#admirable isn't on there because that's already my best friend k's dnd character's name and she's too iconic for me to steal her name <3

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As promised, here's me being so very creative about my OCs but just in the direction I like and not the rest.

I've been thinking about two very neglected OCs recently, those two guys whose chibi headshots I posted on my artblog the other day, Ambrose and Léonie. For a long time I only had a vague Team Rocket/some kind of spy vibe for them and didn't know what to do with it, but with the James Bond brainrot I've finally found where I want to take this :D

So I'm slowly making up a vague knock-off secret service for the "main" country of my world, who doesn't have a name (yet!) but is where almost all of my OCs live and also is like, the equivalent of England. It's vibes only for now until I do some uh, research (watch/read more spy stories and some wikipedia articles) but I'm having fun.

Anyway in there the people who do some kind of important stuff (ie not the clerks and Jim the doorman) have work nicknames for uh style and identity protection reasons. Those nicknames are qualities and/or names you could see on a ship from the navy, because I'm me, and they kind of like, pick one or get one assigned when they get their contract as Someone Important, which they then keep the rest of their career. The only exception is heads of departments, whose names are kind of titles, in that the head of tech is always called the same name because it comes with the territory of being head of tech. Generally they'll find themselves a nickname based on that quality name, because those names can be long and they don't really sound like names, but it's not mandatory.

Examples of people and their names include:

Superb and Temeraire, aka Sue and Tem, aka Léonie and Ambrose, who are kind of the protagonists because they were there first and they're close-ish to my main OCs (funfact: they're named after the two other Bellerophon-class dreadnoughts besides the HMS Bellerophon, the HMS Superb and HMS Temeraire, though you'll note that this Temeraire is neither the Fighting Temeraire from the painting or the french ballistic missile submarine Le Téméraire)

Constant (Con), Industrious (Dusa), Innovative (Nova) and Sharp (who goes by Sharp but will use Shaun if there's need for a real person name) for the tech guys

Steadfast (Ed), Glorious (Laurent), Ambitious (Amy), Illustrious (Luce), Mellifluous (Mel) and Spirited (Pilar) for guys I have yet to sort, though I want Luce to be some kind of secretary to some higher-up

And the heads of departments: (I still have to think about which departments there should be but this is the tentative list)

Big Boss Man, highest-up, the head of everything, Majestic. The current one uses Jasper and he got cooler with age (before that he was Triumphant, aka Phil)

The head of tech is Ingenious, current one is Jen (she used to be Daisy, short for Audacious) Her second in command/next in line is Constant, who as I said will use Con until he retires because Jen made such a big impression as Ingenious people just kept calling him Con right after she retired and the name stuck (and because I couldn't find a nickname I liked)

Head of security is Vigilant, currently it's Gillian

Head of intelligence (?) is Observant, who goes by Linda (it's short for Belinda)

and beloved head of medical, Conscientious, my girl Siobhan (let me tell you I had trouble finding a name that would work but I'm so happy about that one) She used to be Courteous but I haven't found a nickname for that yet haha

You might have noticed that the names are generally qualities they should embody in their specific line of work and area, especially the heads of departments, and it's not a hard and fast rule but generally the names fit the type of work they do. Also none of them have real person names except Ambrose and Léonie because I don't need it for now and I don't feel like finding names for everyone right this instant lol.

I've got sooo many more, ranging from normal (Agile, Daring) to obvious (Indomitable, Earnest, Resolute) to kind of strange (Queer, Swiftsure, Odd, Silly, Immortal) to a few that are more negative than positive but sound cool (Furious, Venomous) The weirder ones aren't assigned btw, or even on the lists of available names, their holders would have to think of them on their own and ask for them. The idea is that some people would actually be happy with/proud of being called odd or silly or queer or venomous, but you can't just call someone that unprompted for the rest of their career y'know.

Here's the list (for now), if you've got nickname ideas feel free to contribute :) (the names in fuschia are doubles because I used lists of ships from both the french and british navies to find names and there's multiple Intrepids)

#i say indomitable earnest and resolute are obvious because indomitable is SUCH a ship name #earnest is an obvious pun name because of oscar wilde #and i like star wars a lot #admirable isn't on there because that's already my best friend k's dnd character's name and she's too iconic for me to steal her name <3 #i'm having so much fun with that i love names and names as titles and quality names and aliases #wow i have a ramble tag now #wow i have an ocs tag now