late summer times
I normally name OCs by associated-word/background/forshadowing keywords and then google "are there any [character gender] names for [keyword]" and pick the most fitting/best sounding option. Either that or taking the letter-switch-cipher I made and making a name out of that.
like I once searched "are there any girl names associated with air and the colour green" and got the name Sage for my OC, and used a similar naming scheme for all the OCs from her group like Ocean (water + blue) Ember (fire + red) Violet (earth + purple) Lumi (light + gold) and Shad (shadow + black).
Or when naming the characters for a different idea I was thinking of I went with Lex (Alexis + Alexander), Lorelei (lore/exposition queen + excessive lier), Vega (star + light = brightest star), and Ruben (a male given name that has its roots in the Hebrew language. The name means “behold, a son” and is derived from the biblical story of Jacob and his firstborn son, Reuben. - google).
Or when naming the characters for a story where each character has their knightly title be a colour and are generally named for that colour I would google names associated with the colour and an aspect of their personality or a feature of them (kinda like how most got their last names)!
Whats YOUR method of naming OCs?
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I had a dream last night where Blue adopted a kid that he found lost out in the woods that turns out to have a whole bunch of shadow powers and magic and stuff and he’s like “huh, that’s weird. Did I adopt a reborn Shadow???” (Cause the kids appearance and age line up with when Shadow died)
And he spends a little while getting used to having this kid in his house and trying to introduce the other Links to him but they never have time.
He even named the kid… I forget the actual name but it translates to “shadow” or “little dreamer” or something. Cause he does recognize he’s a different person even if he is raising him with Shadow in mind on a lot of this stuff.
He even goes to one of those new parents things (kid’s like… 6-or-7 but still) to learn how tf he’s supposed to parent, and asks his father (who is hella suspicious but happy to talk about it) for advice.
Then Shadow is successfully brought back by Vio and Vio finally goes over to visit Blue like “hey sorry this is why I was so busy but Shadow’s back.” and Blue’s just like “…what?”
And then Vio and Shadow are both like “what why do you have a demon toddler in your home.” And blue’s like “fuck you that is my son.” And they’re both like “w h a t.”
And it was really cute and yeah :)
might fuck around and make a text based ask blog for my four swords au.
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