DK made the Revenankh and Pyroak names. Who made Syclant?
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CAP 4 CAP 4 - Name Discussion
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A "Random" I think. Mine and Sunday's name lost to it....
(looking up who now)
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A "random" called Lawman. (Yes, I know he's not a random, he's just not very active in CAP.)
I only like a few right now, which to me isn't a very good thing.
I think people are trying to make too "clever" names and therefore are making them incredible complex in terms of how they sound or what they're comprised of.
I like:
Fidget
Tactrick (my own)
and some other ones, but I'm too lazy too look for them.
Think simple, yet witty guys.
And I advise against using "arachnid" in your name for reasons stated above.
I think people are trying to make too "clever" names and therefore are making them incredible complex in terms of how they sound or what they're comprised of.
I like:
Fidget
Tactrick (my own)
and some other ones, but I'm too lazy too look for them.
Think simple, yet witty guys.
And I advise against using "arachnid" in your name for reasons stated above.
At first, I was thinking something like that at the beginning, but maybe that could be altered a bit.
Octillity?
Utillioct?
Utillipalm?
I just had to say Opilipalm and Polypalm sounded awesome.
And Tarhandtula sounds like the perfect name for an evolution of this.
And Tarhandtula sounds like the perfect name for an evolution of this.
Yeah, I originally tried to combine havestman and hand. The result conveniantly sounded like "sand" at the end. I think it's good that there are so many aspects in one simple name.
I'd like to submit Chiropilio on Gothic Togekiss's behalf. He mentioned it a while back, but can't submit it himself now seeing as he's visiting his grandma.
I'd like to submit Digitoxi before I really go on hiatus.
Digit is for the fingers on hands, and could be a pun on actualling digging (step aside Diglett).
Toxi for obvious posion reasons. I tried venom and sludge and posion but toxin fit better in my opinion.
Digit+Toxin, pronounced as its spelled, "Di-gi-tox-ee".
Have fun with the rest of the CaP project. Maybe I'll be back to support the 5th or 6th on, but I am really finishing up with pokemon.
Digit is for the fingers on hands, and could be a pun on actualling digging (step aside Diglett).
Toxi for obvious posion reasons. I tried venom and sludge and posion but toxin fit better in my opinion.
Digit+Toxin, pronounced as its spelled, "Di-gi-tox-ee".
Have fun with the rest of the CaP project. Maybe I'll be back to support the 5th or 6th on, but I am really finishing up with pokemon.
Please keep in mind, I only mentioned that name as a joke to get it aside, I did in no way endorse the usage of the name "Tarhandtula".
As for a second one, I have something. Much better than my first suggestion, which makes me wish I could take that one back in case I come across anything else really good later on down the road.
"Handuro". Simply hand + burrow, shortened; the "duro" could also signify its durability. After all, it *was* originally intended to be attacking through the ground with its hands, especially indicated with the burrowed-in picture accompanying the original artwork, is it not? Getting right to the point, isn't this guy supposed to be digging through the ground a lot instead of walking around on top of it? (Punching and arm thrusting at stuff would definitely be MUCH harder when try to do it out of the ground; burrowing in fits very much flavor-wise with the movepools we're trying to give this guy :)
I went on a whim and changed it as I typed it out to Handuro, so if anyone thinks the original iterations of Handurrow or Handurro are better, there are the alternate spellings of the name.
Fidget
Handuro
These get my vote
Handuro
These get my vote
Cralmer (Crawler + Palm)
It is obviously something that crawls, and it has a lot of hands with big palms. Plus, it sounds close to Kramer from Seinfeld, haha.
Virulanz (Virulent + Hands[z])
Virulent means extremely toxic, and it has many hands. The z came from the word hands but Virulands sounds like a toxic waste marsh, so the "ds" was replaced with a "z", looks better and sounds similar if not the same.
It is obviously something that crawls, and it has a lot of hands with big palms. Plus, it sounds close to Kramer from Seinfeld, haha.
Virulanz (Virulent + Hands[z])
Virulent means extremely toxic, and it has many hands. The z came from the word hands but Virulands sounds like a toxic waste marsh, so the "ds" was replaced with a "z", looks better and sounds similar if not the same.
lmao, you're so right. xD
Reading through the thread again (and again and again...), I really like Polypalm. And then there's Terachnid close behind it.
My names strike stealthily, like ninja!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Revenant
It's also usually a 3rd or 4th tier undead monster in Final Fantasy games. Usually goes something like Zombie -> Ghoul -> Ghast -> Revenant.Dictionary said:
Also, I think Opilipalm should be changed to Opialm to match Mariguana. We could call it the drug smuggler pokemon.
I decided to change one of my suggestions according to Truthi's idea of crossing the two names.
For the record, 雲 kumo is cloud while 蜘蛛 kumo is usually spider, or so says Wikipedia. How weird. You're both right, though.
My other suggestion will be Phalandigit (Phalangid/Phalanx + Digit/Dig) and will be edited in to my first post. Breaks the 10-letter nickname rule, though, and Falandigit (Or even Phalandig) doesn't sound nearly as proper. I might change it for something with tsuchi (As in earth, also gives a reference to Tsuchigumo, a giant spider in Japanese myth, its name literally meaning earth spider. )
My other suggestion will be Phalandigit (Phalangid/Phalanx + Digit/Dig) and will be edited in to my first post. Breaks the 10-letter nickname rule, though, and Falandigit (Or even Phalandig) doesn't sound nearly as proper. I might change it for something with tsuchi (As in earth, also gives a reference to Tsuchigumo, a giant spider in Japanese myth, its name literally meaning earth spider. )
I had already thought of using the word "Utility" and I fused it with "Palm" so there's actually some comparison with the name and the pokemon. It's a few pages back. Palmility.
God, not drugs again. I was waiting for someone to do something like this...
Also, Palmility sounds a lot like Calamity.
I've never heard of Calamity. Doesn't sound like Palmility either. I don't know if I'm being biased but doesn't sound like that to me.
How about changing that to 'Dextrin'?
Wait, the spider "kumo" is written in katakana meaning there's probably a language that spiders are called "kumo" or something like that. So what language is that from...if anyone knows.
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