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Steph Mu Ji ([personal profile] muji) wrote in [community profile] ways_back_room2008-04-30 08:24 am
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Daily Entertainment.

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).

[identity profile] candied-rabbit.livejournal.com 2008-04-30 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Momiji is a kind of maple that grows in Japan and turns pretty colors in autumn. And Momiji and pretty colors fit together pretty perfectly. Though, Wikipedia also tells me that, apparently, the author of his canon got the months of the Chinese Zodiac wrong in naming him, and, if she'd fit his Zodiac animal to his name, he'd be "Kureno," which is something to do with spring.

...But Momiji is totally a better name for him.

Dahlia refers to "valley" or a type of flower, neither of which really fits her, in my mind. Though her name is awesome, still.

Ganymede's name is a triumph of facepalmery. The site I looked it up on suggested two origins of the name, with, apparently, only one letter difference between the root words - either "gladdening prince" or "gladdening genitals." Given that it's Ganymede, though, one has to admit that both fit pretty well.

[identity profile] arkadyevna.livejournal.com 2008-04-30 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
...either "gladdening prince" or "gladdening genitals." Given that it's Ganymede, though, one has to admit that both fit pretty well.

Hehe! This made me giggle. :D

[identity profile] kali921.livejournal.com 2008-04-30 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww, Momiji! He's so adorable. I've been thinking of having Kendra (Hawkgirl) tag him, as she loves kids and teenagers. Anyone that can manage to deal with Stargirl and remain sane would love Momiji!