Surnames

Katzchen

@Tvistor Katzchen swings between a passive-aggressive attitude towards her Hashani/etc family, and a more actively aggressive stance. I don't really give a toss if I get thrown out of the clan, so they can tell me off all they like.

Nizaris and I take personal interest when a family member has wronged Mhaldor, and specifically look out for the chance to kill them for it.

Trilliana

@Katzchen I'm honestly surprised neither you or Niz has actually told Trilli to get out of Cyrene so she can die for trying to kill ormyrr and such when all the other cities went to raid. Mind you- she didn't even get to defendable because ... I don't remember what I did, I just died to ormyrr and had to leave the fight because of my kids. 

Katzchen

Trilliana said:

@Katzchen I'm honestly surprised neither you or Niz has actually told Trilli to get out of Cyrene so she can die for trying to kill ormyrr and such when all the other cities went to raid. Mind you- she didn't even get to defendable because ... I don't remember what I did, I just died to ormyrr and had to leave the fight because of my kids. 

I wasn't really around during most of that event. I had really only caught up on the whole thing by the time the tides were turned and we were fighting the Ormyrr ourselves. Anyway I would never demand someone left the safety of a city, because well, you'd just get laughed at.

Tvistor

CDF Katzchen Family not dysfunctional enough.

Katzchen

Sure it is. I even have this nephew who disowned himself. That's pretty dysfunctional.

Tvistor

I didn't say it was not dysfunctional, I just said it wasn't dysfunctional enough.

Hideyoshi

I've been using the surname "al-Shallami" for Hideyoshi for RL years. Not as a family name (Hideyoshi RPs a cliche orphaned adventurer) , but to denote his place of origin, Shallam.

I chose al-Shallami because i saw that Shallam was designed in the orient-ish culture model, and using a surname to denote one's place of origin (city of birth or clan origin) is a common practice there. So I wanted to be true to (what I think) the original model of Shallam and bring it to my Achaean RP.

Jules

LastGoodbye is a perfect example of an old Brit type surname that sounds a bit odd to modern ears.  That was my first thought when Savras gave us all the name.  "Weird" names in other languages usually just sound "exotic" or "elegant" to people, even in the rare case that we actually know what the words mean, because it isn't (sort of, but not quite) our own language.  That said, LastGoodbye isn't on the same level of "sounds silly to a modern English speaker" as something like Shufflebottom.  Oh well, haters gonna hate...

Delphinus

I'm pretty sure it's mostly the capital "G" and the fact that it's stolen from a well-known Jeff Buckley song.

Aerek

BRB, changing surname to Shufflebottom so I'll look more credible.

Jules

I don't think so.  I did see that this song filled up at least the first page of hits before I made my post, but even if it were a tip of the hat to this song, I doubt that's what most people don't like about it (or they'd mention it a lot more).  I've heard the name bashed before, and mostly people just think it sounds funny (and it does, a bit).

Delphinus

No, the "G" is mostly it. It isn't that it sounds funny so much as that it looks funny (though it does sound kinda funny). There's a reason LastGoodbye and Zuiho_sho usually show up in the same context.

Jules

Delphinus said:

No, the "G" is mostly it. It isn't that it sounds funny so much as that it looks funny (though it does sound kinda funny). There's a reason LastGoodbye and Zuiho_sho usually show up in the same context.

Hmm, well, I believe you, because people are nothing if not fickle... There are so many real names that behave in that exact way (and people destined for a life of seeing their name written incorrectly).  @Aerek - that's ShuffleBottom The "funniest" such name I've seen on a person I actually knew was "VanBumble", on a short Azn dude no less.

Cooper

Jules said:

I don't think so.  I did see that this song filled up at least the first page of hits before I made my post, but even if it were a tip of the hat to this song, I doubt that's what most people don't like about it (or they'd mention it a lot more).  I've heard the name bashed before, and mostly people just think it sounds funny (and it does, a bit).

Most of us just think that it's one of the most dumb last names in Achaea. It's mostly that it's two words combined that form a really dumb name, and then they go ahead and capitalize it too.

Kyrra

Ravenwind looks acceptable at least?

Tvistor

Ravenwind is not a really dumb name. LastGoodbye is a really dumb name and it's capitalized on top of that.

Cooper though, that's a dumb name.

Lodi

I really hate the name 'Coldraven', but its the one Lodi's half brother Guiliaume chose for us. Always reminds me of a shivering bird wrapped up in wooly hat and scarf. Yeah, really Evil that image. Fills my heart with deepest dread... :-/

Trey

I have no idea where Fort got Adwimar, but I used it for so long that it felt weird thinking about dropping it.

Tasleus

Trey said:

I have no idea where Fort got Adwimar, but I used it for so long that it felt weird thinking about dropping it.

Adwimar is pretty cool  

Mine is Tasleus Ishida-Tasath. Got the Ishida bit from Ganelon (before he suicided ) and picked the Tasath up from Rastriana. May even remove the Ishida bit. Too japanese, not enough fantasy. 

Tas is considering removing the Tasath part since Rastriana's now all enemied to Cyrene and such. He's kinda angry about everything right now.

Draekar

I used to absolutely love "Rian" because it represented an awesome lineage distilled down into me through Alinoe. Likewise my generation represented some of the best players in Good at that time.

Now it represents the dozens of novices I don't know who snuggle up to me and say hello uncle or great uncle

One curse of getting older

Trilliana

Okay, forgot to add Trilli's current surname- Inamora, which is (was RIP) from Selene, being in the Order and such. I'll be hard-pressed to remove it unless I'm asked and given a good reason. 

Cooper

Cooper is definitely a dumb name. This was supposed to be a throw-away alt just to experience the new Infernals Guild though. But that didn't happen.

Jhaeli

Draekar said:

I used to absolutely love "Rian" because it represented an awesome lineage distilled down into me through Alinoe. Likewise my generation represented some of the best players in Good at that time.

Now it represents the dozens of novices I don't know who snuggle up to me and say hello uncle or great uncle

One curse of getting older

This is kinda how I feel about Lucoster. Always thought it was really great for Jhaeli to be descended from the founder of the Infernals and she was quite proud of most of her Ashtani family. Even if Ashtan is a lot different now than it was 200+ IC years ago, there's still a bit of pride for her home city there.

These days, when she sees her adoptive daughter's children wearing Lucoster (particularly if they're acting like goofs in her eyes), she isn't entirely sure what to think.

Jules

All of this is why bloodlining is great and should never go away.  Being alternately proud of, ashamed of, and annoyed by, and even murderous towards extended family is... perfect, really.

Tvistor

Cooper said:

Cooper is definitely a dumb name. This was supposed to be a throw-away alt just to experience the new Infernals Guild though. But that didn't happen.

I made an alt to try team Good and actually found myself okay with everything, then realized Priest combat is lame and I don't know if I want to try Paladin. Looks boooooring. Serpent allows me to fail in so many creative ways!

Aerek

Trey said:

I have no idea where Fort got Adwimar, but I used it for so long that it felt weird thinking about dropping it.

 I guess you're the only one I've ever seen with the name, so it's always reminded me of Count Adhemar from A Knight's Tale, which I find fitting for Trey.

Trilliana

Dangit @Aerek, now I'm going to want to call @Trey 'Count' >.<

Halos

That guy was crazy in Dark City.

Tvistor

A Knight's Tale is one of my favorite movies.

I watched it four times in two days in June last year.

Hermaldo

I hate the last name of 'Fireheart' OOC and I even had Herm wear a different name for a while before the guilt trip began. Luckily all of the children who have the name are worthless and the name will soon die.