thank you so much 😭😭
i combined a lot of concepts into this one. her name was originally TELEKO 20XX, because that's what i named our smart TV based on japanese naming conventions. Tele (from TV) -ko (as in child). There are a lot of characters in anime that also change the -ko to use a C for stylistic reasons (like Emilico from Shadows House, where they just named a character Emily but with -ko at the end) so i opted to add that in too. 20XX was an old game/vaporwave/smash bros meme. and then that morphed into a joke character i made in D&D that overlapped all of the redundant telepathy abilities in the game into a supremely useless build. but then also, Teleco is just a truncated "Telecommunications." and it's also a great name for a character based on Sadako from The Ring.
the name of the game was originally "The Channeler" but i thought that was boring. instead you play from the perspective of a channeler, which i thought was a clever combination of the concept of someone who deals with TVs and spirits, i'm sure that one has been used before. also, i named the creatures gaomono, or "thing that roars" in japanese. and it's partly because -mono is also a reference to them only sending one signal, as in mono-, or monophonic.