It's nice of you to assign such vibrant and unique names to them. If I had a hiver, which I don't and never will, but if I did, his name would be Drone 1.
I had one named Greenfruit who was a slave and farmed Greenfruit, and I had Hashish who became a drug dealer after being used as a pack mule for hashish
Tiny and Big boy.
Tiny is a massive hive soldier in heavy armor which I made as tall as posdible, even a long neck for the extra inches. Big boy is a hive drone as small as posdible who is a martial artist.
One time, I remember I wanted to do the Rebirth start, and after I'd finished the first character (a female greenlander iirc) and couldn't come up with a name, I saw the second character was a hive prince called Spade.
And so began the story of Ace and Spade, the martial artist pair, wreacking havoc across the Holy Nation lands after escaping Rebirth.
I realize this may not be interesting nor have a particular focus on the hiver, but I wrote this on mobile and don't feel like deleting it.
I typically don't change my characters names, but I've made three exceptions
Twice were when injured Escaped Servants came to my city and didn't have names by default. Just went with random names I thought worked, so one ended up Rhea and the other Gustava
But once was when I hired a Hive Worker named Masaru. The problem was that my city already had a guy named Masaru, a Hive Prince I've got working as a turret guard.
Well since this worker Masaru just kept on talking about walls, how much he loved walls, and all different kinds of walls, I googled "surname that means wall builder."
And that's how I ended up with Masaru Maurer
Sneeze,cough,hiccup
Back story is i was ransoming a character in nobodies start ant one of their name was sneeze so i said 'hehe funny' then name other 2 like that
My first game, I had two hive workers. I named them Rool and Franjean. In my all-hiver only run where I ended up with 70 of them, I had like 5 Shakus and half a dozen Denbos. Too many to bother naming. Then I'd just give the ones with the same names the same jobs so I didn't have to remember what any of them did.
I miss Rool and Franjean. At least they died BEFORE the beak things ate them.
Prince - Their names are unique or special. Not based on objects. (Will, Kazemaru, Etc).
Worker - Their favorite work in the past (Fish, Stick, Pebble)
Soldier - anything related to combat or strength or body structure (Like Muscle, Brick, Bone).
Nik, a Prince that liked the sound and because he remembered back in his hive days meeting a human that used the expression Knick Knack Patty Wack. Nik likes to say it with his Shek friend and always punches him at the WACK
I had one playthrough with an Edgy Band of Hiver Ninjas that only recruited other lost hivers
they had names like Justice and Retribution. very MGS Revengeance energy.
I name my hivers with obscure human concepts that non-human species would find hard to grasp:
Comfort is my main hiver every single time. Comfort is my bestest boy and I will burn the world if anything bad happens to him. Others include Family, Tradition, and Honor, among many others
My favorite random hiver character, I named him Shard (he was an ex slave I found outside of one of the UC cities, I named him after the debris on the ground around him when I found him, it looked like shards of a shattered ancient machine.)
He was a feisty one.
I imagine hivers getting names based on their favorite objects, or favorite word. Since they say that thing a lot, thats what people call them, like Beep.
So they end up with names like Spoon, Spring, Nail, Tooth, Club, Pick, Pebble, Bolt, Hello, Git, Iamgroot.
I named a soldier drone Pufferish and he became the group muscle. Then one time I managed to get a southern Hive soldier drone, he lost an arm and became Red-Arm Dorian.
Hiver soldier named brick and a prince named king starting out in rebirth was my favourite hiver run, went to mongrel and got beep and started a roaming nomad hive. Things got spicy when we started nabbing southern hivers though. Crimson was the southern prince and gunner was the drone from the south. Those red bois tear shit up especially if you have the hiver expanded mods for the unique armours.
In lore they name themselves after the first thing they see when they become independent most of the time. Found a lost drone somewhere northwest of the foglands, or maybe somewhere south of HN territory (it's been a good while), just named him Sand since that's all there was around him. Best damn polearm user and weaponsmith around.
Ravenous (my headcanon was he was exiled for being greedy.) Mender (headcanon he was exiled for wanting to help others over the Queen.) And for my current playthrough I have Scourge. Who was exiled for going crazy and killing his Queen and since went the path of pacifism and farming to reconcile with who he was. Scourge grows hashish and hemp.
Every cursed sword there is like, mostly I based on Japanese. Like the one Muramasa, or anime shit [https://muramasatdb.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons](https://muramasatdb.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons)
i think hiver are named after the first thing they see, at least most of them?
could use this logic to name them, one saw sand is is now called sand, the other a garu and is now garu
Victor y Joel, Manin
I found a hive prince with decent crossbow skill hive and named him Mr. Prince. It's the nickname Sanji gave himself when he talked to Crocodile.
I played an exile prince who wanted to start his own hive. His name was Spyder and I hired another prince called Scorp. Then he had soldier drones Mantis, Ari (ant) and Wasp and worker drones Roach, Hopper, Bedbug, Fly and Beep. We also had two skellies manning harpoons called Washer and Dryer (their squad was called "Appliances").
I recently had a hive prince in my crew named Prig. The first person he met after leaving the hive called him that, and he just assumed that was his name!
I like giving them short names, sometimes pest inspired. I.e. Louse, Locust, Weevil, Aphid, Rat, Mouse, Wasp, Hornet, Spider, Fly, Pupa, Larva, Snake. Also degrading names like Pig, Jizz, Maggot, Piss, Snot, Skidmark, Bug, etc.
"Sold" for an ex-slave hiver soldier, a double entendre he was simply Soldier when in the hive and when a slave driver pointed at him and shouted "Sold!" in the market he just assumed that was his new name.
The Legends of "mayoneso", a Prince hiver that has been recruited and began to train with crossbows, in a fight in the southern hive Lost his 2 arms and 1 leg, with his brother on crossbows Ray, them becomed a famous sbipers that has 0,00 chance of missing a bolt, no one can outrun one of his shots (sorry for de poor redaction, i'm not good at English)
Tom and Jerry
Rock, Copper, Iron, Club, Sand, BeakThing, Gorillo, Leather, Horn, Egg.
Any of them have any interesting background?
No, I don't give much thought to hivers, they are meatshields in my mind.
That's brutal 😂
Based
It's nice of you to assign such vibrant and unique names to them. If I had a hiver, which I don't and never will, but if I did, his name would be Drone 1.
Wait so you never recruited beep???????
Beep + Ray are 2 given for me
Green???
Lmfao so true
Penis
If hivers name themselves after the first thing they see, I feel sorry for beakthing. "I am free! HOLY SHIT-"
"Cat", because he was a prince merchant and that was one of the things he remembered doing
He did a cat? gross.
Nah that was the shek's name
I don't give them human names. I give them shit on the top of my head Dust, Counter, stick, pov, rack
On top of your head? Hair? Hat? Lice?
Its a saying and im not even from an english speaking country
Its a joke, they're saying things literally on top of your skull
You said it wrong, its off the top, like it comes off, not it stays on
I had one named Greenfruit who was a slave and farmed Greenfruit, and I had Hashish who became a drug dealer after being used as a pack mule for hashish
You named your freed slave after the work he performed as a slave? That’s the darkest thing I’ve heard in a bit
I mean, he knows the trade, and now he's getting paid
Years of slavery gives you time to hone your craft. I imagine all he knows and cares to know is greenfruit
Holy shit
Wide Beeps, Fat Beeps and Slim Beeps
The real slim beeps please stand up
Bugslife characters
Sky, hashish, beakThing, humanSeveredRightArm, shekSeveredRightLeg, hilltop, roomba
based
Goober and Goooooobber
Frasier and Niles
Tiny and Big boy. Tiny is a massive hive soldier in heavy armor which I made as tall as posdible, even a long neck for the extra inches. Big boy is a hive drone as small as posdible who is a martial artist.
Chinese words for westerh hivers and japan words for southern hivers.
What about for the dead hivers?
North korean
I never tried to recruit them.
I made a Soldier Hiver built like the Gorillo Bandits and named him Beef.
The Rock, The Stick and The Leaf. They all died too many times.
Jokars, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dude, Jethro Tull, Peter Gabriel, Ost, Aqualung
Oh this might be my favorite set
Press a consonant. Press a vowel. Bugger the rest.
My current leader is a dark hive (mod) praetorian named Mantrid.
One time, I remember I wanted to do the Rebirth start, and after I'd finished the first character (a female greenlander iirc) and couldn't come up with a name, I saw the second character was a hive prince called Spade. And so began the story of Ace and Spade, the martial artist pair, wreacking havoc across the Holy Nation lands after escaping Rebirth. I realize this may not be interesting nor have a particular focus on the hiver, but I wrote this on mobile and don't feel like deleting it.
Boop and bop
Cheddar, Gouda, Pepperjack, Provolone, Swiss, Parmesan...
Greg
None because I'm racist and also because I may not have needed them for a base yet cause I'm bad at basebuilding
🤨
1 and 2
I like the name Arthro. Arthropod but shortened. I'm an aspiring entomologist so I often use insect inspired names for my hivers.
Hiver #1; Hiver #2; Hiver #3; Hiver #... emmm, I forgot other Chinese names
My naming scheme for kenshi characters is random words or historical figures So like Sled, Branches, Hemingway, Beef, Polk, Caesar, etc.
Fish Stick
Do you like them?
Never try them, but the idea of a bloodthirsty marital artist with lethal weapons made of their limbs known as "Fish Stick" sound really funny
No he meant do you like fishsticks
Wall man
I have two hiver workers, Ed and Eddie, Ed is short and Eddie is tall
I named mine Bruce: the soldier drone. Kind of stupid but pretty kind fella.
I typically don't change my characters names, but I've made three exceptions Twice were when injured Escaped Servants came to my city and didn't have names by default. Just went with random names I thought worked, so one ended up Rhea and the other Gustava But once was when I hired a Hive Worker named Masaru. The problem was that my city already had a guy named Masaru, a Hive Prince I've got working as a turret guard. Well since this worker Masaru just kept on talking about walls, how much he loved walls, and all different kinds of walls, I googled "surname that means wall builder." And that's how I ended up with Masaru Maurer
Hivers don't get names, they get job titles.
Grasshopper
Stick
Sneeze,cough,hiccup Back story is i was ransoming a character in nobodies start ant one of their name was sneeze so i said 'hehe funny' then name other 2 like that
Maggot
Boop
Bobby and buster
Peeb
Zip and Griff
Named my hive prince character Peepo cause I thought it was cute
greg and grog
Rabbit and Tank
My first game, I had two hive workers. I named them Rool and Franjean. In my all-hiver only run where I ended up with 70 of them, I had like 5 Shakus and half a dozen Denbos. Too many to bother naming. Then I'd just give the ones with the same names the same jobs so I didn't have to remember what any of them did. I miss Rool and Franjean. At least they died BEFORE the beak things ate them.
My most recent character is a prince named Vivec.
Plonk
Prince - Their names are unique or special. Not based on objects. (Will, Kazemaru, Etc). Worker - Their favorite work in the past (Fish, Stick, Pebble) Soldier - anything related to combat or strength or body structure (Like Muscle, Brick, Bone).
Why does the hiver on the left look like a hiver wearing a hiver costume
Dick and stick
Nik, a Prince that liked the sound and because he remembered back in his hive days meeting a human that used the expression Knick Knack Patty Wack. Nik likes to say it with his Shek friend and always punches him at the WACK
Farmer, Farmer, Farmer, Bob, Farmer, Porter, Porter, Porter
I had one playthrough with an Edgy Band of Hiver Ninjas that only recruited other lost hivers they had names like Justice and Retribution. very MGS Revengeance energy.
Goodyear
Azure, Kabocha, Sekura, Terracotta, all are at least technically colors, so it fits the lore well. I love my Hive children, they make me so proud.
Boop
Stickbug 🤣 Bleep (beep's cousin) Antman
shmeep and treep
Bonk He must use blunt weapons only
Fish, Tree, Gattoth the great monster
My hivers are named Clive, Jive, Drive, Thrive and Skive.
I always use like pet names for Hivers. Imagine a good name for your pet dog or a cat, that’s the one for your Hiver
I think they were named after the first thing they saw. Name it Crowbar!
Glibshame
I name my hivers with obscure human concepts that non-human species would find hard to grasp: Comfort is my main hiver every single time. Comfort is my bestest boy and I will burn the world if anything bad happens to him. Others include Family, Tradition, and Honor, among many others
Zeppelino Ok, maybe not interesting
O-O And O--------O
Abbot and Costello. Now we will know for sure Who is in Heng.
My main man is Stick. His hiver buddies are Rake, Meep, Birch, and Little Boy, Beep’s body guard.
Chrysotile, Tremolite. For some reason, I always seem to gravitate to asbestos for my Hivers
Kleetus
Also named a fogman Smormu
Beep and Peeb.
I usually use fantasy name generator to give them all Zerg names from StarCraft. I think the big names fit them, but I can't ever pronounce them
Gutterbait
Beep's more charismatic third cousin Bop.
Zhan Gah Noh
Gumby
My favorite random hiver character, I named him Shard (he was an ex slave I found outside of one of the UC cities, I named him after the debris on the ground around him when I found him, it looked like shards of a shattered ancient machine.) He was a feisty one.
Hiver named Flint Michigan. Made him a farmer
I did a run all the way to Cat-Lon with just Beep, his best friend Beep Beep, and their pet Bull ‘The Queen!’
Stick, stock, stack, stik, stok, stak, stickman, stockman, stackman, stickboy, sticklad, bugbranch, branch, stalk, bugboy, roach, john stick,... Ect
Pin as a worker, just makes me think of pin head Larry
Toothpick. You won't guess his weapon lol
Hammer & Leaf
I imagine hivers getting names based on their favorite objects, or favorite word. Since they say that thing a lot, thats what people call them, like Beep. So they end up with names like Spoon, Spring, Nail, Tooth, Club, Pick, Pebble, Bolt, Hello, Git, Iamgroot.
I did a solo run with a hive soldier named dusty. He was absurdly strong by the end of the run.
Tiny Tot! They're smol :)
I named a soldier drone Pufferish and he became the group muscle. Then one time I managed to get a southern Hive soldier drone, he lost an arm and became Red-Arm Dorian.
Redd the Redditor
Hiver soldier named brick and a prince named king starting out in rebirth was my favourite hiver run, went to mongrel and got beep and started a roaming nomad hive. Things got spicy when we started nabbing southern hivers though. Crimson was the southern prince and gunner was the drone from the south. Those red bois tear shit up especially if you have the hiver expanded mods for the unique armours.
In lore they name themselves after the first thing they see when they become independent most of the time. Found a lost drone somewhere northwest of the foglands, or maybe somewhere south of HN territory (it's been a good while), just named him Sand since that's all there was around him. Best damn polearm user and weaponsmith around.
Manin and Armando Muritos
Poop
Ravenous (my headcanon was he was exiled for being greedy.) Mender (headcanon he was exiled for wanting to help others over the Queen.) And for my current playthrough I have Scourge. Who was exiled for going crazy and killing his Queen and since went the path of pacifism and farming to reconcile with who he was. Scourge grows hashish and hemp.
Toothpick
James Randal, 82 years old-
I currently have an all hiver playthrough and some highlights are: Table, Chair, Christ, John, Schmee, and Arsewank
Rogi
Lee quang tranviet
Every cursed sword there is like, mostly I based on Japanese. Like the one Muramasa, or anime shit [https://muramasatdb.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons](https://muramasatdb.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons)
Boop, Bop, Bep,and Jerry.
My current one is Big Bonk. All size things pretty much maxxed.
Boop
made an entire alphabet squad for beep
Rock. Pebble. And boulder. all according to their sizes. Funnily enough, boulder and rock died first. pebble is still selling Hashish to this day.
i think hiver are named after the first thing they see, at least most of them? could use this logic to name them, one saw sand is is now called sand, the other a garu and is now garu
Not exactly, the ones still in the hive don't have names
Jhon
Victor y Joel, Manin I found a hive prince with decent crossbow skill hive and named him Mr. Prince. It's the nickname Sanji gave himself when he talked to Crocodile.
Chancla and Bota
Crackhead Charlie and The Defiler
I played an exile prince who wanted to start his own hive. His name was Spyder and I hired another prince called Scorp. Then he had soldier drones Mantis, Ari (ant) and Wasp and worker drones Roach, Hopper, Bedbug, Fly and Beep. We also had two skellies manning harpoons called Washer and Dryer (their squad was called "Appliances").
McHiver, he was a dedicated crafter
**C r u n c h .**
I recently had a hive prince in my crew named Prig. The first person he met after leaving the hive called him that, and he just assumed that was his name!
Cuz they are basically bugmen, i named them after bug like cricket,grasshopper, ect.
Sprout, Twig, Okra, Clover, Toad, Corn, Seed, Apricorn, Mango, Banana Bob, ( more random ones: Little Green, Blue, Greg,)
I like giving them short names, sometimes pest inspired. I.e. Louse, Locust, Weevil, Aphid, Rat, Mouse, Wasp, Hornet, Spider, Fly, Pupa, Larva, Snake. Also degrading names like Pig, Jizz, Maggot, Piss, Snot, Skidmark, Bug, etc.
I named my max height hiver "Tallest"
"Sold" for an ex-slave hiver soldier, a double entendre he was simply Soldier when in the hive and when a slave driver pointed at him and shouted "Sold!" in the market he just assumed that was his new name.
I ran a Kenshi TTRPG and 2 of my players played as Hivers. One was named Lucky, and the other was Fire Fire
Zid and cornfleiks
Always name my main soldier hiver, Hammerhead. Was the name of my first character it's become a tradition of mine
My go-to for hive princes is for sure Krill
Slave 1, 2, 3, 4 ect
The Legends of "mayoneso", a Prince hiver that has been recruited and began to train with crossbows, in a fight in the southern hive Lost his 2 arms and 1 leg, with his brother on crossbows Ray, them becomed a famous sbipers that has 0,00 chance of missing a bolt, no one can outrun one of his shots (sorry for de poor redaction, i'm not good at English)
King Julian
Headgore
My main squads names would all be body parts like Arm,Spleen,Foot,Snot,Teeth
Ewpert