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Suggested topic: What does your character's name mean, either in their canon or in current culture? Does that have any significance on their personality?

Mal: There's the in-canon response from River: "Mal. Bad. In Latin", hence the lj name. I like it a lot because it is vague enough to mess with your head if you think about it too long. Also I am informed that from Star Trek: Enterprise canon, 'Malcolm' is Vulcan for 'serenity'. Which works for me. :D :D :D Also, his middle name is Beauregard, because in like, August of 05, I decided making a Bad-and-Beautiful pun would be funny. Plus it's his father's name, so he doesn't shout it around.

SARAH: Her full designation is 'Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat'.

Sallie: As of babynames.com, (who did not appreciate the IE spelling =P) Sallie is a diminuative of Sarah, which derives from the Hebrew for princess. This...does not apply to Sallie pretty much in any way.

Ned: Again, another diminuitive. I'm beginning to get amused by this. This is also vaguely significant because Ned, unless you know him already, is almost a non-entity to others. Hence no last name, short first name. No exceptions.

Delysia Lafosse: Didn't even show up. Her real name is Sara Grubb, which Haaa play more or less three Saras, but whatever. Names are very important to D, since she went through the bother of picking a stage name. Just don't tell her that 'fosse' means a pit (as in peach pit).

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[aberration]

Elle: I've heard this as potentially being short for Elanor, Ellen, and Elizabeth (or any other name that begins with 'El'), but as we see a file with her name listed as "Bishop, Elle", I don't think it's supposed to be short for anything. It wouldn't surprise me if she had a different real name... but the Heroes writers also like to think they're clever, so whatever.

While there's the obvious fun that it's a pun (and really, I love puns), I also like that the name meaning itself is... rather plain. It's "she" in French. Not even 'girl', but just the feminine singular pronoun. Which really strikes me as appropriate for someone who was seen as an experiment rather than a person for at least some significant part of her life - it doesn't assign any particular trait or personality to her, just designates one of the most basic aspects of her, her gender. That combined with the pun just makes it an incredibly basic descriptor of who she is (female, electrical ability), and defines her in the way she likely would have been seen while pretty much treated as an experiment.


No, I did not propose this question for that, I have no idea what you're talking about.


Behrooz: It means 'good day' in Persian. Setting aside that the Turkish character has a Persian name and all those other 'Turkish' characters around him speak Arabic (research, people, it's not that hard), anyone remotely familiar with 24 knows that a character on that show having a name that means 'good day' is... uh. Really fucking ironic.


Jim: Short for James, which babynames says means "supplanter." I... uh. Got nothing.


Mei: There is something of a funny story behind this - Mei is from the English word for the fifth month "May." Her older sister is name Satsuki, which is the Japanese word for the fifth month on the lunar calendar. The similar names came out of the fact that My Neighbor Totoro was originally about one girl, but was changed to be about the two sisters. Plus I imagine Mei would enjoy the springtime in May.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I have a friend in real life who is named Elle. No short for Ellen, just Elle. The amount of time she spends trying to explain this is phenomenal. I also have a real life friend named Jolie, which also means that she spends 25% of her life trying to explain her nomenclature.

[aberration]

Yeah, my mom's name is just 'Vickie', and that does often come up as 'no, it's not short for Victoria.' And there's about a million different ways to spell it, and she probably has the one with the most letters.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

anyone remotely familiar with 24 knows that a character on that show having a name that means 'good day' is... uh. Really fucking ironic.

*snerrrrrrrrrrrrrrk*