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Aelioua-Name Syndrome

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Mickey Finn:
Let's see, character names I've used in the past:
Meryl
Sachiko Santos
Brand McBride (Brandywine McBride)
Jeremiah Shakespeare
Grady Niblo
Magnus Greer
Jezabel DuSant
Magdelena Smith
Finn McCool
Parker Finn
Old Man Coyote
Selena Delcroix
Leopold Delacroix
Preach



Don't think I have the aforementioned problem ;)

Tersa:

--- Quote from: terioncalling on October 19, 2006, 08:45:48 PM ---*Snip*

Also, Tersa, its really weird that I have a friend with that exact name.

--- End quote ---

Nifty.   :)  He wouldn't happen to have long white hair and green eyes would he?  ;D

That reminds me of something I wanted to ask in this thread... if you are using a real person's full name, totally by coincidence, they can't go get a lawyer and sue you or anything, can they?  I don't think someone can really "own" a name, but people seem to be able to have lawsuits for little to nothing these days... Just wondering.  If this qualifies as thread stealing I'll go make a seperate one just for this.  My knowledge of thread etiquette is still a little hazy. :-\

terioncalling:
Nope.  Does have long hair though.   :)

Hmm, I don't know about the name thing.  They did have to change Murphy's name on the TV show because of the cop with the same name but I don't know if it'd be the same with this.

Belial:
I come up with my names by... coming up with my names. Hard to say how they come to me, sometimes I sit down and make a list (and end up scrapping most of them, but some of my favorites have come from this process.) However, I don't think I have problems with elvish names (Damned dirty elves). Mine go along the lines of:

Numazel (Probably my favorite name)
Lantan
Lazak
Malasa
Leamek
Akenzar
Grashenka
Greschka (those two are brothers)
Ordeas
Caidosh
Lezul
Aduron

(Lantan, Numazel, Akenzar, and Ordeas all share the surname of Sincraes, never really gave the others surnames.. though Lazak was known as Lazak of Hern).

Long white hair and green eyes you say O_o

How long is long?

I've written Lantan (one of my MC's) as having shoulder-length white hair and emerald green eyes before... he's not a mage though, he's more of a fighter.

As a side note, for my comedies (mainly based in the real world) I draw names (and characters often-times) from myth, religion, and demonology.

Amber:
Most of the stuff I write is for characters in the "here and now," so they have names like Sara, Jake, Michael, Shane, etc.  The one fantasy story I've written, the main character's name (the only named character, actually) was Ynnid.

Now, when you want to talk naming characters for games like Final Fantasy...

I tend to fall to the apostrophies.  Names like J'taka or Ta'laia.  Why?  I have no idea.

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