Okay, that’s awesome. I’m not sure it quite fits him, but I’ll keep it in mind. He’s a bit more hot-headed than wily—the latter is a learned trait for him. So I may look to other Illiad/Odyssey names, like maybe Ajax or Hector.
Honestly, I went with ‘Iocastus‘ because it was an ‘I’ name and because it was the name of a character in greek mythology related to Aeolus, whom I assume the creators adapted ‘Iedolus’ from.
I ended up choosing Ariston because it means ‘best’ and is latinized Greek, which the wiki said Iedolas came from—something about Idolon/Eidolon, which means a phantom or false image. *shrugs* It seems suitably pretentious for an Emperor.
Also, I wanted to get away from the ‘I’ names, lol. There have been four people in my family named some variation of ‘James’ in four generations, and I share initials with my mother and a now-deceased great-grandmother, so I know how confusing it can get when people have the same initials and/or name. We have to label gifts at Christmas with full names or nicknames, otherwise everyone gets confused. So I wanted to avoid that sort of confusion in my fic, no matter how funny it could be, otherwise I risked getting confused too.
This post made me laugh out loud because it reminded me the Scottish Monarchy once had a series of rulers that basically went: James, James, James, James, James, Mary Queen of Scots, James.
And then I imagined the Line of Lucis doing that. And Noct’s utter frustration in trying to learn this period of history.
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