#i was writing smth abt kota for the mutuals and i was like fuck. i dont have a name for the admiral. uhhhh shanwey is a name that i have!

[starpeace]

sorry this isn’t really related to the ask game, but how do u name ur ocs? they all sound like Real Star Wars Characters and i have no idea how u did it lol

oh thank u!! it’s a Long Term Process because i am very perfectionistic abt it but basically steal syllables and mash them together until you have something that works. especially steal syllables from a) words relevant to their character b) real life names so it sounds like a name and c) other star wars characters of the same species. i’ll give u a couple examples

kotayim sanga! so originally his name was kota yimira... or yimuri... smth like that? that was a mix of borrowed syllables from other zabrak names (he was originally a zabrak) and i think i also used japanese names uh just because it was a japanese actor who i used as the original base model for his face. literally just listing out common syllables and their combinations mechanically. then i wanted kota to be short for something, because it’s key to his friendly approachable character that he wants everyone to be on nickname terms with him. so i pushed kota and yim together: kotayim. but he needed a new surname, so i took sanga from “sanguine”, as in blood red, because of his red-ish markings and also you know the edgy dark side foreshadowing connotations

ashaa tarkona! her first name is a mixture of the “aa” from fellow twi’lek aayla secura and just the word ash, because like, endless symbolism, phoenixes and whatnot. i think it was originally aasha but i switched it round? and tarkona was me taking random other star wars names—literally tarkin lmao—and chopping vowels in and out. if i recall correctly i think i found out later that tarkona is the surname of an actual twi’lek in legends but whatever that’s fun. maybe they’re part of the extended tarkona family

#sirilla charn is messing with kessurian name syllables which was her original species #and shanwey is stolen from an old original scifi oc of mine fgdhsjsj #i was writing smth abt kota for the mutuals and i was like fuck. i dont have a name for the admiral. uhhhh shanwey is a name that i have! #omg i just looked up the legends tarkona and the phrase clan tarkona is used... must have filtered into my brain...