Mutant Names

[beatrice_otter]

What would be a good mutant name for a guy who can hear/understand animals?  Something that a teen might think was cool but that a grown man might be slightly embarrassed about?

Comments

[haruka]

Beastial? XD

[beatrice_otter]

Hrm. Good, but a bit too close to "Beast," who would have been one of his teachers and thus terminally uncool.

[st_aurafina]

Something with "Wild" or "Feral" in the name? Something that would look appropriate written with flames up the side on a kid's skateboard.

Or something twee, like Doctor Doolittle.

[beatrice_otter]

Yeah, Dr. Doolittle is a bit too twee. Feral, huh.

"Wild" sounds more like it, but not by itself. (Although really he mostly talks to housepets, particularly dogs because cats don't like people much. But as a kid he wanted to talk to wild animals, and thought it was cooler.) Wild Wonder?

I dunno, maybe I'm over-thinking it and should just go with Animal.

[thothmes]

For what it's worth:

Harker.

[beatrice_otter]

?

[thothmes]

Just that he's "harkening" to the animals, and it's an odd sounding name, or a name that could embarrassingly give away his ability. Yet it does sound like it could be a name. A teen could be bothered by the harsh sound of it even, with that H and the hard Rs and the K. Unless he's British, and then the R would get lost

I have three kids who have been teens, with one in the offing. They embarrass surprisingly early and often, and often for the most mysterious of reasons.

It's certainly not an inspired choice, thus the "for what it's worth". It was the only thing that came to mind when I looked at the problem, and I figured that the more input you got, the easier it would be to make a choice. Sometimes having bad or mediocre choices to place beside the others makes a good choice stand out in better relief, or even allows you to see that a good choice is good.

[beatrice_otter]

Thanks.

[staranise]

If he has anything cybernetic on him, "Robat" would be a pretty awful pun irresistible to a 14-year-old. He hears! Like a bat! Only kind of! But he's a robot! And he has to explain it to everyone he meets, especially the villains.

[beatrice_otter]

Hee! I'm almost tempted to give him something cybernetic, just so that pun would work!