@betsy.cant.write
So I have this idea for a short story/book/idk and I have a pretty well developed protagonist (or technically antagonist) but I can't decide if I should name him Freddie or Frankie? I've been using Freddie so far but suddenly I thought of Frankie and now idk. its kinda a weird plot though so I want to make sure readers will get the impression of him I want them to get just from his name (that made no sense sry) But, point is, it would be really helpful if I could hear your opinions of what he seems like just from his name (Frankie vs Freddie), then read my short plot description then basically just tell me what you think of the names after you know what type of character they're going with! (I feel like I'm asking for too much lol but this would be really really helpful)
Heres the very basic plot summary:
~This could be triggering, sorry!!~
So Freddie's/Frankie's mom died when he was really young and his dad basically blames him for it and abuses him for his entire childhood, this leads Freddie/Frankie to start using hard drugs because he was afraid of his emotions. So then one day he sees this guy on the street and imdieatly becomes obsessed with him and is convinced that they're soulmates (his brain is messed up from drugs), so he starts stalking him and being really creepy then accidentally sees that his soulmate is straight and has a girlfriend. Freddie's/Frankie dad was always very homophobic and harshly abused Freddie/Frankie because he's gay so because of this Freddie/Frankie has a hatred for pretty much all straight people. So Freddie/Frankie ends up murdering his soulmate but is too high to realize what's happened so when he wakes up in jail he has no memories of what's happened and still believes that his soulmate is alive. No one explains to him what he's in for, so for the next ten years or so he's convinced that his soulmate is still out there waiting for him (his brain is really fucked up from all the drugs). Then eventually his dad visits him in jail and explains what happened. Freddie/Frankie, who has been bottling up his emotions his entire life, cannot function with this new information and kills himself.
Ok so now that you've read my weird plot idea I wanna hear how the fact that he's basically a sociopath has affected your opinion of the name?
Basically I needed to know your opinions on the names in this order because I want my readers to be on his side at the beginning (hence why I wanted to know what your opinions about the name were before the plot) then I want to make my readers feel guilty for liking him and still kinda liking him (which is why I wanted to know how you felt about each name after the plot) and I just realized that I'm lowkey trying to torture my readers ahaha oops, I know most of that probably didn't make sense cause I'm bad at explaining things but its really important to my writing style to know what people thinks he's like based of his name, then what opinions they have after they understand who he is. So yeah I'd be really impressed if someone actually read through all that so thanks :)
