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Help me Obi Wan!
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 02:54 pmThe muse is nibbling on me! I need a name for a hero.
Backstory on this request: As you know, I've been watching my first season of B5 and it occurred to me that I had once-upon-a-long-time-ago, written up a story outline for a B5 fic. I've also have a couple chapters written and I while I like the story somewhat, I don't really want to write B5 anymore. (MS's insistence that no one should write or post any B5 fics has something to do with that I suppose. What an arrogant asswipe he is.)
Anyway, after reading what I had, I was thinking it would lend itself pretty well to the world I built for my first sf romance manuscript, 'Welcome to Andromeda.' I'm getting the urge to write it, but I need a new name for Michael Garibaldi's character. My hero in Andromeda was named Axel Callahan and his best friend/second in command was Gil Hardy. I have Gil's story in my head, but never wrote it and he has a very different look/character so I can't use him for this story.
The character will be much like Garibaldi in that he is somewhat socially awkward, tough, feared, works in security and is a recovering alcoholic. For the first half of the story he is going to be undercover on a smuggler ship. He won't mean to fall in love with one of the ship's navigators who is not completely sane, but the heart wants what the heart wants. Sorry, it's het sex, btw.
I want to start working on it soon, but it may languish like all my stuff, or may wait to be this year's NaNo for me. I may not find the right name from your suggestions, but I feel like if I hear it, I'll know in my gut it's the right one. I've yet to pull up the right one in all the musing I've been doing.
So, anyone got any ideas? (Yes, I'll consider Evan, mabi. :oD Even tho you already have a movie named after you.)
ETA: I'm considering the name Trey. What do you think? Would you laugh? Or does it sound manly? This is sf/futuristic, so names can be a little odd.
Backstory on this request: As you know, I've been watching my first season of B5 and it occurred to me that I had once-upon-a-long-time-ago, written up a story outline for a B5 fic. I've also have a couple chapters written and I while I like the story somewhat, I don't really want to write B5 anymore. (MS's insistence that no one should write or post any B5 fics has something to do with that I suppose. What an arrogant asswipe he is.)
Anyway, after reading what I had, I was thinking it would lend itself pretty well to the world I built for my first sf romance manuscript, 'Welcome to Andromeda.' I'm getting the urge to write it, but I need a new name for Michael Garibaldi's character. My hero in Andromeda was named Axel Callahan and his best friend/second in command was Gil Hardy. I have Gil's story in my head, but never wrote it and he has a very different look/character so I can't use him for this story.
The character will be much like Garibaldi in that he is somewhat socially awkward, tough, feared, works in security and is a recovering alcoholic. For the first half of the story he is going to be undercover on a smuggler ship. He won't mean to fall in love with one of the ship's navigators who is not completely sane, but the heart wants what the heart wants. Sorry, it's het sex, btw.
I want to start working on it soon, but it may languish like all my stuff, or may wait to be this year's NaNo for me. I may not find the right name from your suggestions, but I feel like if I hear it, I'll know in my gut it's the right one. I've yet to pull up the right one in all the musing I've been doing.
So, anyone got any ideas? (Yes, I'll consider Evan, mabi. :oD Even tho you already have a movie named after you.)
ETA: I'm considering the name Trey. What do you think? Would you laugh? Or does it sound manly? This is sf/futuristic, so names can be a little odd.
