#shipnaming

Step uno: get your blorbos, you need your blorbos for this

Step dos: get EVERYTHING YOU KNOW about BOTH CHARACTERS, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING.

name, name meaning, ethnicity, nationality (yes those two are different), occupation, powers, hobby, profession, backstory, even keep their color pallete in mind!! Very useful!! Especially if your oc has a very unique feature E. G pink hair! (Shout-out to @mids-dumbbrain's Viktor we love that guy-)

Step tres: from all the information you've gathered, try to pair words that sound nice together!! Bonus points if the words you choose turn into an actual word that already exists or similar to an actual word- or if the two words rhyme!!:3 very fun when it happens -

Example: lets say character A is an archaeologist and character B is a barista (random, I know, but bear with me)

What does an archaeologist do? Study human history by digging artifacts and stuff

What do we know about history? Is that it's OLD

what does a barista do? Make coffee

What's a type of coffee that may come to mind?? Cold brew!

Shipname? ⭐OldBrew⭐ sounds smooth, and pretty similar to an actual word which is "cold brew" !!

See?? Awesome sauce!!

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More examples based on my own oc ships:

Yuki and kitana were a difficult bit because I couldn't use their occupations (princess/Lin kuei later shirai ryu warrior) nor their powers (ice/what I assume is either aerokinesis or chakram efficiency) so I resorted to putting the colours to use, blue has been yuki's signature color ever since I made him (even tho it's kitanas too but shhhh) so I utilized THAT and came up with RoyalBlue!!

Yuki and Jin have been called YuJin for about 3 years up until I had Tumblr and started toying with shipnames - this time around I used yuki's name (Yuki means snow in Japanese) and Jins weapon because it rhymed and , well you gotta admit SnowBow is an absolutely cute shipname-

There's a seperate oc I have named Kori (design wise he's litterally just Yuki but the Markiplier universe version that I occasionally pair with egos for fun-) that I have paired with my bffs oc - ( @flxpsxde hey girl -)

Kori means ice, ice is cold (big news), and ngl coldness is a glaring characteristic of Kori

Friends's oc is a detective

The Shipname? ColdCase ⭐

Another instance is Kori and Yancy (a heist with Markiplier) and this one was bad man

Even the name smushing wouldn't have been a way out

So I looked into the backstories

Kori ran away from home

Meanwhile Yancy killed his mom

Shipname? HitnRun ✨✨ because Yancy's matricide is a "hit", meanwhile Kori "ran" from his home!! Soo HitnRun!

Another one is Koris bodyguard variant and actor Mark!! (NOT CANON PER THE UNIVERSE BTW, JUST AN IDEA-) Their Shipname was SecurityCamera- because guards are security meanwhile actors are pretty much always on camera-

And btw even if the shipname doesn't come out as a new word it literally doesn't matter- Kori and Damien's (who killed Markiplier) shipname is literally just mayorguard- sure it's not great but it definitely sounds better than damkori or korien- have fun babes-

That's about all what I can think of- I definitely have more ships to name here but yo we wouldn't be done till next year if I get into THAT

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Anyway, moral of the yappery, use everything your characters have- HELL EVEN THEIR FAVOURITE FOOD OR THEIR IDEOLOGY OR THEIR GOAL-or assign them plants or seasons!! and most importantly have fun!! The Shipname is yours to choose :3 (epic Damien wkm reference)

If anything give me your characters and I'll try my best to make a shipname for them- nothings impossible with a couple Google searches-