"Aineira"

"Aineira"(copied from Crow)

So, "Aineira" is just a combination name I made up on the Spot right now. And don't ask me why "spot" is capitalized, it was purely by accident, but then I thought it was funny... Ahem, anyways... "Aineira" comes from the combination of two European names: "Aidan" and "Gwyneira". These are some new characters of mine for my new story. It's a frame story. Aidan Allaway, whose name is entirely Scottish, by the way--unless I'm mistaken and "Aidan" isn't Scottish--is a psychiatric patient for a doctor whose name I have yet to figure out. So far, all I have is the opening of the first frame, which may still need some adjustments, but I have a clear idea in my head about how a few things play out. This isn't supposed to be a happy story, by the way. And I think that maybe, for once, there won't really be any romance between any of the major characters. All my stories end up being romantic stories. I mean, the world is gonna end or people are gonna die or some epic shit like that in all of them, but there's always a love story in there. And I'm not sure if I want this story to be about that kind of love. I'm thinking no. I mean, it's still, technically, a "love story", but not the romantic kind. I mean, why only write about romance? Anyways, Aidan's mother send him to a psychiatrist/psychologist/therapist/whatever else you want to call him. This happens before the story begins. In fact, when if you read it, the only current events happen to be the dialogue at the very beginning. Everything else is... history. At the beginning, it mentions Aidan having seen this psychiatrist several times and, yet, only just now as the story unfolds is the doctor (not the Doctor but the doctor) finally asking about the course of events that lead Aidan to this office. The doctor describes Aidan's mother as being "overbearing" and tells the reader of Aidan's nervous habits. From reading from the doctor's perspective, you can't really get a clear idea of how Aidan really is. But that's the point. You're not supposed to truly learn about Aidan until he starts talking, actually talking. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten there yet. Now, about Aidan's name... It comes from the word "aedh", which, other than being the name of another character from another story, means "fire". I chose that name on purpose. Aidan is the "fire" of the story, even though in the current parts of the timeline he seems to be extinguished. "Allaway" was just a Scottish name that went well with it. I liked the sound of it. I tend to do things like that, choose names because they sound pretty, make up my own names, use actual words for names... Kind of like what Scott Westerfeld did in the Uglies series (ie--"Tally", "Cable"...). When Aidan starts telling his story, the story of how he met this girl, they became friends, and then everything just becomes depressing from there... You can see his "fire", his passion, how bubbly he was before. I admit the story is really sad-making, but it's okay if you do or don't cry if you read it. I'm not meaning to make you cry. I'm just writing down what's in my head. Another character, Gwyneira, her given name is Welsh and her family name is Irish. Her family name, MacEnchroe, is actually what my family name, Crow, came from. I needed an interesting name for her after I looked up some nice given names, so that was the first one I thought of. Normally, names for my characters or mixed up or their foreign words, or just foreign names. "Gwyneira" is Welsh for "blessed snow". I thought it was pretty and I wanted her name to mean something icy or literally "ice". And I liked how "blessed" was in there, because I want people to realize just how blessed she really is. They won't, especially because her part of the story is quite melancholic, but still, she is nonetheless. I chose "Aineira" for this post's name mostly because I thought it would sound interesting and I didn't want to just put the normal character names for the title. I'm still designing these characters, but I do have some really cute rough sketches of Aidan and Gwyneira. With Aidan, it's mostly the hair, but I have almost the complete bust of Gwyneira. She's this cute little thing and, so far, she's got some long hair. I've only drawn her in turtle necks so far, but long sleeved shirts are her signature look. I've yet to even imagine what the cover will look like, and I haven't even decided on which title I want to use. This will be one of those stories that takes some work. And a lot of time. I've thought about maybe giving Aidan a scarf here and there and even have a rough sketch of him wearing one muffler style (I didn't want to draw his mouth at the time and now I think it's fantastic). One of Aidan's signatures =, though, is a bunch of bracelets, chunky and otherwise, and a watch or two. I know no one wears watches anymore, but that's kind of the point. Plus, I'm not too sure how things like cellular telephonic devices (aka cell phones) are going to play into the story. I actually really like stories that are set a little further back in time before things like the BlackBerry. If there are cell phones, they're probably going to be the older ones: Chocolate, BlackBerry, FireFly, Nokia, Samsung flip phones, the brick phone Neo has when he's crawling out the window at the beginning of the first Matrix movie. Maybe a Voyager. Older phones. While I love the current smart phones, there's just something about the security and indestructibility of the older phones. Also, I just now figured out the title...Thanks, BlogSpot. And, for the record, BlackBerry has been discontinued for over a year now. Sad face.