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HelpRe: Thoughts on the number of names
in reply to a message by TheArtemisMoon
I prefer three (or four, I guess) given names, but two as a minimum. Just one feels really incomplete. (More than four often starts to feel a bit overdone.)
My husband and I actually gave our first son two names and our second three, and I kinda wish I could give my first another to make it "fair" - I mean, I guess I could, actually. But you know.
It actually really frustrates me when so many fictional characters don't have middle names; it feels really lazy on the part of the writers, especially when the male characters have middle names (Anthony Edward Stark, Steven Grant Rogers, Nicholas Joseph Fury), but the female ones in the same work do not (Virginia Potts, Margaret Carter, Maria Hill).
I suppose I should also add that my youngest brother has three given names while the rest of us (eight of us in total) have only two each. I've always felt just a little bit jealous of him for that. :P
My husband and I actually gave our first son two names and our second three, and I kinda wish I could give my first another to make it "fair" - I mean, I guess I could, actually. But you know.
It actually really frustrates me when so many fictional characters don't have middle names; it feels really lazy on the part of the writers, especially when the male characters have middle names (Anthony Edward Stark, Steven Grant Rogers, Nicholas Joseph Fury), but the female ones in the same work do not (Virginia Potts, Margaret Carter, Maria Hill).
I suppose I should also add that my youngest brother has three given names while the rest of us (eight of us in total) have only two each. I've always felt just a little bit jealous of him for that. :P
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Thank you, I feel justified in giving my fictional characters middle names now! :p
I never noticed the discrepancy between female character middle names and male ones, but now that you mention it, I can't think of any female characters with known middle names off the top of my head. Huh. I wonder why that is.
I never noticed the discrepancy between female character middle names and male ones, but now that you mention it, I can't think of any female characters with known middle names off the top of my head. Huh. I wonder why that is.
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You're welcome, and I really appreciate that in an author for the record. :) Like having an actual family with siblings and such, it makes characters feel that much more real and alive, since most people irl do in fact have middle names.
Female characters with middle names that I can think off off the top of my head:
Hermione Jean Granger
Dolores Jane Umbridge
I think that's about all I can do without Googling, and Googling sort of removes the "off the top of my head" stipulation.
Female characters with middle names that I can think off off the top of my head:
Hermione Jean Granger
Dolores Jane Umbridge
I think that's about all I can do without Googling, and Googling sort of removes the "off the top of my head" stipulation.
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