Should I rename my series?

Okay, I have a bit of a problem. I've got a series, meant to be some sort of animation, that I've been working on for the past two or three years. I still have a long ways to go before anything big happens, but I figure I should get this over with. Here's the description...

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On one hot summer day in Xicome, May Flowers and her father receive a letter from May's great aunt on her mother's side of the family. "Isabella", who will never be mentioned again, passed away, leaving May with a sizeable amount of CrediGold.

Her father, on the other hand, gets nothing due to his divorce with May's mother several years back. After an argument between them about May putting the money away for her college education, she storms off into the streets with a bag of her belongings and her giant duck Tippy in tow. May runs away from home by buying a ticket for the Orion Express, a luxury flying train. After a small mystery ends with the train getting grounded for health violations, she takes in the train's mechanic as her sidekick; Steamer, an orphan from the city of Clangston and a super-genius at only 10 years old. Together they register as Freelance Adventurers in the city of Denile.

As this is all happening, halfway around the world an evil mastermind known simply as the Overlord is well on his way to taking over the entire planet. Thanks to a mysterious list he found on an online auction site, Overlord is going against every standard villain practice and is making large headway. With some recently appropriated funds he buys a widescreen magic mirror and asks it who will defeat him should he slip up. The mirror, however, encounters magical interference and can only answer "something about flowers and rain".

With this information, Overlord uses his supercomputer to search for information on "flowers" in the International Justice Database, which brings up May's Freelance Adventurer profile. He then instructs his trusted adviser to sent an assassin after May.

The assassin, April Showers, tries and fails to kill May several times. Before she can finish the job, Overlord finds out who his adviser sent and realizes that "Flowers and rain" was a self-fulfilling prophesy, deciding to cancel the job. Unfortunately, April is a professional who doesn't appreciate people who waste her time, and vows to track down the anonymous "customer" who put a hit on May. May herself is confused at the whole event and asks Steamer to do some research as well.

Thus begins the chain of events that leads to Overlord's downfall. Along the way it quickly becomes apparent that "Thera" as the planet is known is a world that runs entirely on every trope in the book.

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The reason I want a name for it is because it had a name and I made a page for it in Troper Works, which is now obsolete. Now, I figured that meant it got moved, but there seems to be a problem because something already used the name to a potentially significant degree. So what's the story named currently? All-World. I never even read those books, and my story is completely unrelated AND to my knowledge not at all similar to the Stephen King novels. But apparently the page for it got deleted and I assume this may be the reason, whether by a page called "All-World" existing or by the person who tranfered the files deleting it.

Now it's possible it got deleted because I did something wrong, but if so I can't see what that mistake would be. It was placed in Troper Works under Unpublished Works, it was not spammed as a legitimate series on trope pages (all relevant tropes were linked to by the series page, but not vice-versa), and the trope page had ONE non-prominent link to my Deviant Art page for the sole reason that it was the easiest place to allow others to view the scripts that were made so far. Other than the possibility that all unpublished works were removed and are no longer welcome, I am forced to assume someone who read those books thought MY series was supposed to be related to it in some way.

Even if it's just a misunderstanding, I'm not sure I want my series to be confused with a Crapsack World from another person's works. So I'm asking if I should rename my series, and if so what should it be called?

edited 19th Nov '10 12:44:14 PM by iTroper

You could call it: "The Tale of May Flowers" with "The All-World" as a subtitle.

By the way, I really like your story.

edited 20th Nov '10 2:24:15 PM by AlirozTheConfused

Maybe. I'll put that on the list of possibilities, since I'm also going to ask for suggestions from Deviant Art and people I know. Thanks for the input.

"Flowers and Rain" sounds like a decent one to me, although if it's a series rather than a book then I'm slightly stumped. But you can't really go wrong by using a plot reference - a kind of inverted title drop.