Limited number of names available for muns and pups

[yakalskovich]

We used to have that Kate thing, where several muns and pups both were called Kate, but never a Kate-mun called Kate.  There was an Amanda-mun called Amanda at some stage though, I believe I recall, and several other Amandas existed as well.

Now, the newest thing seems to be having lots of Erics. The Huntsman is really called Eric, and Magneto is really called Erik, and then we have Erik Northman who is an Erik outright, and on the side of the muns thre's our Eric AKA alas_a_llama, whom we all meet in chat every night and whose essays are beyond brilliant -- you know the one.

Eric-the-mun, in turn, has TWO pups called Leo.

Makes me wonder: what other names are there to get confused over, or at least have double entendres between muns and other people's pups?


Ooops, seems to have evolved into Weekend Entertainment. But this is a subject of valid interest, it seems!

Comments

[shinyhappygoth]

Reminds me of the Carnegie Mellon KGB. It seems to attract Matts, to the point where none of them can actually be called Matt.

[sky_child]

Why do you think I renamed the permalink text on this one's journal to "Hypertext URL"?

Also, a friend of mine's character elsegame is involved with a character who shares the first name of my favorite composer, so that can get confusing sometimes.

[no_vampires_plz]

How about when you have a character whose name is the title of a popular book/movie series?

[queenofmay]

*is totally the Amanda-mun*




I have this problem with Cat/Kat's in my life from every version of Catherine through Kathleen, who all want to be called the same thing. At the worst period I had six and had to start nicknaming them by something about just so people I was talking to about these people weren't mixing them up.

[rustedtoaster]

Toast the actual foodstuff is mentioned hilariously often in crackchat.

[acts_of_gord]

"Tag Gordon."
"What?"
"Not you. Jim Gordon."
"Oh."

[sky_child]

tbh being involved in the Zelda fandom and talking with other Link players has stripped the vampire association from "Twilight" for me.

Also here is a picture of Link's sword sparkling in the Twilight Realm.

[no_vampires_plz]

Yeah, but there are a lot of Twilight pups in Milliways and no Twilight Princess pups as far as I know.

[aberration]

I'm pretty sure I'm the only mun Veronica, but I do think there were at least a couple instances of confusion when we had a Veronica Mars.

[misslucyjane]

Both my brothers-in-law and my youngest brother are all named Steve.

There have been no hilarious mix-ups yet, but I've only been playing Steve Rogers a month.


We used to have a plethora of Jacks, since Jack is a really common hero name, but that seems to have subsided.

[sky_child]

Tragically. The bar is being denied one of the cooler Links. This one's totally square.

It's just, when there's a lot of Links being thrown around in a discussion, people tend to identify them according to their titles/their game's title, thus that Link is often referred to as Twilight. Plus ever since I thought about his ~*~light infused sword~*~ in the Twilight realm I just. Cannot get that association with "twilight sparkle" out of my head. D:

[sky_child]

You should probably avoid Catherine, then.

[sky_child]

That's funny because I thought every guy in Pittsburgh was named Mike.

/random

[shinyhappygoth]

I don't think I actually knew very many Mikes at CMU, but there is the whole thing with the Dave-to-Girl ratio...

[camwyn]

I went to an all-girls high school with 150 students total, of whom five shared my first name. When I got to college and various official forms or groups asked me what I wanted to be called, I generally told them either "Q" or "Steve", and then explained why.

This worked right up until I went for College Bowl and said "Steve" and the team captain turned out to be named Steve.

Oh well.

[sky_child]

Heh, it's probably a thing in the city proper, then. It got to the point where I just assumed a guy was Mike until proven otherwise.

[misslucyjane]

Thirty percent of girls born in the US in the year I was have my first name.

And it just goes downhill from there.

Just to illustrate (and because it amuses me): In elementary school on up, I was always Jenny (last initial). In high school, in my group of friends there were three Jennifers, so we went by nicknames among ourselves. I was incredibly happy to discover the nickname Jenna--finally, some individuality!

And then last year at work there was another Jenna besides myself, so we went by Jenna Lynn and Jenna Lee. Only people thought they were our last names, so we'd get emails addressed to Ms. Lee or Ms. Lynn.

Adding my own stuff here now this has turned into WE

[yakalskovich]

In my old else!game, we had an infinite numbers of muns called Jen, plus the daughter of one of the then-mods is called Jen as well. Which is why Huntsman!Eric-mun, who I first met there, is still Scot!Jen to me (in addition to the fact that there was a Vegas!Jen in the Anita Blake fixit plot that she was involved in as well).

I've mostly avoided that kind of thing with my pups, albeit not on purpose. Donovan Reece had all but gone by the time a Claudia Donovan appeared in Milliways. At anything called 'Teja' (that is not a roofing tile in Spanish), I usually take active umbrage, for Reasons. The only slight name overlap I can think of is Ashie's mother's maiden name being Urquhart, so it's the last name of a number of her relatives.

[minkhollow]

quinby double-takes every time there's a character named Quinn in something, even though none of them have been played in the bar to date. (And then everyne yells at Glee!Quinn on Tumblr and she's all 'what did I do?!')

We also hve two Lynnes on the mun side, I know that, it's just that one of them is Lexie.

As for me, I've encountered my name and pronunciation used as a character's name... exactly once.

--And Quinn just reminded me of the Victorian law firm's worth of Peters we used to have - Wimsey, Wiggin, Pevensie and Pettigrew.

[thequietblack]

.... don't tempt me. I -love- TP Link. :/

I almost feel like I'd need a Midna, though.

[sky_child]

Oh did I just get an invitation to completely ignore a request not to tempt someone? :D :D :D

[yakalskovich]

Heathers! We have/had two, so they turned into Heater and Feather, right? Heater being Alanna-mun, and Feather Fleur-mun, IIRC?

[minkhollow]

Right! Far as I know they're both still around, but I don't think I've seen any of Feather's about since the Allpocalypse. (The pink and blue unicorns were being utterly ridiculous during said, and that was her, so.)

[thequietblack]

... damnit. I TP Link has always been -soooo- badass to me. Dunno why. Must be the wolf-thing. I might have to do this. Hmmm.

[sky_child]

It's okay. I find him impossibly badass, too. Not just the wolf thing but like, oh rolling Gorons coming my way? nbd just gonna throw them over my shoulder and go about my business.

I just hope he won't be too disappointed to find out his ancestor who did ALL THE THINGS is...this adorable twerp right here.