Character Names

[Isaac]

HARRISON. <3

[tesni]

Jo wrote: "Gordon. Or Lav's, Quentin."

Gordon always makes me think of the character from Thomas the Tank Engine. He was amazing.

[Isaac]

Oh, I remember him.

[tesni]

He amused me to no end.

...Gordon Brown only occurred to me like ten minutes later. Oh dear.

[Isaac]

XD Trains over politics.

[Elliott]

Garret and I watched Thomas the Tank Engine ALL THE TIME. And we have a giant box full of Thomas train sets. :D We used to play games with them and have plots and everything. There was an evil helicopter that would steal all the trains and then other trains had to go save them. Aah, that was so fun.

[Elliott]

*high fives* YES.

[Autumn]

I clicked on this expecting to see things about character names. I found Thomas the Tank Engine instead XD

[Elliott]

Shhhh. ;)

[Autumn]

It was actually hilarious

[Elliott]

I love our conversations here. xD

[Elliott]

I love our conversations here. xD

[Isaac]

Did anybody else love the Thomas the Engine railroads certain shops had set up for kids? Like book stores do sometimes?

[tesni]

Emily [FANGIRL POWERS ACTIVATE] wrote: "XD Trains over politics."

Trufax.

...I didn't even know they had Thomas the Tank Engine in America. Huh.

[Elliott]

Emily [FANGIRL POWERS ACTIVATE] wrote: "Did anybody else love the Thomas the Engine railroads certain shops had set up for kids? Like book stores do sometimes?"

Girl, I owned those railroads. Still do, in fact.

[Isaac]

I never owned them. But I loved to play with them.

((Okay, I'll admit, I'll go "play" with my sister at Barnes and Noble but I just like moving them around on the track.))

[RedPath]

I liked Thomas the Engine, but the TV show freaked me out.
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[Elliott]

Emily [FANGIRL POWERS ACTIVATE] wrote: "I never owned them. But I loved to play with them.

((Okay, I'll admit, I'll go "play" with my sister at Barnes and Noble but I just like moving them around on the track.))"

Hehe, I always play with the little kid toys in waiting rooms.

[Isaac]

I like the train tracks and the little bead things on the plastic stringy-raily-tracky things.

[Elliott]

YES. Those things are so entertaining.

[Jo]

Autumn [move the needle to a more forgiving song] wrote: "I clicked on this expecting to see things about character names. I found Thomas the Tank Engine instead XD"

Interesting how a simple name sparks a 50-post discussion on Thomas the Tank Engine.

[Elliott]

SHABAM!

[Jo]

I used to watch that. But it wasn't my childhood. I guess my childhood was old The Magic School Bus re-runs.

[Elliott]

Oh my squash, my friend Jewel and I are obsessed with The Magic School Bus. We always talk about it in Science class. xD

[Autumn]

I love Magic School Bus! I have this teacher that's a slightly more cynical version of Ms. Frizzle that I positively love.

[Elliott]

JEALOUSY.
Hehe, Jewel and I convinced our Science teacher to watch it because he'd always make fun of it and scoff when we referenced it and he told us that it's "actually educational" after he watched it. WIN.

[Autumn]

YES! I can't believe he'd never watched it. His life was so deprived.

[Elliott]

And he was a Science teacher! Magic School Bus should be a requirement for that!

[Isaac]

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS.

[Elliott]

Question About Names:

I'm (possibly) going to write an original princess story. The names are all going to be Welsh based names.

The prince (or main love interest) is named Drystan. The villian is named Gwendolyn.

I can't figure out a name for the princess.

I was considering Rhiannon, but then the three main characters' names end with an "en" sound. It's not a big deal, because A LOT of Welsh names I've found do, but I want to try and avoid that.

I was also thinking about naming her Delyth (which means pretty) since the princess is extremely gorgeous and that's one of the main points, but I don't know if I like "Drystan and Delyth" since they both start with D.

I was also looking at Eirian, which means "bright and beautiful" but I'm not sure.

Which one do you think would be best? Or do you have an female Welsh name suggestions?

Thanks so much! :D

[Elliott]

Oh, I like that. I'll add it to the list of names I'm looking at. Ah, yeah, I was worried about pronunciation with "Eirian" and now that you've confirmed it... I'll get rid of it.

[tesni]

Lav [pourquoi tu gâches ta vie] wrote: "Question About Names:

I'm (possibly) going to write an original princess story. The names are all going to be Welsh based names.

The prince (or main love interest) is named Drystan. The villian..."

WELSH NAMES! AWWWWYEAAAH.

Bronwen
Blodwen
Gwyn[eth]
Wyn/Wynne
Meryl
Glynis/Glenys
Gwendolen (also spelt Gwendolyn)
Adain
Adara
Meredydd (pronounced like Meredith)
Guinevere
Carys/Cerys
Sian
Tegan
Lowri
Enid
Adienna
Dierdre
Isolda/Isolde
Cordula (also you could probably get away with its Cornish counterpart, Cordelia)
Ronda

And last but certainly not least...Tesni.

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T e s n i wrote: "Lav [pourquoi tu gâches ta vie] wrote: "Question About Names:

I'm (possibly) going to write an original princess story. The names are all going to be Welsh based names.

The prince (or main love..."

*loves* Welsh is so cool. I remember being so confused when I found out that Ioan Gruffudd's name is pronounced Yo-wahn Griffith. My sister lived in Wales for a few weeks, and she helped me learn that really long city name which I cannot spell. AND IT'S SO PRETTY. Anyway.

[Isaac]

Lav [pourquoi tu gâches ta vie] wrote: "Question About Names:

I'm (possibly) going to write an original princess story. The names are all going to be Welsh based names.

The prince (or main love interest) is named Drystan. The villian..."

Personally, I like all the names but the prince's.

[tesni]

Holden wrote: "Adara is a nice name. As is Tesni. ;-)"

Why thank you ;)

[tesni]

Maxy wrote: "T e s n i wrote: "Lav [pourquoi tu gâches ta vie] wrote: "Question About Names:

I'm (possibly) going to write an original princess story. The names are all going to be Welsh based names.

The p..."

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? xD
It's actually a village (village/town/somewhere in between? O__o), but yeah. I've never been, alas. Most of my family is from South Wales, and Anglesea (the island where Llanfairpwllgyngyllafhksdjfhdkdjf is) is up in the north and probably like five hours away or something from here, so.

[[deleted user]]

Yes, that's the one.

[Elliott]

Welsh names are so attractive. I love them.
Ah, thank you so much, Tez! :D Hehe, yesh, I saw Tesni on the list and I was all I KNOW A TESNI and it was fun.

I really like the name Adienna.

[Hannah]

Lav [pourquoi tu gâches ta vie] wrote: "Welsh names are so attractive. I love them.
Ah, thank you so much, Tez! :D Hehe, yesh, I saw Tesni on the list and I was all I KNOW A TESNI and it was fun.

I really like the name Adienna."

Adienna, Drystan, and Gwendolyn? I LOVE IT.

[Elliott]

Meep, yes, I love the way they all look together. <3 I'm going to use those names for now and if something happens and I need to change them, I can always change them. But they make me happy.

[tesni]

Lav [pourquoi tu gâches ta vie] wrote: "Welsh names are so attractive. I love them.
Ah, thank you so much, Tez! :D Hehe, yesh, I saw Tesni on the list and I was all I KNOW A TESNI and it was fun.

I really like the name Adienna."

*tips hat*

[tesni]

Rebekka (ἈΝΆΓΚΗ) wrote: "Tesni is probably my favourite name ever at the moment. I'm just putting that out there."

[Isaac]

XD

[[deleted user]]

*hisses*

I really like the name Taran for the love interest in my new "story idea", but that's the name of the main guy in The Black Cauldron. I can't steal from Lloyd Alexander.

[Elliott]

Pssh, all great writers steal from other writers.

[[deleted user]]

XD

Trenton might work, but I will keep searching. (I like T names for this kid. Hehe.)

[Isaac]

Ooh, I like Trenton.

[Kayla]

Amber

[[deleted user]]

Lav [we sleep until the sun goes down] wrote: "Question About Names:

I'm (possibly) going to write an original princess story. The names are all going to be Welsh based names.

The prince (or main love interest) is named Drystan. The villian..."

I like Eirian, and I've got one welsh name that I use over and over. It's Anwyn, which means "fair" and something else that I can't remember.

[[deleted user]]

I need help naming a character.
She's kind of a loner (who might end up with goblin blood in her, depending on how things go) with long blakc hair and big blue eyes.
I'm going for a tuff sounding name, but not too tuff because she's got to be vulnerable too.
And NO ONE suggest Adrian. I've heard that so many times...