters?


I saw this on the FF7 board, and thought it was an interesting question. Did you rename your characters, and if so, what did you call them? I was really into Elvish (the elf language from Lord of the Rings) when I first played this game, so I gave some of my characters Elvish names. Here they are.

Zidane: Randir (meaning "wanderer")
Garnet/Dagger: Miriel ("Jewelled Lady")
Steiner: Beleg ("Strong")

Freya, Amarant, Quina, and Vivi got to keep their original names, but I gave the name Kellie to Eiko, just because I thought it was a cute name for her, especially when combined with her last name.

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You like to be creative, huh?
But, I just kept them the same...

"To be forgotten is worse than death..."

*~Luanna Naomi Kuresentsu "Lulu"~*

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I called Vivi "Puck", Steiner "Rusty" and Dagger "Helmet".

Made the dialogue seem a bit odd at times...

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Uh, I completely get "Rusty", but their was already a Puck in the game, and...HELMET!?

(Puck means mischivous child, in case you are wondering! Suits him well, huh?)

"To be forgotten is worse than death..."

*~Luanna Naomi Kuresentsu "Lulu"~*

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I was feeling rather cruel when I last played through FFIX, so I called them rather nasty names...

Zidane - Tarquin
Vivi - Bruce
Steiner - Soggy
Garnet - Cabbage
Freya - Biatch
Eiko - Nit
Quina - Snake-Bite
Amarant - Captain Dreads (In honour of the famous Monkey Island sea captain!)

"A man up and vanished like a FART in the wind!"
the Warden, Shawshank redemption

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Ever since the FF series has delivered games with more identifiable characters, I have kept their original names.

These guys, is like they have life of their own, you can't talk about random blue mage in the same way you would talk about Cloud, Squall, etc.

These characters are already classic and have their own personalities, changing their names is totally pointless.

Good gurls are just bad gurls that haven't been caught.

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I agree, their names suit the personalities

I am NOT a guy!!

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"Uh, I completely get "Rusty", but their was already a Puck in the game, and...HELMET!?"

If you call Vivi 'Puck' when the real Puck asks what his name is he'l say sumthin like "So your name's Puck, huh? Funny name...Well hi, my name's Puck!"

Garnet names herself after Zidane's weapon, so it would be wierd if she called herself sumthin that wasnt a dagger, like 'Sheild' or 'Uzi'

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Zidane: Cypher (In refernce to Seifer of FF8)
Steiner: BadAss

That's all I have so far on my 2nd time playing. Eiko and Amarant have yet to be named.

Born to be forever
Dancing through life
Swaying and sweeping
And always keeping cool

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Steiner: Buzz, zidane: woody.

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Zidanne: Hero
Garnet: Aeris
Steiner: Maximus
Freya: Lancina
Amarant: Sith
Quina: Frodo
Vivi: Vivi
Eiko: Eiko

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Umm...I thought that Quina was a girl... (sorry, I haven't seen him/her in the game yet)

You'd better be careful around me, or you'll end up in my novel.

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I kept the names the first time I played. The next time, I named Steiner "Captain" Since it was funny to see Queen Brahne say "And Captain, uh... (after naming him) Captain!" I aslo once named Amarant "Poo" so he said "Some people call me the Flaming Poo." (Forgive me if I don't get the quotes exactly, I haven't played it in a while since I lent it to my cousin a few months ago.)

But if you want some weird names, Look at what my friend named his characters (By the way, he's stuck in the Treno card tournament, can anyone help?).

Zidane: Banana
Steiner: Fruit
Vivi: ? (Don't remember)
Eiko: McBlib
Dagger: DOGSKIN (don't ask)
Quina: 4+3-2+=
Freya: ? (don't remember)
Amarant: ? (again, I don't remember, I haven't seen it in about a month)

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Hahaha, everyone's character names are great! The ones for Dagger and Quina in the post above this are especially hilarious!

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. . . I was 8 when i played it a first time and i named them all after Digimon characters.

Zidanne: T.K.
Garnet: Kairi
Steiner: Willis
Freya: Yeoli
Amarant: Ken
Quina: Davis
Vivi: Cody
Eiko: Mimi

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I am proud to say i have never changed any Final Fantasy Characters name the only game i played with a changed name was Chrono Cross my brother renamed Kid Kate.

Go ahead laugh, make a jackass outta yourself - Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio)

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Dude, I So Know where your coming from on that Digimon thing, we did that on VII....anywyas, my list consists of......

Zidane- MnkyBoy (not enough letters to spell munky)
Vivi- Weirdo
Garnet- Foxy (my dad names that one
Steiner-IronMan (we wanted to hear him say "I am Ironman" lol)
Freya-Hhraggt (the sound u make when u couch up a flem)
Quina- FatFrek (not enough to spell fat freak)
Eiko- Jlbait (Suppossed to be Jailbait)
Amerent- Badass (i think)


uh....yeah.....


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I give everyone their original game when I play except for Vivi and Amarant. I always name Vivi "Skillz". It's something I just did the first time I ever played and I've called him that ever since. The name Vivi doesn't even seem right to me now.

I NEVER use Amarant so I always try to give him a funny name. Most recently I named Idiot. It's funny because in Treno people see him and are like "You're the Flaming Idiot!". I also named him Flamer once.

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My first play though i didn't change the names, but then i did.

Zidane- Homoboy (insert filthy joke here)
Vivi- Foley (after Axel foley from beverley hills cop, why?)
steiner- kirk so it's captain Kirk (i'am such a nerd)
dagger- leia
quinn- B.F.E.F (big frog eating freak)
armramt- puffy (as in p.diddy)

"never pee during a thunder storm, you'll know why when you do"

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I couldn't decide between Rusty and Geezer, so I just picked Geezer, since he's called Rusty already.

You'd better be careful around me, or you'll end up in my novel.

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Some of these names are just too funny!!! I love it!!!

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i decided to name mine after gods and goddesses (i know i am such a loser)

Zidane: Seraph (not really a god just a celestial angel and i like the name. It sounds cool!)

Garnet: Panacea (goddess of soothing and health)

Steiner: Hermes (messenger of Zeus and Hera)

Vivi: Zeus (God of the sky)

Quina: wasnt going to use so i didnt bother

Eiko: wasnt going to use so i didnt bother

Aramant: wasnt going to use so i didnt bother


If i wanted to change them where do i get the namingway card?
(i cant remember!)

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For those of you who dont know Vivi makes sense. In Spanish- Vivir- is the termanology for "to live...". It's probably the same in French or Italian so yeah.

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Zidane: Casey
Garnet/Dagger: Daisy
Steiner: Maximus
Vivi: Elyas
Freya: Velvet
Amarant: Shadow
Eiko: Jade
Quina: Kermit

I also named Zidane, Steiner, Quina, Freya, Vivi and Garnet/Dagger with names from The Lord of the Rings once. Frodo, Aragorn, Gimli, Gandalf, Sauron and Arwen. Those names sucked, though.

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I kept all their names the same except for when Garnet was going to change her name to Dagger I made it Garnet again. It was funny, Zidane said to change her name and she made it Garnet again.

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Yeah, that was funny.

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I gave them all nicknames from people in shows and movies that I like:

Zidanne: Clint (I named him after Clint Eastwood, because I was a big fan of his at the time, after watching Dirty Harry)

Garnet: Lea (I had been a big Lea Thompson fan at the time, so I thought it would perfect for her)

Vivi: Harry (At the time I thought it a great name for him because I thought it suited him well, and I was a big Dirty Harry Fan)

Steiner: Magnum (I originally wanted to name him Callahan after Dirty Harry, but I didn't have enough room. So I change it to Magnum after his gun)

Freya: Troi: (Simple-- I named her after Counselor Deanna Troi from Star Trek TNG)

Eiko: Annie (I named her after Annie from the movie "Annie" that I saw as a young kid and I really liked it, plus I thought it really suited her well)

Amarant: Red (After I heard he was called the flamming-- something, I decided to name him Red, because of his flamming red hair)

Quina: Junior (Oh, my God, I couldn't tell if Quina was a he or she so I picked the name Junior, because it's a name for a boy and girl)

Pretty cool, huh?

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I never changed the names of the FFIX characters, because I don't change them the first time through. I don't like this game, so I never played it again... But I did change FFVIII and those names were funny. Well, really, my brother changed the names. For some reason, he named Squall "Moo Man" and Rinoa was "Jack!" and Angelo was "Meow6.0" or something, but with the letters with the foreign accents over them. It was kind of funny. And we also changed the GF's names. Let me tell you, that was a good time. Unfortunately, I was just goofing around one day and I saved over my file that I was almost done with with the Moo Man file. So I had to beat the game with Moo Man and Jack!... lol

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If I happen to go through this game, I may rename some of the characters, but so far my characters are:

Zidane-(The same, although I may rename him Jay-Z)
The Princess-Beyonce
Vivi-Busta
Steiner-Drago

I'm only on the first disk, and I'm assuming there will be more characters to name soon.

"I need you to intervene!"-Helen Parr/Elastigirl, The Incredibles, 2004

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i played this game like 5 years ago, it was my brothers and i never beat it.but he let me borrow it while he is in boot camp so i renamed them all what i named them the first time

Zidane~~Thomas
Garnet~~Chelsea
Vivi~~Whiz
Freya~~Jigsaw
That Knight(totally cant remember his name)~~JOHN
that fat thing that eats stuff~~FROG
that annoying little girl~~Elocin(its my middle name spelled backword)
and that last guy wit the red hair i didnt get to rename him cuz i pressed confirm instead of delete oops lol.

~~Chel
~~"Your entrance was good, his was better."~~Batman Forever

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i named Vivi "fred" i think it so suited him and now i always refer to him as fred. I also named Stiener "butman" which suited him to.
All the other characters i named after me and my friends

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Zidane - Gabane
Vivi - Cecil
Stainer - Geziy
Garnet - Rose
I was so lasy to rename others.

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I almost always keep their names, however weird, but once I was feeling cruel and named them these:

Zidane: Fleaboy
Garnet: Lunabar (don't ask...)
Vivi: Jawa
Steiner: Tinman
Freya: Ratchel
Quina: Pat (It's Pat!)
Amarant: Hulk
Eiko: Brat

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(This was a like a year ago when I las played it with my friend...And uh...This is what we came up with...)
Garnet: Froot
Vivi: Barney
Steiner: Oogly
Freya: Apljcks(Betcha can't guess what that one is!)
Quina: Xena(Don't ask...)
Amarant: Kitty(My cat was right next to me!)
Eiko: Soupy
Zidane: Homo

I look back at this and find it a miracle that I have a social life...

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I love how people didn't know if Quina was a boy or girl so they gave him/her gender neutral names! And Jenova0602, the "It's Pat!" reference was brilliant!

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Garnet = Kodachi (Japanese word for a short sword, i.e., Dagger)

Quina = Pikachu

Every Final Fantasy game I play, I leave everyone the same but rename one character (usually an animal) as Pikachu. Why? I haven't the foggiest idea.

It started with FF7, where Red XIII became Pikachu. What can I say? It amused me to have Pikachu spouting random words of wisdom.

In 8, it was Rinoa's dog. Personally, I think it was an improvement.

In 9, it was Quina.

If they'd let me, Kimahri in 10 would've been Pikachu, too.

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