Name That Villian

[redbrunja]

(yes, I know I'm spamming. I'm sorry.)

Okay, so I have a scene in my current prospective novel, where two of the main characters are sitting around chatting about their pasts and trying to figure out what's going on now, and I need names.

Specifically, names for people they've fought.

This story is set in modern times, the only difference is that magic works, and the two characters work for The Council which is tasked with making sure that practitioners (magic-users) don't abuse their powers.

The reason I'm asking is that 1.) I'm lazy and 2.) when I go to name sites, I, on average, spend 20 minutes to get just one name, and it's really not time efficient.

(Also, randomly, is Girl Genius not awesome? *enjoys actually being caught up*)

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, last names are the worst!

And I'm looking for both boy and girl names.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Just try Cho's flip-through-the-phone-book trick, or I'll often do something similar and flip through random newspaper articles (obituaries and birth/wedding announcement pages in particular have a nice concentration of names vs. text; but even just randomly browsing through articles can be a good way to get surnames to jump out at you. :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Those are good ideas. Thanks.