Just to toss this out there...

[squirrelhaven]

If you had to come up with a name for a two-headed fire-breathing snake-monster who eats people -- but has her civilized side -- what would you call her?

I don't mean a classification, I mean a name. Like Shirley or Babs or Gladys. Except those don't quite suit.

Suggestions?

Comments

[saltcod]

My genealogy database suggests Serepta.

[squirrelhaven]

I kind of like that.

I also think it sounds like the head cheerleader for Slytherin House, but that's not necessarily a problem.

[outsidetheparty]

Ready? Okay! Give me an 'S'! Give me another 'S'! Give me another 'S'! Give me... another 'S'!

[kouredios]

Gretchen?

[squirrelhaven]

Hmm. I actually quite like that. *ponders*

[kouredios]

It seemed to fill the "guttural" requirement. :D

[winterborne]

Gretchen is good. There's just enough Grendel in there...

[stealthmuffin]

Any particular tradition you want to draw on? (Greco-Roman, Southeast Asia, Random Fantasy?)

[squirrelhaven]

Well, she lives in Chicago. But she's from someplace else. And I don't have strong feelings about where she's from.

[stealthmuffin]

Okay. Just drawing on mythology:

Uadjet (and adjust the spelling as you see fit -- I can see someone attempting to "pass" as normal going by Wadgette, or perhaps even Widget), from the Egyptian snake goddess
Stheno, from a Gorgon's name
Nagaina, okay, that's from Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, but it's possible
Ophion, also Greek
Amphisbaena, had two heads but at opposite ends
Lamia, rocking the Greek mythology here
Rainbow (it's a stretch, but there is the Rainbow Serpent)
Any of these working or providing sparks?

...actually, of these I like Widget best.

[squirrelhaven]

Nagaina takes me immediately to Nagini, Voldemort's snake. There's probably a reason for that.

I think I like both Widget and Lamia. Actually, seeing the whole list, I'm now imagining an entire group of two-headed fire-breathing people-eating snake-monsters. Like a social club, or something. Because surely, after a long week of terrorizing cities, it'd be nice to relax of a Friday evening with some like-minded friends. (The membership application is probably a bitch, though.)

[sigerson]

How about Oura?

Short for Ouroboros, which is technically not two-headed and eats itself, but Oura is pretty. Yar.

[squirrelhaven]

*g* That would be the two-headed snake-monster who's constantly fighting with herself, I presume.

Oura IS pretty, though.