Me: What do you want to name your character?

Kid (almost 4): City Jeans.

Me: I've literally been paid to come up with character names for a video game and never thought of one that good.

Kid: Incredible Good Fun Francis Dances.

Me: Fuck.
Now rethinking how dismissive I was a couple weeks ago when he said, "When I was a kid, my dad was Neil Armstrong."
Welp, the responses to this are incredible. I'll never have to mine Google translate for fantasy names again. On a related note, be on the lookout for the upcoming heartfelt story of brave ranger Firepuppy Shinytights.
My favorite name that I ever came up with at work was for an evil robot cat that I wanted to name "Dr. Toxopurrsmostest."

It got cut soooo fucking hard.

Ended up being a real "if you have to explain the joke to everyone, it's not actually funny" learning experience.
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