Not Exactly A BABY Name, Per Se...

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

So I've started writing again!

Yay.

I'm writing a new play called Dora at the Wedding.

In it, a young woman named Lisa is about to be married. Her sister Pandora (Dora, for short) has a sensory integration disorder and skips out on Lisa's bachelorette party because of the noise. However, she has agreed to store party favors in her garage. Lisa's best friend Caroline hires a male stripper to pop out of a giant shiny purple box at the party, a box which she leaves in Dora's garage. A box that is, unfortunately, identical to the box Dora JUST inherited from her dead grandfather, one she must never EVER open. Coming back from Starbucks, Dora encounters the stripper, having escaped a claustrophobic situation, outside the purple box and the OTHER box, the box that holds the mystery, is in the coatroom of a sleazy Boston bar. Dora and the stripper have to make it across town in rush-hour traffic before Lisa unleashes all the evils on the world.

Here's my question...

What should I name the stripper? He's 24 and he's doing this to pay for grad school.

Comments

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

O_O So... what happens next?!!

Oh, wait. Names! That's what you wanted. Hmm... well, what's he like? Is he from a yuppie upbringing, or is he a disadvantaged youth, etc etc?

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

No idea! I'm not going to be able to get any writing done until I am in a better (safer) living situation (which, thankfully, happens the day after tomorrow!)

He's from a middle-class family; his family paid for his college but he's a few years out now, doing the whole starving-artist thing and he wants to become self-sufficient. Also he's a hottie. Maybe Jewish?

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

Ahh, well keep us updated! It sounds really interesting!

Names, I think you could do pretty traditional names, but maybe to make it more unique (starving artist thing), he could have a bizarre or creative nickname.

Some names:
David (for some reason this popped to mind)
Daniel
Eli
Elijah
Ethan
Joel
Levi
Isaac
Aaron

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

I'm staying away from D names just because the image I have in my mind of what he looks like is similar to a friend I have with a D name and not only do I not want to make that connection, the character ends up romantically linked to Dora, and though technically her name starts with a P, two D names (Dora and David, Dora and Danny, etc) might be a little cutesy.

Elijah might be funny, because it feeds into the whole Passover/waiting for Elijah (and they're waiting for the stripper)

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestions; now you've got Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat stuck in my head :)

"Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel, with Simeon and Levi the next in line...."

Haha.

Levi I might use.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Thank you, now it's in my head too ...

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Is it his real name or a pseudonym he uses for work?

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

His real name.

His "stripper name" is William Shakes-bare.

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

lol.

[jerseygrits.livejournal.com]

Hah, that was going to be my question too.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Kyle was the first name that popped into my head.

[jerseygrits.livejournal.com]

I actually used to go to a male strip club pretty frequently, and my favorite guy was called Blake, so that came to mind immediately, haha. From what you've said about the character's background, there are plenty of "real" names that could work. You've mentioned this in an earlier comment already, but it'll be important that the name sounds good with Dora, so that's one way to start.

A few more off the top of my head: Andrew, Mark, Colin, Jesse, Nathan

[lime-coconut.livejournal.com]

Randy XD

Kevin
Josh
Carl
Fred
Darren
Lyle
Luke
Charles
Nathan
Jake
Gabe
Rupert Henry Winston III

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Please name him Dan. That would give me eternal lolz.

Uh... some other names (based on guys I know who would TOTALLY do that to pay for school):
Aaron
Devin
Zack
David
Blake
Garrett

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

LOL.

If I named him Devin, the Devin that is not speaking to me would not speak to me for the next five lifetimes.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Trevor/Travis
Gino
Josh(ua)
Jeff(rey)

[274-days.livejournal.com]

I think Brad(ley)

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Adam? Nathan? Liam? Sam?

[mahasin.livejournal.com]

Aiden