So, I’m in the middle of planning my story and the main character and narrator is a spunky yet cynical thirteen-year-old girl named [name]Frost[/name]. She is petite, with white-blonde hair and pale blue eyes. She is introverted, witty, and still the protagonist despite the fact that at times she’s not a very likable character.
Her brother is named [name]Lowell[/name]. He is a laid-back and good natured sixteen-year-old. He also has cancer, but he faces it bravely and keeps a smile on his face. He often jokes around for the sake of his family.
Their surname is [name]Roberts[/name], which I decided upon just to be funny. The parents are poetry nuts :P. I wasn’t sure if the names matched their personalities-and also if they were too unequal in contrast to one another. I don’t want it to seem like I favor [name]Frost[/name] over [name]Lowell[/name], which I don’t.
My only concern is [name]Frost[/name]'s description. The fact that she has “white-blonde hair”, “pale blue eyes” and an unlikeable demeanour AND her name is [name]Frost[/name] is a little too coincidental. The number one mistake writers make when naming characters is making it seem like they themselves, not the character’s parents, named them. They base the characters name off of the traits that the character would eventually develop, and not have at the time of birth e.g. a boy called [name]Storm[/name] who has a temper. [name]Even[/name] if your protagonist was born with white hair, icy blue eyes, crying hysterically and incessantly, I’m not sure that her parents would want to call her [name]Frost[/name] (even if [name]Frost[/name] was their favourite poet). If it doesn’t affect your plot, maybe [name]Frost[/name] could have brown hair?
Other than that, I think [name]Lowell[/name] really suits the brother
You could always make frost a nn. It would be interesting if she had another name, say, for example, [name]Juliet[/name] or [name]Antigone[/name], but as she grew it didn’t suit.
I agree with the PPs and to be honest, if I saw that her name was [name]Frost[/name], and her brother was [name]Lowell[/name], I’d put the book down because that just doesn’t make sense. [name]Frost[/name] and [name]Lowell[/name] in the same sibset? Highly unlikely, even if they’re poet names. That’s just two different tastes right there.
