(11-26-2014, 08:01 PM)Amelia Wrote: Heh... WELL...
I've always liked the name Amelia.
And being that she's modelled after Princess Garnet, well... Almandine is another word for the garnet stone.
There you go. My secret is out. Y_Y; Don't judge me!!
Judge? Why? I think we need to be friends.
 the world needs more Garnet love.I'm enjoying reading everyone's stories on this thread!
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I'm one of those people who enjoy trawling through baby names databases for naming inspirations - and sometimes because the names themselves have 'personalities' that create the characters. I used to plan these long fantasy stories with piles of characters who existed fundamentally because I wanted to use a particular name I'd found, not because the plot demanded their existence.Â
I found "Avis" the same way. I was looking for a name that was elegant, concise, feminine but also leaning towards an androgynous 'feel'. Avis means "desired" and also "bird" in Latin. I felt that captured my character's free-spiritedness, so Avis it was for her first name.Â
"Inkwood" is a last name Avis invented for herself, since she fancies herself a reader and writer. Her real name is "Ingram", which is the rather stereotypical name of a snobbish family a friend and I invented for a collaborative work of fiction, and that was based on - you might've guessed it - Blanche Ingram from Jane Eyre.
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