12:47 - 2006-05-24
The Great Name Hunt
WELL!
It's time for another nearly-pointless CALL TO ACTION! From YOU! Yes YOU! the reader.
Here's how it goes.
Today I am going to the post-office to pick up my Dolkot doll. But ALAS! She has no name as of yet!
That's where YOU come in! Is any body out there? Does anyone heed my plight? Oh won't ONE of you ANY of you grace me inbox with your naming suggestions?!
Here is the link to her picture, so you can have some "visual inspiration":
http://www.dollmore.net/shop/step1.php?number=1558
All types of names are welcome! I collect names myself, so I'd love to hear anything you've found in your travels or perhaps something that just popped into your head ^_^
Thanks a bazillion!
Oh what a surprise...not even an echo from the audience. Well ,I guess it's better that her name was already in the works:Lluvie Reiku Skai. (Lu-vya Reh-ee-koo Sky). There's a story too, as there is with everything I do just about. I had originally thought that Lluvie would be have a more gentle quiet disposition...like a hush in the forest or a silence sprite or something. Now that I've "met" her in person, she is much more capricious and, though still delicate and sweet, playful. She is more a creature of weather, capable of being suddenly sombre and pensive like a thunderhead, but renewing and ethereal like rain, with a mind of her own, but innocent, like a cool meandering gust of wind. You'd really have to meet her, but I thought her name should infer at least a little about her.
Colt Chorale (our Varsity Choir) performed Eric Whitacre's Cloudburst for our last concert of the year, and it was honestly the most amazing musical experience I've ever witnessed. It's an amazing song based around an amazing text. Really, you should look it up if you haven't. And "lluvia" (Spanish for rain) is the first and last word we sing. I know that the correct pronunciation is "Yu-vya". I've altered the pronunciation because, in Sornner (the language I use in stories) a double L denotes the traditional sound instead of the Y sound. It's basically the opposite of Spanish which I only recently learned to pronounce. One L is ya and two L's is la. And, since my only Sornner-speaking characters are Ikaela, I decided that Lluvie's first name should be more Ikaela in sound and spelling.
Reiku is meant to be a bit of a play on the Japanese word for lightning. (and while it has nothing really to do with Lluvie, the Japanese lightning god is probably my favorite Shinto deity, and for good reason (he takes the form of a weasel and inhabits bellybuttons for fun ). Reiku is a Chikall name (the other species in my stories). If you know Chikalls, you understand how this is fitting. It's a cute name full of energy.
Together "Lluvie Reiku" is a phonetic for the Sornner word "vaorek" (vee-or-ik) which means "deep dream".
The last part is from a book I've been reading. In H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" there is a breathtaking river in the mysterious land of dreams called the Skai. Originally I didn't intend to tack this on, figuring it would never come out anyway, but Lluvie liked the story and insisted that I give the name some humanity as well as Ikaela and Chikall motifs.
So there ya go ^_^ I will post piccies, don't worry. I just need to get the webcam back out.
