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Re: Foxglove
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You could get away with it in a story that was really, really campy. Self-consciously so.
Otherwise, no.
Especially since a foxglove is whimsically named for its flower shape ... it's not a masculine image at all, not to get really literal about it but I assume you'll understand what I mean. And also since it is poisonous, it just sounds more like a stereotypical female villain name than a boy.
Maybe a really, really fey and vampy boy.
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What about bad boy ex-boyfriend?
Trying to figure out an edgy, yet not name for a guy who loves himself more than anyone else.
Cool at first, but you get over him quickly kind of guy.
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what about...What about something like Fawkes? An even COOLER version of Fox. Or does that make you think of phoenixes? Faulks?
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Narcissus? or is that too obvious?
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Darius? ... Seth?
(names of some people I've met who fit that description. =)Or a guy who goes by his last name and has a dorky first name - maybe Foxgrove instead?
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Oowh, good plan.
Thanks!
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