Tell us the worst of the worst names you've created and thought "Nope this name is weird". It can sound weird or have a meaning that is the worst. Example: Sicky Loomshot (this name is actually for fun lol)
Oh man, did i come up with some terrible names in my younger days! Probably the worst was Lee Deathrage. I saw it on a tombstone in the graveyard once and just had to use it. Though arguably Doc Sewage was even worse.It was a spoof I did on a real character named Doc Savage. Oh, and if it's acceptable to talk about comic strip characters drawn on notebook paper in the cafeteria at school, there was Bionicarrot. He was literally a bionic carrot. Oh, and how could I forget the classic—Rusty Sanders.
Well yeah, Doc Savage was the real character, from a series of pulp novels written in the 1930's. He was like a combination of Tarzan and a great scientist/detective (a doctor and a savage). My version spoofed him, and yeah, he had a sort of amphibious car that traveled underground—actually through the sewers—so he and his team could get anywhere in New York rapidly without getting stuck in traffic. The story was called Diarrhea Death—people were dying a really horrible death on the toilet, literally... um... draining themselves of all bodily fluids in a very messy way, leaving them emaciated corpses. It was very painful, very noisy, created a horrible stench, and splattered nasty stuff all over the walls and ceilings of the bathroom. Doc and the team had to solve the mystery.
Then there was the space opera my friend and I wrote after we saw Star Wars. All the characters were aliens, there were no humans in it. They had names like Scorpus (he was like a scorpion, imagine that!), Turshell (Looked like a turtle with a shell), Anthor (a combination of a man and a horse) and Klimmapp (a climbing ape).
I once wrote a character who tended to prattle on about nothing. I named her Lauren Ipsum. Still makes me chuckle, but nobody else got the joke.
I didn't get it either, so I looked it up. Ignorance ameliorated, I can now be properly amused and appreciative. I've been tempted to write a story about a confidence woman named Mala Fide or a prostitute named Mare Liberum just to use the names. One of my favorite names out of someone else's book is from Gone With the Wind. Scarlet is trying to think of a name for her store and Rhett Butler suggests Caveat Emptorium.
I can't remember any specific names, but my worst were constructed when I was deep into high fantasy about a decade ago and I believed everything had to have a billion apostrophes. Xal'iac'thar the Annhilator, the great wizard Yshj'aru, etc.
When I was in the eighth grade and deeply under the influence of Margaret Mitchell, I named a character Charlotte O'Mara.
Last time I made names that end with "ella" Like Ella, Bella, Della, Vella (for a vampire), Wella (her name sounds like a well), Rella...I think you got it but the most common name I use is Bella (no offence to you guys whose name is Bella) which I don't know why.
Lauren Ipsum would be a reference, I'm guessing, to "Lorem impsum" which is a bit of Latin used in template text, most commonly seen in under-construction websites and other things that have yet to be personalised. It's basically placeholder text meant to show the visual design of something without having to find some other text or write your own.
Back when I used to regularly hit up B Dalton and Waldenbooks at the mall in the 80's, I remember seeing a sci-fi book called Shock Wave Rider. I never read it, but I did a comic strip based on the title, only mine was called Chainsaw Rider. It was sort of the guy's name too, his superhero name or whatever. He balanced on top of a chainsaw and rode it like a unicycle. Did a lot of damage to streets and everything else along the way. I know I can come up with more if I apply myself to it—I've singlehandedly created an endless pantheon of characters with horrible names.
Azzburn. He was a villain in this shitty story I wrote in 8th grade. He shot flames from his....I think the name speaks for itself.
I once named a character Troem Vittosken just so it sounded different and unique. God, the cringe reverberates perpetually....
I had an alien called Sa' Bork (said too fast sounds like Spork). Though I think I've learned to test drive names I'm unsure of by getting some outside opinion. I think I've been doing much better and coming up with names that are interesting and not what I consider dumb. Sufficed to say I came up with a name out of the ether yesterday morning, and still don't have a use for it yet, but it will be an option in the future.
Despite my gentlemanly, sophisticated nature, I have a soft spot for stupid, raunchy humor, and a while back I came up with the perfect name for a series of stories in that vein. "The Erotic Adventures of Archibald Itchyballs (and his best friend, Hot Rod Johnson)" I gotta admit, I'm kind of proud of that one, though I doubt I'll ever use it.
I think the worst name I had given a character would be Lily Sunflower. I had asked a friend for the suggestion and well, I hated it because they gave me two flowers as a name. We had a thing where I would tell them an idea for a story, and they would give me the main characters name. Ha, never again!
I once named a character Sal (Salvador) Goatman. He was a Satyr and a lawyer. In another story, I made a point of giving characters a certain flavor of silly name. Niels Hemlock, Amadeus Lohengrin, Slitherum Slochet, Fitzgeraldine L. C. Wraithesby, Winifred Bernadotte, Zacariah W. Escargot. The weirdest, and certainly the most ungainly ones, surely belong to that oddball duo, Hecasquelionquieilath and Kismoquilesqueililan. They go by Hecasque and Kismoquil, or just Heca and Kism; even I am not mad enough to use the full article more than once per book or so. The topic of this thread made me recall this utter jewel. To anyone seeking inspiration for adventures in maverick nomenclature:
Lucky for them they're interdimensional demigods or some such shite, which limits the need for paperwork
