Coincidences, doll names that stick, and a China Girl
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:59 am
So, I have a little 3" China Girl - the character from that new Oz movie I'm not likely to see any time soon. It felt a bit awkward to keep just calling her 'china', even though I still haven't properly named the DUM droids, so I went looking to see if she actually had a name.
Apparently not. They didn't bother to give one of the movie's main characters an actual name. Ooops.
So I started wondering if I should do something about that. It's kind of awkward, because I guess they could always throw up some bit of extended canon later and make things weird - but then, Disney's off-canon to the books anyway, so I could just claim mine's from a different continuity stream... XD
I went and looked up the voice actor's name, to see if it sparked any ideas. Joey King, btw. Then I grabbed the Baby Name Book I keep on hand for such things and looked in the girl's names for any of them beginning with 'Jo' and therefore possibly connected to Joey as a nickname - even though I can't see calling the China Girl that, it just seems too modern.
There's a good page of those in this book. Most were variations on Josephine or Jocelyn, and didn't really sound like a name for someone from Oz. So I started checking meanings on the odder ones, and found this:
Jovanna (Latin) 'Majestic'
I refer you back to the last name of the voice actor.
So, what do the rest of you think? I'm about half-decided, and am thinking I should wait and see if it sticks, but other opinions help.
P.S. - I still can't imagine calling her Joey, and definitely not Vanna as that makes me think of Wheel of Fortune, but...
Apparently not. They didn't bother to give one of the movie's main characters an actual name. Ooops.
So I started wondering if I should do something about that. It's kind of awkward, because I guess they could always throw up some bit of extended canon later and make things weird - but then, Disney's off-canon to the books anyway, so I could just claim mine's from a different continuity stream... XD
I went and looked up the voice actor's name, to see if it sparked any ideas. Joey King, btw. Then I grabbed the Baby Name Book I keep on hand for such things and looked in the girl's names for any of them beginning with 'Jo' and therefore possibly connected to Joey as a nickname - even though I can't see calling the China Girl that, it just seems too modern.
There's a good page of those in this book. Most were variations on Josephine or Jocelyn, and didn't really sound like a name for someone from Oz. So I started checking meanings on the odder ones, and found this:
Jovanna (Latin) 'Majestic'
I refer you back to the last name of the voice actor.
So, what do the rest of you think? I'm about half-decided, and am thinking I should wait and see if it sticks, but other opinions help.
P.S. - I still can't imagine calling her Joey, and definitely not Vanna as that makes me think of Wheel of Fortune, but...