Names In Sorceress Super Hero
I choose the names of the characters in my books very carefully. They almost always have a meaning.
For example, the main character in my Omega Superhero series is named Theodore Conley because “Theodore” means “god-given” in Greek and Conley means “hero” in Gaelic.
When I started writing my book Sorceress Super Hero, I named the main character Agatha Hawthorne. "Agatha" because it's derived from a Greek word meaning "good"; "Hawthorne" because it's an English name meaning someone who lives where hawthorn hedges (a prickly type of hedge) grow. As the main character is both inherently good and somewhat prickly, I thought that would be a good name for her.
But, as I continued writing the book, the name Agatha just didn't seem to fit the character. It was too old-fashioned for her personality.
So I switched her name to Sage. Not only did the name suit her personality better, but I liked "Sage" because the word means "wise.” The main character is anything but wise, at least at the beginning of the book. I liked the irony of the name.
Sage’s old name of Agatha I instead gave to Sage’s mother.
In the book, Sage acquires a magic cape imbued with the spirit of a magician who communicates with her telepathically. In my original manuscript, the cape/spirit was named Oberon, after the fairy character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
When I was reviewing the first draft, I ran a Google search on Oberon (something I normally do before I start writing, but I had forgotten to do it this time), and realized there's a character in Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series The Iron Druid Chronicles that is a Irish Wolfhound who communicates telepathically with the main character.
As I did not want someone to accuse me of copying Hearne's idea (I hadn’t read any of Hearne's books at the time, but good luck convincing someone of that when they’re accusing you of idea theft), I decided to change Oberon's name to Puck, another character from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The name change was a bit of a hassle at the time because the original name "Oberon" was joked about and discussed somewhat extensively in the original manuscript. Over time, though, I’ve grown to prefer the name Puck. It suits the character better than Oberon did.