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I guarantee you it was chosen specifically because it sounded so silly. That was the point. You have this malicious, evil character with an aggressive name who, at the end, reveals her real name as being completely opposite of what you'd expect. Kind of like a tough, gruff biker who goes by "Butch" turning out to really be named Marvin or something.

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> As weird as equestrian names can be, yeah, it's not an excuse thought when we also have names like "Steven Magnet"[/bq]

 
Steven Magnet was a fan name that became canonized, like Lyra and Octavia (see note on those below.) It was the result of YouTube's crappy captioning system. Someone noticed instead of "sea serpent" it captioned the line as "Steven Magnet", and a meme was born. The fandom adopted it as his name, since he didn't have one anyway (the writers later said he was just "sea serpent" in the script) and Hasbro decided to trademark it and use it.
 
In the case of Lyra, her original name as used in the toys only was Heartstrings. The name "Lyra" had been used by fans since long before that. To reconcile the difference, fans suggested that "Heartstrings" was really her last name. Hasbro went with this, and made it official. For Octavia there was no existing name, so they just slapped "Melody" on it to make it trademarkable.

I guarantee you it was chosen specifically because it sounded so silly. That was the point. You have this malicious, evil character with an aggressive name who, at the end, reveals her real name as being completely opposite of what you'd expect. Kind of like a tough, gruff biker who goes by "Butch" turning out to really be named Marvin or something.

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[bq="Twi_Clown"]As weird as equestrian names can be, yeah, it's not an excuse thought when we also have names like "Steven Magnet"[/bq]
Steven Magnet was a fan name that became canonized, like Lyra and Octavia. It was the result of YouTube's crappy captioning system. Someone noticed instead of "sea serpent" it captioned the line as "Steven Magnet", and a meme was born. The fandom adopted it as his name, since he didn't have one anyway (the writers later said he was just "sea serpent" in the script) and Hasbro decided to trademark it and use it.