Names · 12:40am Apr 17th, 2012
There was a time when I had just stared writing (a big three months ago) that I hated names. Such complex little things they are. So easy to miss-handle. Especially in the pony-verse. Now, I relish the opportunity to name a character. Pony names have so much power behind them. Ever part of the name is based off of the nuances of the character they are built from. Even the show utilizes this very well, and not just for the main characters (Although they are well named), even the antagonists have great names. The Great and Powerful Trixie! Could you find more obnoxious or arrogant?!
And so, in that spirit, I too, spend hours, gleefully searching for the proper name for one of my characters.
Arnaquer, the French revolutionary, smuggler, and of course, swindler. Simple name, fun to write (This is more important than one may think) and it hints at the character so much.
Kami Kaze, do I even need to hint at this guy's personality?
Wrenches, the slightly insane, super jealous mechanic.
Preacher, the grumpy old leader that sighs constantly.
Building characters is a true joy to me, naming them is part of that joy.
Now, I congratulate any and all who have suffered through that boorish text!
I propose a contest of sorts, with I as the only (very biased) judge. Chapter nine of Steam Gears and Wings has a... blank, of sorts. This character isn't important in the overall plot, just a pony that has a few lines of text, then disappears for a while. This character needs a name....
In other news, I also need names for well over a dozen Rebel ships.
Comment away fellows!
Brief Wind. The pony that says one line should have that name.
Also some rebel names can be...
Heat Flash
Steel Bill
Cell Iron
Dr. Pain
Gordon Freecolt
Ender Wing
Knight Night
Lily Pod
Sandy Klaus
Commander Faust
Hammer Tyme
Peanut Brittle
Chef Silver Platter
Dr. Luv
Vick Newman
Bluff Speaker
And that's about all I can think of.
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Hammer Tyme
Haha! brilliant!
I am impressed by the massive amount you've churned out. quiet the pile huh!
Remington
Bolt Lock
Unhinged
McCoy
72040
Unhinged
Sounds like a good name for a lunatic!
Surprised by the lack of ship names. People usually jump on the opportunity to name those.
72042 ship names!
There's
The Immaculate
Bucephelus ( after Alexander the great's horse; it should be a ramming ship if anything)
Sleiphnir
The Kelpie
want more?
72055
More is good!
But more ponified, and think about the rebellion in Star Wars!
Have some helpful music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rz0qvx-ro
72060
More ponified...well I thought general horse themes were appropriate,but okay.
Thanks to my time as a betatester in an Empire At War mod I have a plethora of names.
Capital Ships:
Alliance
Ardent
Crucible
Endeavor
Equity
Liberty
Comet
Vision
(Celestia if they are pro-Celestian rule)
Valorous
Hope and Salvation
Revolution
Valiant
Valience
Hero
Honourable
Pride of the Alliance
Corvettes:
Freedom’s Messenger
Arrow
Razor
Swift
Frigates:
Liberator
Mercy
Peacemaker
Persistence
Provocateur
Rebel Star
Redemption
Hope that helps
72078
Celestia's horny head! Dayum, that's a nice list! I'm going to keep this round, looks like it might be helpful! Thanks Wookie!
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Oh! We can name ships too?!
Zip Liner
Stinger Class
The Industrial New Age (Tina)
S.S. Floral
Secondary Expedition X-class Ying (Sexy)
And that's all I can think of.
I have a list of imperial names too, if you want some.
I'd love that mate!
From one empire to another.
Capital:
Annihilation
Insult
Intrepid
Argument
Insurance
Rebelmincer
Doomgiver
Berserk
Iron Will
Devastation
Black Dagger
Fallicy
Ravager
Defiler
Deathcrawler
Emperors Hoof
Interpretation of Chaos
Hearld of Destruction
Undertaker
Valorous
Vehement
Vengeance
Relentless
Stalker
Thunderflare
Implacable
Judicator
Avenger
Basilisk
Chimaera
Conquest
Shield of the Empire
Lighter Destroyers (Victory Destroyer's names):
Bombard
Corrupter
Crusader
Dominator
Gallant
Gauntlet
Harridan
Hunter
Iron Fist
Pestage
Protector
Rampant
Stalwart
Strikefast
Subjugator
Tempest
Warlord
Corvettes:
Arrestor
Subjugator
Red Eye
Leviathan
Slayer
Crimson Streak
Tusk
Disbanner
Scorpion
Armgeddon
Longsword
The Nightfall
holy...
Drawing a blank on airship names but this ~ "This character isn't important in the overall plot, just a pony that has a few lines of text, then disappears for a while." ~ made me think "Mirage"
72201
Ohh, that's nice!
Well I got some names for ships:
Party Crasher
Big Mouth
Golden Bloom
New Light
Phoenix Bane
Titan
Chain Breaker
Justice
...That is all I have for now
72361
Thanks! I like the Party Crasher, Sounds very... Pink.
I don't think you have anything to worry about with readers like these
72427
I wuv my readers!
Looking for a name for that character?
Why not Two Bits? Bonus points if he is a salescolt of less-than pristine goods, and runs out of a two-bit operation.
Couldn't resist the chance to have a bit of a pun- he'd be giving his two cents on what's going on.
72445
Character names with puns and/or who are related to the character are the best!
I really dislike seeing a fanfic where the author has OC's with lame names, it really breaks the immersion, that's why I spend so much time looking for the right name for each character. I would like to think that I've done a decent job to date. Although, I don't think I should be so pretentious just yet.
Hardly. You were speaking that the function of the character parallels their name. If I had to write him, a character with that name would take the function of an older, more guiding role that might have a few nuggets of useful advice. (Think of a bartender-type character... that's what he'd serve as.)
And pun-based character names are only truly funny if they fulfill the purpose that you set out for them, or they are just a one-use character that you don't plan on re-using.
Chapter coming soon, or did I read the whole blank in the chapter wrong
Pony Names! Cloud Runner? Rising Light? Chain Bolt? (I did have a character in an FoE story called Magic Bolt once, but the name was meant to make him seem slightly silly on purpose because he is honestly a somewhat pathetic person. Poor Magic...)
Ship names! (How'd you feel about using names from the Rebel/ New Republic ships in the Expanded Universe? Some of those names are cool.)
Eclipse (Because the Empire's the sun, y'know?)
Pirate's Rest (A medical ship?)
Rude Awakening
Lunar Gambit
Home One (A flagship or perhaps a fighter/troop carrier?)
Gilead Balm (Medical ship?)
Miskaponic
Rebel's Hammer
Rebel's Fire
West Wind (Shelley's poem is about revolution in a way. Rebellions are revolutions sometimes and stuff, no?)
72630
Nope, not for a little while, most likely not until next week! That is, unless I find myself a full-time editor, I am VERY picky with my editors, not anypony will do.
I am going to release another short fic this week, Pipsqueaks going to have some fun in that one. Watch out for it!
72968
Ohh, some of these are good, I like Eclipse, very Lunay.
72968
Home One - It's a trap!
73246
This is a minor spoiler, but there will be a "It's a trap" moment... I can't resist not doing it...
Will there be a "Oh the ponanity!" scene? (Hindenburg) where a propaganda ship bursts into flames?
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To this I say, AWE MAN!
73246
Sorry mate, no editor, no fic... I am at chapter seven right? It's not that fun of a chapter anyway. Chapter eight on the other hoof....
Which hoof, there's 3 others to choose from
72968
Eclipse Super Star Destroyer standing by!
73246
I'm so glad someone caught that one. :3
I'd offer if I wasn't working on a 15 page paper on Roman views of history as cycle of moral decline and regeneration. (You know tiring it is to write/say that every time someone asks me what I'm writing on??)
I'm looking forward to seeing some Rebels. I always wished that we coulda seen more of them in the movies. Their bases and troops were so cool. And Mon Cal cruisers~ Oh heavens some of my most favorite space ships ever.
Out of curiosity, do the Rebels and the Empire use the same ships? Like, in the aftermath of the war and such did the Rebels just sort of woo some Imperial captains? In Star Wars they (mostly) used fairly different ship types. I mean, they shared some designs like Nebulon B's and some smaller stuff, but fighters and big ships were mostly different because the Rebels could buy ships outside of Imperial space. Would they be able to hide ship building like that on the same planet/continent as Blueblood's empire?
73540
At this very moment I a writting the introduction to Echo base If you don't get this... please leave) and I have been debating over rebel ships for a while... Thoughts?
EDIT: You like the Mon Cal ships? I loved the Imperial ships, the rebel capital ships... meh.
o wow, people went nuts with the names... might as well add some
Nuts'n'bolts
Muzzletop
Equity
Applecore?
Sparkplug
Payback!
Tasslehoof
Crosshair!
Bonemarrow? (a doctor?)
Calculus
Powerhoof?
Dazzydanger
Feathertwitch
Equine-Housen! (think German)
Eyesore
Thunderwing (or Thundercrash?)
Some of these MIGHT have come from reading other fan fics, so please nobody shoot me for throwing these out!
... actually these ones are useful, might use them for myself, will probably post my fics after the exams and into the summer
hope these are helpful!
73588
Nuts'n'bolts Too late for this one!
And Tasslehoof is familiar... Do you like Dragon Lance perchance?
73593
awww thought so, 'bout tasslehoof, i bet someone else picked it out already and i don't know dragon lance... will check out though. hope the other names are still legible and tasty looking.
73621
Dragon Lance in non pony, an old Adventure series I read as a kid:) one of the characters was tasslehoff... Fun times!
73626
wow, just one letter off, hmmmm
Rebel Ships... you don't have to have this Rebellion form the same way. Why not have the core of their fleet be older-pattern ships of the line? A few cruisers and a bigger ship or two on the fringes of the Kingdom, farther from the reach of Blueblood in the upheaval, might have gone beyond him and joined up with the Rebellion when it came.
The Rebels in Star Wars didn't get that many ships from the ruins of the Republic/nascent empire, but they did get personnel, officers and senators and such.
They probably don't have that many big ships besides though, ya think? Big awesome airships are hard to assemble without some sort of tangible presence. The Rebellion didn't get that many until they had managed to get a few planets, and these probably haven't managed to make any without a few cities or somethin'....
I like Mon Cals as a ship design but the ISD is still my overall favorite. Anytime I played Star Wars Adventures (some game I played with a couple of my friends outside a while back) I would always capture as many ISDs for my primary fleet because not only are they powerful but very intimidating.
What sort of tanks does the Imperial Army use?
Wha are the balloons made of? That is in the destroyers.
73640
You forget that the mane six are part of the rebellion, and it's been hinted quite heavily that they own their own corporations. (Guess who's in charg of making Sparkle Generators?) Not only that, Spectrum Skies is mention as the main provider of Imperial fighter planes. its owned by Rainbow Dash... who is a rebel. So in theory, the rebelion could have ships as good as the Empire, although not nearly in the same quantity.
Oh! Bluh. I thought they had their own corporations and such... I knew AJ and RD were sympathizers, and Pinkie sorta appears to be, but wasn't Twilight making things for the Empire? Though I guess if RD is supplying their fighters, and she's obviously a sympathizer at this point, then they could all be biding their time.
Though... hm. I guess that's right! In that case I don't see why they wouldn't/couldn't use the same sorts of vessels. Except perhaps.... wouldn't big ships sort of draw unwanted attention? Blueblood knows they don't like/support him, but as long as they make him ships then he probably lets them do whatever, right? Then if they start making ships just like his own Imperial Naval vessels that don't end up in his forces, it would force his hands. One or two you could create distractions and get through, but you'd have to settle for different/smaller things so as not to be so obvious.
hmmmm a air ship names
the angels wings (a medical ship maybe because of it being named after fluttershys pet)
oh the epona roman goddes of horses and rider etc