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#RPGaDay2018 Day 11: Your Wildest Character Name?

Most of my characters are actually pretty boring when it comes to names, but the one I remember best is from a Fate game where we were playing in the Mass Effect universe as CSEC officers tasked with keeping the peace in a post-ME-3 reconstructed Citadel.

My character was a geth detective who went by the name 'Multitudes'. A staunch Shepard-Truther, they were committed to investigating crimes and tracking down criminals to uphold the law in their search for clues and signs that would eventually prove their theories about what really happened to Shepard. (Shepard didn't sacrifice herself, but rather at the last minute substituted a Shepard-VI, escaped in the confusion, and retired from public life, thereby guaranteeing that one day, when the Shepard-Commander was once again needed, she could return to once again lead the forces of Truth, Justice, and Good to victory.) Multitudes would be the first to point out that consensus was...not strong on this belief.
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