After much contemplation, I've decided to dub my laptop 'Daemon,' partially as a courtesy 'hats off' to Christine's first suggest of naming it Hastur or Ligure. I didn't want to name it after someone who had literally fizzed out, and I'm not very fond of Hastur either (both of them seem a bit dim-witted, actually). Also naming it either Hastur or Ligur will mean that another person will be forced into GOOD OMENS worshipping by Christine....
I thought about naming it 'Device' but, as Kate pointed out, that's not a first name and Anathema is too much of a mouthful. Adam was suggested, but Lucy already has a stuffed sheep that's named Adam and I thought it best to avoid confusion between the antichrist gangster sheep and the antichrist laptop.
Besides, one antichrist per Earth is more than enough, as I'm sure Aziraphale and Crowley would agree.
Kate suggested 'Toby', from the WESTWING, because he's cynical. I moved on to THE HITCHHIKER'S. Kate suggested Arthur, but I pointed out that I want my computer to WORK, and therefore it's best not to jinx it. Trillian's already taken by Cerulean Studios. I suggested Ford, Kate suggested Marvin. After some thought I remembered that 1) There's a certain friend of mine who likes/wants to hug Marvin ('hem!), 2)it's voiced by Snape-er-the person who played Snape and 3), Marvin makes any computer system he links to commit suicide, and I thought I should be nice to my fellow students when I go to college.
So, no Marvin.
Why Daemon? It's nice and gender-neutral, breaking the so-far-established pattern of guys naming cars after girls and girls naming their laptop after guys. It's also related to Dee (for those of you who'd seen my red-headed anime creation). Also, daemon and demon has the same Latin ancestors and I thought, well, since my computer is cousin to Kate's and hers is Crowley, an undeniably hell-spawned demon, naming mine Daemon would be appropriate.
Hmm...and desktop guardian demons seem to work better than angels. Consider what a demon would do to keep its living space (i.e. the computer) safe....
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