#ScribesAndMakers – 7. What 'character' (letter, number, symbol, punctuation, space) would make a great main character?
None. Designing characters based on Glyphs as names is starting from the wrong end if you want them to live, unless you want to get into nominal essentialism, like some Victorian moralist plotter.
I usually name characters after they wake up, and they often remain 'younger brother' or '3rd footman' or 'Treasury official' until well after they develop personalities.
Elyse M Grasso
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