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HelpRe: Angelina or Seraphina?
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I don't like either, I think they're both generically frilly and saccharine.
On one hand, Angelina is what it says on the tin, Seraphina feels like it's trying to have more of a personality and failing. Angelina feels more I-am-what-I-am (which is bubblegum pink and tooth-achey and a little bit bratish) while Seraphina feels like the younique Mary-Sue.
On the other, I like Sera as a nickname way more than anything you could get from Angelina, apart from maybe Annie? But I'm not one to like names just for the nickname. You might as well just use the nickname at that point really.
On yet another, something about Seraphina just gives me annoying vibes and I just flat out don't like it, it's trying so hard to be pretty, to be dramatic, to be different. It's the manic pixie dream girl of frilly girl names. And I like frill. I sort of feel like it would make me want to roll my eyes if I saw it used irl.
I also feel both names are very girly, I can't see them aging well, even though I know they must do, in my head they're always just a little bit almost bratty. They both give me Veruca Salt vibes.
Edit: Oh, they both make me think of that mean girl in A Series of Unfortunate Events... the one from the orphanage who was all frilly and shrill and demanding?
Edit 2: But actually really sort of like Seraphine as a middle name, so...uh.. I don't know. Go figure. I think I like it as it's a little bit less in your face, and I only like it as a middle name where it wouldn't get used on a daily basis so it feels even less... in your face. And I sometimes find myself thinking about Angelique, mostly because I knew a really cool girl who was pretty...punk rock.. and her name, which she never went by as a teenager, was Angelique. When I met her again as an adult she did go by Angelique and that was somehow even more punk rock just because of the person she was.
So I guess my answer is...neither. I prefer Seraphine so much more in comparison to Seraphina, and Angelique will always be cooler to me than Angelina.
On one hand, Angelina is what it says on the tin, Seraphina feels like it's trying to have more of a personality and failing. Angelina feels more I-am-what-I-am (which is bubblegum pink and tooth-achey and a little bit bratish) while Seraphina feels like the younique Mary-Sue.
On the other, I like Sera as a nickname way more than anything you could get from Angelina, apart from maybe Annie? But I'm not one to like names just for the nickname. You might as well just use the nickname at that point really.
On yet another, something about Seraphina just gives me annoying vibes and I just flat out don't like it, it's trying so hard to be pretty, to be dramatic, to be different. It's the manic pixie dream girl of frilly girl names. And I like frill. I sort of feel like it would make me want to roll my eyes if I saw it used irl.
I also feel both names are very girly, I can't see them aging well, even though I know they must do, in my head they're always just a little bit almost bratty. They both give me Veruca Salt vibes.
Edit: Oh, they both make me think of that mean girl in A Series of Unfortunate Events... the one from the orphanage who was all frilly and shrill and demanding?
Edit 2: But actually really sort of like Seraphine as a middle name, so...uh.. I don't know. Go figure. I think I like it as it's a little bit less in your face, and I only like it as a middle name where it wouldn't get used on a daily basis so it feels even less... in your face. And I sometimes find myself thinking about Angelique, mostly because I knew a really cool girl who was pretty...punk rock.. and her name, which she never went by as a teenager, was Angelique. When I met her again as an adult she did go by Angelique and that was somehow even more punk rock just because of the person she was.
So I guess my answer is...neither. I prefer Seraphine so much more in comparison to Seraphina, and Angelique will always be cooler to me than Angelina.
This message was edited 12/13/2021, 1:27 PM
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"Oh, they both make me think of that mean girl in A Series of Unfortunate Events... the one from the orphanage who was all frilly and shrill and demanding?"
Carmelita Spats. She is kind of the antithesis of a Mary-Sue.
Carmelita Spats. She is kind of the antithesis of a Mary-Sue.
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