I will genuinely put 400 hours into researching names for my Beyblade OCs that have actual meaning yet pick some actual bullshit for the characters in my own verse that I just think sound cool
Mallory was named after the actress who played the yellow crayon in the "Black ruins the crayon song"
I took the name Ezekiel bc a content creator I watched at the time had an OC whose dead name was Ezekiel and I thought it was pretty fitting for my guy so I stole it
Kendra was named after a girl from some MSA video I genuinely don't remember which one pretty sure she was MC's best friend
Mistral was named after the horse from the cartoon I watched as a kid "Lena's Ranch"
I was lowkey pissed at how Danica from Genshin was designed despite living in the apparently coldest area of the game I decided to name an OC Danica out of spite and bc it's such a cool name anyway (plus SLAVIC RAHHH 🗣‼️‼️‼️)
Asthé's name origin story is my favorite one bro: I once saw this TikTok skit that was like "Nursing homes in 2040" or smtg like that where the main joke was the parents giving their kids ridicilous names, one of the kids in said skit was "Asthé Tic" so it sounded like "Aesthetic", however Asthé was lowkey a fire name so I took it
