Futility

I'm trying to think up names for people who I haven't written yet but
live in my head. Unlike the seme and uke from Cyber Rose (the dancing
people with the school with ambiance) these characters seem like they
SCREAM for names... the seme and uke don't seem to want them. Or need
them. Or something.

So I'm looking up Japanese, words, trying to find names that mean things. Oyyyy.

Luckily
I found a page that has a lot of good stuff about surnames, and I found
that -shita means "below" or "under" and I wanted to use that because
of this image I had... but I can't find any good tree names and I'm at
a loss as to what kind of trees actually grow in Japan that fit my
mental image. I was very close to using Umeshita, ume meaning "plum,"
until it happened...

Like every time I get a good name idea. I
search and search until I find something I might like, then JUST as I
almost decide to use it I remember some connotation that I don't like.

Ume
blossoms are very bright pink in most pictures, but I was heartened to
find some white ones... white is better in this image. Much better than
pink. Then it hit me.

Who wears white plum fragrance?

Tomoe >_<

I
really haven't that much against Tomoe... really... but I don't LIKE
her. And I don't want to think of poor little 15-year-old Kenshin angst
when envisioning this character. I wouldn't even know she smelled like
white plum if my mother didn't remind me every time someone in the
vicinity says "plum."

*rants for a while about the unfairness of it all, complete with sakura petals in the background*

Dang. Ignorance is bliss -_-

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