Final Fantasy VI: Stand Guard

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Originally Posted by Niveras

I don't know what her name is in the Japanese version or what the intended pronunciation of her name was in the US release, but I've always pronounced it "Sell-less." As in, "Celestial." Although I've never noticed this before, this does seem to fall in line with Squaresoft's naming scheme for its main characters. It also serves to play against the other female protaganist: Terra=Earth, Celes=Sky.

Here is a picture of what Final Fantasy 6 (that is, the original Japanese Release) prints Celes' name as.



Look I know I suck at drawing kana. Not the point. This is the hiragana for "SE," the katakana for "RI" (pronounced "ree") and the katakana for "SU," whose "u" sound is silent.

"SERISu"

That sounds like Celise to me.

And furthermore!



This is a similarly self-blaming and self-punishing character named "Lise" in Seiken Densetsu 3 (the unreleased sequel to Secret of Mana).

I told you, where there's coffee, there's research.

SIDE NOTE: Feeding this post through the Google Translator from English to Japanese and back again twice somehow seemed funny, so I'm going to go get some sleep before I collapse into a pile of my constituent elements.