Lily Potter Drage - When I first started, Lily was a Potter. Alicia made sure that I wasn't planning on being Lily Luna (Harry's kid, since that made absolutely no sense for her to be in NZ going to school when they live in England) and said I could keep the name as long as I was no more than a distant relation. Drage was picked up when Lily married Sumner.
Hilde Lindstrom - When Deb, Courtney and I sat down and goofed around with making a set of triplets, we decided they needed to be Scandinavian in background. Not really sure why that area of the world, but hey, I believe the girls were created at 2am or something equally ridiculous. Lindstrom is a variation of my Grandma's last name, Lindsten. Hilde, Hannah, and Heidi all came from googling Norwegian names and picking three that sounded good together. My family does have roots in Norway and my Mom got stuck with the middle name Hildeguarde, so I shortened it for my triplet.
Joshua Hanson - My brother's name is Josh. The guy I was dating at the time had the last name of Hanson.
Daisy Lockhart-Sigurd - Daisy was picked because I stuck with the flower theme (she is inactive now, but was my second character). Lockhart was her father's name (Gilderoy, who also is one of my characters.
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Sarah Hildebrandt - Sarah I picked from one of my friends on Facebook that I went to school with. Hildebrandt is derived from my Mom's middle name.
Anders & Anika Sigurd - Daisy's twins, also the name of twins my daughter went to school with.
Julie Bennett - My name, plus the last name of the family that tied her into the storyline.
Eliza Bennett - Short form of my daughter's name, perfect for Julie's daughter.
James Greyson - My former Auror. Name came from watching Star Trek. Captain James T. Kirk = James. Amanda Greyson, Spock's human mother = Greyson.
Nicolae Kobori - This was again a night of Skyping like the triplets were. I was dared to find something to mirror Nick King. After searching a Bulgarian name website, this is what I found.
Belladonna Weiss Lloyd - Belladonna was in the flower theme again. Weiss was because I was watching figure skating at the time and Michael Weiss was performing. Lloyd is her married name.
Elizabeth Dervish - She is now inactive, but Elizabeth was from my daughter and Dervish was in an attempt to run Dervish and Banges. She ended up with the Second Hand Store for quite a while.
Jonathan DiMera - Jonathan is my late husband's name, DiMera is from a soap opera. He is now inactive too. Once upon a time he ran the Apothecary.
Ashton Gordon IV - His name was another Skype convo. Ashton was the girliest boy name we could find. Gordon was to honor a friend of ours. The numbers, well, just was being silly. (He was/is shared with Katie too, my bad idea friend
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I know I have a few others, but my mind is blank on them.