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Topic Started: Aug 30 2010, 10:15 PM (2,848 Views)
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... Moose... I... why did you have to do that. Why can you not just respect my privacy and let me be ashamed in peace? DD8
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Yun
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When I was learning Korean our instructor gave us all Korean names. Mine was Yun Cheolsu. However, Korean being a rather difficult language to Romanize, Cheolsu went through about a dozen different spellings before other people online started calling me "Yun of the Unspellable Name."

I finally dropped the personal name and just became Yun. Which, by the way, rhymes with "spoon" not with "gun."
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Aug 30 2010, 10:57 PM
Yeah there's an old version of this thread somewhere. Boyd'll probably pull it up, I posted mine in there and don't feel like typing it again.
I would, but I forgot who made it.

Anyway, since other people are doing it again, mine's taken from the mythological Mesopotamian hero, Gilgamesh. Although I became interested in him in the first place due to Fate/Stay Night, so I tend to associate with that version anyway.
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Nakun


'Twas what my friends in high school called me. Name stuck I guess...
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It was Pouikiko that made the topic initially. -nodnod-

/not really helpful
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A "simple child", according to my middle school history teacher, is what you get when a student never strays from the comfort zone and diligently goes about his life without much thought. I don't really know why I remember that to this day, nor do I really know why I continue to use that name to describe myself, it just made an impression on me back then and it still does now.
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I got mine from the Golden Sun move, which you can only get with the Pierrot class.

Shitty class, but I still force Jenna to equip that dammed card every time I get it, and since Jenna is my one true love, well... it just kinda... worked...
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Sound the horn and call the cry: "How many of them can we make die?"

I like the Pierrot class line. ;_;
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The Phantom Squee
Aug 31 2010, 10:48 PM
I like the Pierrot class line. ;_;
Me too, but it's kinda weak... which means that in order to win some boss battles, I have to ditch it. Also, I have this thing where I refuse to give it to anyone else except Jenna, and I need her for her badassedness later in the game, so I never keep it long. ;__;
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As I've said elsewhere, I had a fetish with The Mists of Avalon at the time, and wanted to have a good name for a Druid character in my second game of D&D I ever played. Thus I stole Gwydion from the birthname of both Arthur and Mordred in that book. I created the name "Marandahir" for his Archdruid teacher back then, and then said that after his Master was killed, he took the name as a titular surname in memorium. Marandahir was supposed to resonate with Mithrandir – another name for Gandalf from Lord of the Rings – without being completely obviously a shameless rip.

Eventually, I noticed that Marion Zimmer Bradley's books are neopagan shit and have little to do with the original story of Arthur. Interestingly, though, the mythological god Gwydion DOES have thematic overlaps with that of mythological Arthur, so maybe she did the slightest research.

As I veered Gwydion away from Nature Hippie Druid|Ranger, he became more and more of a Bard. This was more in-line with the God Gwydion's personality, and I drew my character more from him and his portrayal in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi and in the Cad Goddau, or Battle of Trees – an poem attributed to Taliesin the Bard.

So the name Gwydion Marandahir stuck, though I lately have been using Marandhir just as much as Marandahir. Many places I use one or the other. My old personal etymology for "Marandahir" was "Maran = Dawn; Dahir = (masculine form) Walker;" thus, He Who Walks At Dawn or Dawnstrider of sorts. This was to tie into both the Mithrandir reference (Grey Pilgrim – the Dawn is often grey, and Pilgrim/Walker/Strider), as well as to my OTHER webname, trueLOTM, which is my AIM, btw. LOTM stands for Lord of the Morning, and is a Wheel of Time reference.

Around here, I often go by Gwydd – a real short-form of Gwydion, Mar – shortening of Marandahir, or Gwee – something that members of this forum made up which stuck, or else some permutation of the like (~Gwee-gwee, etc).
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Aug 31 2010, 10:46 PM
I got mine from the Golden Sun move, which you can only get with the Pierrot class.

Shitty class, but I still force Jenna to equip that dammed card every time I get it, and since Jenna is my one true love, well... it just kinda... worked...
Funny how you're in Mars but Sabre Dance is actually a Venus-alligned Psynergy...
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Thanks Poui.

You'll note how she always gave the class - and the spell - to Jenna.
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Aug 31 2010, 10:33 AM
Back in the first incarnations of the Temple via the Kraden's Abode website, I decided in my 14-year-old immaturity that I and the other people in charge/there would be named after Golden Sun characters, since because it was a Golden Sun site, this was totally the thing to do, right?
Thus, I was Saturos, Ryukenshin was Isaac, and Vaescent was Alex. I'm the only one who stuck with the name, though. ^_^
Not necessarily. Alex played a role in past Templeverse narratives, if you recall. Raging usurper Vaescent even goes by "The Fallen Angel" (his title) as a parallel to your Angel of Light/Ray of Faith. ^_^
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Sep 1 2010, 04:15 PM
You'll note how she always gave the class - and the spell - to Jenna.
Always. [radio edit]ing. Jenna.

Seriously.

Even if Sheba was all like "Would it be okay if, y'know, I mean, I just sorta wanna try out being a Pierr-", I'd be all like "Imma let you finish, but I just gotta say that if you so much as touch my beloved Jenna's Mysterious Card I will give you a bowl cut burn down yo' house."
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Uh... I just thought of it. BEFORE Paper Mario: TTYD came out. ^^
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Fortune cookie.
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Doesn't change the fact Sabre Dance is still a Venus Psynergy :U

I never really used those Item classes anyway ¯\(º_o)/¯
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Let's just wait and see what happens.

well my name is Stephen, so Steve is just a shortened version of that.

Ninja Steve came about as a RL nickname I got for various ninja-based antics.

Stevebolt was thought up by Draco a few weeks back when I was trying to decide what to change my name to. Regardless of whether she was serious, I decided I kinda liked it.
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Sep 3 2010, 03:04 AM
well my name is Stephen, so Steve is just a shortened version of that.

Ninja Steve came about as a RL nickname I got for various ninja-based antics.

Stevebolt was thought up by Draco a few weeks back when I was trying to decide what to change my name to. Regardless of whether she was serious, I decided I kinda liked it.
Hey dude. For my next name change (which is in 7 days woooo) I'm gonna be going Ravenbolt for a while for the same reason. High five! o/
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It's gonna be the Draco clones all over again, isn't it.

Maybe I should be Pouibolt. :awe:
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