Please Help Me Name a Character!

[gnomi]

I have a very recalcitrant character in my head. I know who he is, how he fits into the thing I'm currently working on, but...he's got 4 potential names. So, I take it to you for a vote. I'm not saying for sure that the majority vote will dictate his name, but it will hopefully help me convince him to pick one already.

[Poll #604263]

Comments

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

One question: is he English? I tend to think of Trevor and Tristan as very English names, so that may make a difference.

[queue.livejournal.com]

My ex-wife went to high school with twins named Trent and Trevor. I'll vote for Trevor and suggest that maybe he has a twin brother.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

travis is the guy upstairs who always locks himself out and rings our doorbell (now disconnected for this very reason) daily.

trent=lott.

trevor was the oafish tuba player in high school.

tristan is a lovely name :)

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Travis is the creep who Tor was fucking. Trevor is my husband's boss, very IT geeky. :P Tristan is a lovely name.

.... because you needed to know all that.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

He's not, but I think one (or both, that's unclear) of his parents is from the UK.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Having reread A Diamond in the Window recently, Trevor is Trevor Nosnibor, the explorer. Tristan is either the younger brother in All Creatures Great and Small or loves Iseult. Trent is a Lott, and Travis sings country.

Without other info than the name choice, I can't decide: all of them are decent names.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Trent is the cute slacker-musician on "Daria". (Or Mr. Reznor.) Trevor is Neville's toad--very very English and kind of wussy. Tristan is the cute slacker-vet from the All Creatures Great And Small books. And Travis is a country singer.

I have a number of students named Trevor and/or Travis, and they all give me headaches. So I vote for Tristan.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

In that case, I'm leaning toward Tristan, m'self. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Wow...this character having a twin would actually work really well in the story. Thanks for the suggestion.

[seborn.livejournal.com]

I've had Magical Trevor stuck in my had for no good reason all morning, so maybe voting for the name will get it out.

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

Now I've got Magical Trevor stuck in my head. (From the poll, not from Susan.) I voted for Trent-as-in-Reznor.

[jencallisto]

but but, personality?

those all have very different flavors in my head...

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

i went with trent, because it sounds recalcitrant. tristan is to common in fantasy fiction, trevor makes me think of a teenager, and there was a guy in my sixth-grade class named travis who annoyed me and forever ruined the name. of course, there was a really obnoxious guy in high school named trent...

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing. I dislike Trent, Trevor, and Travis, in general the names; I don't know any corresponding people). I think Tristan is a very nice name, but I know it as a girls' name, and it means Sadness.
I think Trent says recalcitrant to me because it's fewer syllables than Trevor and Travis.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

What kind of person is he?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

He's a decent kind of guy, but he's ends up with designs on someone who's already kind of in a relationship (the relationship is, at this point, amorphous in my head...that's part of what I'm working on now). He's a hard worker; he's proud of the work he does.

Does that help?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

See my response to jencallisto above. He's a good guy; it's really not his fault that I'm drafting him to be the point of conflict here. :-)

[jencallisto]

yes, thanks!
definitely trent, then. a little... harder? more real? than the others. tristan's too pretty, trevor and travis are too... er. sensitive new age guy? or, alternatively (and worse), bland with upscale fratboy overtones -- like they'd be Soc's in The Outsiders, or the priviledged sons of CEOs escorting debutantes to balls. i guess they just sound a little useless, in my head. substanceless.

[donovanstitch.livejournal.com]

I voted "Trent," for pseudo-linguistic reasons (partly in deference to you, minus the "pseudo"). To me, it sounds most conflict-like.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

OK, feels to me like a "Travis"... :-)