#but my latest tread for creating names for my ikeseries ocs's kids

[krys-loves-otome]

Since I'm pretty sure this is too much to put in the tags, I decided to make this a proper response instead (the second time, actually, because the first time I tried writing this reblog, chrome decided to go fuck itself and I lost everything)

(yes, I'm still pissed about it)

So, naming OC for me, it can come from a variety of different places.

Sometimes, character names come from name generators or baby name websites. That was how Thea and Maddie got their names.

(picrew here~)

Thea (and my other Ikevamp OC Abby) both gave me the hardest time when choosing their names. There was a point when I was brainstorming names for Thea that the name 'Moss' came up and I just screamed in discord that I refused to name my daughter after grass.

Finally, the name generator gave me the name Dorothea and I thought it was kinda funny that her name was sort of a name reversal of Theo and thus her name (and their shipping) was born.

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Sometimes, character name's will be based on a specific theme or motif.

(picrew here~)

Haiiro, which is the word for the color grey in Japanese, both has a grey color scheme (this particular picrew just made him a smidge more colorful, lol), but he also doesn't experience strong emotions, both positive or negative ones. He is oftentimes stone-faced and even-toned, neither good or evil, he's just the middle ground, neither black or white. He's just grey.

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(picrew here~)

Sometimes names can be inspired by different medias I like. Houki, for example, was named after Hotohori's wife from Fushigi Yuugi.

(same picrew as Houki's)

And since Ophelia is a lady that is often followed around by tragedy, it makes sense I wanted to name her after a Shakespearian tragic lady. Fun fact, her sisters were also named after Shakespearian ladies!

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(last picrew here~)

And if all else fails, I'll fall back on my old naming conventions of using names that start with the letter A or the name has to have a 'K' sound somewhere it's in it's pronunciation, like with our friend Takashi above.

List of A names include my player name for most games, Aria (which is also a nickname for Takashi's wife, Arianna), Adel and Aranel (twins!) Aislinn, Ambika, Athena and Arty (sisters!), Aoryu, Angie, Abigail, and probably some more I'm forgetting.

K names (and names with k's or k sounds in them): Kage, Kimika, Kimiko (not related, one was a sky pirate's wife, the other was Fushigi Yuugi OC), Three separate Kael's, at least two different Kara's, Lucas, Nicholai, Shiroko, and, again, some more I'm forgetting.

i feel like the way you go about naming ur characters/where you get ur character names from can actually be something that says so much about a certain creator. if you feel like it, rb and tag this post with how you usually find new names for ur characters