Name our cardinals!

[telophase]

As I'm tired of referring to our resident cardinals as "the male cardinal" and "the female cardinal," I want to name them. As I can't discern any personality other than "male cardinal" and "jumps on the windowsill and looks inside when there's no food in the feeder" for the male, but the female is quite insistent about driving away her rival in the window on a daily basis, are there any het literary couples where the woman is canonically jealous of her rivals that spring to mind?

(I'd name them Peter and Harriet except that Harriet is way too sensible to be worried about the Harriet in the window taking the affections of Peter. In fact, for quite a lot of her story, she would welcome that!)

Using the "Hank the cardinal" tag just because that's my other cardinal story.

Comments

[camwyn]

Well, there's always Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, seeing how Scarlett was generally about 'pay attention to meeeeeeeeee!', although it's been a while since I read it.

[telophase]

Ooh, that might fit! :D

[weirdquark]

Bonus points for calling the female cardinal Scarlett. :)

[telophase]

She's not always fighting the cardinal in the window, she's trying to get to the CURTAINS!


would be funnier if we had curtains on that window, but oh well

[camwyn]

And no one would blame you for going the pun route and calling the male Redd Butler, I think...

[telophase]

And now I'm trying to come up with a pun for Scarlett O'Hara...

[camwyn]

She's a cardinal. She may have female plumage, but 'Scarlett' is pun enough.

[metaphortunate]

I can't top that. :D

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Seems like there are plenty of jealous women in anime. Shampoo in Ranma 1/2 came to mind.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking more of an established couple--there was a suggestion of "Rhett and Scarlett" on DW that might work.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

or Zeus and Hera.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee! XD

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

the downside of Rhett and Scarlett is that the female cardinals *aren't* Scarlett.

I'd have a hard time not naming the male Richelieu.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's an amusing reversal, though! :D (She's battering on the window to get to the curtains!) (would be funnier if we actually had curtains on that window.)

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Zeus and Hera?