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Why does every ingame Charakters name start with a W?


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Hi guys,

 

I have a really stupid question.

Why does every ingame Charakters name start with a W except for Maxwell is there a particular reason or is it just ....,,yeah u know what would be kinda funny?"

,,No?"

,,When every characters name we created starts with the letter W!"

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iirc it was a coincidence that devs realised after making multiple chars and decided to make it a rule, maxwell's name probably starts with M because it looks similarly to turned from top to bottom W, which is wilson's name's first letter, could've also just been a coincidence though, maxwell's name is william also, according to some lore puzzles that the devs made

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4 hours ago, Yuuko said:

Lickerbottom just doesn't have the same ring to it...

Oh no...

You know what? Just for fun:

Lilson (Generational street name)

Lillow (Limbo street name)

Lolfgang

Lendy (Lends herself to taking care of bee queen)

Ligfrid

Lickerbottom  (As previously mentioned)

LX-87

Lebber

Lagstaff (oh n- *Server Crash*)

Les (Less stats really)

Laxwell (relax or laxative?)

Loodie (pronounced to rhyme with woodie)

Lalter

Lormwood

Lalani

Larly

Loodlegs (pronounced to rhyme with woodlegs)

Lilbur (monkey street name)

Lilba (pig street name)

Linona

Lheeler (why is an H directly after an L)

Landa

Lurt

Lortox (LOREtox)

And Lonkey

I got all of them right?

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2 hours ago, InkArts said:

Oh no...

You know what? Just for fun:

Lilson (Generational street name)

Lillow (Limbo street name)

Lolfgang

Lendy (Lends herself to taking care of bee queen)

Ligfrid

Lickerbottom  (As previously mentioned)

LX-87

Lebber

Lagstaff (oh n- *Server Crash*)

Les (Less stats really)

Laxwell (relax or laxative?)

Loodie (pronounced to rhyme with woodie)

Lalter

Lormwood

Lalani

Larly

Loodlegs (pronounced to rhyme with woodlegs)

Lilbur (monkey street name)

Lilba (pig street name)

Linona

Lheeler (why is an H directly after an L)

Landa

Lurt

Lortox (LOREtox)

And Lonkey

I got all of them right?

LilloL, Laxlell, Lormlood.

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Just now, cropo said:

Isn't Maxwell referred to as Waxwell in the code to differentiate him from the NPC Maxwell?

he is, wigfrid is also named as wathgrithr

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Short answer is that I think it's just sort of something that happened. I'm not sure if that was always the intention, but that's how it's ended up and that's how the characters are/were named. Not sure though.

Lore-wise, well, it's complicated for a couple reasons:

  • Maxwell's name was William before he found the Codex.
  • WX-78 and Webber were both human at some point, and so they both likely had different names (some of WX's audio files use the name Woodrow, which is why some people think that was their name).
  • Wigfrid is called Wathgrithr in the files, as grm9 said, and her name is canonically not actually Wigfrid.
  • Wickerbottom is a last name, her first name is unknown.
  • Wheeler and Wagstaff are also last names, their first names are Maybelle and Robert respectively.

So, basically, not every survivor's first name actually starts with a W, and even for those whose names do start with a W, it's complicated.

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33 minutes ago, WinterWondering said:

So, basically, not every survivor's first name actually starts with a W, and even for those whose names do start with a W, it's complicated.

That's the rule for all of Don't Starve's lore. It's just complicated.

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