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blorboclaw · 1 year

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ok so i've been doing a few research and since i'm Au-naming Sasha in Firefrost, I'm going to make this an Aus Names post.

Thanks to a list sent to me by @gingerakao which was made by idk who, i've selected 37 prefixes that could correspond to Sasha, either because of her cream pelt or her brown legs. I also took in @idontliketomatoesleavemealone's suggestion for "darkleg".

With 20-or-so suffixes i also handpicked or was suggested, I'll start making a list of names for Sasha.

Beware, it's going to be long. But longer for me than for you.

did i do this all by hand? way past my bedtime? knowing while writing them that half of them would go out at the first occasion? yes. is there something wrong with me? well there's something wrong with every human being it's called the original sin and it's hubris and my hubris is to start making this at 11pm and keep going despite sleep trying to knock at my brain's door.

Let's start this off by putting colors on it.

alas for whoever proposed Darkflower, the name is already taken.

I'm going to pull out all the blue (already taken in canon), yellow (double like Dawndawn) and purple (suggested and already taken in canon). Then the real work will begin.

Now I'm going to take out all the ones which name don't make sense (for example, Leopardbark. Leopards don't have bark).

Then let's take the prefixes only.

I took in Leopard- and Lion-, because it's true, Sasha is partly golden. Plus, it makes a nice throwback to Tigerclaw. But between Leopardfur/star, Tigerclaw's mother Leopardfoot, Princess' daughter Lionkit and Lionheart... let's take those out.

Let's also take out all the prefixes already present in windclan or in the forest at the moment Sasha joins. (that's also how i took thorn out before starting working on it). That means taking Dark out entirely I'm so sorry to the one who suggested Darkleg. It was a cool name but it's not possible. There's already a Darkfoot at that moment in Windclan.

Now we have Moth as prefi too and I'm gonna be honest, I love this one too much to take it out of the future kits' name panels. So let's get this out too.

Now let's get to Unique prefixes with a capital U. Prefixes that we only know in one cat or that we know one very important cat with it and it would feel weird to use this one. Down with Daisy, for Daisy, Lily for Lilyheart, Lark for Larksong, Leaf because too many Leaf (Pool, Spotted...) Root for Rootspring and Seed for Seedpaw and Twig for Twigbranch

Down with lightning too because it's too Thunderclany, and Marigold because it's too close to Goldenflower.

Keeping Pale and Briar even though i can only think of Palebird and Briarlight for those, because it just sounds like something Tallstar would give as a name to Sasha. Briar sounds ok in the first arc, and Pale? well Tallstar can want to use his ability to give someone a prefix (which he couldn't because he didn't have kits of his own) to honor his mother.

we definitely are getting somewhere here.

Now let's attack on the suffix. Beam doesn't sound like a first arc suffix. It actually appeared out of nowhere in ASC. Down with it! Gorse? Well yeah sure Tallstar's dad's name was Sandgorse but there's already Gorsekit/Gorsepaw training alongside Sasha so it would be weird. Bark? Barkface is the medcat it'd be weird too. Off with this suffix! Toe I'm just going to delete the whole column because I don't like that suffix except for polydactyl cats and Sasha isn't. Suppressing the briar and dusk columns too because i don't like the options left in those. The dust column too.

Now don't get me wrong: i also don't like the prefix Brown, but Sasha was named Brownie at some point in her graphic novel so i thought i would keep it here because reasons.

Let's get more physical here. Dandelion are yellow and Sasha's pelt is yellow, but her legs are brown so let's put all the "dandelion leg" and such names out. And bee definitely suggests stripes. Out with it.

Now! This is definitely getting easier to read this one.

Thinking about it again dew is also not really appropriate for her pelt. Why did I even put it here in the first place??

Well well well if it isn't a bunch of columns i ignored too long... let's crop a few things out of Pounce Breeze Leap Flight Wing and Shade. Because of reasons I mentionned before and won't number again.

OK so:

I slept on it in the mean time and here's the deal: I don't like "Rabbitpounce", or any of the Breeze and Leap options left. And with those three columns out, we get a much more readable thing

as far as prefixes go again, I don't really like the options left for Nectar and Brown, and Dandelion is definitely too long to have asuffix like "flower" after. THe leg options suck too. And it might just be me not really liking "fur" but meh.

Dandelion is way too long for any suffix actually. Off with its head. The dawn options left are not great, neither as pre or suffix.

Now we're starting to see more clearly what our options could be. Shoutout to Lightpelt for still hanging in there (reminder that red means it was suggested by a reader).

But now let's nitpick the three most used categories: Foot, Pelt and Flower.

Honeypelt is way too much like Honeyfur. Larchpelt feels like I forgot to take this one out when I was doing physical features. Dusk would maybe be more for a ginger pelt? Pouncepelt doesn't make sense or I'm missing a sense of the word which is possible. Well none of the Pounce make sense actually. Rabbitpelt? it sounds weird, maybe because of the b-t-p-t.

Dustkfoot, for the same reasons than with pelt. Wait no actually there might already be too many -Foot in Windclan at the time. Deadfoot, Ashfoot, Darkfoot... Let's rip the "foot" off completely which is too bad because I kinda liked the idea of naming Sasha after her particular markings.

Clearer by the minute!

Now, Chestnutbranch and Chestnutseed don't really make sense. And chestnutshade has too many sh/tch sounds. Briar doesn't really have branches, Honey doesn't either, and does Windclan really use "shade" as a suffix given there are no trees on the moor?

Apart from Nettle and Briar the Seed names don't really sound good either. Palepelt is a bit too p-l-p-l. Pale branch sounds weird, and the phonetics of Larchbranch are weird. Larchflower are apparently pink so...

Now, Sparrowwing has two W next to each other and I don't like Harepelt for no good reason but I'm the boss so i'm taking this one out too. Duskwing is weird because of the skw sound. Palewing looks a lot like the conjugated form of the verb "to palew", which, granted, doesn't exist, but still.

Lightbranch? what could possibly justify to name Sasha like that? Any feat including a branch would feel like devaluating her to call it a light branch.

Duskflower? meh. skfl. Try and say this one. Out with it.

Now, it's getting tricky.

Briar and nettle flowers are pink so again out. Lightflower feels confusing: is it a light (not heavy) flower or a light (not dark) flower?

Now I'm sacrificing a few personnal favorites here so it's not just me deciding what it's gonna be, it's a whole scientific process. I love Paleflower but it sounds weird because of the two Ls so close. And yet I loved the idea of Tallstar naming her after his mother.

Which gives us the remainings:

Thus you know what the names will be in the poll of the next chapter!

#wc aus names #wc sasha #firefrost au

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