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What Should My Character's Name Be?
Beryl 1 (10%)
Poppy (it'd be short for Penelope) 0 (0%)
Adelaide 4 (40%)
Anette 1 (10%)
Eileen 2 (20%)
Meriweather (don't vote for this one, it's homage to my favorite faerie from Sleeping Beauty :P ) 2 (20%)
Total Votes: 10
Muahahaha another poll. What do you think of the name Hannelore for the grandmother?
Yay 5 (71.4%)
Nay 0 (0%)
Just always refer to her as Grandmamma :P 2 (28.6%)
Total Votes: 7
New Name for Character
Topic Started: Oct 12 2008, 11:13 PM (786 Views)
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So I'm rewriting a story I had started (and lost) about a year ago. The story has faeries and magic and all that good stuff. It's very much a fairytale. But I'm having trouble picking out my heroine's name. [Does anyone else think it's odd that 'heroine' and 'heroin' are pronounced the same? :! Moving on!]

I've made a list of what names I think I like. They're old fashioned or off-key kind of names, something you don't hear anymore. I hope it gives it a more fairytale quality.

About the Character and World//

  • 16-20 years old. I want her to be an age were fantasies are put away and old enough to be independent but not absolutely so.
  • She's a girl. duh.
  • Rather than give you a description, I found a painting of what I think she looked like as a child. *clicky* It's beautiful. As far as I know, she still has gold hair and dark eyes.
  • In the village she lives in, there where two kind of people: People of the Fey and People of the Wanderers. However so much time has passed on that the two groups have blurred and there's no real distinction anymore. Now days the terms 'people of the fey/wanderers' have been reduced to 'the indigenous' and 'the settlers' respectively.
  • Nobody believes in myth anymore.
  • The village was once a purely agrarian society. The painting reminds me of what it once looked like.
  • It now looks like a modern German village... (following the Bros. Grimm's lead here. :P ) Farm fields are on the outskirts of the town. *clicky* *clicky again* [What gets me is that places like this still exist. When I look at these pictures it's almost baffling to think magic doesn't exist.]
  • Other people in the town are named Walter [or Warren, I haven't decided], Pitch [he's a faerie], and more to come.... :dead:
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sounds like it is going to turn out well.. i can't wait to see the finished story!!!
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Okay nevermind. You guys don't get to pick anymore. I've decided on Tabea. I think it's cute. Tabby as a nickname.
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but but but... THAT WASN'T EVEN AN OPTION!!!!!

TOTALLY LAME!
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XD well I'm not sorry. I'll let you guys vote on another character. maybe.
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you better meanie...
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OH MY GOSH I HAVE A PLOT!!! ^_^

Trust me, I'll have a characters that will need to be GASP! I might already have him now. heh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I love breakthroughs!! :D

XD my second idea came to me while I was typing the sentence above. That's why it's strange. For authenticity I decided to keep it like that. :P

But finishing the first thought: Yes, I'll have plenty of characters to vote names for. :) The second thought... well lets just say I created another character who now has an identity. :D -dances-
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On a side note, heroine and heroin? I'm not the only one who thinks that is really weird? Thank you Linden. XD Oh, and the story sounds really good so far. Oh, and Beryl and Adelaide sound like they go together. Beryl sounds like a guy's name to me though. Those are my favorites up there. You should use those somewhere as a duo. XD
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Beryl as a male name? hmm. Yeah, I can see that and I am lacking faeries of the male variety... XD Though if I would make Beryl and Adelaide a pair, I think they'd have to be human since I can't see Adelaide as a faerie name. :sigh:

But we'll see. :goof:

-jumps up and down with plotmaddness-
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You don't see Adelaide as a faerie name? Really? I think it sounds like a mystic name. XP Although, maybe Beryl and Adelaide are a human and faerie team-up thing. Kinda like (and this is a terrible reference but it totally works, unfortunately) Link from legend of zelda and his fairy. XD

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Understatement of the century!!

No Link and Navi parings please; my mind boggles at the mechanics of it. :dead:

ANYWAY, -shoves perverted thoughts away- Adelaide might work. But it sounds too polished, me thinks. And a little too human which is why it was up there in the first place. But I'll roast it over.

Though Beryl I can totally see now. Even though the first thing that comes to my mind is the witch from Sailor Moon. But I can work through that. :P
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Whoa, you calm down Linden. Perv. XD

My thoughts are going in the direction of Adelaide (since the name strikes me as enchanting; don't know why, but it does) being a human but finding out through some weird epic plot twist that she is at least part faerie or something like that. Maybe that's just me.

I <3 epic plot twists. XD
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I can't see Adelaide without thinking about the song by Anberlin.

And Australia.

It's a pretty name.


But the ones you picked are purrtty too, Lindeeennnnnn.
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My mind is allowed to be in the gutter once and a while. :P

Well, I'll think about that. But I don't know how a faerie/human pairing would have happened. Unless it involved a time machine, lollipops, and a duck. Use your imagination.

But seriously, it'd be extremely unlikely. Though I didn't specify in the first chapter, it's been about 170 years since the faeries disappeared. For Adelaide to be half human, she'd be so noticeable she'd probably hop from town to town trying to avoid attention since she's almost immortal. And that could be a possibility. Well... so much for a plot twist -- hell, I'll stick a Beryl and an Adelaide in there. :goof:
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Maybe she has faerie genes that until this point in time lay dormant in her family. O.o That would be kinda cool. Some tragedy or life and death situation forces her to use power she didn't know she had.

Oh, there you go! In many cases, faerie magic is seen as being used only for good. So it goes without saying that there could be no harming with faerie magic. Unless of course there was a human element. (now to where I'm going with this) Raid on the village, right? She sees family and friends running in fear, houses burning, armored men on horseback with torches and swords. Something something something and she ends up saving the town on accident and being ostracized because of it. That could be cool. XD Argh...must not steal linden's story. XD
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