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Help[Opinions] Re: Mage
in reply to a message by JessThatCartoonist
Very fantasy / video-gamey. The trouble is, Mage isn't like Rogue, it doesn't have any more general meaning besides an especially accomplished warlock (it has more of a "white magic" connotation than warlock too). One doesn't become a mage by heritage or character. So in that sense it seems to me like an earned epithet - like Paladin or Ninja.
So, it's not working for me as an actual first name, even just in concept.
It could work for a character, though. Say, one unfortunately nicknamed Major for some circumstance - for example, a mean older sister calls him/her Major, short for "major pain in the neck" and it stuck because his/her real name was something a little cringey, like Maynard or Maisie or Maybelline - who was further nicknamed or self-styled Mage, maybe because of an aptitude or interest related to magic?
- mirfak
So, it's not working for me as an actual first name, even just in concept.
It could work for a character, though. Say, one unfortunately nicknamed Major for some circumstance - for example, a mean older sister calls him/her Major, short for "major pain in the neck" and it stuck because his/her real name was something a little cringey, like Maynard or Maisie or Maybelline - who was further nicknamed or self-styled Mage, maybe because of an aptitude or interest related to magic?
- mirfak
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Remember the character in Catch-22 whose ln was Major? When he was born, his father registered his fn and mn as Major Major, so he was Major Major Major, and went home and lied to his wife: "I named the boy Caleb according to your wishes!" So when the kid started school, he found that he wasn't himself, but a total stranger who looked like him. He then joined the Army, rapidly promoted to the rank of Major by a computer with a sense of humour, and there he stayed. Glass ceiling. All the senior officers couldn't bear not to have Major Major Major Major on their books, so no further promotion was possible.
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