Post the name of the protagonist in what you're currently

>>8713710
1/10

>>8713710
Biff Crankshaft

David Foster Wallace.

>>8713710
Dipshi Tgailort

>>8713836
upvote xD

>>8713710

(there are 3)

Jynabare

Jeb Fresch

Ahnzform

Protagonist: Rohe Goodman

Antagonist: Eva L'batgui

>>8713859
>Antagonist: Eva L'batgui
>L'batgui

What kind of unpronounceable name is that? Do you hate your potential readers?

Egthow

Thailian

Lucus

Lady Pollock-Smelt

Eugene Gant

>>8713863
>grab tight to my hand please
>Rohe Goodman
>HeRo Good man
>Eva L'batgui
>EvaL Bat gui
>Evil Bad Guy

Melly Gunt

Cern

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Off-topic here, but how permissible is a story with changing POV?

>>8714082
Perfectly fine

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>>8714085
Cool.

None of my characters have last names.

There's Calvin, Kurt, Myrna, Vaughn, Kelso and a lady who is referred to as Boss.

>>8713965
ahhh, so youre autistic.

Michael Marriage and sometimes his last name gets switch to Mirage

Jill Soros

Madam Hussain

Jasmine Carter

Character who starts named as Lucille and switches to a false identity: "Stephanie"

>>8713859
I swallowed some puke

Gavin Graves

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

>>8714086
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also
>characters actually need names

Dixie, Nicolas, Barrett, Reilly, Mariam, Spike, Mansfield, Robyn, Kemble

>>8713792
Manly as fuck

>>8713853
Uncommon as fuck

>>8713859
kek

>>8713941
Patrician as fuck

>>8714099
Preddy gud

The only character with a fully decided-upon name is Maxwell Damon.

For the record it's a stage name and the guy's taste is intended to be awful. it's also a reference to Maxwell's Demon, a physics thought experiment regarding entropy

Sir Hastorid of Yoreminster-on-Turfingdel

Carmine O'Kurtz. The antagonist's name is Gustav Undendlickeit (German for "infinity").

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R.

Type 97 Chi-Ha Designation 102 'Gongchenhao" (Heroes' Tank)

Meri Essa

>>8713710
Hugh Mungus

>>8713710

Isabella

It's not her real name, she's Asian and when she went to boarding school in Switzerland she chose it out of a storybook.

>>8713710
My protagonist is named Crash Pancakes

Nicholas Ridley

Chad Cheddar

>>8713710
the protagonist goes by G. Susskriest, bad guy (girl) is Lucy Farr

>>8713710

"The narrator whose name is never disclosed"

>>8713710
Chaz Masterson

Alexei Karamazov

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>tfw always was comfortable with protagonist name
>ask to share it
>now to scared and think it's shit


my protag's name is none of your damn business

>>8713710
Yuri Kalashnikov

>>8715461
Yea, we've read CotL49

Mark Ivory

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovsky

>>8713710
Gregory Berrycone

Authors who waste time on these meaningless details are probably the time that aren't focusing on what actually matters in a good book.

>>8716730
No detail is meaningless

All from different works
>Eris
>Ken Ralis aka Agent Grey
>Princess
>Samira
>Lukas

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Benito Camelo
Lalo Cura
Elba Lazo
Paca Garte

Henry Plantagenet.

No its not a historical novel, he's an out of work actor turned private detective who claims to be the true King of England.

False protagonist / anti-villain: Emerail Raeis

Protagonist: Nika Raeis

Antagonist: Victor Miles

Alberto Barbosa

M

>>8715532
are you the anon with the cute tank girls pornfiction?

>>8713710
Urho

Finnish names went well with what I'm working on, might change it to something less common when I'm finished with it.

Genre: Dark Fantasy
Protagonist: Daygen Orsinge
Deuteragonist: Corryn Jagged Sun

>>8716730
>protagonist's name
>meaningless detail
What kind of drugs are you on and where do I get them?

Two protagonists I'm dealing with
>Phileas Harte, the swine merchant.
>Kilroy

>>8717028
yes

>>8713710
Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo

Willy Pinkeye

Rodrigo Castel
Henri Digiacomo
Harm Hillen
Marie Coussin
Didier Dubois

William (aka Bill) Dollar

>>8713710
Bill

Alternatively;

The Burning Carcass

Yru, Pax and Dun. Also a guy named Ant Bellenger

Trey G. Facefucker

>>8713710
Writing a novel set in China
Protagonist: Bao-gai
Villain: Shi-ai-ah

Artiom

>>8716729
classic Greg

>>8713710
Jane

>>8714082
>>8714085
>>8714086

That anon was careless with his advice. It is NOT perfectly fine, UNLESS you do it well.

When it comes to POV, if it works it works, if it doesn't it doesn't. It helps to make it easier for yourself by keeping it simple, but if you are a talented writer then anything is on the table.

Samatar Barre

Louise Einstein
Poll Luander

>all these obscure autism names

jesus christ. and you fuckers wonder why you dont get published

Paul Sprungus

Mai Diarey

Tyrell Blacknigger

>>8720347
Yeah man, obscure names never make it, like Katniss, who would ever publish a book with a protagonist called something stupid like Katniss Everdeen?

>>8716769
ken ralis is pretty good but agent grey sounds shitty, could work if context is right tho

Finlay Thrumpers

>not a single person mentioning a non-named protagonist
honestly the first time I've ever felt objectively the most patrician person in a /lit/ thread

>>8720451
>Dude what if there was this guy that had to write a letter
>But, like, you never know who he's writing it to or what it's about, or who he even is
>Dude that would be so sick

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>>8720406
I know next to nothing about that shitty series, but even I know that there was a reason for that name. In the HG universe, most names are slight corruptions of ordinary names

>katniss
caithness

>peetah
peter

>heymitch
hamish

Its retarded, but theres a theme and a reason to it.

Jackie Duffer

it's a guy, but he likes the name Jackie. Kind of like Jackie Robinson

>>8720489
>Its retarded, but theres a theme and a reason to it.

Don't get me wrong, the last two books in that series were pure shit, but I think that's a pretty creative way to name your characters

>>8713853
Jeb!

>>8716798
Actually sounds interesting

>>8717183
>antagonist's name?

Oh, it's you, for picking stupid names

saved all these names to a name folder so i can steal them all for my own novels

>>8720955
u knew i shouldn't have posted in this dumb bread

>>8720961
I*

>>8715499
It's actually Unendlichkeit

This thread gave me an idea

I'm currently looking into writing some short stories just for fun/practice and I think I want /lit/ to decide my next protagonist

Please give suggestions for his name/age/location/profession or anything you want to and I'll try to make a decent story out of it

>>8713710
>Character only goes by the titles other has given him
would it work?

jean louise finch

>>8713710

Roland Strider

>Raven Thorndarkness
>Drachnos Septepticon

Melchior "Pox" Clutterbuck

>>8713710
myself, or alcoholism

>>8720489
This is actually something I can laud J.K. Rowling for. Most of the names in HP are actually pretty clever.

John

Nex Rosalyn

Gertie Moan

Gregory Berrycone.

It's a spin-off of that guy's (untitled) absurdist novella in which Gregory refuses to accept his new condition and moves to Russia where he attempts to join a traveling circus.

>>8722215
generic but solid
>>8722378
edgy boi
>>8722400
good name for an american during the civil war
>>8722404
popmous as fuck but I love it

Aimone Baresi

>>8722501
shit I meant pompous

>>8720451
I pray it's done well, for your sake as its dangerous and could easily come off as pretentious.

>>8720955
Good. It's about time bad fan fiction had characters with good names.

>>8713788
kek

>>8720386
double kek

Trajan Albany

First name Cornelius, no last name yet, unsure if there will be one.

I chose Cornelius because of the likely derivation from the latin for "horn". The work revolves around an extended metaphor based on the rhinoceros, so it seemed appropriate.

>>8713788
Huge kek

>>8713796
Fag

Churbina

>>8724489
>extended metaphor based on the rhinoceros

color me curious, or, more appropriately, wtf?

>>8724834
It's really more based on the Rhino Sutra rather than the animal itself. I definitely don't identify as Buddhist but the text has held a certain significance in my life. It speaks to the Buddhist tenet of non-attachment and tells you to wander alone like the rhinoceros. The story will be about a person striving for such non-attachment after realizing he has been too dependent on others and his attachment to them. This will lead him into a lonely, miserable existence, and he will eventually realize there is a sort of balance (or middle way to continue with the Buddhist theme) that is actually ideal. I plan to somehow work into the conclusion a dream that I had where I killed a rhinoceros to symbolize his realization that his quest for non-attachment (as he understood it) had been as misguided as his unhealthy dependence on others. I've also toyed with the idea of writing a separate short story for that last part as a sort of epilogue.

>>8724882
>>8724834

By balance I mean something like a life where you don't completely disconnect from everyone, but you also don't rely on those relationships for personal fulfillment or happiness. Understanding that it is ok to care about others, even love them, and give them a place in your life, so long as those relationships don't define you and you aren't dependent upon them so that when these people leave your life by whatever circumstance, it doesn't destroy you.