Kess, love the fake Battledome challenge on Felonious' lookup. Laughed loud enough to startle my cat.
To be honest, I like almost all the names I've given to my more recent pets. My first names were long, awkward combinations of things plus numbers, because when I first started I thought the pet's name had to have 'em for some reason. It wasn't until I adopted Drilax that I found out that wasn't the case.
Druscylla, my Hissi, is probably one of my most favorite names. I couldn't believe it wasn't already taken, even though Drucilla's not a common girl's name anymore. The
Scylla spelling was intentional, though it's kind of a long story as to why. Yeesh, I need to get back to work on these guys' stories.
Then there's Verakuros the Halloween Cybunny. He's based on an actual evil bunny character named Verak that I created years and years ago. Verak was taken, so I played around with the name some more and came up with this variation, which translates to "little lord Verak" in some Eastern European language which I can't for the life of me remember the name of.
Djauko the Darigan Blumaroo gets his name from a character that once appeared in the old cartoon show Freakazoid. It's kind of a long story, but the character was this balding, short guy who just sort of stood around with an idiot grin and never spoke except for an occasional "Eeeee!" Why I find this funny, I'll never know.
Kludgeus is my Ogrin. Back when they were first released, I saw a lot of complaining about how this pet just looked like a mish-mash of different animals. I personally didn't think it looked all that bad (still don't), and decided to make one if I could make up a good enough name. In yet another example of my mind working funny, I used the aforementioned complaint of Ogrins being a hodgepodge as a basis for the name, and looked up synonyms for "hodgepodge."
Kludge was one of the words that came up, and I thought, "Holy crap, that's an Ogrin to me! It's clumsy, but it works!"
I guess pretty much all of my pets' names come from extremely random brain activity. God help my future kids, if I have any.