Finally

I've also considered Tidus (tee-duss), Ventus, (ven-tuhs), Xi (shi), some variation of K (kei/kay/k). I'm still not against them as names.

But in the end, it was important that the name I use was malleable, flexible, easy to convey, gender-neutral, and short.

North

ha1vorsen is stylised in lowercase to bring attention to the northward arrow, in the form of the number one. I've consolidated my names into a single handle!

But, of course, there are other reasons as well for the name.

It's painstakingly simple to convey and doesn't come with presumptions about character, like something like Karen or Kyle would in the modern day. It's also unisex, particularly short, and, as aforementioned, be incorporated into my last name.

I also like how it's flexible in the sense that I can describe anything denoting myself as Northern.

I did underestimate the fact that people misinterpret the name as Morris, Marth, or Mark over the phone. But I don't otherwise anticipate many regrets stemming from North. I've seen people without the capacity for original jokes attempt to achieve humor by referring to me as any of the other three cardinal directions, and some people parallel the name to Ye's child. It's simple, it's to the point, and it works. It can even seen as an immutable reminder to continue looking ahead, or looking up, to the north. After all, I even style my hair upwards to convey this exact concept.

At first, I wanted something that would transliterate into a Japanese word. An equivalent for North would be 北 (Kita). I don't mind Kita, given that Keaton is a name I considered at one point, so I am already pleased with the phonetics.

Where do names originate? Words. Words from languages past, normally, but words nonetheless. Where is the requirement that said name must have roots in an archaic language?

• Alexander. It's a compound Greek word of ἀλέξειν/alexein [to defend], and andἀνδρός/andrós [man] which originally was spelled as Aléxandros.
• Vincent. It stems from Latin's vincere which means to conquer. The name Victor should also ring a bell... It then became Vincentius in Rome before being truncated to its current form.
• Jordan. It was originally ירדן‎, or Yarden, a normally word meaning "to descend" in Hebrew.
• John. This means to be graced by God. Yo- appearing at the beginning on names indicates God, or "Yahweh/YHWH"/Jehovah as known by Jewish people. This prefix is often transcribed and pronounced with both a J as well as a Y, interchangeably, with or without vowels. For example, the term hallelujah is a biblical term[1] which means "Praise 'Jah'", yet is pronounced as "yah" phonetically. In other languages, it has become Giovanni, Jean, Juan, Jan, and even Hans.
  Originally scribed as יְהוֹחָנָן‎, it transcribes to Yehochanan. This stems from Yeho- + -hanan, meaning "God" and "gracious" respectively. Over time, it has been truncated to Johannes, one of the forms of the name from medieval Latin. The angelicised version of Johannes is John.
  
  Jonathan stems from Yo- + -natan, meaning "God" and "given" respectively, meaning that it is a different name based on the same root. Jonathan means "God has given".

This is to say, names have always had origins in local languages.

In the same vein of single syllable names, and creating flexible companies that are easily malleable, I've came across the name North.

Gasp. A generic English word used as a name? Any surprise at something like this is merely surprise at breaking out of a formality that never had an original basis. There is no reason that names have to be based on archaic spellings of modern words; English words used as names should be nothing out of the ordinary.

Halvorsen

This was based off of my family's pet name. My dog's name was inspired by the Hilton Hotels franchise, so I thought it to be fitting to have my surname inspired from my dog as well. Conrad Hilton's father was named Augustus Halvorsen Hilton, and so I merely took the middle name directly and made it my surname. Being strongly European in origin, Halvorsen also tends to look more exotic and desirable at first glance than other common surnames in America, so it helps avoid negative prejudice.

However, it wasn't nearly the only reason. The sheer flexibility of this name also led to it being chosen as a surname.

Using the first three letters of both my given and surname, it forms the handle Halken. HALKEN is the former company name of HAL Laboratory, former developer of franchises such as Super Smash Bros. and Kirby. It was also fun to see that my initials were KH, which resembled Kingdom Hearts, a game franchise that brought fame to Hikaru Utada's vocal work overseas.

It can also combine with my middle name to form Norsen, offering flexibility in that sense as well.

I intended to pair this surname with a European-esque middle name, Tidus (Tee-dus). While Tidus Halvorsen has a cool ring to it, I wanted the other functional benefits listed of the names that I did choose.