I can't win · 3:39am Apr 3rd, 2013
In [1]the fic I'm working on currently, there's a bat-pony. He's a fairly substantial character, so of course I need to give him a good name.
During my pre-planing, I came across the name 'Trotsky'. I figured, "Hey, that'd make a great name for this guy, and best of all, I didn't ponify it!" So all my old notes that use a name refer to him as that. Trotsky is a real person, a Russian fellow contemporary with Lenin and whos views I'm not sure if I agree with[2]. Well, that's okay, because when I sat down to pound into that fic I used a different name, Typhus.
Well, typhus is a disease. Class of disease it seems, actually, but close enough. Hmmm, sounds like an argument not to use that name, either.
[1] One of (I know, I know...)
[2] I'm not sure if the character agrees with the real-life Trotsky, either. Pretty good reason to question the name, I'd say.
