2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280187#Comment_280187 2011-01-25T08:44:37-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 XIbalba2012 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1917

quickly glanced through the bit on Warren's site about naming characters, and I had to think about "what happens when you have to rename a character? When I was a much younger punk, in my High ...

Over the years my blue-faced villain had evolved quite a bit from the Mr.Sinister/Mad Darwinist rip-off it had started out as, to something far more complex(I guess that's natural when toying with the same ideas for more than a decade). Nowadays, of coarse, the word "avatar" is thrown quite a lot, and more often than not, the word is not used in accordance with it's actual definition. Thus, I feel the name of the character MUST be changed, simply for commercial reasons. I don't believe using the name for the villain could get me hit with a cease and desist, but people now have a picture or two in their heads associated with the word, that I don't want to evoke. Sigh. Another hold up on an Idea nearly 20 years in the making....]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280194#Comment_280194 2011-01-25T09:37:45-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2311

Scramble some letters or toss some odd ideas in a hat. You could always try the make of your first car as the first name and some other variable as the last name. I remember there was a villain whose ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280199#Comment_280199 2011-01-25T10:46:19-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 Oxbrow http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=894

Some things I've tried: Reach for a thesaurus if you're using a word as a name. Or look at the origins of the name or the equivalents in other languages. Look at similar terms, like Incarnate ...

Reach for a thesaurus if you're using a word as a name. Or look at the origins of the name or the equivalents in other languages.

Look at similar terms, like Incarnate or Harbinger.

Steal from history, or out-of-copyright fiction. When I wanted to suggest an alien race were like ghouls, I called them Vathek, after the novel that introduced the word to the English language.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280204#Comment_280204 2011-01-25T11:24:55-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 XIbalba2012 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1917

stsparky: Hilariously brilliant! How about Humano Dio de Mierda? Oxbrow: Thanks a ton for the "origins of the name" link. That'll come in great handy in many other realms of research I ...

Oxbrow: Thanks a ton for the "origins of the name" link. That'll come in great handy in many other realms of research I dabble in.

On another note, speaking of the English language...why does my spell checker not recognize "that'll" as a proper contraction? Is it not?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280209#Comment_280209 2011-01-25T11:50:35-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6

http://www.behindthename.com/ WIN!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280215#Comment_280215 2011-01-25T12:27:09-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299

Re: "That'll": It's not really "proper," but it's a contraction in common usage. Open Office recognizes it just fine, so that means it's okay in my book.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280223#Comment_280223 2011-01-25T13:13:47-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2311

Easier than a thesaurus - this is one of the best uses Wikipedia has for me. EG An avatar is a "puppet" - so go to the English main page and enter that. Once on the page, click on one of ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280261#Comment_280261 2011-01-25T19:22:24-08:00 2013-05-19T23:37:52-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93

I had to rebrand a throwaway "Dr. Radium" as "Mr. Radium" a couple years ago, and Silver Star turned out to be a Kirby character (but ours was Thelemite. Squatters' rights!). ...

However, last week, everyone else's discovery of the whole Ophiuchus thing took a little edge off an upcoming issue of Invisible, Inc.

Ideaspace, man, it'll get you any which way.]]>