Need help renaming the main character!

Genre of [name_u]Story[/name_u]: Dystopian/Sci-Fi

Time Period/Location: I haven’t fully decided a time but its based around the future, the story is on a made-up planet like earth in a different solar system. (any thought on what year?)

Brief Plot: Following a young girl, around 18, who was born in and raised in a strange testing and holding facility, which specifies in robotics/cyborg testing on the prisoners and they usually dispose of them after. She doesn’t know much about it at the beginning until another girl who had escaped from the same building four years ago told her about this place. The MC is unstable and insane caused from seeing her old roommate, whom she grew close with, being dragged out of the cell room at night and from being left with no-one for a long time, and what she thought was schizophrenia from being trapped in a small room her whole life because them. With the other girl, [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f], she discovered she can have visions of the future and can have out-of-body ghost like experiences of the present, which is what she thought was schizophrenia. After a few weeks both the girls get taken, the MC finds out anesthetics don’t work on her and she has to go through the procedure with all the pain. she gets her arms and legs get chopped off and replaced with metal limbs which she can morph and change into anything, this experience further pushes her into insanity. Managing to escape, she runs as far as she could alone. Eventually she finds the friends of [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f] and they look after her.

Current Name: [name_f]Addilyn[/name_f]

[name_m]Reason[/name_m] for Change: I just started to not feel like the name fit her anymore, and i don’t like it for her now.

Character Description: She has shoulder length brown hair, one dark green eye and one light green, the light green caused by the scientists. She is mentally unstable and doesn’t like to be alone. She loves to read and draw, drawing is the main thing that kept her busy most of her life in the cell. She has a short temper and can be rude when she wants to be. She is also ambitions and tends to do life threatening missions in attempt to take down them, the people who took away her early life and damaged her present.
she was born and raised in the same cell her whole life until she escaped, she never knew her parents nor anything of the outside world before she escaped.

Who named the character: Her cellmate and friend, [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f], recommended a name which belonged to an old friend of hers who has passed on because the MC had forgotten if she even had a name.

Already Considered: [name_u]Penrose[/name_u] (NN [name_f]Rose[/name_f], [name_u]Pen[/name_u]) [name_f]Valory[/name_f] (NN [name_u]Val[/name_u],) [name_f]Mercy[/name_f], [name_f]Liliane[/name_f] (NN [name_f]Lili[/name_f]), [name_f]Marcia[/name_f].

[name_m]Don[/name_m]’t Suggest These Names: nothing plain or too popular names, and nothing so unusual that it sounds odd.

Anything else?: i would love a unique and unusual name with a meaning that would fit her well.

Also, should i keep [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f] as the name of the friend? i originally used [name_u]Delaney[/name_u] but changed it, what do you think? She’s also short-tempered but sweet and considerate when you get on her good side, with short choppy black hair and cobalt eyes.

Thank you so much for your help :smiley:

Some suggestions that I feel have a bit of a sci fi feel while going for an appropriate meaning.

[name_f]Cyane[/name_f]
[name_f]Signe[/name_f]
[name_f]Idony[/name_f]
[name_u]Payton[/name_u]
[name_f]Leonore[/name_f]
[name_f]Mena[/name_f]
[name_f]Asha[/name_f]
[name_f]Lettie[/name_f]
[name_f]Riva[/name_f]
[name_f]Duna[/name_f]

Also, I think [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f] fits well. Far better than [name_u]Delaney[/name_u] :slight_smile:

Thank you so much for the fast response! :smiley:

i really like the sound of [name_f]Cyane[/name_f] and [name_f]Signe[/name_f], they sound better than [name_f]Addilyn[/name_f]!

and also thanks for your view on [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f] :slight_smile:

I think I’m going to have to end up designing a new sheet specifically for Dystopian as we get so many of them! Lol. Hmm… I’m intrigued about the naming laws in this world. So the scientists didn’t name the subjects at all but when ‘Kirsi’ was out for four years she found a name for herself? Is that right? If so…

  1. Should we be looking at making up some names? If this is an alien planet they aren’t likely to have modern Earth names. My advice with this would be to pick an Earth culture you like/one that feels similar to the culture you envisage for the planet, look at a sample selection of their names and tweak them. E.g Kirsty/Kirstin (which I see as inspiration for Kirsi) is Scottish according to BTN. I went on their website and borrowed a few from their Scottish list:

Ailsa > Alza
Caitriona > Cathrona
Elspet > Ettspel
Fenella > Fenola
Glenna > Glemma
Ishbel > Itzel
Sorcha > Sersha

  1. Kirsi has the best fit for the style of place. I’d leave that one as it. It’s familiar (a la Kirsty) but different enough to sound foreign.

I’d probally be one of the first to check that sheet out, i love the dystopian genre!

And you’re on the right track with twisting some of the names, i have a character in [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f]'s group called [name_f]Alyce[/name_f] instead of [name_f]Alice[/name_f]. (said the same way.) So, i’ll keep [name_f]Kirsi[/name_f] as it is :slight_smile: thank you guys so much!

how about [name_f]Astrid[/name_f]?

I’ve actually got that name for another character in that story :slight_smile: but thanks anyway, i love that name.

What about [name_f]Twyla[/name_f]

i really love that too, might use it for another character i have, thank you :smiley:

in the end i chose [name_f]Signe[/name_f] :slight_smile: