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strannik01

Arcana in Progress: What's in the (character's) name

Nov 23, 2013 10:03

Over the past few days, I have been thinking a lot about Hillary Rahimi's name - or whether it should even be "Hillary."

As I've written elsewhere, the character was originally supposed to be a very WASPy blonde. But as I was writing He Moves in Mysterious Ways, Hilly became Persian. I had no problem still keeping her "Hillary." While I decided ( Read more... )

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phoenix_anew November 23 2013, 20:34:47 UTC

I think you can change it and not worry about the alliteration. I have a friend named Albert Bertalino. We like to joke that his middle name is Bert, just to add to the effect. My point is those kinds of things do happen in real life all the time and not just in Stan Lee comics, so I don't think it would be too over the top. Especially since she would be called Hilly most of the time anyway.