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Carl Projectorinski
:D What a great compliment! I do have a few methods. But I think one of the big keys is that I'm often jealous of other people's names. I mean, I didn't make up Carl Projectorinski. I stole that one. And the way I come up with my dragon's names is based on some that I've heard from movies and such, like Gorebash, Fafnir, Smergl, Smaug and Briag.
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Carl Projectorinski
Nah, I love it, but when I borrow names, I borrow them from obscurish but well liked songs or books. For instance, I've used Johnny Johnny and Ralph the Wise and Powerful, both from Emerald Eyes and The Long Run by Daniel Keyes Moran. Typically, I'll take names like that when I'm playing a game where I don't want to invest too much of my own creative assets. Carl is an odd exception. I stole his name, but the theft is part of the character background from a game of Changeling. The story is that he heard the song "Human of the Year Award" and wanted to be the human of the year so he named himself after the song's protagonist. Now I'm adapting him to my comic, but I've got to obscure his origins a bit so that I'm making an homage rather than plagiarizing anything. "Ralfish" came to me after trying to come up with a shorter version of "Ralph the Wise and Powerful". It means "Ralph-like" but has the word "fish" in it, because that seems to be a new theme with me.
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