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Originally posted by VirginiaR:
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Originally posted by KenJ:
[b] It is different. One is Mariel. The other is Muriel.
But they are close enough in spelling and sounding as to confuse the Reader, especially for minor characters. That would be like having two characters like Jimbo and James (both called Jimmy) [Linked Image], or Clark and alt-Clark, or Lois and alt-Lois, Inspector Henderson and Detective Henderson [Linked Image], or.... Jose and Joseph, or Steven and Stephen, or Sam (boy) and Sam (girl). Talking as someone who knows wallbash , why ask for trouble and confusion, when you don't need to? Unless the characters picked similar names to confuse the general public on the number and super identity of the supers out there. [/b]
In high school I knew a set of twins where one was named Mary and another Marie. And then my Dad has an aunt named Lorna, who has daughters named Lori and Laura, and daughter-in-law named Lori and Lara, or something like that. It was way to confusing to ever figure it all out.

Still, there are only so many names you can end with El. Although we have not seen Xeen-el, Zen-el, Lash-el and Laur-el yet.

John Pack Lambert