I think one of the main problems behind this is the inclusion of self-insert characters rather than the crafting of actual personalities to RP as. Oh sure people use "personas" on disco but it's never for the benefit of the RP; more often than not, it's for the benefit of themselves to get things they want with paper-thin excuses, then they can slap whatever name they want onto ships and just say "oh lol its what my character wanted"
It's been a while since I've had to make a new character but back when I was applying to factions left and right, I made ample use of character trait generators to get a basic feel for how that character would act regularly. Afterwards if the character would actually need to stay around or prove fun enough to keep RPing as, I'd run the basic idea I had of their personality through the Myers Briggs Type Indicator to help flesh out the idea even further. All of my Cross characters, my old IMG/SCRA/Hessian Indie, my Horus| captain, le LSF agent, and my IRG character have all been through this process in an attempt to better generate actual characters to use when interacting with others. It's not a perfect guideline but holy hell is it helpful.
My rant about characters lacking character aside, the name thing has got to stop; it just shows a complete lack of effort on the part of RP when stupid character names are more common than sensible ones. And this isn't just a few people doing this: I'm pretty sure I'm safe in saying we're all guilty of it to some degree, so lets just all collectively agree to ditch this and move on, shall we?
It's a RP server people. Act like it.
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A simple, angry man casually working his way through life on a personal quest to acquire copious amounts of street cred.
