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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).

Comments

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Well, Tony is by definition somewhat of a jerk.

And Ultimate!Tony would be cooler if Orson Scott Card had never touched him and Ultimates 3 never happened.

Then again, everything is better if Ultimates 3 never happened.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Yes, but his jerk factor was exponentially increased once he was Millarized. He was still awesome back in Bru's Winter Soldier, then BAM! Civil War and ensuing Irondickery and everything redeeming about Tony went out the window. Seriously, there's a huge demographic of fans that cannot see the guy get verbally and physically lashed enough for their tastes because of that.

But one day, good writers will get ahold of him again, and all of that unappealing stuff will get either retconned or washed away, and it'll be safe to love him again. I still love the concept of him as a character, he's still brilliant and badass, but...I won't even touch a book with Tony in it unless he's being hit repeatedly or berated, and that's sad, because I used to love Iron Man.

Tony the Betrayer. Man, I never thought I'd hear him get a nickname like that.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Well, the 'by definition' was in semi-defense of Movie!Tony... which I won't see until Saturday and you have no idea how tempting it is to cheat on my roommates and see it without them.

But I digress.

Yes, 419 or... 626 or whatever the 'normal' Marvel-verse is Tony Stark currently needs to be smacked.

...Because he's seriously doing some stupid stuff.

Numbers, you say?

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Earth-616 or univere 616 is the primary home verse for main Marvel continuity, the one we're all used to.

The Ultimate verse is universe #1610-Earth-1610.

Universe #311/Earth-311 is the 1602 verse.

Earth-712/universe 712 is the Squadron Supreme old universe (the classic Squadron Supreme.)

Universe #1115 is when Sue Storm married Namor and became Queen of Atlantis.

Universe #9811/Earth-9811 is the one where the Avengers stayed on Battleworld, Clint and Jen had kids, and the kids eventually returned to Earth to be the second generation of Avengers.

Don't ask me how I remember all of this.

Re: Numbers, you say?

[timjr.livejournal.com]

...wow. That amount of memory is... awesome.