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I hope the putative bearer would have a huge, powerful personality. I suspect, though, that he might be more likely to scuttle nervously around with his face averted and his shoulders hunched.

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That's one of the difficulties of writing fiction and naming the characters, I find. Not that I do it myself; but naming a character should surely be more like naming a baby. A parent has no idea how their child will turn out. But an author seems to spend time looking for a suitable name for a hero, a villain, a feminist, a bus driver ... rather than just giving them the random names they would have been given in real life.