I've been working on my character Jean for like a year and a half now, I've had the character for like two or three years, scrapped his original story, and started working on a new one, even altered his appearance signficantly, but I've always had his name; Jean White.
Since then I've given him a family and a relationship to this family; he has two older siblings: a brother named Kristopher and a sister named Crystal. I liked the idea of giving him this aspect about him where his family imposed his odd-one-out trait onto him. (Kris, Crys, and Jean). His family follows Christianity (to an extent), but Jean didn't have much of an attachment to the religion, even as a kid.
However, I've come to a cursed epiphany.
I'm not even sure his name is Jean.
Last night I was discussing with my friend (who's also varey attached to this character as well) the reason his parents named him Jean instead of something similar to his sibling's names, when I came to the realization that the likelihood of his parents naming him Christian instead of Jean is significantly high. Then I realized that "Jean" is more likely to separate his identity from his family than his family is to separate his identity, so Jean would probably call his name Jean rather than Christian as a rebellious act against his family, so he can still go by Jean, but his birth name would be Christian.
Now, you might be thinking, "I don't see a problem with this. In fact, it develops his character more than hinders it." Unfortunately, you're absolutely right.
The problem is
i'm emotionally attached to his birth name being jean
please help
here's his character profile
