Trying to come up with a good name for my main character suuuuucks (hexbear.net)

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Anything I write with a placeholder name feels bad and then I get stuck trying to think of a better name. I've already designated too much of the start of the alphabet to side characters, it needs to be something easy to read if its coming up over and over again in the book.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

unironically sounds like you might want to self-impose some naming constraints. For instance, my parameters for my main cast:

same length first and last name (in this case, 6 )
alliterative
each name must have at least 2 different vowel sounds

as such–Cronyl Collin, Gloria Guerra, Romain Romero, Yakira Ykalis.

If it helps, go full Ace Attorney–make the names barely-obscured puns/character traits. On the other hand, remember you can just mash together syllables to make a name, no one's stopping you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This might actually be helpful, thanks. I'm basing my world off of pre-Christian Ireland so I'm trying to find something vaguely Celtic sounding (even if its not a real word)

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