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Help[Opinions] Re: Magnolia Corvina Betancourt Jordan: seeking feedback on this name.
in reply to a message by Manipura
Lol!
After discussing this both here and in another community, I'm coming to the conclusion that Magnolia Lilith might be a little much for an older Millennial woman to have been given at birth. I was looking for something that would reflect her Goth interests--she would have been more explicitly Goth as a teenager in the nineties, but would still carry the Goth spirit on some level--but still be believable for her Boomer parents to have given her. Both Magnolia and Lilith would have been in use well before her time, so I thought at first that that was enough to make it believable. Especially if I made her parents proto-Goths of sorts--fans of Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley and the Bronte sisters.
At this point I'm leaning more toward Magnolia Gwen, Magnolia Claire, or Magnolia Rose (especially since her mother is an ethnobotanist). Maybe even Magnolia Lee. If her parents liked Edgar Allen Poe, they would have seen the latter as a good reference to Annabelle Lee, the poem. And in present day, she would get a kick out of just happening to have the same middle name as Amy Lee's last name--yet that would still be a believable coincidence.
Anyway, the reason I was laughing was because I feel like she would appreciate being called a "demonic Southerner" regardless of what middle name I pick for her. She's just eccentric enough to turn away the stereotype of Southerners that are overly worried about what the neighbors would think, and she's proud of it.
After discussing this both here and in another community, I'm coming to the conclusion that Magnolia Lilith might be a little much for an older Millennial woman to have been given at birth. I was looking for something that would reflect her Goth interests--she would have been more explicitly Goth as a teenager in the nineties, but would still carry the Goth spirit on some level--but still be believable for her Boomer parents to have given her. Both Magnolia and Lilith would have been in use well before her time, so I thought at first that that was enough to make it believable. Especially if I made her parents proto-Goths of sorts--fans of Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley and the Bronte sisters.
At this point I'm leaning more toward Magnolia Gwen, Magnolia Claire, or Magnolia Rose (especially since her mother is an ethnobotanist). Maybe even Magnolia Lee. If her parents liked Edgar Allen Poe, they would have seen the latter as a good reference to Annabelle Lee, the poem. And in present day, she would get a kick out of just happening to have the same middle name as Amy Lee's last name--yet that would still be a believable coincidence.
Anyway, the reason I was laughing was because I feel like she would appreciate being called a "demonic Southerner" regardless of what middle name I pick for her. She's just eccentric enough to turn away the stereotype of Southerners that are overly worried about what the neighbors would think, and she's proud of it.
