character names, wolfless versions
Nov. 28th, 2021 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday my attempt to file serial numbers off of characters that started out as werewolves lead me to find on behindthename that
Madog Howells
is a perfectly valid Welsh name
and now I'm annoyed I'm not writing the kind of story where that could hide at all.
Also the closest thing to McCall on that website is MacCallion, anglicised from MacCailín, which is from the name Cailean. Cailean means whelp or young dog.
... Cailean is also the name of a deity in Pathfinder's main setting, so I'm probably keeping MacCailean, just in a non wolfy way.
On Golarion the followers of Cayden Cailean run a lot of orphanages, and some of those raised there take the name Cailean, so by now it has to be a fairly common name that may or may not mean you personally are an orphan, or descended from them. But being an actual son of Cayden is also reputedly possible, due to Cayden being a bit of a party god. So that's fun.
I've never watched Teen Wolf, I just needed half a dozen characters to drop in at once and I've read some fanfic, so this morning I woke up and got distracted renaming them.
... oh, I had so many more windows open in private browsing, but Firefox just crashed and they are All Gone. *sigh*
... I mean, having so many windows open was probably why it crashed, but still, *sigh*
Given that this story is unlikely to see daylight I should just stop fussing with names anyway, dont need to file anything off if nobody sees it.
I feel weird about this one because usually fanfic is 'we know these characters but I will make up the plot', only I am making up characters and throwing them at a Pathfinder adventure module, because what happens next is the hard part. So it still isnt original, but the things that happen are only lightly customised to be happening to these people at this time.
oh well, made pages, is good.
Madog Howells
is a perfectly valid Welsh name
and now I'm annoyed I'm not writing the kind of story where that could hide at all.
Also the closest thing to McCall on that website is MacCallion, anglicised from MacCailín, which is from the name Cailean. Cailean means whelp or young dog.
... Cailean is also the name of a deity in Pathfinder's main setting, so I'm probably keeping MacCailean, just in a non wolfy way.
On Golarion the followers of Cayden Cailean run a lot of orphanages, and some of those raised there take the name Cailean, so by now it has to be a fairly common name that may or may not mean you personally are an orphan, or descended from them. But being an actual son of Cayden is also reputedly possible, due to Cayden being a bit of a party god. So that's fun.
I've never watched Teen Wolf, I just needed half a dozen characters to drop in at once and I've read some fanfic, so this morning I woke up and got distracted renaming them.
... oh, I had so many more windows open in private browsing, but Firefox just crashed and they are All Gone. *sigh*
... I mean, having so many windows open was probably why it crashed, but still, *sigh*
Given that this story is unlikely to see daylight I should just stop fussing with names anyway, dont need to file anything off if nobody sees it.
I feel weird about this one because usually fanfic is 'we know these characters but I will make up the plot', only I am making up characters and throwing them at a Pathfinder adventure module, because what happens next is the hard part. So it still isnt original, but the things that happen are only lightly customised to be happening to these people at this time.
oh well, made pages, is good.