Thread: X and Y Player Character Names

Originally Posted by Ararararagi-san

I find it funny people are using X for the guy and Y for the girl when, gene-wise, it's men who have the Y chromosome. Then again, X is a more masculine letter than Y, and Y more feminine than X.

What about Sylar (X can make an S sound like in "xylophone") and Yolanda? Yvonne/Yvette isn't bad either.

That said, I already know I'm going to name the female protag in my own game as "Shoshana", the name of a character in Inglorious Bastards (who was French).

Sylar is a character in Heroes though, and nothing else major seems to be associated with that name, so a Pokemon character having that name would be pretty off I think considering how he was the "bad guy" and all.

How about the names being taken from a word? Like how Nate/Rosa was from "resonate" (along with their Japanese names). I'm really bad at making up names myself though, but a spontaneous thought was the nucleobases.

Male: Xerxes
Female: Leonidas.

If it's French...

Xavier is good for the male character. And it works in English too.

For the female...there's Yvonne, Yvette, Yolande, and Yseult. Yseult will probably be ruled out since it's not a common name (then again, neither is Hilbert). Yolande is the prettiest by far IMO. Yvonne and Yvette would be good too, since they work in English.

If they want to reverse them, that might not be good. For the male, there's Yves and Yannick (the last one is Breton, which is a Celtic language that is spoken in France). For the female, there is nothing common. To my knowledge, only French female name that starts with X is Xavière, but that name is definitely not common (I did know a woman with that name - she was from a French-speaking country in Africa).

Originally Posted by GatoRage

Ehh I'd rather they not name the player characters names starting with X and Y just because the games are called that. Seems too forced, especially with the mascot Legendaries also having names starting with X and Y. If they had names that just included an x and a y in them (like Alex or Axel or Tyler) then that'd be more subtle in my opinion.

I agree with this. The names would be and sound very forced. I'd prefer if they used other names.

Wait a second, I realized something: the characters in the manga always have the name of a game, usually the male gets the first version (X) and the female the second (Y), although there are many exceptions on that rule. If the games are only called X and Y, do you think that the characters will be X and Y in the manga? I know it's kinda off topic, but anyway, what do you think?

François and Pierre.
Nothing to do with X and Y, just some French-sounding names.

I've been calling the girl "Red" because she looks like Little Red Riding Hood. I like Xavier, though~ For Y...Yureimi?

Gene and Diane (the latter being a corruption of "DNA").

Eugene and Diane. That's what my friends and I have been calling them. :)

Originally Posted by Doctor jokool

While it's true that they haven't been associating the recent names, I think it would be nice if they did use a French or European origin for their names since this generation seems to have that theme going.

It's unlikely for Japanese, since we got Touko/Touya/Kyouhei/Mei (which eventually got localized). Then again, anything can happen.

And since there seem to be a genetic theme going on, I'll throw in Honya (honyaku) for the boy and Tenshi (tensha) for the girl.

Alyx and Roxy

Y and X. X and Y.

Originally Posted by V Faction

Originally Posted by GoldenSilver

If you have any suggestions for the player characters' names, put them here.

Since the legendaries have X (Xerneas) and Y (Yveltal) in their names, I think the players' names should have something to do with X and Y.

Xavier and..... Yvonne?
I don't like them either.
What do you guys think?

A little on the nose, doncha think?

What about Alex and Riley? They end in X and Y, but both names can work for either a Boy or a Girl, which given the X/Y Chromosome angle could be nice.

Actually just call them X and Y.

The characters actually surprisingly look like Alex and Riley, as for the rival, I would like to see a female rival no matter what gender. She could be called... Zoey? Lol, idk.

Originally Posted by Miles101

I've been calling the girl "Red" because she looks like Little Red Riding Hood.

Or perhaps Scarlet?

Originally Posted by Hedface

Originally Posted by Miles101

I've been calling the girl "Red" because she looks like Little Red Riding Hood.

Or perhaps Scarlet?

Hehe, perhaps. She certainly is more red than the actual Red, that's for sure.

I'm wondering how the Adventures manga will deal with this, since they usually name the characters after the version names.

X and Y themed names that I'd pick... hmmm...

Well I have called my main character Exousil or Jexna on a few games, like the way Kingdom Hearts Organisation XIII members are renamed. It might be a little lazy, in a way but I quite like doing it. I'll probably do something like that for the X title or if it's not the version I choose as my "main" game, the main character will probably end up called Xylophone!

Yuki, as in courage, would be my most likely first choice of name for Y version. Or Yami (dark), I guess?

The way I normally generate names, if I want something completely different is I either think of weather phenomenons, weapons, numbers or emotions and then look at a number of different languages it exists in and pick a foreign version of the word (i.e. I once gave a RP character the middle name "Mem" because it's the Hebrew number 13 and she was an unlucky person).

EDIT: I misread the initial post. I apologise if this causes confusion.