How To Make An Excellent Skulduggery Pleasant OC

And Avoid Making A Mary Sue

First of all, your OC's NAME.

In Skulduggery Pleasant, there are three different names- taken, given and true. We'll be focusing on the taken one here, as it seems to be most popular.

NAME:

Here, I have three characters. The first is Serene Beauty Grace Mystic Pleasant. The second is Midnite Firebird Pheoinix Death'ly Freedom. And the last is Satire Ryder. Which do you prefer, from name alone? The girls with the pretentious names, or the girl with a name that is normal for Skulduggery Pleasant canon.

It's okay to have a long name, but I doubt Serene would introduce herself using her full name. She'd introduce herself as 'Serene' or 'Serene Pleasant'. That's IT. She would NOT introduce herself as 'Serene Beauty Grace Mystic Pleasant'.

Serene means calm, poised. Beauty means physical attractiveness. Grace means elegance, or gracefulness. Mystic suggests that she is mysterious. And Pleasant makes it obvious that a) She is a kind person, and b) she is related to Skulduggery.

Midnite is one of the darkest times of day. Firebird and Pheoinix suggests that Midnite has a temper. Death'ly suggests she is a Necromancer, or Goth. And Freedom sounds like she is free to do as she pleases.

Satire, on the other hand, means 'the use of humor to critisize someone's vices'. And Ryder, a play on the name Rider, suggests that she likes horses, or motorcycles.

See how different these three names are?

PICKING YOUR OC'S NAME.

For me, I pick my Skulduggery Pleasant OC names like this:

1. THINK UP A WORD THAT SUITS THEM. Be it Pride, or Flawed, or Youth. Something that suits their personality and character.

2. GET A THESARUS

3. LOOK UP THE WORD YOU HAVE CHOSEN

4. GET A VARIATION OF THE WORD THAT SOUNDS GOOD.

Ta-daa! Your character has a name!

Wow. That didn't take long to write.

I might just update again today...