I usually leave mine with the default names, now that I write fanfic, but I used to rename them, usually in Latin. I can't remember anything except that I called both Brothers "Minotauri."
My mother named all her aeons random fantasy names like "Varrell" and "Baruka," but dad named them as follows (in all caps):
Valefor: BIG BIRD
Ifrit: HOT PANTS
Ixion: SPARKY
Shiva: MADONNA
... and I left Utah before he got to Bevelle, so I don't know what he's named Bahamut.
Mom did, however, named Tidus Ali Öops.
My mother named all her aeons random fantasy names like "Varrell" and "Baruka," but dad named them as follows (in all caps):
Valefor: BIG BIRD
Ifrit: HOT PANTS
Ixion: SPARKY
Shiva: MADONNA
... and I left Utah before he got to Bevelle, so I don't know what he's named Bahamut.
Mom did, however, named Tidus Ali Öops.
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When no default name was provided for the main character in FFV, I was rather at a loss. We ended up calling him "Moose" with occasionally comic results....
I remember watching my sweetie demonstrate the very first Playstation game I ever saw, Breath of Fire III. There's a touching scene at the beginning where the protagonist's mother appears in a dream and calls him tenderly by name.
So then we restarted and I got the controller. It just wasn't quite as touching when the dialog was, "Spoo... oh, my dear Spoo..." (This was the Game of Countless Ellipses).
I was so fond of the characters by halfway through that game that I've never again saddled a protagonist with a silly name. For that matter, I felt I had to change "Squall" to something less pouty-sounding. :)
Wish I could remember what I called Diablos. It was something elegant.
Edited at 2008-01-20 10:34 am (UTC)
Your dad's names are as hysterical as they are accurate.
I almost always keep the defaults. Hilarious story about me and sheer idiocy, though. So, in FF4, Cecil starts out with a helmet on, right? And then when he [story spoiler] he takes his helmet off, revealing him to be platinum-blonde with shoulder-length hair. I was 8 at the time, and I thought, oh, clearly he's a girl! So I renamed him Kathy. I shortly thereafter got bored with the game and came back to it 4 years later, and then felt like such a tard.
But yes, default names for me. I remember once on RPGamer I stumbled across fanfic that had put a glossary of canon to fan's names for this particular fic and I was like "Why can you not just run a find/replace?"