pls help me im intensely crying than k u so muchh
yall i need a good last name for the name Olliver
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Sure. What's their ethnicity, and what kind of setting are they in?
Hmmm I have a character named Oliver (Olli for short) on a separate roleplaying website, and i made his last name Bryson. You could use that if you wanted? There are surname generators out there, if you are still looking.
He's white, and he's sort of an assassin criminal type kid. it's a modern world so the last name would be pretty generic and from now
also i don't like the generators because i could spend years on it and not find a fitting last name, im super picky. This is like, my last resort. Also Bryson doesn't work for my character. Thank you though!
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Is his lineage from any specific country? That should help narrow it down a bit.
yes his main races are german, danish, swedish, and russian but i haven't established which of those are from his dad
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Alright then. I'll come up with a few from each category.
WAIT HOLD UP
no never mind we're good
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So I'm putting down names with their meanings
Germany:
Schneider (tailor)
Schulz (medieval she riff)
Klein (short/small)
Hoffmann (steward)
Lehmann (vassal)
Stein (rock)
Engel (angel)
Voigt (bailiff)
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Denmark:
Hansen (from given name Hans)
Jensen (from given name Jens)
Olsen (from given name Ol/Ols/Ole)
Vestergaard ("the western farmstead")
And I couldn't find the meanings right away for these:
Holt
Lind
Moller
Nielsen
Ostergaard
Rigby
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Soldner is the German word for 'Soldier'. Maybe that would help?
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(okay now I can't seem to find meanings on the pages I'm looking on at all?)
Swedish:
Ahlm
Andersson
Borg
Dalin
Eriksson
Frisk
Hartman
Holm
Lundin
Wahlberg
Wollter
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Russian:
Azarov
Barkov
Blum
Durov
Kirdan
Kozar
Levin
Romanov
Say
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Oh shit that was a lot more than I expected, thank you! I'll definitely let you know which one I pick I just gotta test them out
wow i have chosen levin thank you so much i literally owe you the world
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Oh sweet! I actually really liked that one. I ended up just going through lists according to country and picking ones that I thought sounded good with Oliver, so for future reference, that's usually a good, somewhat fast way to go. Then you just write down ones that sound good until you have a decent sized list and pick. Glad I could help!
my issue is I'm quite indecisive which makes all the names sound bad but i looked up levin's meaning and it just clasked and i knew it was meant to be! the thing is I could get names for my other characters really easily
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Yeah, I gotcha. Some characters are definitely easier than others. Heck, in my story, some were super easy the first time. Some of their names were changed pretty late in the game- like when I started my second draft.
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I also changed one character's first name to their last name because it fit her brother really well, and had super deep symbolism.
Aw really? What's their name?
also I always feel obliged to never change their names because i chose them for a reason unless its like special circumstances
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I had a character named Reggie Arnol. But then I realized I couldn't say his name without laughing so now his name is Oliver Warren.
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The guy is Niko Asphodel, and his sister's name is Elizah Asphodel.
And I chose Asphodel because Greek mythology and the fields of asphodel- a place where people who lived lives where they didn't truly do anything good go. It's sorta sketchy because he actually did some terrible things (but with good intentions/under orders). It also works because his backstory is that he cheated death a lot because he was in his nation's military, but was murdered in his sleep after returning home from the biggest, bloodiest war of the era. (The story kind of gets set in motion when he gets brought back to life with a very rare magic, and he doesn't know what to do with his second chance.)
And now that I think about it, it fits Elizah too because she's pretty morally gray, and while she tries to be good to people sometimes, she's a lot more self-interested.
As for the characters I changed late in the game, they were more side characters that I gave generic last names, but when I decided to give them a more fleshed-out personality and backstory, I gave them more colorful, interesting surnames.
I adore names from mythologies and such so much. One of my character's last name is Apate which is also from Greek mythology and Apate is the goddess of fraud and deception and my character basically seduces people and then proceeds to murder them.
And then our good Olliver boy, his alias is Anubis who is the god of the dead, and Olliver is also a killer.
alsooo your story sounds super interesting id read that
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Your story sounds really cool too.
(And I'm glad you think mine sounds cool, because it's really a hot mess and everyone in the story except like one angel child has done horrible things)
actually these characters are in two different stories but it would take forever to explain everything haha.
i cant wait for the story to be more fleshed out! Also that's okay, my characters all have tragic ass back stories gaha
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Lol they still sound cool.
Yup, tragic backstories ftw. And I try to vary the tragedy? Like not everyone's parents are dead, and most of the characters are adults, so parents aren't holding them back.
Yeah same! All of my characters are like 19-27 ish, and their stories, althought hellllaaa tragic or exaggerated, are still pretty different. One was forced in a science experiment for 14 years, one was adopted and his family was wrongfully imprisoned, one just became psychotic i guess her's isn't very tragic, and one was brainwashed into killing his best friend.
Olliver here just killed his friends family on purpose and theres more that goes into that but thats the basis
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I have 4 MCs. One was an orphan, but later learns his mother is still alive and that he has 2 older sisters. One of them was raised as a hit man in a local mafia and extorted into doing terrible things (his parents were part of the organization too, but were captured and killed at some point). The other two (Elizah and Niko) were just kind of left to raise themselves because their parents were always traveling for work, and then Niko was killed by his own mother because she hated the things that he did.
As for side characters, they're not so tragic? Like we have the 2 older sisters of the first guy, who have spent years thinking their dad and little brother are dead (their father is at this point, but whatever). And then there's one who had a good upbringing, but he's chronically ill and isn't expected to live past 30 (he's 27 atm). And another who was sold off to the military and had a physically abusive father, but now he's separated from his birth family and has a wife and children. And I could go on, but I think those are all the good ones.