I would not recommend you associate name with country or culture. That isn't the purpose of it. It is true that some names have a meaning behind them, and others do not, but that doesn't mean one is fantasy and another is from reality. As fantasy comes from thoughts, real life names does too. Just because a particular name is commonly used in real life does not make it any less a fantasy name in a story. You just have to not apply real life associations with it, for example, Joseph. Even if we don't know the origin entirely, we mostly familiarize that as we would a religious connotation.
i agree with erudite, if you dont like exotic names mixed with names that are common in the real world, then im sorry. authors have the right to use whatever names they please on any character they please. its best when the name works with the character.
I gotta go with Eurodite on this one, naming is up to the author. If they said "You were born in a small village in Ireland" then I could see the confusion, but when it takes place in a fictional realm, the writer has complete creative freedom.
Not to me personally, but I can't speak for everyone (not that you asked me to)
Sailor? obviously his father...
That's hilarious. Whether you intended it to be or not, it was. However, I think I would have to agree with the OP here. It severely annoys me when you have an Axera, a name pulled from the recesses of your imagination, mixed with common names that you hear nearly every day.
lol I was suggesting that the sailor was having an affair with the mother rather than the father, you know, making a troll sailor joke. And I mix names by using those that come to the top of my head and pitting them against each other, much like gladiators.
I don't really pay attention to where names come from or not - usually I'll use a naming convention in the sense that I'm using names that I think sound good together/fit the landscape well, but I don't go "Oh, I've got Eisaga here, that means I can't use the name John". Made up world = made up naming conventions. It's at the author's discretion, but yeah if it's something extreme like a Kyoko in a family of Janes and Emmas then it's somewhat annoying.
Have you ever considered using that as comedic relief? Like, "He was sitting with his brothers, Billy, Bobby, Bubba, Bucky, Bo, Brian, and Chang. Chang always was different, he is small for his age and rediculously good at math, sometimes you can't believe he is your brother."
It took me three minutes to think up my latest name, made me feel stupid
I think you guys are taking my words and just ignoring them, aren't you? Oh well, either way, I don't mind if you had a Takahashi in where everyone was Emma, Jane, or Bubba. I mean, all you really have to do is explain how each name is exotic and how they come about it. For example, Taka could mean the sun in your story, hashi could mean stone. Em could be short for Emrau, a mystical creature and Ma signify protection or protector.
or takahashi could stand for a japanese dude, and emma could stand for a spoiled chick with daddy issues, guess it depends on interpretation really
Lol my school did that play too, not a christian school though
Ya, I'm okay if it turns a few people off and gets me a five rather than a six, but I'm gonna do it anyway. At least, I hope people don't go "Jared's sister's name is Agathe (The French equivalent of Agatha)!!!!! I need to give him a one because that obviously means that his story sucks!". But ya, as long as they don't do that, I'll be fine.
This situation is completely hypothetical and is in no way breaking ThisisBo productions copyright agreement.
I highly doubt anyone would do this, but it was funny to read about haha.
In one of the fantasy stories i'm writing, the main characters are Trickula Beram, Sheela Beram, Choron Slou, and Charlotte Garbonni. Charlotte isn't from the world that the others are from, she's from our world. Hence the regular name. But there's a cursed wolf named Macey. Even though it's a normal name, it can still be in the odd world in my opinion.
In my own writing getting just the right name that sounds just right is something I tend to sperg about to an almost ridiculous degree, it doesn't bother me so much when I'm reading and I come across a Charlotte or Nathaniel mixed in with fantasy names, though Bob or Frank for instance might be a little silly. Lots of made-up names are pretty silly if you think about it (the Apost'Rophes trend in particular tends to bug me) and lots of boring, common real world names come from really diverse places, most with interesting meanings and origins.
If you think about it, we have weird names in our history. Sophocles? Pluto?
Plato* Haha, I didn't the mean the planet or the dog from Mickey Mouse.
I'm planning on making the green installment of my series (If I ever get finished with this one!) about elves, and the names would be based off of stereotypical Native American last names (greenleaf, surebow, redcloud, etc.), does that sound ok?
hey, it's your story.
You mean you're not inventing your own elven language and translating those names from English?
Pfft.
and often both lol
eh, I'll leave that to the novel writers, or when I get more experienced. This is only my first story, and It think that green will be my third, so I might go through the effort, but I doubt it. At one point I want my fantasy world to be unique, but on another I want it to be easily identifiable with the audience. If they picture elves as a bunch of hippie/Native American ecowarriors (possibly from the names, just thinking hypothetically) or BA warriors trying to defend their way of life depends on them.
Well, they do sound interesting. Personally, I always make up names. When I was younger I made up a weird language and confused my friends. For example:
Sheeka la coma lombre escieon. Wran branour mew ka plourde.
I just said "This is my language. Can you decipher?" So, with that odd language, I just say a random word, alter it, and make a fantasy name. Or, like Zikara said, altar regular names. Like I got Choron from Connor.
The names in my current story I just blurt out and see how they sound, even if it does attract weird looks on the bus...
well you see what the person next to you thinks when you just blurt out FERI for no apparent reason. and you will grow to disregaurd them eventually, trust me lol.
HA!
Bo, are you a stand up comedian? You always seem to make someone laugh!
Aspiring lawyer, actually. I just apparently think in a funny way.
Comedy should be your 2nd job.
I get names from experience and imagination. Like I know a guy whose parents did not give him a middle name he choose to become. John Freedomrider Johnson. Yes an actual person in real life is know to the government by Freedomrider. I swear I will use that just to make people laugh.
Hmm. That is odd.
Yeah. I meant to emphasize on the "is" part. Oh, that is odd!
Which is weirder, John Freedomrider Johnson, or Cranda Broomstrow Wickerson?
I don't like my real name either, so I changed it to Bo. Not officially of course.
Well my person is real so I win in that category.
Won't know until fergie logs on.
I knew you were talking. Wanted to see what would happen. And Cranda is a real person!
Ok well I will humbly accept the loss.
