I'll give it a go.
Armi came from a shortening of Armachia, which is now generally my internet handle but WAS a character I made in Vampire: The Masquerade about 13 or so years ago. V:TM was the very first thing I ever RPed, I had never even heard of doing such a thing before it, but it was really fun (And through it I found out my dad was a big D&D nerd and he had been keeping that little fact from his kids!). When FFXI was announced, I was hella mad it was an MMO, but decided to give it a shot because I really love the Final Fantasy series. I was quite confused about MMO's at the time, having never played one, and thought they were places you paid to play to Roleplay in (I didn't even realize most people wouldn't be RPing XD), so I made a whole character.
She was going to be a Summoner, kind of sweet and quiet, but the daughter of a Pirate. BUT her dad is dead and she was actually raised in Bastok, then moved to San Doria. I needed a name, I couldn't think of any so my ex-husband (Husband at the time) told me to just use Armachia. I thought Armachia sounded to harsh for the character, so I shortened it to Armi. I came up with Alliando as her last name because it just sounded good with Armi.
Armi has pretty much been my main from game to game (In some games I'll use Loki, who I'll explain below XD) and has evolved as I learned how to Roleplay better in the medium. Armi v.1.0 was kind of a Mary Sue who was kind of pathetic and far too quiet so I've been working on making her better from game to game. I always keep two things in mind for her though: She is very, very likable and she has a Martyr complex. Other than that I change her up. She's less quiet, more jovial, and really weird in the FFXIV version - due to her not really knowing how to deal with people. I've never played her as weird, socially awkward yes, but never flat out strange so this will be a real treat!
Loki is a character I made about 11 years ago for a Homebrew game called Unizen. Unizen was (and is, as I took over the project about 6 years ago from the original author) a Science Fiction Table Top game about the human race having evolved into 10 different races in another galaxy. Loki was a space pirate (I had a thing about pirates back then) and part of a race of scavengers who don't live on planets and sail the outer reaches.
I used the name because, in Unizen lore, Loki's race do not use their real names in front of other races, at all. They have nicknames and these nicknames can be anything, from History to just a color. Loki got her nickname from her fathers friend who was big on Earth's old gods. In Unizen, the name is rare, as not many people know of God's from an Earth they've never seen.
However, I know the name is generally popular, especially now after The Avengers XD
STILL, I like Loki's personality - sarcastic, logical, and quite open with her sexuality. So when I make a character like her in other media, I generally use the name Loki because, why not? I haven't used her often in other MMO's, and once she wasn't even named Loki (Didn't work in SWTOR, so I changed it to Mahla). I tend to shy away from using her tooooo much because of the "Open with her sexuality" thing. In some cases, this meant people thought I ERPed all the time. So I generally use her when I think the RP community can be mature enough to handle her flirting .
In both cases, I've had people tell me my character names are not RP correct (Armi = "Army", Loki = "A god from mythology lol you are uncreative") but ah well, I'm attached.
Armi came from a shortening of Armachia, which is now generally my internet handle but WAS a character I made in Vampire: The Masquerade about 13 or so years ago. V:TM was the very first thing I ever RPed, I had never even heard of doing such a thing before it, but it was really fun (And through it I found out my dad was a big D&D nerd and he had been keeping that little fact from his kids!). When FFXI was announced, I was hella mad it was an MMO, but decided to give it a shot because I really love the Final Fantasy series. I was quite confused about MMO's at the time, having never played one, and thought they were places you paid to play to Roleplay in (I didn't even realize most people wouldn't be RPing XD), so I made a whole character.
She was going to be a Summoner, kind of sweet and quiet, but the daughter of a Pirate. BUT her dad is dead and she was actually raised in Bastok, then moved to San Doria. I needed a name, I couldn't think of any so my ex-husband (Husband at the time) told me to just use Armachia. I thought Armachia sounded to harsh for the character, so I shortened it to Armi. I came up with Alliando as her last name because it just sounded good with Armi.
Armi has pretty much been my main from game to game (In some games I'll use Loki, who I'll explain below XD) and has evolved as I learned how to Roleplay better in the medium. Armi v.1.0 was kind of a Mary Sue who was kind of pathetic and far too quiet so I've been working on making her better from game to game. I always keep two things in mind for her though: She is very, very likable and she has a Martyr complex. Other than that I change her up. She's less quiet, more jovial, and really weird in the FFXIV version - due to her not really knowing how to deal with people. I've never played her as weird, socially awkward yes, but never flat out strange so this will be a real treat!
Loki is a character I made about 11 years ago for a Homebrew game called Unizen. Unizen was (and is, as I took over the project about 6 years ago from the original author) a Science Fiction Table Top game about the human race having evolved into 10 different races in another galaxy. Loki was a space pirate (I had a thing about pirates back then) and part of a race of scavengers who don't live on planets and sail the outer reaches.
I used the name because, in Unizen lore, Loki's race do not use their real names in front of other races, at all. They have nicknames and these nicknames can be anything, from History to just a color. Loki got her nickname from her fathers friend who was big on Earth's old gods. In Unizen, the name is rare, as not many people know of God's from an Earth they've never seen.
However, I know the name is generally popular, especially now after The Avengers XD
STILL, I like Loki's personality - sarcastic, logical, and quite open with her sexuality. So when I make a character like her in other media, I generally use the name Loki because, why not? I haven't used her often in other MMO's, and once she wasn't even named Loki (Didn't work in SWTOR, so I changed it to Mahla). I tend to shy away from using her tooooo much because of the "Open with her sexuality" thing. In some cases, this meant people thought I ERPed all the time. So I generally use her when I think the RP community can be mature enough to handle her flirting .
In both cases, I've had people tell me my character names are not RP correct (Armi = "Army", Loki = "A god from mythology lol you are uncreative") but ah well, I'm attached.