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in reply to a message by BigDumb
I hope the putative bearer would have a huge, powerful personality. I suspect, though, that he might be more likely to scuttle nervously around with his face averted and his shoulders hunched.
That's one of the difficulties of writing fiction and naming the characters, I find. Not that I do it myself; but naming a character should surely be more like naming a baby. A parent has no idea how their child will turn out. But an author seems to spend time looking for a suitable name for a hero, a villain, a feminist, a bus driver ... rather than just giving them the random names they would have been given in real life.
That's one of the difficulties of writing fiction and naming the characters, I find. Not that I do it myself; but naming a character should surely be more like naming a baby. A parent has no idea how their child will turn out. But an author seems to spend time looking for a suitable name for a hero, a villain, a feminist, a bus driver ... rather than just giving them the random names they would have been given in real life.
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