Noticing his uncertainty, Tear looked at him questioningly for a few moments, as if she were silently asking for an explanation for the tone. Though in the end she decided to continue forward with her own, feeling the need to clarify where the name had come from.

"The aggregate sentience of the Fifth Fonon in my world, the element of fire," she shrugged, partially glad that he was in agreement with her observation. "Her colour reminded me of it a little."

There were other names she associated with red as well, but she wasn't in a hurry to name the chocobo Lorelei either, and the others that came to mind... seemed oddly inappropriate. She could imagine the reactions of some of those individuals, anyway.

But it couldn't be as unusual as having a rappig named after you. "There's another sentience, but I wonder..."