Generally I have no love for human names that sound too much like the country name, except for France no one else is named that way and it's just lazy imho. However, if it's for a character who doesn't have a canon human name ESPECIALLY IN A HUMAN AU WHERE THEIR NATION NAME IS NEVER BROUGHT UP, it's preferable to a random name I would have no reason to identify with that character. (Except Mathias for Denmark, I remember that one easily for some reason).
Re: Nyotalia, if Himaruya didn't give the character a name, (or he gave them a few choices and you can't decide which one to use/hate them all)there's pretty much nothing worse or more lazy than attempting to genderbend the name. I hate Louise for femGermany so much. In general unless it's really awful (like Daisy for Italy bleh) I prefer Pixiv names for Nyotalia over the ones I've seen in Wfen if we're not using Himaruya's suggestions. Especially Lieselotte for Austria, oh my god Annaliese isn't even that bad but god damn Lieselotte is wonderful.
That being said I still hate Maria for femPrussia so much. So so so so so much. I'm glad Jfen has basically abandoned ship and uses Himaruya's suggestion of Julchen. You do not name one of the world's first protestant states after the most important female saint in all of catholicism.
Final thought: dear fanfic writers writing baby fic where Prussia has a kid either through adoption, magical yaoi buttbirth, or (temporary) genderbending, if that kid is a boy do not name it Fritz. Do not. And in the incredibly rare event that baby is a girl, do not name it Louise. And for the love of all that's holy do not name the kid Friedrich Louise Wilhelm von Bismark Beilschmidt. Please.
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Re: Nyotalia, if Himaruya didn't give the character a name, (or he gave them a few choices and you can't decide which one to use/hate them all)there's pretty much nothing worse or more lazy than attempting to genderbend the name. I hate Louise for femGermany so much. In general unless it's really awful (like Daisy for Italy bleh) I prefer Pixiv names for Nyotalia over the ones I've seen in Wfen if we're not using Himaruya's suggestions. Especially Lieselotte for Austria, oh my god Annaliese isn't even that bad but god damn Lieselotte is wonderful.
That being said I still hate Maria for femPrussia so much. So so so so so much. I'm glad Jfen has basically abandoned ship and uses Himaruya's suggestion of Julchen. You do not name one of the world's first protestant states after the most important female saint in all of catholicism.
Final thought: dear fanfic writers writing baby fic where Prussia has a kid either through adoption, magical yaoi buttbirth, or (temporary) genderbending, if that kid is a boy do not name it Fritz. Do not. And in the incredibly rare event that baby is a girl, do not name it Louise. And for the love of all that's holy do not name the kid Friedrich Louise Wilhelm von Bismark Beilschmidt. Please.