Naming characters is hard. Sometimes we don't pick the right name on the first try! I want to what names you characters almost had. This is a thread to talk about the names you almost had people saying in the comments!
From my own comic, the character known as the Spirit of Sagittarius originally had a given name! For a long time I called her Krys. My thought process on this was... um... naming her after the Pokemon Special character Cyrstal, I guess? Why? Was it around the time I was reading Pokemon Special? Was it because the character Cyrstal inspired Sagittarius? I couldn't tell you. I honestly wish I had written it down somewhere.
She was Krys for a really, really long time, but right before her introduction, I realized two things - one, that Krys was a bit too similar-sounding and looking to Cyrus, the main character, and two, it made me think of Kris Jenner (mother of the infamous Kardashian sisters) who I really don't like. So I wanted to change it. My editor and I went back and forth for a long time thinking of an appropriate name. But I never liked anything I came up with. Since her given name wouldn't come up until the end of the chapter, I had time to work on the chapter and think about it, and lo and behold, I got used to calling her Sagittarius. So that name stuck!
Finally, my original nickname for Sagittarius was "ST", but all the readers called her Sag, so that became her nickname too. Thanks readers!
Let me here your naming stories!