Kannadi has an underlying "mirror" theme to her character, so I named her chocobo Alcibiades.
On Earth, Alcibiades was a strategically-minded general famous for defecting from Athens to Sparta, and then from Sparta to the Persian Empire, and then from the Persian Empire back to Athens, having been a valuable military asset to all three competing powers.
In Eorzea, it seemed like a suitably pompous grown-up name for a little girl to give to her plush dodo and later carry over to her chocobo.
I suppose that one could hand-wave the name onto a dead Scholar from ancient Nym -- the sort of name known only to highly literate people, which Kannadi would have read in one of those child-friendly books about ancient historical figures.
On Earth, Alcibiades was a strategically-minded general famous for defecting from Athens to Sparta, and then from Sparta to the Persian Empire, and then from the Persian Empire back to Athens, having been a valuable military asset to all three competing powers.
In Eorzea, it seemed like a suitably pompous grown-up name for a little girl to give to her plush dodo and later carry over to her chocobo.
I suppose that one could hand-wave the name onto a dead Scholar from ancient Nym -- the sort of name known only to highly literate people, which Kannadi would have read in one of those child-friendly books about ancient historical figures.
"You know, I was God once."
"Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died."