V Team namesakes:Violet from Bound by the Wachowski...

V Team namesakes:

Violet from Bound by the Wachowski sisters

Vibeke Stene, lead singer of Tristania

Tarja Turunen, lead singer of Nightwish

Varg Vikernes, sole member of Burzum

MINOR SPOILERS- These are indeed the people my four main characters are originally named after. Violet, though the name has some other meanings and significances, was primarily named after Violet from the movie Bound. Vibeke was named for my favorite singer. Veikko in his Valkyrie name was just named after the Finnish word for ‘Lad’ but his real surname, Turunen, comes from another metal singer. And then there’s Varg…

Yeah, he’s named for a very, very bad fellow. I never really differentiated between good and evil when naming characters, and in Varg’s case, I went with another metal musician- Who just happened to be a murderous neo-nazi. My use of the name is in absolutely no way an endorsement of the guy or his views. If anything it’s an extra ‘fuck you’ to real fellow in that my Varg is, socially speaking, his absolute opposite. But Vikernes is also a significant musician, and has a name starting with V, so there you have it.

Maybe half of the characters in the novels are also named for metal musicians.

EDIT: Only 47 of the 177 named characters in the series are named for metal musicians.