Name of MC you used to think of as "really cool".

[Deleted member 266]

Did you ever have an MC name you used to think was really cool or had some fixation on, but as you grew older not so much?

When I first started writing stories I like naming my MCs Matthew or versions of it.
Then for a while, I liked the name Clay
Then for a long time, I named my MCs Butch

Nowadays, I just randomly generate one-syllable names that sound ok and move on.

 

[Hoshino]

I thought PRIMORDIAL FALLEN ANGEL OF THE DEMON KING or Zekötsunfux or 김소혜 (Kim So-hye) was cool~

 

[ArchlordZero]

I used to think mixing random german words with names would be cool.
Like Zweidolf Vierler

 

[GlassRose]

Dr. Steel

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

John Doe. I thought he was mostly used name in the books that I thought he might be some awesome guy.

 

[ShrimpShady]

The main character in a story I wrote in middleschool was an immortal hitman named Astaroth

There was literally no reason for him to be named that. He isn't from hell or anything. He was just a guy who was immortal and killed people. Everyone else had normal names.

 

[cabbag3]

Greek God names and anything that has Asura in it.
I would've added the name/title "Heavenly Demon" too, but I still think it's pretty cool.

The main character in a story I wrote in middleschool was an immortal hitman named Astaroth

There was literally no reason for him to be named that. He isn't from hell or anything. He was just a guy who was immortal and killed people. Everyone else had normal names.

Here's Jeff, Mark, Steven, Claire, Astaroth, Edwin, Rachel, and Tina.
Guess who's the MC?

 

[LesserSarcasm]

Nylartheotep or any of the love craft mythos antagonists

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Nylartheotep or any of the love craft mythos antagonists

Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with 1000 Young (co-creation with Robert Bloch). Yog-Sothoth. Cthulhu, Hastur He Who Must Not be Named, Azathoth.
And the ones he borrowed, like Father Dagon, Hypnos, Mother Hydra. And the ones added by other authors, like Ran-Taggoth, Abhoth, Tsathaggua, Ithaqua the Wind Walker (possibly the 'true Windigo'), and my own addition, Ygaruth the Abomination.

When I first started writing, my characters all had a name including the letter J. John, James, Jack, Janet - just felt the letter sounded heroic for some reason. Now I find a lot of them have "D"s (David West, Dane Coleman, Donna Crandall, Dianna Cameron, Alyx Damerill, even the "throwback" Jack Diamond). I also seem to have a lot of Sandra/Sandy/Alexanders and more than my share of Michaels and Carols floating around.

 

[l8rose]

Raziel. It ended up getting shortened to Raz which is infinitesimally better.

I also used Elizabeth and Ava a lot (unintentionally, they just fit the character's backgrounds and the setting).

 

[BearlyAlive]

Edge Maverick from Star Ocean 4. I still laugh at the "everything" scene that should've been tragic.

Names that are so in your face you can't help but laugh. Prota Gonist still takes the cake, tho. Can't even remember where I read that name but I instantly noped out.

And names that don't fit the setting for no reason.

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

Did you ever have an MC name you used to think was really cool or had some fixation on, but as you grew older not so much?

When I first started writing stories I like naming my MCs Matthew or versions of it.
Then for a while, I liked the name Clay
Then for a long time, I named my MCs Butch

Nowadays, I just randomly generate one-syllable names that sound ok and move on.

I had a thing for peculiar names, ones that are in fact french nouns (like Ombrage or Voleuse)

Then I had a phase where I would create nonsensical names with as much consonants together as I could (Fazl, Lrytck)

But now I'm a changed woman, I use names that make sense with the origins of my characters (dwarven name for a dwarf, french name for a french person)

 

[ShrimpShady]

I also used Elizabeth and Ava a lot (unintentionally, they just fit the character's backgrounds and the setting).

Elizabeth is such a goated name, a real classic. Fits so well into so many settings and characters, like a Swiss army knife or Lao Gan Ma.

 

[Clo]

(like Ombrage or Voleuse)

To be fair, those are amazing names.

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

To be fair, those are amazing names.

I know, right !

 

[Golden_Hyde]

used to think of? I can't really find anything in my memory lane, but what I do think is cool when the character's name (or protagonist's name, or even a main character's name) is Julius

 

[SirDogeTheFirst]

Erwin. I found it very cool back when I watched attack on titan and dosed myself with daily clips of Erwins charge (one where he just pushed through despite losing an arm. Still love the scene, silly as its.)

Now, I wouldn't say it's a bad name, but it feels just ok.

 

[Clo]

I gave characters all sorts of fancy names I thought were cool when I was younger.

Keiko, for a AI/automata in Cyberpunk, because clearly Japanese names are great?
Jadel, for a Bard in UO, because naming after precious gem is beautiful.
Solstice, for an angel, because picking a noun as a name might sound normal to them.
Lliliamn, for a DnD druid, because who needs to be able to spell a name, right?
Torapatapom, a pseudodragon in the same DnD campaign. Because he was obsessed with apples (only French folks might get that one)

As a general rule, I haven't reused named between campaigns or games very often, with a few exceptions:

Cloé (and variants) has been a recurring name lately. It's sorta stupid because it's my legal name, although that's a new development.
Kim/Kimberley. I have reused that name often. She started off as a celestial warlock in 5e.
Amy. A magical construct, played in a few campaigns. (Both dnd and pf2e)
Sleet. A shift fighter-mage, played in a few dnd campaigns

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Ah remember one name I used a few times (mostly in computer games that had long enough character name windows): Melenkurion. That one got used a lot in the 80s and 90s.
Another one that still pops up occasionally is D'Anellian, who is sometimes a god, sometimes a lunatic, once a bard and always a half-elf.

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

Torapatapom, a pseudodragon in the same DnD campaign. Because he was obsessed with apples (only French folks might get that one)

I got it, and it's funny ! (Il était une bergère, et ron et ron, petit patapon~ )