#i will not be deadnaming her or using her fathers surname in these tags no thank you!

[12leafclover]

The World's Angriest Child and The World's Most Stubborn Woman want to fight!

[leebrontide]

Got tagged by @dotr-rose-love to say what each of my OCs names mean so here we go! In order of age. Some of these are potential names because either the character can't pick a name (yay trans stuff) or I can't pick a name for them, because WIP.

Some of these are characters you might know from Secondhand Origin Stories, some will join the cast in Names in Their Blood, and some won't appear till Scrapped Gods.

Opal: after the pretty stone. Her parents were inspired by her colorful bio-lights under her dark skin.

Issac: a deliberately weird spelling of the name Isaac. His mom thought it'd help him with search engine discoverability. It supposedly means "One who laughs or rejoices" but of course most people know it either as a famous scientist, a famous science fiction author, or a kid who nearly got ritually sacrificed.

Yael: means Ibiex (a kind of mountain goat). Taken from a queen in the old testament who kills an enemy general by driving a tent peg into his head.

Jamie: Shortened version of James, which means "supplanter". I actually hadn't know that. That is a hilarious name for a younger sibling.

Hope: Means hope.

Enoch: means dedicated, and/or trained. Biblically, the father of Methuselah and the great grandfather of Noah.

Avishai: Means either and “gift of god” or “my father is a gift”. One of king David’s sons, and considered to be one of his heroes.

Funnily enough, Yael is the only one with a middle name, and it's a very minor plot point/character arc point. Also two of them have no surname. Well, one of them has a legal surname but won't use it. The other has no legal surname.

Do people still sometimes not give middle names to kids with hyphenated last names? Is that still a thing, or was that just in the 80s?

I also don't assign deadnames.

Tagging: @purlturtle, @zmwritesrites, @doriangravesftw and @seeingteacupsindragons