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Vital time-sensitive lore-friendly poll 2

  • Maw 160
  • Gourmet 155
  • Daffodil 34
  • Changeling 74
  • Hungry 13
  • Super Zoomie Sparkle Girl Tartelette (Sparkle for short) (Also just read Ravensdagger stories instead) 73
  • 2023-10-25
  • 509 votes
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It is time for the People to help Nestra pick her masked gleam name. You have until Mondayish when I write this part of the chapter. The People can offer suggestions in the comments which will count as poll options with the numbers of likes being the number of votes. Demon McDemonface will not be accepted.I promise to commit to the most popular option provided it's not rude/overly offensive. 

Comments

Nabnabnab

Barbie, they'll never see her coming!

Tarodan

Fiend! Since Demon was probably taken.

Thomas Issa

Alecto, one of the furies in Greek mythology

Bunny Waffles

You have no idea how dearly I want to choose SZSGT, but my semi-functional conscience demands I be serious.

Josh

Oh man people are gonna upvote memes aren’t they

Sparifankerl

Ooser. (As in Dorset Ooser. Google it if you haven’t heard of it before.)

Ben Morgan

Having a crossover with Nestra suddenly being forced into the Super Zoomie Sparke Girl Tartelette costum and enduring it would be a fun April Fools thing though. I can imagine the grumbling already!

RonGAR

None of these names really describes her or her abilities or personality. Changeling comes the closest, but that is just one aspect and almost a dead giveaway that she is something 'other'

Stonechamber

I'd say Gourmet but I feel Gourmand fits a tad better

matt

Go all in on the Edge and call her Shadow Demon.

David McCreight

Maybe something like void maw. Thinking in line with Dawn Spear to mess with our good doctor friend

Julia Kent

Nezhra? Or However it's spelled. It is already kind of the name of her other life. I think it works to keep that consistent and could lead to situations to move the narrative forward by creating more opportunity for her two different lives to interact in ways that can give other people some clues

Robert Hinshaw

C'mon guys, Changeling might as well be Demon, it's straight up tells anybody that hears it who she is. In fact it's worse because it also implies she replaced a regular child.

PickledTink

None of them really fit in my opinion. Something about hunting, stalking, or challenging would be better, though hiding the void part of her abilities from her name would be a good idea since there is only one of those known and she wouldn't want to implicate her sister with it would make sense. I am spectacularly bad at names, though, so I haven't got anything other than a direction to add. Maybe if something better comes up I'll change my vote from sparkle. Edit: Crescent huntress, maybe, given her combat style?

Mundane

Psithyrus : "They are a specialized socially parasitic lineage which parasitises the nests of 'true' bumblebees, resulting in the loss of the ability to collect pollen and establish their own nests."

Haran

Lamia - the mad daughter of Poseidon that eats children.

Ekko

I would say just use Gourmet+Maw = Gourmaw

Citrus

Titania

phantom

I went with Super Zoomie Sparkle Girl Tartellete. People will hear the name and think you are a weirdo. It is like hiding in plain sight.

Jake Lewis

Man I really don't love any of these, like others have said I reckon it needs more allusion to being a hunter. A predator of some kind?

Cormac

Nestra loves the hunt, so how about Artemis?

Joshua

Demon McDemonMask

Len

Little Demon .. / The Imp / Cambion (= child of demon according to European mythology, also known as a channeling …)

Oblique

Maw feels brutish. Daffodil feels uncharacteristically troll/random. If you want a not so serious foodie name, she could name herself after a food item ala sashimi? [edit: Like gomguk, beef bone soup?] If you want a serious name, someone above suggested crescent.

Junk

What about a touch of cross over? Solfies the cold and darkly sarcastic gleam. Or maybe due to a poorly timed bout of frustration and sarcasm the mysterious and powerful masked gleam known as . . . . Bob.

Junk

Richard, because Richard is a dick.

Garadhrim

Tiefling. Or if she wants to be ubernerd: Hungerseed

Nar

Someone else suggested Crescent and I'm also a big fan of that, honestly.

Boenn

I agree that none of them really fit for Nestra, RIght now this seems to be a contest between gourmet and maw, and it just seems to be peopple voting for the least worst option. Also, voting in the comments on Patreon kinda sucks, because most people won't bother to look into them.

tibbish

*Goremand is right there author!!

blub01

maybe hecate? she is, among other things, a goddess of crossroads, which fits with the portalmaking nestra is supposed to get eventually

andrew barnes

Kali after the Hindu goddess of Time, Change, Creation, Power, Destruction and Death. In her mythology Kali is portrayed as a nigh unstoppable force of destruction and change frequently called upon to battle impossibly dangerous foes. There's even implications of her being the second skin or the hidden reflection of other more powerful gods though this based on my very crude understanding of indian mythology so don't hang me if I'm wrong about that part please. She even has multiple myths where she is portrayed as consuming her foes sometimes on the battlefield even as part of process needed to actually defeat them for good.

verbalshadow

Kali is my personal thought here. 1. It is a name closer to the region of Threshold is in. 2. Kali is "the dark mother" seth will find this hilarious. 3. Kali is associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism. 4. Nestra holds a grudge and is about revenge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali

RageBone

i see it like many others here, the poll sucks. Crescent it should be like it was offered by another commenter here

Astral Huntsman

Simple is fine any of the ones in the poll can work you don't want an alias to give away a ton of your abilities anyways, personally I think Maw sounds cool.

GooseProductionWrites

"Comedus, Bellum" either/or, or both. "Comedus" is Latin for Gourmet and "Bellum," War

David

“Just Ken”

Clifton

The trouble with a name that fits her situation, is it defeats the purpose of a pseudonym—that being to hide your identity. If it matches, then it reveals what it shouldn't.

Never

Scorn

NoodleGod

Li jian- sharp sword, on the nose but fun

PickledTink

Repeating my previous suggestion of Crescent Huntress, but also pointing out that putting up a poll as is isn't going to be fair to any write-ins since everyone just sees those options and runs with them rather than reading through many dozens of comments. Also, it is very obvious that you were hungry when you wrote that list of options, Mecanimus. I must insist that next time you put up a poll, do so after you have taken care of your stomach and it's rumbling case of the growlies.

Димитър Дунгаров

Maw is too unrefined, Gourmet is accurate but I'm not sure it flows well. I'd personally switch daffodil with dandelion. Changeling is a bit too close to home. Crescent is a pretty good idea.

Gibborim

Dorian, as in Dorian Gray. Allusion to gray. Allusion to dealing with devils/demons. Dorian has two selves, the painting and the man. While Dorian Gray's indulgences are more varied, obsession with food is not out of line. It also sets the stage nicely for moral conflict between the demon self and the human mask. Thankyou for attending my TED Talk.