What did you name the protagonist?

[Jay]

Normally I'd name it my name (I'm a woman but my name being gender-neutral means it always works for this in video games lol), but since it asked my name before the protag name and I wasn't sure what the default name was for the protag, I just chose my favorite male name, Nico.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von haunted:

Kincaid. Originally a Gaelic name, it means "leader in battle."

Crossbone Gundam!

[Kanadaplay]

Reinhardt

[Jay]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von La Vérité:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Claus:

From the Megami Tensei Wiki:

While the protagonist is referred to default as "Will" when changing the game's language in English, Korean and both Chinese versions, the remainder of the languages have different names for the protagonist:
• Both Italian and Spanish versions name him "Victor."
• In French, he's referred to as "Éric."
• In German, he's called "Wilheim."
• In Portuguese, he's "Pedro."
• In Russian, he's "Александр," or "Alexander."

That is actually extremely interesting! Although I wonder what business Pedro has being among these.

I wonder if Pedro must be a culturally significant name, like the name of a folklore hero.

[Steve]

Erwin!
Seemed fantasy-ish.

Then for my second Luck/crit chance build focused one I named him Critaniel which I quite like too lol.

[hush]

WTF this coincidence. I named the protag as Jay hahaha not kidding...

[Jay]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von hush:

WTF this coincidence. I named the protag as Jay hahaha not kidding...

Omg awesome lol

[dethtrain]

Nate. Been playing fallout 4 recently and I had some kind of frustrating brain fart when it asked for a name. Nate was the first thing that came through

[XenoEvil]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kanadaplay:

Reinhardt

Lol, I went with Yang Wenli.

[Evir]

will cuz apparently its the canon name? I feel weird renaming distinct MC's from their canon name

[StoneyWoney]

I started with German text, calling myself "Stoney" and the character "Woney".

After an hour I switched to English which made the game use default names, "You" for the player, and "Will" for the character.

Dunno where some supposedly got the idea of "Rene" being canon, because the game said otherwise :P

[Electric Gigolo]

Will Weakling, the forever back row mage. Because he's too much of a little b***h to be any other archetype.

[Sur_GalaHad]

I names him Caleb after his VA lol

[Claus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von xgc1986:

Will, or Uiru (if you want the romaji of the Japanese version)

I believe this is the canon name, soon the manga will be released and the name will be confirmed

For anyone that does want to name the protagonist his canonical name, you should be aware that his name in the upcoming manga might not be canon. Neither Persona 3, Persona 4, nor Persona 5 kept the name used for the protagonist in their respective manga. Instead, the protagonists were given completely different names in their respective anime and made those names canon from then on.

• The protagonist of Persona 3 was named Minato Arisato in the manga, but his canonical name is Makoto Yuki. It became official since the animated film Person 3: The Movie and made his default name in Persona 3 Portable (2023 release).
  
• The protagonist of Persona 4 was named Souji Seta in the manga, but his canonical name is Yu Narukami. It became official since the anime Persona 4: The Animation and made his default name in Persona 4 Golden (2020 release).
  
• The protagonist of Persona 5 was named Akira Kurusu in the manga, but his canonical name is Ren Amamiya. It became official since the anime Persona 5: The Animation and made his default name in Persona 5 Royal (2022 release).

So, if you have a preference for naming a character their canonical name and want to do that in Metaphor Re:Fantazio, it wouldn't be a bad choice to go with the default name the game sets for the protagonist when switching between languages.

[etsii]

I wasn't paying attention to the first name you put in so I put in my name for the archetype and then another rando name for the protag

[Kaldaien]

Named him Keyboard because I was irritated I was required to use a keyboard before I could progress.