Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160402201256/@comment-24993958-20160423082418

Arkantos95 wrote: .
 * Name: Moarte Luminos

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Really dude? You know names work relatively the same way for every language right? You didn’t literally name your oc Dying Light because you knew it sounded bad in english, and I’m sorry to say it sounds even worse to a native romanian when you try and google translate it (Dying light =Lumina care moare; romanians don’t have a perfect simple tense...ok we do, but it doesn’t do the same thing)

Furthermore, the reason the CNR was made was to celebrate individuality and life, I am not sure how pointing out your kid is going to die serves that latter purpose.

This isn't to say I am completely against naming an oc...say, Morty, but that’s because it’s just a little joke you can get out of naming an oc Mortimer and not because their parents literally thought their kid would be a death bringer.

Take for instance a character from Shaman King called Mortimer, whose entire character basis there was a joke on his name (it sounded like "dead" and he believed in ghosts). This works much better because his parents gave him a name you’d expect a parent to give his kid, while allowing the author to play around with it.