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HelpRe: I phrased that poorly. (m)
in reply to a message by Dot
Would Strider sound nice to you if it wasn't for Aragorn?
Maybe not, but what if you come to love the name through his character? What if, after seeing it on someone, it seems plausible, workable, and yes, attractive for the sound?
I would never have considered Eve if not for V for Vendetta. I may well have come to Evening anyway (they share top billing on my favourites, though Eve is more a backup-in-case-my-spouse-just-doesn't-get-it kind of choice, if you get what I mean), but Eve? I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought. But give me a film that moves me, a comic book that makes me think about the natures of freedom, happiness, anarchy, and truth, give me a woman of immense strength of character, and the sound begins to appeal more. It's a bit like Stockholm Syndrome--I hear the name often enough, associated with something I love a great deal, and I see more in the name than simply "a nice association."
More examples--here's a list of some of my favourite names for girls and boys. Parentheses indicate the sources of my inspiration for loving the name (I've removed those that don't relate directly to this point).
Evening / Eve "Evey" (Evey Hammond, V for Vendetta)
Katharine "Kitty" (Kitty Jones, The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Juniper (Juniper Pearl, Benny and Joon)
Karana (Karana, Island of the Blue Dolphins)
Ofelia (Ofelia, Pan's Labyrinth)
Scarlet Carson (V for Vendetta)
Morpheus (Morpheus, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)
Ptolemy (Ptolemy / Ptolemaeus, The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Edmond (Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, by way of V for Vendetta)
Nathaniel "Nat" (Nat of Little Men / Jo's Boys and Nathaniel of The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Simon (Simon Tam, Firefly)
Lucien (Lucien, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)
And so on and so forth. Not all of them would be specifically after the person, but I'm willing to bet good money that I'd pass quite a few of them over if not for the fact that I'm head over heels for some of their characters.
Frankly, I do think you're being unreasonably snobby, despite your extended explanations, and I don't think it's in any way attractive to act as though finding names through literature or musical theatre is somehow superior to discovering them through films and comic books--but then, I'll admit freely that I am very close to this issue, as many of my choices could be painted as being born of "nice" associations.
Array (apologizes for jumping into this, but she feels very strongly about it)
Maybe not, but what if you come to love the name through his character? What if, after seeing it on someone, it seems plausible, workable, and yes, attractive for the sound?
I would never have considered Eve if not for V for Vendetta. I may well have come to Evening anyway (they share top billing on my favourites, though Eve is more a backup-in-case-my-spouse-just-doesn't-get-it kind of choice, if you get what I mean), but Eve? I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought. But give me a film that moves me, a comic book that makes me think about the natures of freedom, happiness, anarchy, and truth, give me a woman of immense strength of character, and the sound begins to appeal more. It's a bit like Stockholm Syndrome--I hear the name often enough, associated with something I love a great deal, and I see more in the name than simply "a nice association."
More examples--here's a list of some of my favourite names for girls and boys. Parentheses indicate the sources of my inspiration for loving the name (I've removed those that don't relate directly to this point).
Evening / Eve "Evey" (Evey Hammond, V for Vendetta)
Katharine "Kitty" (Kitty Jones, The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Juniper (Juniper Pearl, Benny and Joon)
Karana (Karana, Island of the Blue Dolphins)
Ofelia (Ofelia, Pan's Labyrinth)
Scarlet Carson (V for Vendetta)
Morpheus (Morpheus, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)
Ptolemy (Ptolemy / Ptolemaeus, The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Edmond (Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, by way of V for Vendetta)
Nathaniel "Nat" (Nat of Little Men / Jo's Boys and Nathaniel of The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Simon (Simon Tam, Firefly)
Lucien (Lucien, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)
And so on and so forth. Not all of them would be specifically after the person, but I'm willing to bet good money that I'd pass quite a few of them over if not for the fact that I'm head over heels for some of their characters.
Frankly, I do think you're being unreasonably snobby, despite your extended explanations, and I don't think it's in any way attractive to act as though finding names through literature or musical theatre is somehow superior to discovering them through films and comic books--but then, I'll admit freely that I am very close to this issue, as many of my choices could be painted as being born of "nice" associations.
Array (apologizes for jumping into this, but she feels very strongly about it)
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