Names 2

I quiver to say this, but... any sensible suggestions?

Defeis.

*gets ready for the brimstone?*

Correct.

Their guitarist is called Pursino...

Hmm. An unexpected bonus.

What does everyone think of Basaltine? (Which I am pronouncing "bazzle tyne", fyi.)

And should I actually go ahead and rename him? What did you think of the idea?

I wouldn't bother if I could be absolutely positive I'll never want to publish anything with him in under my real name, but that's certainly not a guarantee I can make...

Works.

I'll still think of him as Skerv, I'm afraid. Hell, I still think of my aunt by her maiden name, even though I was her flower girl. In Ree's brain, names no changey.

That said, Basaltine is a marvelous name.

My father's side of the family is like that, and boy is it infuriating to know they will still think of me by my birth name and father's surname for the rest of their lives.

I don't think of people by names at all. They're filed as "the one who..." is a window cleaner, has a daughter, is called Bruce, etc. So I guess it's easy for me to say.

[talks to self]

"Baskerville" is an existing last name, not only "the name of that dog from a Sherlock Holmes story".

"Basaltine" need not be feminine; think of "Valentine".

[repeats a couple of hundred times]

The Hound was not called Baskerville. The family was called Baskerville. The Hound's surname was [spoiler]Stapleton.[/spoiler]

Other Baskervilles: very famous printer, place in Australia, notable people selon Wikipedia, about 800 ordinary Britons circa 1900... and Mutt.

Other male names: Irvine, Erskine (and Augustine, Peregrine, Constantine, etc, if we include -inn or -een sounds). It is more often a feminine ending.

The -ine suffix.

[is so very helpful]

Smurfette's German name is Schlumpfine. Smurf being Schlumpf.

Memories of cartoon shows one grew up with trump everything in one's head.

What are Smurfs?

NEVER ASK THAT.

My order's records say they're a cross between Moomins, Gummi Bears and those creatures Sebastian ran into before the yule party.

They are small, blue humanoids, live in mushrooms... Oh, and they actually get their babies delivered by storks, so the only females are two cooked up by an evil sorcerer.

The evil sorceror has a CAT, Weft.

I'm at a loss to understand why you think this would interest me, Tilda Catherine.

I...

I feel so...

[speaks a demonic word that translates to "the concept of the smell of new paint"]

You're still an ugly dog, and now we need a new nickname abbreviation because 'Skerv' doesn't make sense.

'Salti'?