And at times I imagine Anakin was resentful & perhaps didn't feel worthy of her. Which could also be a factor in fall.
I imagine that was part of his fall, yeah. Or at least it contributed to him not telling her things, because he didn't think she would understand. And that would have made him feel more isolated...
How do you come up with original SW names?
Well... Confession time. Eilithé is actually a Naboo-ized version of the Greek goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia. So I cheated on that one. ;) But for other names I usually try to identify patterns of naming on the planet the character is from, if I can. On Naboo, for example, the -é seems to be a very common ending for girls' names. Naboo names are very sibilant, and they have a distinctly mythical feel to the sound. (Most of the names in Padmé's family either have direct connections to Hindu religion/mythology or at least have a rather Indian sound. Palpatine sounds like "Palatine," the famous hill in Rome. And so on.) Tatooine names, on the other hand, are a bit harsher, but they sound mythical in their own way.
Naming aliens is probably the easiest, because their names always seem to follow cultural patterns. Humans are harder because there is no single human culture in the GFFA. Honestly, often enough it just comes down to me making up a name that I think "feels" right for the character and their setting.
I think for me the most important part about naming an OC is to keep them connected to the place they come from (whether that's literal or the symbolic place they come from in your ideas). I just try to remember that names aren't independent of culture (though if a character is from a melting pot planet, there might be a lot of different names floating around that have mostly lost their meaning, the way names have in America). The name has to feel right for the character in their cultural framework. So I wouldn't name someone from Tatooine "Aira" because it feels too soft (and because Tatooine women's names don't tend to end in -a). But Aira might be a decent name for someone from Naboo or Alderaan.
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I imagine that was part of his fall, yeah. Or at least it contributed to him not telling her things, because he didn't think she would understand. And that would have made him feel more isolated...
How do you come up with original SW names?
Well... Confession time. Eilithé is actually a Naboo-ized version of the Greek goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia. So I cheated on that one. ;) But for other names I usually try to identify patterns of naming on the planet the character is from, if I can. On Naboo, for example, the -é seems to be a very common ending for girls' names. Naboo names are very sibilant, and they have a distinctly mythical feel to the sound. (Most of the names in Padmé's family either have direct connections to Hindu religion/mythology or at least have a rather Indian sound. Palpatine sounds like "Palatine," the famous hill in Rome. And so on.) Tatooine names, on the other hand, are a bit harsher, but they sound mythical in their own way.
Naming aliens is probably the easiest, because their names always seem to follow cultural patterns. Humans are harder because there is no single human culture in the GFFA. Honestly, often enough it just comes down to me making up a name that I think "feels" right for the character and their setting.
I think for me the most important part about naming an OC is to keep them connected to the place they come from (whether that's literal or the symbolic place they come from in your ideas). I just try to remember that names aren't independent of culture (though if a character is from a melting pot planet, there might be a lot of different names floating around that have mostly lost their meaning, the way names have in America). The name has to feel right for the character in their cultural framework. So I wouldn't name someone from Tatooine "Aira" because it feels too soft (and because Tatooine women's names don't tend to end in -a). But Aira might be a decent name for someone from Naboo or Alderaan.
Hope that made a bit of sense.