I'm sure I posted something about it on Chatsubo, but I'll do it again (what happened to Chatsubo, anyways?)
A friend of mine convinced me to try Eve. I figured "It looks okay, I'll probably play for a month or two", so I didn't give the name much thought. I was leaning Japanese at the time, so I had Japanese names on the brain. Shin was originally supposed to be a smuggler*, and a shintoko is a kind of basket, so I figured that would be a good "lol" sort of name. Akahoshi means "red star", which just sounded cool. I later worked out a bizarre story with Ly'sol where Shin's people spoke some odd variant of a Tierijevi dialect that sounded kind of like Hawaiian, and that the first good translaters for it were Achura, so they Achura-ized the names. The things you do to work around a bad name choice...
Dakki, on the other hand, was just for fun. "Dakki the Intaki". Heh.