interesting background...I would blame crey or maybe arachnos.
you have a hard choice here because half of the fight in getting a name is getting one not taken. So things like psycho, psykill, etc will probably be taken already.
with all that being said many heroes and villains are simply thier test subject number as a name.
Yeah, they probably are. *sigh* I wasn't really looking for something that hostile, anyway. Just something a little offbeat with a bit of an edge to it.
Then another suggestion would be using a name that would eventually be the key to her former life...but thats your story and I couldn't actually help there.
If her name is the key to her former life, then where did it come from? The source of her name practically has to be external, since she wakes up in the Zig one day with no memory whatsoever.
I just find it incredibly ironic that I can't think of a name for a character who doesn't know her own name.
I tried both your suggestions, along with Mind's Eye and they were taken. No big surprise there, huh?
Article of clothing even if in prison you still arrive with something. Her prison record...they would have something about where she was arrested first. I imagine that this character has more ambitions than just escaping the zig...so her escape route would have been not as direct.
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Hmmm... interesting backstory indeed. The name that pops into my mind would be Sympatico Paralytica (more or less the paralysis of sympathy). Not technically a mental disorder by any means, but sounds like it could... and sounds like something she might find in her pocket or on a hospital bracelet.
It's a bit more "super hero name" than something she would expect to be her actual name, but... I think it kinda fits anyway (and isn't likely to be taken).
Ooh, Genesis_Man! Nice one! It could be the diagnosis of one of the prision psychologists or something.
Zetargos, your prison record suggestion makes this fit quite nicely. And, your right that she has greater ambitions than escaping ths Zig (especially since that can be accomplished so easily now).
hiker, thank you for your suggestions as well. I'll probably use one if Sympatico Paralytica is taken (if it is, I BLAME GENESIS_MAN!! lol).
It worked!! Thank you all!!
By the way, if any one of you ever needs a good name, let me know. I seem to only have difficulty with my own characters' names.
See you on Infinity! I'm off to play my new character!
Haha, glad I could assist. My characters of late have all been Bleach-themed (and thus quite Japanese or Spanish of origin), so it was nice to break free from that theme for a bit.
I wasn't sure where to post this, so I thought I'd put it here since this would be an Infinity character.
I have a great backstory for a character, but I can't think of a good name for her. This character used to exist, but I deleted her a looong time ago.
Here's the story. I originally posted it on the "tragic character bios" thread (there's some nice stuff there, you should check it out). It's about a scientist who was working on a gene-altering formula that would give normal people psychic powers.
"It went well at first. The animal subjects all showed signs of extra-sensory perception (ie. put them in a room with a maze and someone who knows how to get through it and they could solve it by reading the person's mind). There was a slight problem with some of the animal subjects however; those without a specific gene sequence would go insane and destroy others of their species. When there weren't any others around, they would destroy themselves.
Once the head scientist had ironed out (read, covered up) this wrinkle, he set out to look for human subjects to test the drug on. There was only one problem: the more complex the species, the more specific the gene sequence had to be. He and his subordinates took sample after sample from volunteers, but to no avail. He even went so far as to pay criminals to abduct people, but none of them were right either.
Then he had a brilliant idea. The lab where the drug was being tested was locked with a DNA identifier providing access or denial. It just happened that this system was looking at the particular chromosome that he needed to see. Good luck for him; bad luck for the youngest (and brightest) scientist on his staff. She just happened to have the right sequence, and had just signed a non-disclosure agreement with the company overseeing their work. She was quickly detained by the lab's security guards and, despite much protesting, forcibly injected with the drug.
She threatened to go public once she was released, and no agreement she'd ever made would stop her. So the head scientist had another one of his staff (a psychic who had been monitoring the animals and their progress) make her forget everything. The psychic took things a little too far though, so instead of making her forget the incident, she forgot everything she'd ever remembered. She still knew some basic things, like how to speak and write, but all her personal information had been erased. She didn't even know her own name.
The head scientist, who was becoming increasingly deranged, ordered her to be released. His reasoning in this was that, if the formula had failed due to misinterpreting the required gene sequence then she would go insane and destroy everyone at the lab before killing herself.
They let her loose in the Rogue Isles, where she has been trying to figure out who she is ever since. She uses any means necessary to achieve her ends, and will stop at nothing until she finds an answer. At her disposal, she has her new psychic abilities, her powers of reasoning, and an environment where no one will help anyone if there isn't something in it for them. She also has trace bits of information about herself, which she had deduced by comparing her knowledge to the knowledge of others. She has already figured out that she is about 22 years old, attended a university (she sees familiar faces whenever she visits her old campus), and had been studying genetics and anatomy (based on her knowledge of these things being much more detailed than anyone else's).
What's not clear to her is who erased her memory, or why. She has sworn to find them, make them talk, and kill anyone who gets in her way.
*Okay, I don't need to tell you that this won't fit in the standard bio space, so I had a kind-of diary thing going, chronicling her attempts to learn her own identity (I added an entry every few levels, but I never got very far). It was quite interesting to write, and I wish that I had saved the character. Perhaps I'll restart her. Mind/Psy dom, anyone?*
*Oh, the best part I like is that even I don't know if the drug worked or not, since her desire to kill could be revenge or insanity. I guess I'll just have to see how it goes like everyone else!*"
I can't remember the original name, since I've got chronic alt-itis and the original character existed about a year ago. I really want to recreate this character, so I need a name for her. She would probably have gotten her moniker from either a piece of paper in her hand/pocket when she woke up in the Zig, or from something she heard in the experiment that gave her her powers right before she passed out. I'm open to other ideas as to where her name came from, especially if I like the name.
*thank you for taking the time to read this absurdly long post*