Names, Pt 2

Clarence is a nerd and with a name like Clarence, how could he not be? I chose this name, not considering the potential confusion between it and Claire, because it's one of those that when you hear you can't help but wonder, what were his parents thinking? If you have named a child Clarence, I'm not sorry, and if you're considering naming a child Clarence, thank God you read this before it was too late.

Daisy is a name you don't hear much anymore and it makes you think of a flowerchild for obvious reasons. It carries a hint of eccentricity behind it but also has a fantastical, fairy sound.

Flunky is yet another no name obviously. I believe I did this out of laziness. I didn't feel like giving Flunky a name and I didn't develop the character much either. Fortunately Hannah has.

Frank is a fairly basic name. You don't hear it too much in our generation, for some reason parents have recently started calling Franks by their full name, Franklin. Yeah, that's less likely to be mocked. Anyway, I wanted this character to have a basic, nondescript name. I also liked how it sounds following the phrase, "Darn it". Try it.

Giralto is very Italian sounding. That's really all I wanted. It needed to sound like an artist and you can't go wrong with an Italian name there. That's a tip, write that down.

Ian is bland. Cool people can and have been named Ian but it's a very bland name and that's what I wanted. A name that's easily forgotten and James constantly doing so has proven that I was successful

Keith was chosen primarily because I was thinking about "Hoodwinked" at the time. It was one of those bizarre instances where I chose the name without thinking about the character and the character kind of came with the name. Names are very powerful.

- T.J. Mercer