Representative Character Designs

[YinYin]

I think that the rep char doesn't have to have the same name as the member. Lets say there is a member with a username such as mine. However for my rep char(Philip - you can add it to the list if you want to :3) i have used my real name which is still in a way linking to me.

That's acceptable of course. aPurpleCat, Harlequin and Tanooki are in because of this. They either use or used the character designs nickname somewhere online. So if I read it I immediately have the representing character come to my mind. It left an impression.

I suppose your character is the green haired dashing guy?

Targaros - MH Razen
Kenzo - Ascor
Rex - Hero Destroyer
Sukrit - davis60

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Among those especially reading MH_Razen never brings up the image of Targaros to me. (He could've changed from MH_LF2 to MH_Targaros instead of _Razen - or call the character Razen - in fact he could still do any of that - unlike putting "LF2" into the domain name for better site ranking) The others work a little better as they haven't worked on or released as many things. But especially for Kenzo/Ascor I don't really see how the username for the character would be a problem.

There is no way i would call a character by that name.

So this raises another question: why would you name your character directly after yourself, but not your user account? Was that name taken? Would you change it to Philip, if you were allowed to (given you've got a good reason)?