>>56420325>>56420476>>56420867>>56421155Let's expand this conversation - let's say you're implementing a rule that in your take on the pokeworld, everyone has to have a surname. For... reasons. What surname do you assign to Cynthia? Personally I think Celestica works pretty good.
What surname(s) do you assign to other characters? Like Lance, Iris, Alder, Diantha, Leon, Geeta... big important people whose names would be world famous? Some of them could even be assumed names or "stage names" since that happens all the time with real world famous people. For example I just found out yesterday that Michael Keaton's last name isn't actually Keaton, it's Douglas. He had to make up a fake surname for his stage name since the name "Michael Douglas" was already taken. I don't know where I'm going with this tangent.