What do you name your rival?

Started by SuperJames January 31st, 2010 10:18 PM
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I name my rivals after my friends.
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I used to name my rivals with random names,now I just name my rival their original names,like Silver in G/S/C and Gary in R/B/Y and FR/LG.I sometimes name them by their Pokemon Special names.
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I usually name it something to make fun of him/her. Like "IMALOSR" or something like that.

I'm not sure what I'm going to name the Rival in SoulSilver, but I thought about "CRTTOP" (Like Carrot Top.) because he has red hair.
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Usually I name him after a person that I didn't like at the time. The only one that I can remember before Diamond though is when I named Gary "Brett", because I was angry at a kid at school with the same name.

Heh, my internal hatred comes out in Pokemon of all places.

If I remember correctly, I named Pearl "Jacob", because I named my playable character "Charon" and I was writing a manga at the time with a character named Jacob and Charon who were friends...
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My rivals are usually references to random characters, usually from literature. My rival in Pokemon Blue was called Holden (from The Catcher in the Rye), and my rival in Pearl is called Owen (from Just Listen by Sarah Dessen).

I changed things up sometimes. For example, my HG rival is going to be called Shawn. Shawn is a form of the name John, and the name Giovanni is also a form of the name John. See what I did there? I guess it's sort of a reference as well, but I like to keep some meaning with my names, even for references to literature.
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I always name them from the manga.

"Gary"- Green
???- Silver
RSE didnt have a choice :[ please fix that in the 5th gen. remakes game freak
"Barry"- Pearl

It just makes the game more enjoyable imo
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I name my rivals insulting things that noone wants to know. :3

I used to give them my friends' names as nicknames though. =D
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