hi im a local rainworld enjoyer. please throw rainworld names at me
you can also throw questions, comments, or whatever else at me that’s also fine
obligatory “this is just for fun and my ratings are ultimately arbitrary (and probably biased)” disclaimer
types of names you can throw at me: iterators, slugcats*, echoes/benefactors
types of names you can throw at me, but I’ll just give you some form of confused noises back: scavengers, other creatures, weaver/prince-type entities, humans, bugs, real people, john artfight, etc
*specifically their titles ex the Artificer, the Rivulet, not nicknames like Ruffles, Ruffian, etc
if you want me to take headcanons (listed below) into account, please specify! will default to ignoring otherwise. additionally, feel free to provide additional information besides solely the name!
-when submitting name(s): please limit yourself to no more than 3 names per ask. you’re welcome to send multiple asks at once, it’d just be a lot. also, please specify whether the name is for a scug, itty, or benefactor/echo, even if it’s obvious!
-if you want specific suggestions on improvements please specify; I’ll default to no specific suggestions otherwise
-also you can submit silly names or ones that obviously break conventions it might make me laugh
list of naming conventions (contains some headcanons, but labeled and kept to a minimum) & canonical names:
Slugcats
Naming Conventions
-starts with “the”
-is one word (although you can combine two words into one if it works well, like Spearmaster)
-usually a word describing a role (Saint, Artificer, Watcher, etc) but not always (Rivulet)
-typically alludes to temperament and/or abilities
-HC: self-chosen
Canon Examples
the Survivor
the Monk
the Hunter
the Gourmand
the Saint
the Spearmaster
the Rivulet
the Artificer
the Watcher
(inv is a loser and doesn’t get to be on this list at all)
Iterators
Naming Conventions
-no more than 4 words (that we’ve seen) (this includes words like to, the, of, etc)
-contains one major subject (Moon, Pebbles, Wind) that all the other words relate to; this is also usually the word used for shortened nicknames
-names with multiple nouns (Sliver of Straw, Bell of Gesture) still have a clear major subject that the other words describe, which distinguishes it from Echo names
-can be abstract but not always
-tends to have a flow when spoken rather than sounding choppy
-even if the name is technically nonsensical taken literally (Chasing Wind, Gazing Stars, etc), it still makes some degree of sense
-does not start with the word “the” (that we’ve seen)
-HC?: is not offensive and is not overtly degrading
-HC: aliases (Erratic Pulse) are self-chosen and thus are exempt from the previous and/or following rules if the user of the alias so chooses
-HC: number of words in name depends on generation (under a three-generation system in which gen 1 is the oldest and has 4-word names, and each generation has one less word than the previous)
Canon Examples
Five Pebbles
Erratic Pulse
Looks to the Moon
Big Sis Moon (not sure if this counts? it technically follows the rules i guess)
No Significant Harassment
Seven Red Suns
Chasing Wind/Gray Wind
Unparalleled Innocence
Sliver of Straw
Gazing Stars
Wandering Omen
Epoch of Clouds
Pleading Intellect
Secluded Instinct
Halved Forest/Half Forest (theorized based on translations; see the wiki. personally i think halved forest sounds better and is thus more likely but i also know one (1) language)
Never G??? Indigo (also theorized based on translations; afaik nobody’s figured out what the G stands for with any certainty)
Bell of Gesture (i hate gesture’s name >:[. )
Echoes/Benefactors (this one’s a mess)
Naming Conventions
-contains two* distinct sets with two distinct subjects separated by either a comma or preposition (pearl dialogue also has one instance of a dash to separate in vanilla and one instance of just a space in watcher)
-*: children might only have one set and gain their second later on? we really only have Spinning Top to work with; for the sake of rating I will assume this is true, although in reality it could be a number of factors for why Spinning Top’s name is Like That
-subjects must be quantifiable and theoretically observable, unlike iterators (although a quantity does not need to be strictly stated)
-don’t ask me wtf is going on with Rhinestones beneath Shattered Glass, I think it just barely passes the two-subject test and could maybe be a valid iterator name? it’s a vibe thing
-4 to 7 words* (that we’ve seen), with each set having 2-4 words (again, that we’ve seen)**
-**: if you separate the sets with a preposition, one of your sets might be one word (Droplets upon Five Large Droplets, Rhinestones beneath Shattered Glass)
-does not start any set with the word “the” (that we’ve seen)
-please they’re not the same as iterator names I beg of you please stop mixing them up
-for some reason preposition separations aren’t capitalized in echo names???
-why do so many of them reference wheels and/or spokes of wheels
-ok looking at the wiki there is some wildly inconsistent stuff. ive compiled everything that appears to be a name. draw your own conclusions 🤷🏻♀️
Canon Examples
A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads
Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections
Four Needles under Plentiful Leaves
Six Grains of Gravel, Mountains Abound
Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets
Droplets Upon Five Large Droplets
Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel
Four Cabinets, Eleven Hatchets
Eight Suns-Countless Leaves
Eight Bogs (noted to be “of the House of Eight during the Tan hegemonic architectural dynasty”; probably not a child)
Pel (noted to be an ancient farmer-poet; likely predates these naming conventions)
Rhinestones beneath Shattered Glass
Distant Towers upon Cracked Earth
Twelve Beads among Burning Skies
Eight Spots on a Blind Eye
Twenty-One Spokes of a Stone Wheel
Spinning Top
Pathel of Twelve-Spoked Wheels
Three-Carafe Nine-Frond
Nine-Leaf (may not be the full name? the pearl it’s from is written conversationally (and in addition might be a reference to Ea-nasir))
One Glass Cylinder (also probably not a child)
in retrospect i actually have no idea what’s going on with their names. one glass cylinder is literally an iterator name conventions-wise. ??????? maybe it’s a cultural thing? they are pearls from across time and also space so it may also be a shifting naming conventions thing. or both.
Okay I don’t think there’s anything technically wrong with this but I still think it’s off. Maybe it’s the “ripples in water” bit (since it technically could make it three subjects?). It does sound nice though. 7/10
mm texture,, i like this one. circles,, sorry im getting vivid abstract mental imagery… the repeated “o” sounds are good uhh 10/10 I especially like “spool” and “orbits” paired together, they’re very good words for each other in ways i cannot explain through text
-Winking Umbra
this feels like something I’d see in Abyss World (on roblox) /pos as an area name or something. very good. nice cadence. I like that there are multiple ways you could interpret “winking” here. 10/10
-Inverse Ocean
very interesting very interesting. it flows quite nicely and it’s so unusual and fascinating. ponding this. i see this more as a particularly strange region than an iterator but it works very well as an iterator name! 10/10
1 subject, as “rain world” functions as a descriptor. According to a brief search, “tip” as in advice was originally slang…several hundred years ago. Thus, it slides. Rain World’s world is probably not referred to as such in-universe, which means “rain world” would have to refer to something else. This name is technically valid (at least in my book), but has awful texture when pairing “rain world” and “tips”. Also, it’s..not the kind of thing that would be an iterator name. 2/10
-The Grand Authority on Such Things
(This one is in a slightly different reblog chain, if anyone’s looking for it.) This is invalid for several reasons: firstly, it starts with “the”, which is unprecedented in canonical examples in addition to being a defining characteristic of slugcat titles/names. Secondly, it is 6 words long, which is 2 more than the longest to our knowledge (Looks to the Moon). Thirdly, it has two subjects: “Authority” and “Things”. Finally, “such” is rather informal for an iterator name (as is things, but I wouldn’t count that) (this on its own doesn’t invalidate the name but it’s worth mentioning). “Grand Authority” on its own would make a decent iterator name though (if a VERY pompous one). 0/10
-The Friends We Made Along the Way
Again, starts with “the” and is 7 words long. There’s definitely two (maybe three?) subjects here, though I’m not entirely sure what they are? “Friends” and “Way” I think. Also, it directly references the bearer (“we”), which is without precedent. Invalid, although “Along the Way” would be a pretty decent iterator name as well. 0/10
1 subject, as “rain world” functions as a descriptor. According to a brief search, “tip” as in advice was originally slang…several hundred years ago. Thus, it slides. Rain World’s world is probably not referred to as such in-universe, which means “rain world” would have to refer to something else. This name is technically valid (at least in my book), but has awful texture when pairing “rain world” and “tips”. Also, it’s..not the kind of thing that would be an iterator name. 2/10
-The Grand Authority on Such Things
(This one is in a slightly different reblog chain, if anyone’s looking for it.) This is invalid for several reasons: firstly, it starts with “the”, which is unprecedented in canonical examples in addition to being a defining characteristic of slugcat titles/names. Secondly, it is 6 words long, which is 2 more than the longest to our knowledge (Looks to the Moon). Thirdly, it has two subjects: “Authority” and “Things”. Finally, “such” is rather informal for an iterator name (as is things, but I wouldn’t count that) (this on its own doesn’t invalidate the name but it’s worth mentioning). “Grand Authority” on its own would make a decent iterator name though (if a VERY pompous one). 0/10
-The Friends We Made Along the Way
Again, starts with “the” and is 7 words long. There’s definitely two (maybe three?) subjects here, though I’m not entirely sure what they are? “Friends” and “Way” I think. Also, it directly references the bearer (“we”), which is without precedent. Invalid, although “Along the Way” would be a pretty decent iterator name as well. 0/10
1 subject, as “rain world” functions as a descriptor. According to a brief search, “tip” as in advice was originally slang…several hundred years ago. Thus, it slides. Rain World’s world is probably not referred to as such in-universe, which means “rain world” would have to refer to something else. This name is technically valid (at least in my book), but has awful texture when pairing “rain world” and “tips”. Also, it’s..not the kind of thing that would be an iterator name. 2/10
-The Grand Authority on Such Things
(This one is in a slightly different reblog chain, if anyone’s looking for it.) This is invalid for several reasons: firstly, it starts with “the”, which is unprecedented in canonical examples in addition to being a defining characteristic of slugcat titles/names. Secondly, it is 6 words long, which is 2 more than the longest to our knowledge (Looks to the Moon). Thirdly, it has two subjects: “Authority” and “Things”. Finally, “such” is rather informal for an iterator name (as is things, but I wouldn’t count that) (this on its own doesn’t invalidate the name but it’s worth mentioning). “Grand Authority” on its own would make a decent iterator name though (if a VERY pompous one). 0/10
-The Friends We Made Along the Way
Again, starts with “the” and is 7 words long. There’s definitely two (maybe three?) subjects here, though I’m not entirely sure what they are? “Friends” and “Way” I think. Also, it directly references the bearer (“we”), which is without precedent. Invalid, although “Along the Way” would be a pretty decent iterator name as well. 0/10
// Echo of an architect who found genuine enjoyment in his job. Guess why he failed to ascend?
The Vassal
// A slugcat who made a deal with an iterator to protect their structure in exchange for free food and shelter. They also got alterations to their genetics to become stronger.
-Eight-Spoked Wheel, Divergence of Thought
The spoked wheels are back at it again. I do like this name. I think this might actually count as three-subject though? You’ve got Wheel, Divergence, and Thought. Then again, “Divergence of Thought” on its own would be a valid iterator name (and thus have one subject). This slides, methinks. The first half isn’t very original, but the second half is cool and original so it cancels out. Hmm I think he failed to ascend because he ate too many cheeseburgers. 9.5/10
-The Vassal
This is a good slugcat name. Not much to say- I can only repeat the foundations of a scug name so many times before it becomes pointless. 10/10 I know what you mean by alterations to genetics but also consider the mental image of slugcat sitting in radiation chamber. microwave vmmm
Firstly, we need to determine whether the term “earth” is used in Rain World. A brief wiki search confirms that it does (Five Pebbles says it). Secondly, this is a great name. It sounds very interesting and also cool. 10/10
-the boulder
This is what the Rock should have been. So much more character. Also, insert Avatar reference. 9.5/10
-the geode
This doesn’t really sound great. Similar problem as the rock albeit with a little more uniqueness. If the slugcat is geode-like, something along the lines of “the encrusted” would be better. 4.5/10
What a dumb name, i mean, who would ever be named this? /j
Jokes aside, this is a really boring name. Yes, regular old words like Rivulet can be titles, but consider: Rivulet is a cool word. It can tell you interesting things about the character, and it has some character in and of itself. It’s also fun to say. Rock, on the other hand, is not. The Rock sounds like a slugcat who has long reached adulthood with nothing interesting or distinguishing about them and finally decided to name themself after the first thing they saw. 2.5/10 there are better synonyms if slugcat wants to call themself a rock
you can send in jokes n stuff too just so y’all know. or things that aren’t names. send 500 cigarettes send your local water bottle send the darkner in the basement
also: you might see ratings once in a while of just things i thought of or saw out in the wild, like sans the skeleton. -they won’t be very frequent. -they will NOT be people’s rw characters; I won’t rate any that haven’t been sent to me because I think that might be rude maybe? part of the schtick is that I try not to sugarcoat which is all fine and dandy when you’re knocking on my door but not so much the other way around -they will also not be my own OCs as of current plans, but if they are they’ll be clearly noted as such -said random things are free to use whole or otherwise without asking
I come bearing ill news: “Sans the Skeleton” is a valid iterator name.
It’s not even a bad one! We have precedent for some unusual structure (No Significant Harassment) and “the” in names (Looks to the Moon). “Without the Skeleton” actually kind of goes really hard ngl. If you manage to forcibly divorce the context of the phrase “sans the skeleton” from the character, it sounds quite nice with the firmer “sans” and “skel” syllables. Also, alliteration. Sounds better the more I think about it, actually. I hate to say this, but despite being slightly exotic for an iterator I think I have to give this a 10/10.
Without the Skeleton gets a 9/10. Doesn’t quite sound as good.
If it’s any consolation, both would normally be shortened to “Skeleton” rather than “Sans”/“Without”.
I come bearing ill news: “Sans the Skeleton” is a valid iterator name.
It’s not even a bad one! We have precedent for some unusual structure (No Significant Harassment) and “the” in names (Looks to the Moon). “Without the Skeleton” actually kind of goes really hard ngl. If you manage to forcibly divorce the context of the phrase “sans the skeleton” from the character, it sounds quite nice with the firmer “sans” and “skel” syllables. Also, alliteration. Sounds better the more I think about it, actually. I hate to say this, but despite being slightly exotic for an iterator I think I have to give this a 10/10.
Without the Skeleton gets a 9/10. Doesn’t quite sound as good.
If it’s any consolation, both would normally be shortened to “Skeleton” rather than “Sans”/“Without”.
Neverending evaluation of notions (NEoN) ; iterator
Firstly: Super creative, spelling words with acronyms (and theming too)! Neon mentioned my beloved.
…unfortunately, they do not make for very good iterator names.
-Zenith in Novel Knowledge
This is an Echo name. 2 subjects (Zenith and Knowledge) separated by a preposition that is not “of”. It also has little flow and sounds very flat. As a minor nitpick, the concept of “zenith in knowledge” technically makes abstract sense but would probably work better with a different preposition. Also, K ≠ C. This is ZiNK. As neat as it is (and how difficult it would be to make a good iterator name that abbreviates to an element), it unfortunately gets a 0/10 (primarily for not being an iterator name).
-Glimpse of Lustrous Divinity
This is my favorite of the three for sure. As usual with edge-cases for four-word ____ of ____, this slides by the two-subject rule, but only by a hair. The flow is okay, i suppose. Could be better. It does have nice texture though! Also, you can practically hear “gold” when reading it which is super neat. I can also see this being an abstract descriptor of gold in general which is pretty cool. 8/10
-Neverending Evaluation of Notions
I’m sorry, this just doesn’t sound good. It reads like something some uppity Benefactor would put in a message akin to the Farm Arrays pink pearl. Like GoLD, this also skirts by two-subject, but for completely arbitrary reasons I feel that this is closer to two-subject. This is just a sentence fragment. Sorry :( 4.5/10
don’t count on anything like this for echoes/slugcats my specialty is iterators if you couldn’t tell (im very normal about them)
long ass post warning
as usual, this is heavily vibes based and strictly my opinion/patterns/analysis(?). if you disagree, don’t like, have an idea that conflicts, etc, just ignore me! i am not the end all be all of names in any way whatsoever and this is just for fun!
also I’m not well versed in grammar terms so yeah.
also also if i make any mistakes please let me know!!!
(all OCs used here are mine because I wouldn’t want to use anyone else’s without asking. I’ve done my best to pick the best ones to provide as good examples as possible. any bad/flawed examples provided will be marked as such and are also my OCs. on that note, I’m not super great at articulating the process partly because lots of it is in many different places and is based off connotation and such. and also sometimes they just come to me and I’m like “okay yeah 👍” and that’s that)
General things not applying to specific categories
-do not address the second person directly or indirectly!! if you want to have the name address someone, do it sneakily and with context clues!!
-do not give them demeaning names! that is very mean and rude (not important) and goes against why they were built, benefactor culture, their importance, all examples of iterators we know, and all that stuff (important)! Similarly, any kind of degradation must be SUBTLE!! Plausible deniability!
-names should have a degree of sense in an abstract manner if not a literal one. i think this gets mentioned in another section but im adding it here anyway cause it does apply. I’m not really sure what violates this and thus have no examples, but I’m sure someone can come up with something if they want to.
-no words like Timothy or whatever. this is weird robot town you gotta commit to weird robots.
-on a similar note, you don’t want to use words for concepts/objects that don’t exist (and have never existed- referencing things that probably existed at one point is fine) (once again I don’t have anything off the top of my head that would violate this especially since you can make arguments for lots of stuff even if they’re never present/referenced)
-the above also means you can reference words that refer to things specifically in rain world! however be cautious if using creatures/plants because depending on the creature and when the name was made the creature may not have existed yet (what we see of rain world is a long time after the benefactors after all, so it’s highly likely that they’re quite different from their ancestors)
-if you’re having trouble cadence or texture, try speaking them aloud. sometimes they’ll sound really stupid though so be warned. getting second opinions is very helpful for this part.
2 words
[Number] [Noun] (noun plural if number requires, which it probably will because One Object is basically the same thing as saying Object) (help it won’t let me make the rest of this line smaller)
Example: Five Pebbles
This is probably the single most basic form an iterator name can take. By no means is that a bad thing, or that it is in any way lesser for being simple.
Things to keep in mind: cadence and texture is key here. Using Six Petals, one of my OCs, as an example: let’s consider some numbers here. We can rule out anything that will take multiple words (thirty-nine, for example) (I prefer not to use these in general because dashes in iterator names is currently not something we’ve seen, and also it makes word counting blurry, but that’s a personal preference strictly speaking). Let’s pick out some to work with here and assume we already have a word (petals, although normally you wouldn’t have a strict word for flexibility’s sake). Six, of course, twenty, million, eight, four, two, ten. Normally you’d want to be pretty broad but I’m illustrating concepts here.
“Million Petals” just sounds really bad. “Ten Petals” is better, but it still isn’t great, and also it looks bad written out. “Four Petals” sounds pretty nice, but it’s abbreviated as FP, which is arguably even worse than having an OC abbreviated as SoS. “Twenty Petals” sounds like too many. And it has no flavor. “Two Petals” just sounds wrong. Same with “Eight Petals”. “Six Petals” is what I landed on, but with numbers it’s all about preference. You can also take into account symbolism and like. number meanings n all that jazz if you want (I didn’t).
You also have to pick a word to go with it! This can be just about any noun, but I recommend shorter ones. If you have too many syllables it gets clunky and you don’t have any other words to offset that.
[verb] [noun] (usually the verb has a gerund, and the noun may be plural or singular)
Examples: Chasing Wind, Gazing Stars, Wandering Omen, Pleading Intellect, Secluded Instinct, Halved Forest (because “Half Forest” sounds dumb and I refuse to believe that’s the correct name)
Lots of examples here! You’ll notice that in the few examples that don’t use a gerund (which I probably should have specified before now is the -ing at the end of a verb) are past tense. Notice that all the names make some degree of sense in an abstract manner if not a literal one.
Once again, cadence and texture are key. This style has a bit more freedom to work with! Some OC examples include Dodging Droplets (which uses alliteration and a bit of assonance to connect the words), Calling Comets (once again, alliteration- trust me, it’s your best friend especially if you’re lost), Whispered Memory (memory is a really good word), Lingering Trepidation (it just works).
You do want to be careful of irregular verbs though, those can be a real pain. For example (this one isn’t an OC cause I don’t have any with this) if you wanted to use (fall) Dust, then “Falling Dust” would work great but “Fell Dust” sounds like an UTMV character. Not to say they can’t work, just that sometimes they don’t. Really all I can do is provide examples here tbh.
*some of this and the next category have a bit of an overlap. if i messed up and put any here when they should be there lmk please
[adjective] [noun] (plural or singular noun)
(if there are any that fall into this category but they’re technically not adjectives then hush they serve the same purpose. i ain’t lookin all that up rn)
Lots of options here to work with. Colors, whatever the fuck is going on with “unparalleled”, general adjectives… this is a big connotation land. Past-tense verbs could possibly fall in this category (Halved Forest and/or Secluded Instinct) but specific categorization doesn't really matter.
OC examples: Fallen Bliss (note that this toes the line on negative names), Irrelevant Permanence (which absolutely violates negative names, however! this is an alias chosen by an iterator and therefore they can say fuck you to that rule) (aliases follow naming conventions though they’re just more flexible in subject matter and tone), Jaded Splendor (intentional double meaning with jaded), Eternal Nocturne (this one has a really nice sound when pronounced), Solemn Renewal, Inconstant Moon (this one is also an alias, which is why the subject being shared isn’t an issue)
Naming Processes
this section is just to give you a better idea of how I come up with my names! my process isn’t for everyone and is also really weird and hazy. also all of my iterator names range from months to years old so it’s hard to remember details.
Dodging Droplets
This was originally for an iteratorsona, so I already knew what I wanted my subject to be (Droplet/Droplets, after a username on another site that I didn’t want to use directly for several reasons) (looking back that was also a valid iterator name and actually not too bad of one but definitely not one I’d use anyway).
I’m not sure how I landed on “Dodging” or whether I had any possible alternate names.
Calling Comets
I’m not entirely sure of the order of things but I do remember this one being nearly instant. Comets is vaguely space themed which may have influenced things. If I remember right, I had looked at this Reddit post* for words I liked (presumably for a different iterator- Comets was one of my first iterator OCs and I didn’t know much) and “Comets in a Glass” really stood out to me. Maybe “comets” just stuck with me?
*I do not and never did like using AI, and while I have used this list a lot for inspiration I treat it as a giant word dump and never use anything straight up for any of my OCs. I might have yoinked a full name or two for some background characters I don’t plan to use again in one of my fics on Ao3 and didn’t care to put effort into but I do plan on going back and changing those at some point (if only to have better names). The post itself is useful however since it contains lots of stuff you might not think of on your own.
Whispered Memory
I was pretty into a game called Sky: Children of the Light at the time which had some pretty neat creatures. My favorite is the Memory Manta (aka just Memory) and there’s a cool spirit (NPC) called Memory Whisperer. Used that as a base for this name. (Still love that game but damn if it isn’t demanding to keep up with. I don’t usually bother anymore.)
Fallen Bliss
I know I had to workshop this name for a little while but not much about it. I remember wanting it to cast shade at Bliss’s designer though (long story, story stuff) who’d been highly respected up until they suddenly did a violation of dynastic principles or whatever. Fall from grace typa stuff.
Irrelevant Permanence
Pretty sure I pulled this out of my ass.
It’s an alias for an iterator who’s rather abrasive and whose major legacy is killing (sort of, mostly) another iterator (although the name was before The Incident) so I suppose it’s fitting.
Eternal Nocturne
I actually wanted Nocturne’s name to be Inconstant Moon at first (see below) but couldn’t because sharing a subject with a canon iterator would be even bigger of a no-no issue than an abbreviation. Not sure where I got the word “Nocturne” from, probably something along the lines of “pretty word”. Maybe it came from a list of words that I just wrote down off the top of my head for future reference? No idea. Initially I really like “Neverending Nocturne” but I must’ve pulled that from somewhere because I remember being opposed to it on a principle like that. Went through a lot of thinking before I settled on “Eternal”, which contrasts nicely with Nocturne’s alias.
Inconstant Moon
*sigh* yes, this is, technically, a Romeo and Juliet reference. I don’t really like Romeo and Juliet but I do really like the phrase “swear not by the inconstant moon” (which I encountered independently of Romeo and Juliet). I’m not sure why I decided to apply it specifically to Nocturne, but it was probably based off design vibes or something.
Six Petals
Knew I wanted to do something in the style of Five Pebbles to try to reel myself in a little. “Petals” came in reference to her whole “dead flowers” aesthetic (though I originally wanted a more technical word, I couldn’t find a good one) and “Six” was the number that worked best out of what I came up with. “Four”, “Five”, and “Seven” were also contenders. “Five” was too similar to Five Pebbles, “Four” still resulted in an FP acronym, and I chose “Six” over “Seven” because seven feels like a very complete number. Wanted to be one shy of that.
Lingering Trepidation
I don’t remember much about this beyond coming up with it before the character I used it for. I have a list of concept names and name fragments for this exact purpose.
Jaded Splendor
Similar to Lingering Trepidation. I did play around with structure and length a lot with this one though. “Jaded” specifically is fun in reference to the character because in-universe it’s meant to mean something along the lines of jade, the stone, but out-of-universe (and eventually in-universe, as Splendor grew older) it means the typical definition of jaded. This was mostly incidental.
Solemn Renewal
I did this one a lot at school and on random papers I don’t want to dig out, but my thought process was that Renewal wanted to acknowledge being different from her predecessor while still being respectful of their memory (OC lore stuff, Renewal chose their name). I think it was more straightforward than naming Shades though.
