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My little stenographers~

Ahem.

Darling, dumpling, flowers, angels, doves, diamonds, blossoms, petals, jelly beans, monkeys, peaches, muffins, puddings, peanuts, sugar plums, I think my teeth are falling out.

Unless you mean literal "pet" names, in which case disregard this post.

Having been called in here very many times over the past few months to answer for this or that misdemeanor, Oliver was well acquainted with the room's nuances and eccentricities – most of them fungal.

Beloved
My Darling
Sugar Plum
Baby Cakes
Dearheart
Precious
Sweetie

haha he sounds like he would be fun to write...

Haha. He is fun to write. :P And he's a bit of a perve. One moment he's feeling up my MC, the next he's forcing poison down her throat..

I love lists! I love endearments! This is my new favorite thread!

my dove
my heart
tender lumpling*
sweetheart
my pretty/my beauty
darling child/darling girl
babydoll
my joy
my juicy little carp
my lamb
lamby-kins/lambkin
lamby-toes
heartsong ("My darling girl! They are playing our song! Our heartsong!")

You could also do the [something sweet] + [noun] thing. So, sugar girl, candy dove, honey kitten. I'd think with your character, the sillier the better. Splenda pigeon, maybe? Hee!

*Props to Danny Elfman.

“Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.” -- Geoffrey Chaucer

“There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.” -- Geoffrey Chaucer

Wow, this may be the highest concentration of endearments I've seen in a long time.
Maybe try something that alludes to your MC's features/personality; examples: voluptuous seductress, sugar-lipped faerie queen, red-haired fire pistol, doe-eyed turtledove (I may be mixing my metaphors a bit here....)
You can add a little twist too if he's feeling a bit cranky with her: devil-eyed pooh bear, mistress of little faith, long-winded angel, bewitching heartbreaker, venom-tongued bunny ...
....hmmm, this is getting a bit addicting; I'm going to stop while I still can..

Ooh, this is a fun thread!

This makes me think of Craig Ferguson, of The Late Late Show. He used to have a running gag that every time the show came back from commercials, he would greet his viewers with a pet name like that. "Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys!" It was usually an adjective ending in y, usually followed by a monkey, donkey, or badger.

So here are some Craig Ferguson-inspired names:
cheeky monkey
frisky badger
naughty donkey
dainty llama
soggy crustacean
silly muskrat
jiggly shark
fancy rabbit

"Bagels no, Festivus yes!"

I must say that depending on the way that you say deserts they tend to sound like endearments too! (I know this sounds really strange, but it does!) ie:

"Hello my.....:

Little sticky toffee pudding
Cherry bakewell tart
Sweet lemon drizzle cake
Apple and blackberry pie..."

Etc.etc. Maybe see what other deserts you can come up with? :)

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Title: Egbert Rogers and the Confounding Mysteries of the Universe
Genre: Fantasy

In the plural i really love the term "lab rats"

Other than that perhaps you could come up with some really long hyperbolic romantic names such as "my blossoming flower of stubborn annoyment" I don't know but if he's a villain it might be fun to have him start off with names like that and then turn into something derogatory.

A couple you don't seem to have that my own characters have thrown out at people:

sweeting
lovely

Death toll: 9 named, about 181 unnamed

one of my characters seems fond of the name 'ducky' and I'm sure she won't mind you borrowing it! :)

17 coffees down, how many to go?

Oh my gosh! I love Craig Ferguson! I used to watch him all the time in the summer. :) Can't now, since school's going.

Thanks to everyone for all the great names, keep 'em comin'. xD

*bumps while sipping some Coke*