MEME TIME

[poisonousflame]

This one is TINY but I'm curious, so:



WHAT DOES YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME MEAN?

1. Go to a site like this one (or just google).
2. Post what your character's name means.
3. If your character has an unusual name, tell us why the creators chose it!
4. Comment on other people's name meanings! This can be IC or OOC.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!

Comments

[hellbornhuntrss.livejournal.com]

Rip van Winkle is, obviously, the name of the American folklore protagonist who goes out hunting and falls asleep and wakes up 20 years later. I'm pretty fucking sure the creator of Hellsing just randomly settled on a German-sounding name without checking if the person was actually male or female, but my theory was that Hellsing!Rip also goes to sleep, but it's more like a number of fifty years; she leaves Germany in 1944, stays in Brazil doing god knows what for fifty years and reemerges in 1999 completely unchanged, in a world that has no idea who she is or why they should care. Also the verb 'rip' is violent, and Rip is violent so...yeah that's all I got. Also 'van Winkle' sounds German.

Sari Sumdac again, isn't listed, but it's sort of stereotypically Indian, and Sari herself is Indian-American, so it may just be racist. Also it's probably the only way for them to get in the joke "I'm Sari"/"You don't have to apologize." in the first episode of TF:A/

Leslie Vernon is finally someone with normal names. Sort of. "The name Leslie is a baby boy name. The name Leslie comes from the Scottish origin. In Scottish The meaning of the name Leslie is: Scottish surname and place name. From Leslie." Yeah. Interesting. As for Vernon..."The name Vernon is a baby boy name. The name Vernon comes from the English origin. In English The meaning of the name Vernon is: Alder tree grove. Aristocratic surname brought to England at the time of the Norman conquest."

So he's a place and a tree. Way to go.

Basil, besides being an actual herb, is "The name Basil is a baby boy name. The name Basil comes from the English origin. In English The meaning of the name Basil is: Royal; kingly."

So Basil is the only one that makes any damned sense. Yeah my names suck.

Also Auria already listed "Allison' so I don't need to go look my own name up.