Edie has been calling names for most of yesterday and half of today.  I took Jill Q’s suggestion  and checked out nameberry.com and offered her some more to try. 

Greek sorts of names because he’s a Savas cousin.

Anne Gracie kept telling me she thought his name should be Jake. But I’ve had a hero named Jake and he was indelibly etched in my mind – and has been for a long long time.  So I didn’t think he was Jake. But it was close.

I thought the hard K sound in Jake was right.  Something short – or that could have a short version – was right. That’s why Yiannis wasn’t this guy. 

So I started with the K sound. Or Edie did. And we went from there.  

When she got to “Nick!” he turned briefly, glanced over his shoulder.  Paused for a second. Waited.

And then she took one more breath and said, “Nikolas,” and he stopped pausing. He stopped glancing. He turned around. And he came back to her.

So I guess that’s him. Or he. 

And oddly, after 65 heroes, I’ve never had a Nikolas.  I’ve had a Nick – he was Dominic Granatelli in With This Ring.  And I’ve had a Nikos. He was Nikos Costanides in The Playboy and the Nanny.  But never a Nicholas. Or a Nicolas. Or a Nikolas. 

This one, I think, is Nikolas.

Edie thinks so, too.