Heya!
Alright, so I’ve got a new book idea (sort of, still indecisive of the actual plot part of it), and I need a girl’s name that is absolutely perfect. I know; tall order, right?
So, what I’ve got so far is simply a list of attributes for my main character.
*Short & small
*[name_m]Long[/name_m] dark hair
*[name_m]Light[/name_m] skinned
*[name_m]Light[/name_m] green eyes
*17 (I think, still deciding)
*Too “cute” to be considered beautiful
*Parents met in the army. Shortly after she was born, they both went missing over enemy lines (made even stranger by the fact that they were both on a medical base, not front lines)
*Highly intelligent for her age, if a bit naive at times
*Doesn’t catch on to sarcasm well
*Definitely tougher than she looks
*Introverted to a fault
*Doesn’t know when to speak out for herself
*Notices the tiny details of situations, but can’t remember everyday obvious things (e.g. what she ate for breakfast that day; a close friend’s birthday)
*Sometimes painfully clueless
*Surprisingly acceptive of all the crap she has to go through (abusive relatives, drunk foster parents, the crazy scientist rooming in the flat below them)
*Knows how to separate personal emotions and attachments from certain situations
*Very critical, especially of herself
*Sort of gives up on her parents mostly, assuming they’re dead or don’t care about her
*Single child, but has several foster brothers that are equally neglected
*Easily unsettled, but not easily shocked (if that makes much sense at all)
*Childlike, but not childish
So, that’s basically all I’ve got so far. The first name I came up with was [name_f]Clara[/name_f], because that’s been a longtime name love of mine. But I just recently caught up with [name_m]Doctor[/name_m] Who, and just guess what the new companion’s name is. -_- BBC quite enjoys stealing my names. So, now I need a new name, but I can’t come up with anything that quite suits her like [name_f]Clara[/name_f] does. I’ve tried [name_f]Claire[/name_f], and that doesn’t work at all. I’ve also gone through [name_f]Claudia[/name_f], [name_f]Mara[/name_f], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f], [name_f]Anna[/name_f], [name_f]Helena[/name_f], and [name_f]Katrina[/name_f] (which fits the best out of the rest of them). I know that I definitely don’t want [name_f]Clara[/name_f] to be her name, even though I still adore it, because with the way my mind works, I’ll probably just subconsciously start to make her into the [name_m]Doctor[/name_m] Who character.
If you care to notice my trend of girly names that end in -a, that would be much appreciated. I do like names like that, but if you’ve got other suggestions at all, everything is great.
Thanks! 
