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Help[Opinions] Re: Thoughts on the name Vivian for a female character?
in reply to a message by Bread Boy
I like Vivian. I like most forms of it actually.
Vivian is feisty, sensible and no-nonsense. She's at least spiritually middle age with fantastic huge hair, fantastic huge perfume, and maybe a bold pants-suit. She's 80s, in a timeless way, like the way all us post-80s think about the 80s, especially us who didn't live through it. Vivian is the kinda woman you want in your corner in a fight, she's sassy, savage, yes, even savvy.
Viv goes in many different directions. I could see a feisty bouffant Viv, but also a slightly huffy, aloof counter-culture Viv with thrift-store clothes and the worst stinker attitude, or a cute, retiring, dungarees-wearing Viv with bad hair, bad glasses, and a badly behaved cat, whose whole world is her little vegetable plot or her failing artsy cafe or dusty second-hand bookstore.
And for what it's worth...
Vivienne is all sleek and classy, elegant, a bit aloof and cut-glass or a bit fatale. That said, one of the coolest ladies I ever met was called Vivienne, she was fantastic and I still regret we fell out of contact.
Viviana is... I've known a few Vivianas. They've all been tall, robust Eastern European women who are, and both that I became friends with are quiet until you know them, and very sweet and laid-back when you do. I find Viviana more earthy and rustic, quite gentle, cottage-y and warm, sort of unrefined but wholesome.
Viviette is spiky, sassy and sharp, full of points and spikes. I picture a petite woman with sharp edges, sharp facial features and blunt cut short dark hair, quick verbally, mentally and physically, full of quick motions and verbal jabs. Viviette feels either perky bordering on antagonistic or fiesty and sharp, it has this edge to it. And it does feel retro, but in a kind of wink-and-nod way, the kind of name someone'd pick as a nickname to go with their massive eyeliner and blunt bob.
Vivian is feisty, sensible and no-nonsense. She's at least spiritually middle age with fantastic huge hair, fantastic huge perfume, and maybe a bold pants-suit. She's 80s, in a timeless way, like the way all us post-80s think about the 80s, especially us who didn't live through it. Vivian is the kinda woman you want in your corner in a fight, she's sassy, savage, yes, even savvy.
Viv goes in many different directions. I could see a feisty bouffant Viv, but also a slightly huffy, aloof counter-culture Viv with thrift-store clothes and the worst stinker attitude, or a cute, retiring, dungarees-wearing Viv with bad hair, bad glasses, and a badly behaved cat, whose whole world is her little vegetable plot or her failing artsy cafe or dusty second-hand bookstore.
And for what it's worth...
Vivienne is all sleek and classy, elegant, a bit aloof and cut-glass or a bit fatale. That said, one of the coolest ladies I ever met was called Vivienne, she was fantastic and I still regret we fell out of contact.
Viviana is... I've known a few Vivianas. They've all been tall, robust Eastern European women who are, and both that I became friends with are quiet until you know them, and very sweet and laid-back when you do. I find Viviana more earthy and rustic, quite gentle, cottage-y and warm, sort of unrefined but wholesome.
Viviette is spiky, sassy and sharp, full of points and spikes. I picture a petite woman with sharp edges, sharp facial features and blunt cut short dark hair, quick verbally, mentally and physically, full of quick motions and verbal jabs. Viviette feels either perky bordering on antagonistic or fiesty and sharp, it has this edge to it. And it does feel retro, but in a kind of wink-and-nod way, the kind of name someone'd pick as a nickname to go with their massive eyeliner and blunt bob.
