Wow.
I mean ... wow.
Please, if you will, imagine Sephiroth Andrew Martin in third grade, at which point it is highly unlikely that he will be a badass anywhere near worthy of his name. Imagine other kids asking "What's your name?" And then, imagine a skinny, pimply, awkward seven year old kid replying "Sephiroth."
I'm all for gamer references when it comes to your loved ones (it's quite funny to name your fish Sephiroth, for example), but naming your kid after one of the most memorable game villains of all time is just downright wrong. That kid is going to suffer so much by the time he is finished high school that he is going to fantasize about killing his parents. Even worse, he may hate the source his name came from, which totally negates the coolness of using a game reference in the first place.
So yeah. it's goes without saying, but don't do this to your kid. Ever.
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7:01 PM on 10.17.2008
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For example, if I have any girls, the middle name will be Aeris.
Of course, this is just what I WANT to do, I'm sure if my wife vetoes, there is nothing I can do about it..:(
*off to search for a mate who loves FF7*
Trump?
That's terrible.
Imagine being named Flower....
@Daxelman
Damn hippies >.<
Meh. It's not that bad. It's better than being named Shaquila or Anferny.
(Also, watch this kid become the next Bundy and it gets blamed on games.)
Where I live, if you walked into school and said your name was Seph or Roth, you would get your ass curbstomped.
Just FYI.
@ Dexter345- Maybe it wouldn't be that bad if the name wasn't fucking Sephiroth. Even if they just made the shit up, it'd be a stupid ass sounding name.
Some may think that a terrible choice for a name, but I've been stuck with the combination of three *very* common names my whole life, and I hate it.
In the end, the person is scarred for life :-D.
Im OK, it doesn't matter what the origin of the name was in the first place, people associate "Sephiroth" with FFVII, and no amount of explanation from the kid or his parents is going to keep his peers from tormenting him with it.
In fact, I dare them to.
My son's father seriously wanted to name him Alucard.
No way.
So... either they're obsessed with Final Fantasy 7, OR they follow Kaballah and feel that their child is the embodiment of the physical manifestation of God.
Either way it's obnoxious and uncalled for.
And those parents are stupid on a magnitude that is sadly becoming so common these days. *sigh* Why the hell would you name your kid after a videogame character, let alone one that was so incredibly lame?
There's a guy at uni who changed his name to "cell-ichigo" why... I have no idea but he need a kick to the head....
Nothing wrong with liking a game but there's something wrong with forcing it into other people