What's in a Name, Cool Street Names Options

[TimeKeeper]

I was on an Aircraft Carrier you know...

Let's see there was LT. Wood (CS: Sportin')
Cmd Hubbard (CS: Mutha)

Those two stick out (for near obvious reasons) but I can't remember the rest.
Though I did read a Sports Illustrated article where the writer got to go up in a Forteen. Afterwards he got his callsign. "Twobags". Because he filled up two airsick bags during his little flight.

[Dim Sum]

I still crack up thinking of any guy unfortunate enough to be a recruit in the Navy with a surname of Staines or a buck grunt in the Army with a surname of Parts.

:D

I had a schoolmate called Jonathan Bates who came from a RICH family. He used to treat the chauffeur like shit but that guy got his own back. He had address my schoolmate as Master So-and-So, so (ahem) each time he arrived at school to pick him up, he would announce his arrival by loudly calling out, "Master Bates! Master Bates!"

:D

[EVLTIM]

I knew a Coasty named Swallow , By the time I met her she made Petty Officer , But I'll be damned if I could have gone thru with the rank of Seaman .:(

[ting-bu-dong]

Hi,
my group has an Arabian mercenary with the name of Abu Methane. His signature equipment are an AK-97, grenades and plastic explosives of all kinds. He also has great knowledges in chemistry.

tbd

[DigitalMage]

Some I have used:
Noose - from the time he was hanged by a rival gang and only saved by awakening his magical power and Ghede his loa mounting him. He still has the rope burn marks around his neck.
Rook
Granite - Real name Jordan Stone
Halo - Doc Wagon Rigger sort of guardian angel in a helo :)
Spirit - Adept with last name Walker
Jack Alltrade - A good all rounder
Cortez - Interrogation specialist
Tonic - Ral name Nisho Jin (Jin & Tonic)
Scrounge
Kwewu - Hopi Wolf Totemic adept
Mistry - Elven thief and seductress. Short for Chemistry
Cipher
Craft
Cruise
Rabid
Talon
Storm - Sea Shaman

But yes I totally agree that the streets will name you rather than you choosing a name yourself.

[Finbar]

The people in my game chose their own names.

Grey (short for greyson, his first name)
Hype: the char is a shadowrunner newbie and was Hyped to be a part of this...
Chase: cause she moves the slowest in the group and is chasing after them
Solomon: The man with more skills than anyone has a right to have, he isnt the best at anything, but can do/backup just about everything. It's a wise choice to bring him along.

Of course some people I know who got their Nickname in the Armed Services.
PAM, standing for Potential Axe Murderer

[Dim Sum]

[Connor]

One of my groups longest running NPCs, a fixer who works out of an army surplus store of all things, goes by the name Bob. I'd say in some ways he's rather cliche'd, but then again that's always been his charm.

[Bölverk]

I played a paranoid covert ops specialist who went by the street name of Fred because he thought it would be inconspicuous. Too bad he was ethnic Japanese...

[mfb]

heh. one of my first chars was an ex-yak named Reaping Tiger. back in japan, he was Leaping Tiger, but his english pronunciation wasn't so strong. best line from that char, as a grenade dropped at his feet: "Hory clap!"

[Lilt]

LOL. Some absolute beauts here.

I'm tempted to encourage the 'other people choose your callsign' thing in my next game. Of course people can introduce a character as something else if they want to but that's just be spoiling it. Perhaps start it off as a merc campaign where they all know eachother's real names anyway... (Gets around some problems)

[Pistons]

[Siege]

[Grimtooth]

Let's see...

Strontium Dog - 1st decker i ever made
Fulcrum - 3 armed samurai using that KAGE third arm mount
Leatherback - Gator Shaman
Top Hat - Australian Beach bum Shark Shaman
Icarus - Backstory name
Grimtooth - Amerind Wolf Shaman
Gutter - Squatter life style Adept. Former bughunter
Short Round - Dwarf mage with a bad temper
Raven - Dwarf policlub enforcer
Lovecraft - 1st Combat mage i ever made. Chicago survivor
Hank - Pro wrestling, Physical Adept. State name - The Experiment.
Cyanide Angel - Female samuarai / southern Belle


That's all the good ones i can think of at the moment.

[Drain Brain]

Myself and two friends were told to make characters for a game - not SR - in a military style. We were all equal rank (I can't remember what, now) but the three surnames were Hobbes (me), Brockman and Grant.

These characters ended up as ex-military over the course of the campaign, and ended up as a unit called G.B.H. Not intentional at all, but highly amusing...

Other good one is Oliver Philip Patterson - a PhysAd I'm playing over in the "Welcome to the Shadows" section. His "name" is Flip, and he's an English ex-ganger. Thing is, I got the London SB the other day, and I've discovered from teh Brit Speak glossary that to Flip someone is to mug them. Oops... time to change my name. Flip was meant to be a little sister's corruption of Philip!

[Shockwave_IIc]

One the best one i've seen was a irish bodyguard that went by the name of J.Case.

[JongWK]

La Bruja Serpiente (15 years old female decker from Aztlan, hilarious).
Kyle Fox
Shotwise
Icebreaker
Quicksilver (named after a T-shirt ;))
Águila Negra ("Black Eagle", PCC Eagle shaman doctor)
Green Menace (Irish fomori mage)
Iggy (troll street samurai, Homer Simpson-style :silly: )

I'm thinking of playing a mage (some day, since I'm cursed to GM and never play :( ... it will probably be an NPC) called Necrodamus.

[Slash_Thompson]

there's a japanese character in my game, name: Tsuruko,

well, the decker doesn't exactly speak japanese very well(at all), so he heard 'Tsuruko' and extracted 'pseudo-code'... and it's just sort of stuck.

makes it even more amusing that Tsuruko doesn't understand enough english to realize that it's a deliberate mispronunciation...and none of the bilingual characters has bothered to point it out to her yet.


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[Hot Wheels]

I had a character named "Short stop." She was a Souix, fairly small, and loved baseball. So the name had a double meaning, small size and baseball.

She ended up retiring as a charachter after a nasty run in the Kingdome, marrying a proball player.

[Hot Wheels]

[Elfie]

[Kurukami]

I've got a character in development, who I'm still waiting to play, named Ember. Creole, Ork, and a magician-adept shaman of Firebringer. Naturally, he specializes in fire-magicks and the like.

Another character, who's actually shown up on this forum for demonstrations, is a decker/rigger who calls herself Cheng. Mostly, that's because she's part-Chinese by ethnicity, and her icon is a lady pirate. That came because the most infamous lady pirate in Chinese history was Cheng i Sao, who brought the Chinese navy to its knees in the early 19th century. (And I was on a pirate kick after seeing Pirates of the Caribbean. :D )

And one character I'm working on now is a dwarven retrieval specialist/bodyguard/street sam, who's got contacts with a ton of people. He's fairly cybered -- bone lacing, hand-razors, smartlink and the like. I'm still trying to puzzle out a name for him that doesn't sound hokey.