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Help[Opinions] Re: Onyx
in reply to a message by JessaRose
Main connotations:
1. race, honestly. It's like Ebony or Bronwen or Rowan that way. It's equally usable for anyone, of course, but does make me think (without seeing a bearer) that it could be a poetic reference to complexion.
2. the color of a polished onyx, and all the things that deep black symbolizes - occult, infinity, protection, void, nocturnal etc (it's gothy).
3. men's jewelry
4. that guy who shaves himself with onyx flakes in his video. It's the sharpest blade in the universe. So dangerous! ("edgy" name lol?)
So, I guess it's more masculine, but a sleek and vain kind of masculine. It's not unfeminine so that it'd be unsuitable for a woman, but personally I think it sounds a little too sensuous and vain - being such a "hard" and reflective impression. Either way, an eccentric, dramatic name at about the same level as Aries or Plum or Spirit ... doesn't appeal to me personally, but there's nothing about it that really bothers me either. It could work IRL. I sort of agree that Nixie is cute. Nicksie ... But the nix part, is ehhh... Anyway, I'd lean towards Onyx being a man-name, but I think it's OK as a woman-name.
Nyx bugs me because of the sound of nix, negation, and the sound of nicks / surname Nicks. It's also sort of too punchy for real life, like Dax or Dash or Trig. jmho I would not want to be "Nyx."
- mirfak
1. race, honestly. It's like Ebony or Bronwen or Rowan that way. It's equally usable for anyone, of course, but does make me think (without seeing a bearer) that it could be a poetic reference to complexion.
2. the color of a polished onyx, and all the things that deep black symbolizes - occult, infinity, protection, void, nocturnal etc (it's gothy).
3. men's jewelry
4. that guy who shaves himself with onyx flakes in his video. It's the sharpest blade in the universe. So dangerous! ("edgy" name lol?)
So, I guess it's more masculine, but a sleek and vain kind of masculine. It's not unfeminine so that it'd be unsuitable for a woman, but personally I think it sounds a little too sensuous and vain - being such a "hard" and reflective impression. Either way, an eccentric, dramatic name at about the same level as Aries or Plum or Spirit ... doesn't appeal to me personally, but there's nothing about it that really bothers me either. It could work IRL. I sort of agree that Nixie is cute. Nicksie ... But the nix part, is ehhh... Anyway, I'd lean towards Onyx being a man-name, but I think it's OK as a woman-name.
Nyx bugs me because of the sound of nix, negation, and the sound of nicks / surname Nicks. It's also sort of too punchy for real life, like Dax or Dash or Trig. jmho I would not want to be "Nyx."
- mirfak
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