Wasn't sure whether to post this here or in /lit/. Need

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>omnipresent, omnipotent, all seeing god
>needing a name
>even if it has a name do you really think it's pronounceable in human tongue

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>>386966217
The Insider

>>386966460
Thanks Lovecraft

>>386966541
Too porno.

>>386966217
Foreigner, Alien, Stranger, Interloper, Outlander

Pick one

>>386966217
>>386966691
N'wah

>>386966691
all boring as shit
>>386966460
this guy has the right idea

Is this something he's (it's?) calling himself, or is this a name other people have given him?

>>386966752
Other people.

>>386966829
Can you give a better description of him other than "outsider but not really"

>>386966217
Steve.

>>386966217
pooplord

>>386966217
xXd4rk_5h4d0wXx

>>386966217
"the one other than us"

frank

>not gregor

Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan

>>386966217
something in latin because it sounds cool as fuck

In Outman

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The Mourner

>>386966938
So the setting is post-apocalyptic. Shortly before the war, humanity began experimenting with a new radioactive element called etherium. The effects of this stuff on the human body can range from superhuman reflexes to abnormal hair growth. This guy became a god the day the bombs fell. He was in an etherium lab playing around with a reactor and refused to evacuate. Etherium boms + etherium reactor= god. He can talk to those 'touched' by the Ether, his version of the Void, in other words those irradiated that didn't die.

>>386966829
Well, then it can depend on their society. Is this an official name that some higher institution have made up? Was it the church, the royal family, the republic, the guild association..?
Is it a name that the poor people murmur to each other while at the tavern? Do the wise women warn the farmers about him, the fathers warn their daughters?
Are there written books about him, is he only known in a single culture/country, how well-known is he, was he a human once, etc.

Think about what role he plays to what people. He did something to make them name him - is his name a warning, has it to do with the places he appear, his appearance, his actions..?

You could easily make up something like "The Skulker", "Whisperer" or "Shade", but consider his role. What would they call him and why?

>>386967569
Is Ethereal too generic because that's the obvious choice

>>386967569
call him Ethan. obvious choice

>>386967681
Considered it. Too generic.

I was about to say reply to this or but your mother will die in her sleep tonight sounds better.

>>386967569
What's his mentality? Benevolent, malevolent? Does he stay hands-off or does he fuck with people for giggles?

My first thought is to just call him Ether, or The Ether.

>>386967595
Post-apocalyptic. No society.

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>>386966217
"That kid"

>>386967569
The Survivor.

>>386966217
you could use variuos names for it. that were given trough the ages and from diferent cultures

>>386966217
Just give him a random name that sounds deep
>The ivory watcher
>The man in the fog
>The velvet eye

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>>386967719
here you go

>>386966217
Ápeiron

Baconjacket

>>386967818
I assume that by "no society" it means humanity has been reduced to tribal levels. With no organized society it probably means different "cultures" or whatever would come up with different names for him.
All I'm saying is that you don't have to stick with one name, everyone will have their own version of him

>>386966217
The Not-therere

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>>386967856
That Man

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>>386967952
Not OP but I'm also trying to write some faggotry and you seem capable with bullshit

He Who Walks Among the Rose

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>>386966217
Isn't that the alien guy from the Godzilla Final Wars movie?

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>>386967569
So you basically stole The Masters lore

>>386967818
Just an idea, maybe give him several names? Gives the idea that it's multiple gods or something but the reader will slowly come to realise it's actually the same entity, he just isn't one-dimensional and can act/react in a variety of ways. Give him variations of the same word or phrase in different languages or something.

>>386966217
>novel
It goes in >>>/lit/ then you stupid fuck.

He-Who-Faps-In-The-Shadows

>>386968304
Grey was mutated by a virus, not radiation, and he has no power over ghouls. Not everything involving radiation is Fallout.

>>386968358
Yeah, but I thought you guys would know of The Outsider.

>>386968304
Join~ :3
DIE

>>386967569
How does he interact with people? What form does he take? Normal human or more like Dr. Manhattan? Just a glowing orb? Or an animal shape?

>>386968324
>>386967952
I like these.

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>>386968258
The Guy

>>386968262
What are you writing?
Always wanted to write something but I've never taken the first step

>>386968635
Human. He can either just manifest himself in the physical world or, in rare cases, pull the consciousness of the one he wants to talk to into the Ether.

You need to give us more info here OP. You need to tell us what exactly he's DOING. Who is he to the people he's interacting with? If they're the ones who gave him the name, then it's going to reflect his actions toward them.

>>386966217
STALKAN

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>>386968484
Cute

>>386967818
He could just be "the voice", if that's all most people hear/see of him. That might even be a phrase, as in "he's hearing voices, but at least he's not hearing The Voice". Nobody needs to explain what voice you're talking about - it's just the voice. Or perhaps something that describes the voice - hollow voice, mocking voice, lecturing, kindly, etc.

If he still has human shape he could be called something about how he's changed. He's the shapeless one, the glowing one, the raggedy man, etc.

Do people see him or just hear him. What would a typical person encountering him think about him? Are we talking about a few chosen or gatherings. Does he talk every single day or a few times a year?

>>386968874
This, how he interacts with people matters a lot more in a post apocalyptic world since widespread communication doesn't exist anymore. People will likely name him based on what he does for them, be it granting powers, destroying enemies or simply offering advice. If the time period is soon after the apocalypse there may be some people that would believe he is a deity of a pre war religion.

Whatever he was called when he was a human.
God being called Maurice is way cooler than some tryhard edgy name.

>>386968805
A post apocalyptic novel. World is destroyed by nuclear warfare and survivors that have been exposed to the radiation are changed in some way. After James and his friends are forced to abandon their home by US army remnants, they embark on a quest to deliver an ex-army general to a kingdom with the vague promise on being rewarded a new place to live. They soon find themselves in conflict with bounty hunters, wasteland crazies, and the Soviet empire.

The Radiant

>>386966217
Locus
Short for Locus of control

>>386969351
He can manifest himself physically or just use his voice. He can only talk to those touched by the radiation and only talks to those whom he finds interesting or worthy.

>>386969520
Huh, that seems really neat

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>>386969520

>>386969531
sorry for the question but how old are the protagonists and who are they?

Jim or Jimbo.

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Floater
Sounds kinda badass, but also sounds like he's a piece of shit.

Öster Sammstrich

>>386970394
The only real protagonist is James. I haven't really figured out an age yet but I'd say around 19.

>>386968443
>I will change radiation to virus and nobody will notice

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>>386966217
Christopher Robin

>>386970574
I just think that makes him sound fat.

>>386970731
Embellish it a little bit then.
"The Floating Entity"
"The Floating Unknown"
"The Foreign Floater"
"Floating Mind"
"Joey from Friends"

>>386970615
PLEASE don't make it another shitty teen romance novel

It ruins the book every time

I like "outsider" because it's deceptively literal, and more accurate to the definition of the word than the way it's typically used.

I'd be surprised if you could come up with something that captures that idea.

>>386970943
There's some romance involved but it's nowhere near the main focus.

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>this whole thread

>>386966217
the foras populus.

latin for outside people.

>>386971103
i recommend you to put more protagonist. bonus if they are in different parts of the country. so they live different experiences

>>386966217
Erdogan

>>386967569
Adam, like the first human

>>386971103
Make sure you know how to do romance well before you write it

Nothing is cringier than poorly written romance by an author who doesn't know what real romance is like

>>386971298
Overused, tbqh.

>>386971249
There are many other main characters, fully round and fleshed out. James is just the one protagonist. There's everything from a cowboy, to a Russian, to a British monarch, a samurai, and a soviet.

>>386966460
This. Just always references the character as "Him" or "He" or something

Go for some Jungian crap, like "The deliverance"

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>>386971412
Because a post-apocalyptic setting is so fresh and underused?
Call him Meth with a silent M.

>>386966217
Machina, short for Dues ex Machina

Since he was literally born from technology >>386967569

How about "The Overseer"?
Do a double rip off

>>386971370
I've pondered on this a lot. Any tips?

Dishonored had shit writing, don't try to emulate it.

>>386971602
Browse /adv/ and /r9k/

>>386971594
Ooh, I like that.

>>386971658
Just concepts. That's all.

>>386971494
very good. but my point is don't monopolize the protagonism in only one character

>>386966217
>>386966460
Literally this

Just call him.....
>The Spectator
>The Witness
>Legion

Emphasize the fact that's what other people refer to him, but otherwise, he doesn't have a name

>>386971494
Those are more stereotypes than fleshed out characters
Not necessarily a bad thing in a comedy but this sounds more like a drama

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Constantly refer to him as the reader or the audience so the reader thinks it's some meta shit and your book gets free pseudointellectual cred.

>>386966460
>>386969520
Combine these two
To others, he has no name, every name they give him is mysterious and ominous, meant to invoke worship and fear

To him, he's just Dave from accounting

>>386971886
That's just me being surface level. They all have deep personalities and backstories.

>>386967027
/thread

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"The Last Scientist"
"Doctor Bomb"
"Jesus 2"
"Reactor"
"The Auditor"
"Controller"
"Messiah"
"Father Glow"
"Ascended"

Look, why would he have only one name? Groups of people would have different names for that sort of person. Be it religious, mocking or respectful. Pick a simple one as a base and give him dozens of nicknames based on the personality of the characters that speak about him.

>>386972051
The Reader would work, it's slightly ominous and you can pull off exactly what you mean, or just make it a short period of confusion that lasts for a chapter before revealing The Reader is an entity in-setting.

Hard to believe I've gotten more help for my novel in one thread in /v/ than multiple threads in /lit/.

>>386972212
>"The Auditor"
That's a good one. Makes it sound like they're just talking about an IRS agent or some shit.

>>386966691
Gaijin.

>>386967569
Nuke Dukem obviously

or just name him Oppenheimer or something like Offenheim. Trinity, The Rover, PIF (Plutonium Implosion Fusion), etc

>>386966217
Bob.

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>>386972308
Stole it directly from Discworld, thanks Pratchett.

>One said, That is the point. The word is him. Becoming a personality is inefficient. We don't want it to spread. Supposing gravity developed a personality? Supposing it decided to like people?
>One said, Got a crush on them, sort of thing?

>>386972302
You'd probably be get a better list of video games from some /lit/litfag than you could from the average /v/irgin.

>>386972083
>"Hmm, I forgot that name so long ago. After all, even a petty thing like a 'name' gets swept away along with the ebb and flow of time."
>"Hmm," He paused moment. What was once an impassive grew dark, almost as if remembering his once mortality brought him pain and anguish.
>"Maurice, maybe? Maurice seems to strike a chord....." The perpetual indifference seeming to return to his visage. "It does not matter--you can call me whatever name graces your whim." Dismissing the issue like a used cigarette butt.

>>386972949
Good writing, my friend. I like it.

>>386972949
Are you sure his name wasn't space cowboy

>>386972949
"No, no, NO....."
"Stop using that name!" What was once, now again, there was color to his face, a flame to his eye. There was power to a name, power in an identity, power of the individuality. A human life is such a petty thing, a tick that sucks upon the greater, and the apparent bane of the immortal.
>Maybe at some point, he desperately tried to cast away his identity, like some unlucky penny that he attributed all his grief and woes upon, and he simply forgot the reason for his forgetting. Or maybe this 'immortality' thing was simply a ruse, a persona, or even a cloak he dawned that was swiftly unraveling. After all, why would god ever have use for a name?

Fandal Ragg.

>>386966217
Nox

>>386975071
Bevan Daedalus

>>386968018
>The Dainty

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>record scratch

>>386966217
if you cant name a central character in your novel, why business do you even have writing one?

>>386966460
people will give nameless things names anyway.

The only possibilities for this being remaining nameless are
1)nobody knows about it, but what point is there in writing about it
2)it strikes down anyone giving it a name, and makes it very publicly know that it does not want to be named
3)the story is written by the likes of JK rowling or worse

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>Anonymous

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>>386968805
It's a revenge story about a disfigured madman who protects a young noble girl he ravished. She wants to get back at her family for being banished and he wants to stay by her side because she can look at him without puking her guts out. The setting is low fantasy, and I try to stay grounded as much as I can. /tg/ is pretty great for inspiration.

>Always wanted to write something but I've never taken the first step
Honestly I jumped into unprepared, only had the rough idea and grand lines, but the more you write, the more you see the difficulties and questions you need to ask yourself to progress.
I'm now 200 pages in and nowhere near finished but I'm having fun and going slow but steady.
Your post made me laugh because sometimes I quickly need a name for some battle and shit and I just grab the nearest internet page with the the most remotely interesting name I can get and go with it.
It works !

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>>386966217
Call him Chuck.

>>386966217
Trump

>>386967569
Lame lmao

>>386977982
As much as Supernatural went to shit, i loved the idea of God just saying "Fuck it" and hiding from everyone as a normal human, i wish more books, movies or games did that.

Since this is basically a /lit/ thread, I'm trying to flesh out the story of a game I'm fixing to make. What would a utopian society that has robots automating everything be like? Would there still be jobs and money? What would people do?

>>386976913
>nobody knows about it, but what point is there in writing about it
are you for real

>>386978997
Manufacturing jobs would probably be a thing of the past, since robots would just manufacture everything.
But jobs like teaching, writing, entertainment and so on would still exist.
Also, people would need to design and make the robots better, so there's that.

>>386967569
>So the setting is post-apocalyptic
Stopped reading there.

>>386978997
That sounds a lot like Praetoria from City of Heroes.

Basically people ended up either focusing on arts/sciences/culture, or decided to try to climb the ranks of the world government. You didn't have to work, but if you did you got special privileges and powers. Check it out if you want.

>>386978997
Science, art, but most people would probably not work at all, and just indulge in crazy orgies and use mind fucking drugs to get off

>>386967569
Call him Dr. Manhattan

>>386979367
>but if you did you got special privileges and powers
Like what?
>>386979184
>>386979376
Would there be money? Or would people just work because they want to work?
What would be money's purpose in a perfect society?

>>386980057
Would people have access to everything?
If so, no money.

>>386980057
I thought about that because I wanted to create a similar setting, and I came to the conclusion that it could either be a communism style production system where everybody gets a minimum package ensuring that you have enough to eat and live, and can get more depending on some conditions like working, or occupying important positions, or a full blown capitalist wet dream where you produce so much you can afford to waste everything because everybody has money and products are dirt cheap.
It also depends if the country has to interact with other states, which can require transaction and thus capitals

>>386980057
It depends on how exactly idyllic the society is.
If the concept of scarcity is gone entirely, then probably there wouldn't be any currency since everybody can get whatever they want whenever they want. Like you said, people would probably just work because they want to feel fulfilled or have an impact or something. Most people won't do literally nothing.

If it's just basic needs that are met, then yeah probably money would exist in some form to get more luxurious things.

>Like what?
Similar to benefits you get in real life when you're in a position of power. Having stronger influence over the direction that society moves in, having control over a group of people to accomplish your goals, etc. Some goals require resources like capital and manpower, and in Praetoria the way they get those things is by climbing the ranks of the world's meritocracy.

>>386966217
John.

>>386966217
>I'm writing a novel which was inspired by a vidya game
>I'm going to come to /v/ to ask for ideas to name a character taken from a vidya game

It's weird, but I can tell this novel is probably going to be shit.

I'll give you a hint though: The Outsider doesn't have a name, he has a title, because he's more a force than he is a person. Characters like the Outsider need to be used sparingly, and only in times that their presence moves the plot. They are a walking Deus Ex Machina, and if they aren't used correctly they will destroy the story.

>>386966460
Nobody ever said the Outsider is omnipotent, omnipresent or all-seeing. You just immediately jumped to that conclusion because his powers are mysterious and not clearly defined.
The Outsider manifests in human form and even was human at one point. There's no reason why he wouldn't need a name, or for his name to not be pronounceable.

>>386966217
Rather than picking a name, you could come up with a way to refer to him uniquely without narrowing it down to a specific.

For example: he tells you his name, but nobody can grasp it clearly. Everybody who refers to him gets the impression that it's a different name, so the main character thinks he's called GREGORY whereas another character thought he heard ANDREW, and so on and so forth. If you write every different name capitalized, or in another way that makes it consistently recognizable, so that the reader understands it's always meant to be him.

>>386980392
If we're going commie style, would there even be enough jobs for everybody? Considering that the robots would handle the dangerous or undesirable jobs, that's a large chunk of them gone. You also have to consider that because of it being a utopia, that the life expectancy increases and in turn the population should increase.
But then there is also the fact that most of the population may not even want to work. In which case, then it really just seems like I could decide whether there are enough jobs or not.
>>386980903
That book sounds interesting, I might give it a read

>>386966217
Make his Name and identity a plot point, where the entire story his character revolves around trying to figure out a name for himself.

And then if you make it a series at a climax/crucial moment in the story let him snap his fingers and reveal it.

Kami

>>386981479
>would there even be enough jobs for everybody?
I don't think so. A large part of the population would be unneeded, an excedent. Parasytes today, but only an affordable reserve in this utopian society. The people not good enough for the remaining jobs would either be content with not being forced to work and still get enough shit and comfort, or forced to deal with it via social pressure, or drugs

>>386966217
>video games

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>>386967569
>etherium
hope he made some sick gains in that lab bruh

>>386981479
Sorry, it's not really a book, it's just an area in a game.
https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Praetoria

Reading some of the quest chains and stuff will give you some more insight though. It's a pretty neat concept.

Good luck, anon.