michealangeo (sp) (often called mikie though) was the orange one Leonardo (Leo) the blue leader one, Ralphael (Ralph) was the one always in trouble or causing it--very angry and mopy most of the time and the red one. and Donatello was the smart mechanic/computer wiz and the purple one. Splinter named them after artists he was impressed with from the books he read when he first "got smart" (we all know how smart rats are already, it would be rather scary if they got smarter) from the ooze.
yeah, i'm a geek and i like TMNT far too much...
but you do realize that you have just opened a huge door on people bombarding you with names right? and they will keep doing it until you've decided on a name...
*grins* warning over with down to the fun! *grins* i've always liked gromit and wallace for boy rat names. i in fact once had a rat named wallace but that was after my crazy uncle wallace and not the claymation slightly goofy human. (as a side note wallace the rat lived up to his name sake, was always causing trouble and pulling pranks). i don't know why exactly i like the name gromit, i think i just like the sound of it and the of course the cartoon.
another good name could be harry and potter or ronald and weasley. or any variation of the harry potter character names. it seems rowling seemed to name people twice when she came up with names. as in even the last name could make just as good a first name.
Ooo! hey! you could call the dark one Nny and the other Squee. i'm a big fan of Johnny the Homcidal Manic as well.
or you can wait and see what types of personailty they show and decide they're name from there. i named spider, spider because when she was younger she would climb the cage walls then hang from ceiling upside down. she was an odd little girlie.... but favorite characters from a book or movie or tv show always work too. in fact I'M named after a tv character mom liked in a soap opera she used to watch... and my son is named after the latin word for crow. sometimes another language works best when naming as well. i had a cat once named neko which is cat in japanese and a rat named nezumi which is rat in japanese. i also have rat named Kakushi which means pocket and her mother was named Iedani which meant dustmite. both were in honor of previous rats which were named Pocket, Dust and Myght.
naming is so much fun! *big ginormous grin*
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