Odd applicable names

[zdashamber]

So, awhile back while out at a club, I was talking with some of my friends about odd names...

Mariya: "Oh, wait, Madeline can give an independent opinion-- Madeline! What do you think about the name 'Astrid'?"
Me: "...Um..."
Jeff: "Let me give you a hint-- it starts with the word 'ass'."

Apparently our friend Damian's girlfriend is bound and determined that their first daughter will be named Astrid.

The strangest thing I'm leaning towards actually using on a kid is "Joris". Nice simple Dutch/Frisian guy's name... It's much harder to come up with good guy's names, and Joris is uncommon and heritage-full.

What's the strangest name you guys are actually leaning towards using on a kid, should you aquire a new one?

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[follybard.livejournal.com]

They were both from my grad school days, when most -- well, OK, all -- of our campaigns were of the old-school-D&D-fantasy style. Cydrian was a young fighter who had taken her dead brother's identity to go to fighting school as a wee lass but got booted out when she hit puberty and couldn't pass as a boy anymore. My favorite moment with her was a bar brawl in which she squared off against a guy about her own age who was trying to run off with some artifact our party had been sent to retrieve. Cydrian kicked him so hard she broke his arm. "Ow! What'd you do that for?" the kid asked. "Stop running and I'll stop kicking you!" Cydrian replied. In some ways she was a precursor of my current ftf Amber character Genevieve, except Eve has a *much* worse attitude. :)

Lyrrin was less well-developed because I only got to play her for a couple of sessions -- that campaign was gearing up right before I moved to CA. She was a middle-aged bard with an obscenely high charisma score, IIRC. In the last session I played with her, the party got attacked by... I can't remember if it was were-somethings or vampire-somethings. The GM emailed me months later to tell me he'd brought her back as an NPC because he just couldn't resist the idea of throwing the party up against a cute, friendly were-rat (or whatever it was she'd turned into)....