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

[book-of-mirage.livejournal.com]

AW LAWD

OKAY

I love meanings. and there's ~bonus features~ for the NPCs.

Ienzo - is meaningless. It's just a made up sound. If you WANT you can pretend it's a fucked up version of Enzo, which means Conquering.

Mare - means "Sea" in Latin, and refers to how Water was originally her strongest Element, and also how she fell into the sea and became it for a short while, and how she woke up on the seashore. Also, an allusion to how still waters run deep.

Cyrus - to quote Behind the Name (http://www.behindthename.com), "From Κυρος (Kyros), the Greek form of the Persian name Kūrush, which may mean "far sighted" or "young". The name is sometimes associated with Greek κυριος (kyrios) "lord". It was borne by several kings of Persia, including Cyrus the Great, who conquered Babylon. He is famous in the Old Testament for freeing the captive Jews and allowing them to return to Israel."

Solaris - Means "Of the Sun". He's the Deva of Sunlight. His original name is something similar, just. In his own people's language. iIt's probably something like Oazeah. RANDOM TRIVIA: He has a daughter named Ouzaahn, which means something like "Bright wind".

Aaron de Bertilak - Aaron is only his name because I heard it in a dream. Literally. It means something like "Lofty". His last name, de Bertilak, is a direct reference to the poem Sir Gaawain and the Green Knight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight). Sir Bertilak de Hautdesert is the name of the titular knight, who was put under a curse by Morgan le Fey.

His true name, Ameras, is a derivation from the Zororastrian spirit of immortality and the patron saint of plants, Amaretat (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/ameretat.html). Yes, Ameretat is female. Similarly, Jin Sharivar's truename was partially based on another Zororastrian spirit, Khshathra Vairya (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/k/khshathra_vairya.html).

... Aaron is complicated.

Isis - Named for the Egyptian goddess (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/isis.html). Originally, her name was Iris, after the Greek goddess of rainbows (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/iris.html)

Nautilus - Named for the sea creature, based on the shape of the city as a nautilus spiral. Originally I was going to call it Helix after the DNA strand, but changed my mind (and then that name went to Solaris' city). As a spiral of DNA or the spiral of a galaxy, it represents evolution - and, ergo, change. It's a symbol of exponential growth as well, at least as a logarithmic spiral. The Nautilus as a creature is a traveler, a journeyer, and (I think?) a protector of young, as it actually carries its own eggs on a currant.

... teal thinks too hard.

[book-of-mirage.livejournal.com]

Oh. My own names. I have too many.

Teal Deer - I talk too much. Ergo, I am TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read). which is also teal deer. Also, teal is my favourite color, and on those RARE occasions that I make author avatars, they always, for some reason, have mule deer ears. This was LONG before I picked up the screen name.

Ryuu - Means Dragon. I was dragon-obsessed in high school, and also animu obsessed. I've tried to get away with it due to trying to distance myself from my idiot high school years.