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belethlegwen · 1 year ago

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Hi, Belle! I'm wandering into your asks again to ask...in The Stranding, have you came up with first names for everyone? If yes, will we find out in the story or is it just something that could be shared. I'd love to know!

(I'm reading the story for the third time and realised aside from Miller, Chase and Wells, I think? I think Well's name is written above/below his reference pic., can't remember it at the moment, but yes, 3 names from...who knows how many? I'm curious!)

Sorry for rambling, once again, bad habit! lol

Hope you're doing well!

Heyhey potato-pal! Love hearing from you <3

Yes! Everyone DOES have a first name and I have a Master Document somewhere in the Google Docs vortex specifically for the names of at least everyone on the Giant Team/Idiot Brigade that includes first and last names. I feel like throughout the story I may get to mention most of them, but a lot of them simply go by last names because that's who they are/have become among their Watch family. If you call Wells "Terrance", or Fuller "Quincy", they'll assume you're looking to get your teeth knocked in-- or that they're in trouble with their Mums.

Thank you so much for the ask!

#g/t #giant/tiny #giant tiny #g/t author #g/t writing #gtauthor #author thoughts #big little thoughts #The Stranding #asks and answers #No joke #I love naming #as frustrating as it can be sometimes #but I also mostly only plan to keep the first+last names for a main core of the cast in regular rotation in the writing #because I find it's good characterization for how one character may see another based on what role/name they use to address to them #and in the case of Henry/Daniel/Peter/Melanie how it expands on their relationships based on how they all refer to/address each other #It was also a small way I tried to display the separation there had previously been between the Medic Corps and the rest of the Watch #We know Devon and Kendrick by their first names and rarely hear their last names used even by (at least the Watch's) brass #and Lionus will tolerate 'Ethridge' but insists on Lionus as much as he can within reasonable stretches of protocol

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