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@ethryndal, @jess, @kate-flournoy That’s interesting insight you had. Really interesting.
The actual alignment of these characters are:
James Manning: Hero
Pandora Flynn: Hero
Amadeus Janssen: Villain
Marcus Coleman: Villain
Jackson Levi: Hero
It was interesting hearing your opinions on their names. 😀
Never seen this before. Let me try what @leumeister did . . .
Logan Black
Gabriella Kamiyama
Blake Aricson
Daren Azimalik
Jonah Cnatonus
Yukio Kamiyama
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Logan Black sounds almost like a villain. It may be because of the last name Black.
Gabriella Kamiyama sounds like a good guy, except the Kamiyama could throw some people.
Blake Aricson… I’d say hero, but I could be wrong.
Daren Azimalik…. Villain. I think villain.
Jonah Cnnatonus. I have no idea with this one. He could be bad luck on a ship… 😛
Yukio Kamiyama. Again, the name throws me, since it’s foreign. I’d be inclined to say villain, but then there’s Gabriella Kamiyama…I assume that’s Yukio’s wife?
@mark-kamibaya I would be inclined to agree with @leumeister, except for Yukio Kamiyama, which doesn’t hit me as villainous. (Sorry, Leu, hope you don’t mind. 🙂 )
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Logan Black- Hero
Gabriella Kamiyama- Hero
Blake Aricson- Villain maybe?
Daren Azimalik- Villain
Jonah Cnatonus – Hero?
Yukio Kamiyama- HeroOf course I don’t mind. Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion. 🙂
Logan Black–main character (hero)
Gabriella Kamiyama–secondary character (good guy, daughter of Yukio btw)
Blake Aricson–secondary character: antihero
Daren Azimalik–villain
Jonah Cnatonus–secondary character (hero)
Yukio Kamiyama–villain (big baddie)Interesting how you came to similar, but different conclusions.
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So, what about hero’s names? What do you guys think would go into a hero’s naming? (letters and sounds and such) (Ah, the English language) 😛
I particularly think that L is a good hero letter, but what else?☀ ☀ ☀ ENFP ☀ ☀ ☀
I love the letter L! I put it into a lot of names. Sometimes I have to come up with names that purposefully don’t have the letter L or K or R in it. hehe.
I tentatively disagree that the villains should only have R names. (sorry guys!) Names like Roric, Eragon, Durin, and Thorin all have R’s in them, and they are all hero’s. I think the letter R sounds strong, so if you have a strong hero (or villain) his name should use the letter R.
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@Jenali I am blown away by the fact that you like the exact three letters I do. May I say that you have very good taste? 🙂
And I agree about R. (Probably because I have a character named Rodyn 🙂 ) It’s a pretty strong sounding letter, which is why it works well for villains, but I personally like heroes named with an R as well. Just think of Robin Hood. Wouldn’t be half so epic sounding if it was “Louie Hood” or something.
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@jenali Well, if you use the ‘R’s as Gandalf does, then it can be a villain sounding name. I guess it does depend on how one says it. @ethryndal
Huh…I never veer to one letter over the other, but I do tend to be very picky in my names. It can take me more than an hour just to find a suiting name for a character, and lots of internets searching. 😛☀ ☀ ☀ ENFP ☀ ☀ ☀
@Dragon-Snapper Oh yes, the age long battle over names. I prefer naming fantasy characters, because then I can just make something up. 🙂 But when it comes to real life people…ugh.
I also like the letter E for a hero… Eowyn, Eragon, Emolas (he’s one of my characters 🙂 ) Edmund…Eeyore…
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@jenali @ethryndal @dragon-snapper Wow! This is super cool! I love this topic. Mind if I jump in?
I agree about the E names 100%! Some of my favorite characters from my stories have E names like Erahir, Erdain, Evaleen, Elise, Elseanya etc. 😄 I made a list a couple months ago of every character I’ve ever come up with for my story world, (no matter how insignificant) and you might be interested to hear that J names are without a doubt the most popular name on my list. There are over 25 Js out of 150 only 2 of which are enemies. The A names can in close second, but there was a pretty even mix of heroes and villains. My Es are next with just over 15 and ever single one belongs to a ‘good guy’. This kinda surprised me since I usually don’t care in general for the letter A. (It’s because it’s fire engine red. Ergh.)
I also do the letter thing! Whenever I’m sketching a character I just get this feeling for what their name should be. When I was constructing my Evil Overlord this got me into a bit of trouble. I drew him up a couple of times, and for some reason I couldn’t think of him by any other name except Carlos!! Carlos! Not exactly a name for striking fear into your opponents, eh? ☺️ And I don’t know about you guys but once I find the name that fits a character I cannot change it for the life of me! So. I’m stuck with Carlos, but it turns out he was too much of a sob story to be the Evil Overloard anyway, so I made him the second in command that will repent at the end. The Evil Overloard’s name is Zlorom, and that is much more evil-overlord-ish, don’t you think? 😉*is probably geeking out about something*
@graciegirl That’s a neat idea! I think I’ll make a list too! I happen to use ‘A’s A LOT as well, though in my more recent story it’s E. Hmm… Maybe for sci-fi the letter will be E and for fantasy the letter will be A…interesting.
Carlos, you monster! … Myeah, I think that Zlorom works better for that line. 😛
@ethryndal Eeyore. That sounds familiar. 😉☀ ☀ ☀ ENFP ☀ ☀ ☀
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