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Wednesday, 8 October 2008

I need a name...

So, La Contessa is due to make her appearance in The Astonishing Adventures of Captain Juan. Up until now, she has only ever been "La Contessa", and sometimes "La Contessa DeLume".

Now she needs a name, and Annie and Jodi are reluctant to give her a name, since she is one of "my" characters.

We each have characters that we either created, or if we didn't create them we've become associated with them - for instance although I had a first mate called Pete, it was Annie and Jodi who have been the ones to turn him into a real character. And although I didn't come up with Father Paolo, I've begun to appropriate him (for reasons which will become apparent later...) as my character.

But back to La Contessa. She needs a name, but I don't have one for her; she has always been simply "La Contessa" in my mind. Does anyone want to suggest a name for a 15th/16th Century noble woman in the Spanish court? I don't want to reveal too much about the character, as it might spoil what's coming next - suffice to say the character is not going in a direction that I would have thought to take her myself, and it is adding a further layer of intrigue to the plot...
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