*grins* Pepper = Pipera for me (isn't "piper" a masc. noun?). You can steal my copout for Jarvis if you want - sort of what I did for Steve, I just made his name a Latinized form of a foreign name, much more flexibility that way, and called him Iarvus (I for J for that extra historicity ^_~)

You could make Titus from an equestrian family that's down on its luck - noble bloodline, empty coffers sort of thing. After all, didn't Julius Caesar grow up in the Subura?

And oh! Are you going to post the drabbles? Because that would be just about the most awesome thing ever!