I have a character named
Alistair, but his parents were fantasy-Russian and wouldn't have named him that. I've been saying he changed it as an adult when he moved to fantasy-North
America (as did his brother
Cyrus, formerly
Kir), but I looked into it and found out there's no Russian version of
Alistair, and it's actually just a small offshoot of the
Alexander name tree. I had no idea!
I feel like it's a bit of a stretch to use its closest Russian relation of
Aleksandr, since it's still not that close and doesn't sound very similar, but I really don't want to change his name to the far more obvious option of
Alexander (or anything else, for that matter; I'm rather attached to it). What sayeth you guys? Is
Aleksandr to
Alistair really as flimsy of a bridge as I think? Is there some other solution I've overlooked?
(I could just forgo mentioning what it used to be, except that I am incapable of writing stories that do not involve copious amounts of time travel, and thus there are several chapters where he shows up as a kid/teenager.)