#2: Mar 3rd 2024 at 11:39:23 AM
Meowiarty from Wizard 101 - Because he is a cat and cats hate dogs and the setting is Marleybone, where dogs live, and Meowiarty is the mastermind behind some of the stuff happening in Marleybone, and since Meowiarty is a cat, and cats make a meow sound, this makes sense.
Malistaire from Wizard 101 - Because this is actually a play on words, "Malis" in his name is actually "Malice," which means with ill intentions, and is associated with death, which is his school (as well as shadow). Alistair is a base name, which is my name but spelled wrong. And "taire" which means "shut up" which is what Malistaire tries to do to the spiral.
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I've always found it hard to find good names. Just picking something at random feels lame, and it makes it hard to tell people apart if there are too many of them. Using references feels derivative.
But I've seen that it is possible to do this well. Some works do interesting things with character names, using them to show something about the world. I have two examples:
What are your favorite fictional names?
Edited by modrapetka on Dec 27th 2023 at 1:55:21 PM
Put your trust in the wild lands.