Kukui is named somewhat after his dad, Mango. Mango is a tropical fruit, obviously, but I wanted to stick with the tropical theme. I lived in Hawaii, which also means a lot to me, so i combined the two and went with Kukui, with is the state tree of Hawaii and is the name of the nut that is born from that tree. The Kukui nut used to be used as candle oil - the ancient Hawaiians used to take the kukui oil, gather it, stick some frond in the oil and light it. since Veileds have a lot of yellow, I figured that it would look a little like sparks of fire.
the name has turned out more appropriate than I imagined - Kukui is quite the nutty lil chameleon, personality wise!
My first cham was named Karma, for obvious reasons. My second was Varekai and then Zumanity was her mate. They were named after Cirque Du Soleil because people said I had my own mini menagerie of animals at the time - a cat, two hairless rats, chameleons. In hawaii that's a pretty decent selection of animals, seeing as most everything else is illegal.
