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HelpRe: Is it okay to give a villain character a name I likes?
in reply to a message by Francisinfp5w4
Nobody but you needs to know whether you like or dislike a name you give a character.
Everyone has to have a name, and there's plenty of villains in fiction and in real life that have names that are well-liked by a lot of people. It doesn't matter except to you, but it shouldn't matter to you. They're your characters and if the name you pick for them is one you happen to like, so what? If you have any audience at all, the chances are that at least some of them despise that very name as much as you love it.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
Everyone has to have a name, and there's plenty of villains in fiction and in real life that have names that are well-liked by a lot of people. It doesn't matter except to you, but it shouldn't matter to you. They're your characters and if the name you pick for them is one you happen to like, so what? If you have any audience at all, the chances are that at least some of them despise that very name as much as you love it.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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Thank you.