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Which noun order sounds the best for my new Patreon comic's title?
🕑 Added 2023-01-26 14:01:00 +0000 UTCGood news, dear Patrons! I've worked up a title for the new fantasy-milieu romantic action-comedy comic I'll be serializing here as a test bed for Clip Studio Paint digital workflow, as first mentioned last week. Yay!
Only one problem: I find myself vacillating on which noun order to use in the aforementioned title.
As befits a story about a magically distress-prone "avatar of the Chained Goddess" and the sworn-to-celibacy Paladin struggling to protect her, the title would be either:
The Chaste and the Chained
or:
The Chained and the Chaste
Most of the time I find myself leaning towards the first version of the title, but every now and then the other version sounds better to me, albeit only temporarily.
What's your opinion, folks? In the end, I'll likely end up rolling with whatever variation the inscrutable algorithm in my head finally determines is acceptable, but I'm genuinely curious to see which iteration is preferred by Patrons.
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: As I build up my post buffer to guard against power outages both local and regional, I can tell you that the next few posts are already scheduled, with Friday's slot going to a Distressed Damsels post for the $5+ tiers featuring early DiD sketch sets of the Elven heroine from The Chaste and the Chained—or, alternatively, The Chained and the Chaste, if you prefer—along with cameos from 2016-era Emp and Imperiled Flight Attendant Lily.
Comments
Shofie
I think "Chained and the Chaste" flows better, personally, but it's also sort of following that romance novel title vibe where they usually give the guy's epithet first then the woman's, so going by that logic: "The Chaste and The Chained".
Adam Warren
I might well end up referring to this project (in spoken conversation, at least) as "Chay-Chay" for short...
KranberriJam
Definitely first, I think it flows better.
Ariamaki
First by a mile.
"The Chaste and the Chained" flows better.
The Silver Socialist
Having the word chained come after the word chaste enhances to eroticism of the contrasting connotations. Hearing the word chaste with no other context sounds asexual or prudish but following it up with the word chains conveys it's anything but.
Adam Warren
OTOH, gotta say that THE CHASTE does have a striking quality all its own, though.
Adam Warren
Ah, but I LIKE the idea of spelling out the whole story!
Pat Bryant
The Chaste and the Chained has the harder consonant in the middle, so it sounds better.
Luke McKinney
Chaste and the chained! Fast and the furious! Short then the longer! I recognize that sudden reversal doubt feeling, but if it was correct it would stay feeling better even after the moment passed!
TF Commando
I went for the first option, it just felt better on first impression, maybe it was the shorter and then longer. Have you done a logo for the title yet? In the first case, the "and the" could be sitting next to "chaste" on top of "chained."
Thos. Merchant
She's the source of the action. She should go first. He is also the subordinate. He goes second. It isn't "Robin and Batman".
totallySafeUsername
I think just, "The Chaste". Kind of a double meaning in that she's chasing him. I don't think you need to spell out the whole story in the title.
Dave Van Domelen
One thing that nags me about the second option is that "chained and" feels like it's setting up a pattern of terminal d's that is not continued, while the first option keeps the focus on the repeated "chay" part.
