I love this trope, too - I really like to play with names a lot. But it can definitely get a little complicated. It's great to see it well done.
To me, it sounds like your best option, as Brigid and Lynn said, would be to give Big Jude a nickname to differentiate him from Little Jude. Maybe based on his skills or an event or something.
But I was wondering - if big Jude and little Jude are the same person, but in different worlds, are their worlds meeting or crossing over for some reason? Did one of them cause this? Or is this a story where you're following the same person in parallel timelines or something?
I suspect you're doing the first, but the reason I ask is that if the two entities are still in separate worlds from one another, you may be able to distinguish them more just by making sure your settings are distinctive enough. If your bounty hunter is chasing someone across Europe and your ghost is sitting pretty haunting a Chinese palace, I think it would be clear from your setting, and the action going on, which of the two you're talking about.
That said, I tend to have less trouble distinguishing names and characters than some, so it's probably a good idea to go the nickname route as well. That way, if their paths cross, you still have that distinction.
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Date: 2013-03-30 11:17 pm (UTC)To me, it sounds like your best option, as Brigid and Lynn said, would be to give Big Jude a nickname to differentiate him from Little Jude. Maybe based on his skills or an event or something.
But I was wondering - if big Jude and little Jude are the same person, but in different worlds, are their worlds meeting or crossing over for some reason? Did one of them cause this? Or is this a story where you're following the same person in parallel timelines or something?
I suspect you're doing the first, but the reason I ask is that if the two entities are still in separate worlds from one another, you may be able to distinguish them more just by making sure your settings are distinctive enough. If your bounty hunter is chasing someone across Europe and your ghost is sitting pretty haunting a Chinese palace, I think it would be clear from your setting, and the action going on, which of the two you're talking about.
That said, I tend to have less trouble distinguishing names and characters than some, so it's probably a good idea to go the nickname route as well. That way, if their paths cross, you still have that distinction.