#and “Trickster” the way it’s used in English. just doesn’t exist in my mother tongue

[sallertiafabrica]

How many name ideas did you come up with before you fully decided on the ones you chose for the trickster au?

Do you mean fic titles, hero names…?

(Trickster is both, anyway, so–) I did consider something with “Renard”, for a while, but I couldn’t come up with anything with it that I liked, and it sounded too much like Rena Rouge. Trickster was actually the placeholder name while I tried to find something that fitted better with the show’s naming scheme, but since I didn’t, and I was already kinda attached to Trickster, I went with it.

I also considered something with Illusionist/Illusionistte or Magician, but it just didn’t rolled off the tongue very well. Trickster is simple and catchy, and I like that about it (also, I eventually found out “fox” can be synonymous with “trick” and I felt like a damn genius with this discovery, lol. also also, the fact so many foxes are considered tricksters and the whole trickster archetype. I swear I didn’t know anything about that, I haven’t even fully developed my hyperfixation in storytelling conventions, tropes, and archetypes yet!)

I had the name “Tinkerbelle” for a long long time before finally changing it to Blue Belle due to not being able to take the first one seriously when writing. Chat Rosé was my first choice for Pinkadrien, but I also considered simply Tomcat or Rossé (it means both cat and bitchy in French, lol), but a friend convinced me to leave those as nicknames and go with Chat Rosé.

City of Fools was the only name I considered for the sequel. I just had the fic as this vague entity that was “Trickster 2: Electric Bugaloo”, then City of Fools popped into my brain and it immediately clicked everything together.