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what is your characters name? why did you chose it? Was it random or does it have a meaning? Does your character have any nicknames?

u better answer

SO I wrote an au of my characters and liked their new names so much that I just decided to keep them!

Hope (originally a very white person with a very weird quirk of being only 1 foot tall but really smart with gadgets) -> Esperanza Herrera (A race swap but with the last name being a reference to her more techy nature, being the equivalent of Smith.

Rostislav Volkov -> Benjamin "Beni" Antonov (Rostislav is a very traditional Russian name, but when I essentially had his father take over his original backstory, the name went with his father and I gave him a more 'American' name but still inspired by Jewish tradition. I also chose the name Antonov because I like the sound better and a few Russian immigrant musicians have that last name.)

Carter Farson -> Bryce Fairfield (Carter got changed so much in the au and I liked his personality more, so it became his main personality. It went from Carter Farson -> Bryce Wayne, a bad batman pun converting Carter to Wayne -> I kept Bryce but Farson was a silly last name so I changed it to Fairfield. Fairfield implying both wealth and he likes planes, Fairfield close to airfield)

Charlotte -> Clarity Fairfield (Charlotte use to be an acronym back when she was a fully android character and for the life of me I don't remember the acronym. Computer humanoid android replacement something something. I actually changed her name to Clarity back when she was a still an android/computer program. BUT later she became a cyborg and Bryce's sister, taking the last name Fairfield.)

Terry Anderson -> Terrance Lloyd Sanders (I just made Terry a nickname because people kept misgendering him. Sanders is the Jamaican equivalent of Anderson and his dad is Jamaican. His mother is Welsh and thus the middle name.)

Demetrius DeMilo (Chosen specifically because I thought the name 'Dr. Demento' was cool)-> Demetria DeMilo (She is a girl now)

Hope was originally named because of her medical condition *and* she used to have an evil twin and thus needed a "good twin" type name.

Benjamin is the youngest of the sons of Jacob, so he has permanent younger sibling vibes embedded into his name.

Carter was originally an every-man but super smart genius dutoragonist type that would have probably been played by Chris Pratt. Hence the every-man dutoragonist name. See also John Carter of Mars.

Clarity was a very literal name for a computer program that was the focus of - bringing Clarity to- Dr. DeMilo's life. But it still works in the story because the dynamic is still there.

Anderson and the derived name Sanders means 'son of Anders / Andrew' which in turn Anders / Andrew means 'brave'. He is 'son of the brave', and his career is haunted by the expectation to live up to his father's impressive MI6 career.

The first time I heard of Dr. Demento was in a UFO Phil song. And I really liked the rhythm behind that name so I stole it.

what is your characters name? why did you chose it? Was it random or does it have a meaning? Does your character have any nicknames?

u better answer

SO I wrote an au of my characters and liked their new names so much that I just decided to keep them!

Hope (originally a very white person with a very weird quirk of being only 1 foot tall but really smart with gadgets) -> Esperanza Herrera (A race swap but with the last name being a reference to her more techy nature, being the equivalent of Smith.

Rostislav Volkov -> Benjamin "Beni" Antonov (Rostislav is a very traditional Russian name, but when I essentially had his father take over his original backstory, the name went with his father and I gave him a more 'American' name but still inspired by Jewish tradition. I also chose the name Antonov because I like the sound better and a few Russian immigrant musicians have that last name.)

Carter Farson -> Bryce Fairfield (Carter got changed so much in the au and I liked his personality more, so it became his main personality. It went from Carter Farson -> Bryce Wayne, a bad batman pun converting Carter to Wayne -> I kept Bryce but Farson was a silly last name so I changed it to Fairfield. Fairfield implying both wealth and he likes planes, Fairfield close to airfield)

Charlotte -> Clarity Fairfield (Charlotte use to be an acronym back when she was a fully android character and for the life of me I don't remember the acronym. Computer humanoid android replacement something something. I actually changed her name to Clarity back when she was a still an android/computer program. BUT later she became a cyborg and Bryce's sister, taking the last name Fairfield.)

Terry Anderson -> Terrance Lloyd Sanders (I just made Terry a nickname because people kept misgendering him. Sanders is the Jamaican equivalent of Anderson and his dad is Jamaican. His mother is Welsh and thus the middle name.)

Demetrius DeMilo (Chosen specifically because I thought the name 'Dr. Demento' was cool)-> Demetria DeMilo (She is a girl now)

"You know, sometimes I think... I think I should've listened to my uncle. He's a dentist, you know. He wanted me to become a dentist. He doesn't have to hike through sand dunes looking for some abandoned weather labratory. He gets good benifits. And- and he has a boat."

(Pauses for a drink of water)