So I plan to have a character for a little sci fi type narrative.
He is a scientist, specifically a alien biologist, obsessed with his own death. He has cloned himself and used bioengineering (with psychic alien genes) to copy his consciousness into the new vessel, aim being immortality.
Each time he does this he becomes a little less human and all round less sane. He also conducts similar experiments on others trying to use the gene modification to exert authority over the clones. That's all back story. In the narrative itself he's barely human, his experiments have turned on one another and he commands an horde of homunculus mutant things. It is unclear whether or not there is more than 1 active clone of him at a time - so people killing him and unsure whether or not the threat is actually ended.
What might be a good name for this guy? I'm thinking something german since German professor names since that is often associated with nazi mad scientists but also anything to do with rebirth, like Koschei, also names one might associate with a lich might work since he is sort of a science lich - forsaking mortality and gaining power at the cost of their humanity. Something Faust related also occured to me but it seems a bit too blatant and it would seem like a bit of a misnomer.
Cheers
garry
honestly you already got a good portion figured out. Don't overthink it, difficult names hurt the character more than it helps.
Personal gripe, I never quite liked birth names directly referencing personality. Do their parents know that their child grows up to be a big bad mad scientist? Unless lineage, probably not. A rather generic name (still with some thought put into it, like structure, nationality or reference) with good alias is the best fit imo.
Johnathan Smith
franz kopisself
Going off of Behind the Name/Surname, I've spit-balled a few names:
Dr. Andreas Logan ("man"; "little hollow")
Dr. Ambrose Kerner ("immortal"; "seed")
Dr. Oswald Kerner ("god"/"power, ruler"; "seed")
Dr. Ambrose Kruger ("immortal"; "host")
Dr. Gregory/Grigori Kruger ("watchful"; "host")
Dr. Ambrose Volker ("immortal"; "people"/"army")
Dr. Ben Ambrose ("son"; "immortal")
...or any combination thereof. Or make up something that sounds like a name.
There's the somewhat immortal jellyfish Turritopsis Dohrnii, previously Turritopsis Nutricula, which attains biological immortality by reverting to a younger form. It may be a little cheesy, but maybe make part of his name based on that?
"Dr. Turritopsis Smith" obviously wouldn't work, but maybe "Dr. Name Dohr" or "Dohrn" could.
use this:
Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.
Go the JoJo route and name him after a singer.
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