[ SECRET POST #3029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3029 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Peep Show]


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03.
[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]


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04.
[Alexis Denisof]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy]



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08.
[John Green]


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09.
[Outlander]


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10.
[Selfie]


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11.
[Emilio Estevez]


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12.
[His Dark Materials]


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13.
[Star Wars, Twilight]


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[Faux Pas]


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[Mass Effect]


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16.
[The Black Lillies]










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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by secret number whatever.

What fantasy names do you think you could get away with naming your kids, without the average person really batting an eye? It can't be a "real" (or at least, "normal") name now, but do you think any just sound like they could fit into your society without any problem?

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

This may just be me, but I always thought "Tifa" and "Aeris" both sound relatively normal.

Tifa because it sounds like it could be a play off of Tiffany. And Aeris, I don't know, I guess it looks a bit more exotic but in my head it plays similar to "Alice" or "Ellis", and it's a nice two-syllable name that kind of rolls off the tongue.

(not "Aerith" though, nope.)

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what fandom these names refer to, but they scream some sort of fandom name to me.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Aeris is also pronounced the same as Eris, which is a real name.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

a lot of JRPG fantasy / animu names, provided you're asian

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[philstar22]

River is close enough. I don't know if people actually name people that, but I think it could work. And bonus named after two awesome characters.

Aurora is kind of a real name. For some reason I really love it.

Kahlan might be a stretch. I love the name. I know someone named that. But it is still kind of too fantasy.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

You don't remember River Phoenix?

The name rose a lot in popularity around the early 90's, and again around the time of his death.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I would totally name a daughter after the goddess of the dawn. New light, new hope, all that. It's a good, sunshiny sort of name.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Aurora has been a given name for centuries, so that's definitely a real name.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Aurora is beautiful but I have trouble saying it out loud. I think it's the two "r" sounds near each other, it's a workout for my mouth and I'd hate to have yell it repeatedly at my kid. lol

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

My maternal grandmother's name was Aurora. It's definitely a real name, just not common right now.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[praetorian_guard]

A few names from Fire Emblem - Tana from Sacred Stones (though I imagine people would pronounce it like Tanya); I think Lucina is gorgeous and something you could probably get away with. It's probably easier to get away with names for girls than it is boys.

Although I can see Reyson being a maybe. Hm.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[lb_lee]

Not gonna lie, I always thought Arsenal Fierce would be a badass name for a little girl, but I'd never name my kid that. What if she didn't end up a punk or a brawler? She'd be a knitting cheerleader named Arsenal and probably hate me for life.

--Rogan

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I've recently played through a bunch of "Tales of" games, and maybe it's that there's a good chunk of normal names (like Luke, Natalia, Judith, etc.) mixed in, but it makes the more unusual ones (like Tear, Nephry, Regal, Yuri, etc.) sound a lot more usable in real life. Nephry especially is a lovely name to me, but then I've always loved jade/nephrite stones.

Some of them are a bit too outlandish, though, I suppose. I wouldn't be naming a boy Zelos anytime soon.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[philstar22]

Also on Tolkien names.


I think Luthien could work, but it is too well known possibly. But maybe one of the rarer Tolkien names. Idril or Melian, or Este or Miriel maybe?

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

For women, I think any name that is a flower is basically socially acceptable, even if it isn't normal. Like, I don't know, Primrose from Hunger Games. I reckon at some point in time most "traditional" English flower names have been actual names at some point though.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I think Aslan could work. Maybe Tumnus. It's not really fantasy, but I've always loved the way the Star Wars EU spelled Jacen, and I havent seen it used.

I wouldnt be surprised if we saw some Zelenas popping up too.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Laurana and Robinton have always sounded just "real" enough to me that I think they'd work.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

i don't know about normal, but when I thought about it, if someone named a girl Taran (instead of a boy - from The Chronicles of Prydain), it could pass as a strange variant of "Tara."

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of Tamora Pierce's names:

Alianne
Keladry
Trisana

I left off Alanna because that's already a real name.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[dethtoll]

A lot of what makes Turian names in Mass Effect work is their vaguely Roman vibe. I think they could work.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I think Leliana would be a nice name irl, and could just be seen as an alternate spelling to Liliana/Lillian.

Liara is another one that is really pretty.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I like Antimony--it's no weirder than a lot of names in use today. And Panteleimon would fit just fine into my family's culture--there are actually a couple of cousins named that already. My family would assume the kid was named for the saint, while fandom people would assume he was named for Lyra's daemon.

Re: Fantasy names that sound "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Game of Thrones really hits that 'ol 'Aerith and Bob' trope right on the head.

As far as 'normal' names, we have Jon, Ned, Bran, Sam, Gilly, Catelyn... the list goes on and on.

There were some Star Trek and Stargate alien names.

[(Anonymous)]

Star Trek - Vash, Tallera, Jaron, Kes, Kelis, Tal, Rom, Zek

Stargate - Teyla, Adria, Lya, Ladon, Sora, Niam, Tyre, Lathan

But since a lot of them are essentially "normal" names with the first letter changed (commonly done in sci-fi) and a lot of people now name their kids this way to be unique, but not too weird, I figure there are a lot of "alien" names that would work.