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[seapicklesupremacy]

 Incredibly telling, yet hilarious to me as a Chinese person watching non-Chinese people try to come up with Chinese names for characters lmao

I know I'm guilty of doing it in other languages too hahahha

Oh her name is 梦l桃 and she's peaches themed?? Wowww didn't see that coming. A lot of these names tend to come off as strange because they don't sound like real names, they sound like nicknames or titles 

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[scissorsevered]

stuff like this is why I make heavy use of taking names from other characters or IRL people are applying them to my characters if I'm not personally familiar with the culture of the character I'm making. I think people worry about naming their character in a cliche manner to the point that they accidentally fly to the other end of the spectrum and name their character some stupid shit that wouldn't make sense as a real name.

For example, I have a Turkish-American character. I haven't given her a first name yet but her middle name is Gozen and last name is Atila, I named her after the musician Anadol whose real name is Gozen Atila.

No shame in ripping things from reality in order to put it your story. If anything it just makes your story better.