The_Major
Gunner
 United Kingdom
Onward! To the Skies!
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« Reply #650 on: November 24, 2009, 10:13:54 pm » |
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That is why I shortened it to The_Major although I was thinking of getting some cards made up, maybe for next year, something with a little embossing....
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel cake
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Maj. Clive Hathaway
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« Reply #651 on: November 24, 2009, 10:48:39 pm » |
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Funny you should ask... I've been reading this forum for about 6 months now, on and off, but decided to start posting today. I would have registered a week or two ago, but i couldn't decide on a name! Originally i was going to go with "Captain Swing". I put together a rather smashing Airship Pirate costume for halloween, and took that as my moniker, (Capt. Swing was a character in William Gibsons book "The Difference Engine") but for postings here in the forum i decided to adopt a different persona, and i wanted it to be something relevent to me.
I post on another forum, "Pirates Magazine Forum", quite regularly. I also write fiction there and have contributed a few articles to be printed in the magazine. My persona there is "Bloody Harry Hathaway", he's a gentleman privateer (circa 1700) and one of the main characters in a story i write there. I also dress out and attend a number of pirate reenactment functions every year in this persona.
Maj. Clive Hathaway is a direct descendant of Lord Harold Hathaway. More on Clive's persona and history as it comes to me, but he's definately a gentleman, albiet a roguish one, and he's definately an adventurer.
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"Death is the last Great adventure."
Lurk the Good Lurk.
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #652 on: November 25, 2009, 12:16:49 am » |
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Mine, well The_Major is a shortening of what I was going to go with should anyone ask for a full title when I was out and about in Whitby, I beg forgiveness for I was at work on a night shift (Eleven Post-Meridian until Seven Ante-Meridian) and suffering some kind of delirium.
"Major Barrington Wilberforce-Smythe of Her Britannic Majesty's Second Royal Dirigible Corps, Southern African Expeditionary Regiment"
Are you a commanding officer, sir? assuming you're Naval rather than Army or a staff officer? |
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-=Sloth will be definitely be my favourite sin, some time, probably=-
-(also apparently the go to guy for steampunkiness in the Plymouth Area)-
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The_Major
Gunner
United Kingdom
Onward! To the Skies!
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« Reply #653 on: November 25, 2009, 12:33:44 am » |
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@ Wavewatcher, I was going with Army that had volunteered for the Dirigible Corps for if I were a Navy man I would be a Lieutenant in Command
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #654 on: November 25, 2009, 10:33:40 am » |
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Well Major, I'm the first person in my family not to be in the armed forces. All the way back to Colonel sutherland in the English Civil war. Still, i technically have a captaincy.
-Cpt Thomas Sutherland
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The_Major
Gunner
United Kingdom
Onward! To the Skies!
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« Reply #655 on: November 25, 2009, 09:10:08 pm » |
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Ah, then in the grand scheme of things you would outrank myself, you being a Naval Captain rather than an Army Captain
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #656 on: November 25, 2009, 11:10:24 pm » |
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Ah, then in the grand scheme of things you would outrank myself, you being a Naval Captain rather than an Army Captain
Not at all sir, I am a Merchant captain, a captain merely by ownership, one might say. |
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Victor Timothy Cutwood
Deck Hand
 United States
... WHAT U LOST THE SHIP!!!!!
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« Reply #657 on: November 30, 2009, 11:19:15 pm » |
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i created this personas name for the book/comic i am making im reltivly new to steam punk and hopeing for any help ppl r willing to give for instance name ideas for three female charecters
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"art is never finished only abandoned"-da vinchi
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #658 on: November 30, 2009, 11:32:41 pm » |
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i created this personas name for the book/comic i am making im reltivly new to steam punk and hopeing for any help ppl r willing to give for instance name ideas for three female charecters
Call this cheesy, but i often name characters that reflect or at least suit their personality or more often their background. What is their history? |
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Madame Jane
Gunner
United States
I was given the rules. And now I'm breaking them.
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« Reply #659 on: December 01, 2009, 01:24:00 am » |
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My name is actually quite simple. Madame because I prefer to call people by their full names or at least Madame/Mister [insert their first names here] and Jane is the shortened version of my middle name
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Love,
M.J.
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Dr. Wilson Montgomery
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« Reply #660 on: December 01, 2009, 04:00:34 pm » |
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Long time lurker, first post.
Dr. Wilson Montogomery, medical scientist (specializing in innovative surgery) in Her Majestys armed forces.
"Wilson" because I adore the character in the TV-series House MD, and "Montgomery" simply because I think it sounds good + works for a persona from the upper middle class
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Victor Timothy Cutwood
Deck Hand
United States
... WHAT U LOST THE SHIP!!!!!
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« Reply #661 on: December 01, 2009, 08:06:52 pm » |
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i created this personas name for the book/comic i am making im reltivly new to steam punk and hopeing for any help ppl r willing to give for instance name ideas for three female charecters
Call this cheesy, but i often name characters that reflect or at least suit their personality or more often their background. What is their history? i do the same on ocasion |
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Smythy
Deck Hand
United States
Captain Sir Neville Everett Halloran-Smythington
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« Reply #662 on: December 01, 2009, 10:16:33 pm » |
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Smythy was a character I created for my friends magazine "GUMP" and the conjecture was that he was once in the British military, now a butler. I kicked his rank up a bit to Captain 'cause I was a Captain in the Army. The rest was cobbled together from John Neville (Baron Munchausen), Alexander Everett (founder of Mind Dynamics) and Jack O'Halloran (Non from Superman), just to sound pretentious.
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"You, sir, are getting my dander up!"
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Danbury Shakes
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« Reply #663 on: December 02, 2009, 01:11:45 am » |
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I Got Danbury Shakes from an American Slang name for mercury poisoning
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To quote Mister Williams
Honi soit qui
mal y pense,
Fait vos jeux,
reconnaissance,
Hammersmith Palais de Danse,
Badinage,
ma Crêpe Suzette.
Double entendre,
restaurant,
Jacques Cousteau,
Yves St Laurent,
Où est la plume de ma tante?
C'est la vie,
ma Crêpe Suzette.
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Acheron
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« Reply #664 on: December 02, 2009, 06:54:45 pm » |
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Long time lurker, first post.
Dr. Wilson Montogomery, medical scientist (specializing in innovative surgery) in Her Majestys armed forces.
"Wilson" because I adore the character in the TV-series House MD, and "Montgomery" simply because I think it sounds good + works for a persona from the upper middle class
Let me guess... You have long, slightly curly blond hair? |
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'The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.'
- Henry Kissinger
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tilly the terrible
Deck Hand
United States
ha ha ha!
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« Reply #666 on: December 03, 2009, 09:26:37 am » |
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Well lessee here. I've got Tilly Catchpole, she's a clown/sometimes pickpocket. You know the people on the streets with their gimmicks - instruments, games, the people who act like statues. That's her  She can be a little sketchy and mischievous though, hence the nickname "Tilly the Terrible." I love alliteration. I just like the name Tilly, it's kinda cute in a ragtag sort of way. Catchpole I found on the name generator. The verb "catch" makes it sound kind of energetic, like her. |
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #667 on: December 03, 2009, 12:05:36 pm » |
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Well lessee here. I've got Tilly Catchpole, she's a clown/sometimes pickpocket. You know the people on the streets with their gimmicks - instruments, games, the people who act like statues. That's her She can be a little sketchy and mischievous though, hence the nickname "Tilly the Terrible." I love alliteration. I just like the name Tilly, it's kinda cute in a ragtag sort of way. Catchpole I found on the name generator. The verb "catch" makes it sound kind of energetic, like her. I like it, it sounds very rogueish/mischevious  Yours Capt. Thomas Andrew Malcolm Sutherland (now with not often referenced middle names) |
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Dr. Wilson Montgomery
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« Reply #668 on: December 03, 2009, 07:55:14 pm » |
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Long time lurker, first post.
Dr. Wilson Montogomery, medical scientist (specializing in innovative surgery) in Her Majestys armed forces.
"Wilson" because I adore the character in the TV-series House MD, and "Montgomery" simply because I think it sounds good + works for a persona from the upper middle class
Let me guess... You have long, slightly curly blond hair? Actually, no. I haven´t seen my natural blond haircolor since my early teens, and at the moment it´s very short and black. |
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #669 on: December 03, 2009, 10:38:17 pm » |
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Long time lurker, first post.
Dr. Wilson Montogomery, medical scientist (specializing in innovative surgery) in Her Majestys armed forces.
Firstly, "innovative Surgery," how sinisterly ambiguous, Secondly, i see your icon and cant help but hear a "ponk ponk ponk" noise across my ceiling |
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CorneliaCarton
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« Reply #670 on: December 03, 2009, 11:57:56 pm » |
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Not sure if I have already posted here....
But yes. There is not a really interesting story behind my persona name.
I typed my real name into a steampunk name generator, and it came up wit Cornelia Carton.
After Hallowe'en, I developed her character. She is the Captain of the pirate airship the H.M.s Isabella, a Scottish airship built in the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.
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Ginny Audriana Irondust Moravia. Pleased t' meet ya.
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wavewatcher
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« Reply #671 on: December 04, 2009, 12:08:29 am » |
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Not sure if I have already posted here....
But yes. There is not a really interesting story behind my persona name.
I typed my real name into a steampunk name generator, and it came up wit Cornelia Carton.
After Hallowe'en, I developed her character. She is the Captain of the pirate airship the H.M.s Isabella, a Scottish airship built in the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Is your Persona Scots too? (as well as the ship) Mine has the name of a Scots Lowland Clan (Sutherland) yet he and his family are from Oxfordshire. |
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CorneliaCarton
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« Reply #672 on: December 04, 2009, 12:13:45 am » |
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Not sure if I have already posted here....
But yes. There is not a really interesting story behind my persona name.
I typed my real name into a steampunk name generator, and it came up wit Cornelia Carton.
After Hallowe'en, I developed her character. She is the Captain of the pirate airship the H.M.s Isabella, a Scottish airship built in the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Is your Persona Scots too? (as well as the ship) Mine has the name of a Scots Lowland Clan (Sutherland) yet he and his family are from Oxfordshire. Well, I am Scottish. |
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Capt. Edward Wheeler
Officer
United Kingdom
Defender of the Empire
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« Reply #673 on: December 04, 2009, 03:55:43 am » |
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My persona name is... My real name! It sounds Victorian enough it made little sense to make a whole new name!
All I've added is the rank title:
My persona is Captain of Her Majesty's Ship-of-the-Line Second Rate Airship the H.M.S Vulcan, built in Bristol, patrolling the borders of the British Empire!
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Dr. Wilson Montgomery
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« Reply #674 on: December 04, 2009, 02:02:12 pm » |
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Long time lurker, first post.
Dr. Wilson Montogomery, medical scientist (specializing in innovative surgery) in Her Majestys armed forces.
Firstly, "innovative Surgery," how sinisterly ambiguous, Secondly, i see your icon and cant help but hear a "ponk ponk ponk" noise across my ceiling Sinisterly amibiguous indeed! You have -no idea- how long I wrestled with words to get the specialization to sound right. (and to allow for making a ridiculous amount of strange contraptions with a slightly medieval-lowtech medicine-feel to them. Victor Frankenstein; eat your heart out!) Oh, and a fellow QC-reader, I assume? Most excellent |
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