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OC Name Tag :)

 I was tagged by @adorhauer and @eternalwritingstudent, thanks lovelies! 💖

Rules: Share your inspiration for your characters’ names and tag some other writers! 💖

Tagging (feel free to ignore): @lady-redshield-writes @ally-thorne @lumina-rhiver @forlornraven and anyone else who would like to join!

This is fun and I’ve never done this tag before, so here goes the long list of my characters from Eosophobia...

Jackal: Jackals are wild dogs found through Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Western Asia.  They’re pretty cool animals imo, but Jackal is really named after these because of their alternate meaning: a person, usually a jackass (ha-ha), who performs degrading or dishonest deeds.

Aardwolf: Aardwolf is Jackal’s brother, so I wanted their names to have relation.  Aardwolves (???) are small mammals resembling Hyenas found in Eastern and Southern Africa.  They eat insects and suck at fighting/fleeing, so when confronted they release a foul smell from their anal glands.  Aardwolf, the character, is a complete fucking asshole (I hate him tbh) so that seemed incredibly fitting. 

Viktor: Honestly his was pretty easy--the Russian spelling for victor, which I thought was fitting because of his ego/confidence. 

Nadege: A Slavic name meaning hope.  I pulled this one off a name generator tbh, and it fits her so well. 

Oswald: “Oswald” means “God” or “Ruler”, which is so fitting for Death.  And Oswald is such a non-intimidating name--especially for those of us who remember the children’s TV show (just google “Oswald octopus” tbh)

Peni: A shortened name for the antibiotic drug class Penicillin.  Biotics--people suffering from late-stage Dawn, the engineered virus that caused the apocalypse--are often renamed after medical advances. A more minor character, Sulfon, is named after Sulfonamides, another antibiotic drug class.

Magenta:  A former slave, Magenta’s birth name is unknown and forgotten.  All slaves in the compound were randomly named after colors--Onyx shares the same name basis, as they were from the same compound before escaping. 

Iris: I’m not gonna lie to you, Iris has taken on a life of her own--she was supposed to be an incredibly minor character that I vaguely was calling “Magenta’s gf” for a while.  Iris is the name of the Greek goddess of rainbows, so uh, yeah.  It was sort of a gay reference.  Unfortunately for my character Iris, floral names in Eos have a certain context...

Ajax:  His name came from the heroic context of Greek mythology, which he tries to live up to.

Onyx: Same as Magenta, his birth name is unknown and Onyx is his retained slave name.

Amaryllis: Named after the song (and album) by Shinedown, Amaryllis’s name was the inspiration for her whole family’s names--all of them are named after flowers, and I call them the Acaea family. Maybe Iris should give them a call...

[missyzero]

I wanna make a kitty troll.... but what server.... HMMMMMM

[ragnaroast]

Sulfon is taking his sweet sweet time in outland. Meanwhile Snonk is stroooooooooooong.  When your business partner wont come back through the dark portal...