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I have to agree * Claps* Finaly someone who has the same thoughts. I find that reading things such as the above said take away my intrest in whatever it is that I'm reading. Also, overused/overproduced simple names that you find in day to day reading like Kyo or John are turn offs. Creativity should be more indulged upon.

XiKeiyaZI
Seig Arlion
Haohmaru Kirumanzi

Just a few of the names in books that I am writing. I find myself very creative... but as Void said... creativity is something that seems to be lacking more and more.

Actually yes.... Why do you ask?

Ahh, I see where you get that from. Ehehe, I assure you that I never even considered the names being compaired. Seig Arlion was born in an SRW Rp that we had for over a year called SRW: RE. Never meant to derive the name from anything else, perhaps I did it subconsiously?

I admit that I have a few names I like recycling myself...some of my big ones include Shin Kensei, Ryuji Yamada, and Syuu Untensu.

I also wish people would write more fanfics that actually mesh with the series. Yeah, putting the boys in high school is cute, but what does it have to do with Gundam at all?

Names can indeed be fun. I don't suppose anyone cares, but here's my logic behind Heero's real name in my fanfic.

To begin with, you should know that there's a name theme running though most Gundam series. For the original, most of the White Base crew had names derived from WWII Japanese fighter planes. The most notable example is Amuro, whose name comes from the feared Mitsubishi A6M, also known as the Zero: Zero, in Japanese, is Rei (Ray), and Amuro comes from a rearrangement of A-Ro(ku)-Mu, which is how you pronounce A6M in Japanese.

So then we get to my story. Originally, I just sort of threw Heero's name together. I gave him the name Rei Nakajima, the first coming from zero, and the second being a reference to a video game I like.

But the other day, I was looking over Wikipedia, and I learned that Nakajima was also the name of a manufacturer of planes for Japan during WWII. Taking that as more than coincidence, I looked through their planes and noticed that they had one that was very similar to the Zero. I realized that the reference was too good to pass up, so I looked at the plane's model number: Ki-43. Going with the Japanese system of counting, we get Ki-Yon-Mi. Cutting out that N produced Kiyomi which, as it happens, is a real Japanese name.

And so there you have it. Kiyomi Nakajima for Heero's real name, and the entymology behind it.

I tend to use very ethnic names and/or names based on numbers as they do in the series xd I've had characters named Niente, Soixante, Mezzo, Viertien, etc. Naming the characters is a lot of fun!

May I post a character bio and see if you think it is creative? I'm just really bored.

Name: Ileanna Niwaya
age: 13
Race: human
Hair: Orangish-red, put up in long pig tails with gold bows.
eyes: Dark pink
skin: pale
weapons: kunai and shuriken
abilities: Fire jutsu
bio: Ileanna's father was part of the Uchiha clan, her mother part of another clan. She never knew her father as he did not stay with her mother. Her mother was sickly ever since she gave birth to Ileanna and by the time Ileanna turned 12 her mother was bed ridden. Upon her deathbed Ileanna's mother revealed to her the secret that she was part Uchiha. Ileanna decided to leave the small and relatively unheard of village of her birth when her mother died, in search of her father and other relatives. She taught herself alot along the way, including refining her control of the fire jutsu. Her journey led her to the Hidden Leaf Village where she learned that the Uchiha clan had been wiped out save for Itachi and Sasuke. Itachi's whereabouts were unknown, but Sasuke was attending the Ninja Academy. In order to meet the only blood relative she had left, Ileanna enrolled herself in the academy and sought out Sasuke's company.

Well what do you think?