Anything I write with a placeholder name feels bad and then I get stuck trying to think of a better name. I've already designated too much of the start of the alphabet to side characters, it needs to be something easy to read if its coming up over and over again in the book.
- Slab Bulkhead
- Bridge Largemeat
- Punt Speedchunk
- Butch Deadlift
- Hold Bigflank
- Splint Chesthair
- Flint Ironstag
- Bolt Vanderhuge
- Thick McRunfast
- Blast Hardcheese
- Buff Drinklots
- Crunch Slamchest
- Fist Rockbone
- Stump Beefknob
- Smash Lampjaw
- Punch Rockgroin
- Buck Plankchest
- Stump Junkman
- Dirk Hardpec
- Rip Steakface
- Slate Slabrock
- Crud Bonemeal
- Brick Hardmeat
- Rip Slagcheek
- Punch Sideiron
- Gristle McThornbody
- Slate Fistcrunch
- Buff Hardback
- Bob Johnson
- Blast Thickneck
- Crunch Buttsteak
- Slab Squatthrust
- Lump Beefbroth
- Touch Rustrod
- Beef Blastbody
- Big McLargehuge
- Smoke Manmuscle
- Beat Punchmeat
- Hack Blowfist
- Roll Fizzlebeef
Hack Blowfist would unironically be a great name for a coke addict muckraker who's convinced he's a sort of genius anti-hero exposing hypocrisy but is mostly just hacking dead kids phones. So Piers Morgan basically.
unironically sounds like you might want to self-impose some naming constraints. For instance, my parameters for my main cast:
- same length first and last name (in this case, 6
) - alliterative
- each name must have at least 2 different vowel sounds
as such–Cronyl Collin, Gloria Guerra, Romain Romero, Yakira Ykalis.
If it helps, go full Ace Attorney–make the names barely-obscured puns/character traits. On the other hand, remember you can just mash together syllables to make a name, no one's stopping you.
This might actually be helpful, thanks. I'm basing my world off of pre-Christian Ireland so I'm trying to find something vaguely Celtic sounding (even if its not a real word)
- same length first and last name (in this case, 6
I knew someone who's real name was Joe Steele, he kidnapped someone once and now no one talks to him
Malcolm Ohio
Gordon Iowa
Logan Utah
Conor Oregon
Angus Maine
Douglas Virginia
Colton MissouriThe kind of name you're going for will obviously depend on your genre, but I used the method described here [https://rpubs.com/tarakc02/name-project-1] to build a fake name generator. It occasionally comes up with something really out there, and occasionally comes up with a name that actually exists in real life, but for the most part it gives a lot of good fake names that sound reasonable enough for it to be easy on the reader. I also like behindthename's random name generator [behindthename.com/random/] because you can get interesting, unique names that are still plausible for real people. When neither of these is satisfactory, I look up lists of small towns and borrow one of their names.
Behind the name is great. I've been using it for a sci-fi scenario where the names are always an unusual mix of nationalities, so there are characters called things like: Remi Proudfoot, Hans Abimbola, Wladek Quirke. It involves a lot of re-rolling, and often the names need tweaking to get them to scan, but it's a lot of fun, and so much better than my old technique of googling baby names, place, year
