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Help[Opinions] Re: Draco
in reply to a message by abster
It's not a great name but it's not awful. It should be DRAH-ko, not DRAY-ko... I think DRAY-ko sounds like the name of a plumbing or drapery cleaning service - the CO part bugs me; it's a little gimmicky.
I predict that it will be a fad, though. A smallish fad soon, and then after about another generation it'll take off. Only after it stops being a HP name and becomes the name of ordinary guys people have met/heard of.
I think if no pretty films had been made with that striking, boy-faced, big-eyed actor who projected the character as smart and ruthless and brooding and somewhat intimidating - if an actor with a pudgier face had been cast and had projected a more petty and truly sinister character - the name would not have nearly as much appeal as it does.
But it would still appeal. It's like Drake or Jace, or Orion or Magnus, or Anakin or Ryker, or Nico or Milo - it's like all of those, only much more so, over the top rugged / heroic / sassy. It's too much for me, personally - it's very characterish. If I met a Draco in real life it might seem less like that, but I still would not really like the name. I do like the name Drake, but that is already right at my threshold, on the line between subtly evoking "dashing and aggressive" and being self-consciously "SO Dashing and Aggressive!!!1." Draco is beyond the line for me.
- mirfak
I predict that it will be a fad, though. A smallish fad soon, and then after about another generation it'll take off. Only after it stops being a HP name and becomes the name of ordinary guys people have met/heard of.
I think if no pretty films had been made with that striking, boy-faced, big-eyed actor who projected the character as smart and ruthless and brooding and somewhat intimidating - if an actor with a pudgier face had been cast and had projected a more petty and truly sinister character - the name would not have nearly as much appeal as it does.
But it would still appeal. It's like Drake or Jace, or Orion or Magnus, or Anakin or Ryker, or Nico or Milo - it's like all of those, only much more so, over the top rugged / heroic / sassy. It's too much for me, personally - it's very characterish. If I met a Draco in real life it might seem less like that, but I still would not really like the name. I do like the name Drake, but that is already right at my threshold, on the line between subtly evoking "dashing and aggressive" and being self-consciously "SO Dashing and Aggressive!!!1." Draco is beyond the line for me.
- mirfak
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