Origin of names
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Yeah, I knew that already. xD; Just thought it was interesting.Kuukai wrote:I'm pretty sure it's just a westernization of Piroshi, which is a corruption of Hiroshi, a common name. Hiroshi Matsuyama, president of CC2, is undoubtedly the basis for this character. Most of the writing for Piroshi is done by him, and he uses "colorful" language like Piroshi even normally...
Lycoris comes from the flower of the same name, but it also means twilight in Greek.
I think Haseo's name is related to where Sora's comes from.
Macha's name comes from the Goddess of the same name, which is related to the thing called Morrigan, which is probably where Morganna's name comes from. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3rr%C3%ADgan )
I used to remember where all the old Root Towns names came from, but I'm not so sure now.
Pai comes from the word Oppai, which means breast. XD
I think Haseo's name is related to where Sora's comes from.
Macha's name comes from the Goddess of the same name, which is related to the thing called Morrigan, which is probably where Morganna's name comes from. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3rr%C3%ADgan )
I used to remember where all the old Root Towns names came from, but I'm not so sure now.
Pai comes from the word Oppai, which means breast. XD
Pai's name probably doesn't come from that, though that's a common joke. ^^; On of the theories is it's "Pi", possibly to indicate the "full circle" of revenge... I think it might be short for "spy", but i guess we just won't know for a while...
I also just realized "Sakubo" is also a homophone for "Machination", in addition to meaning "new moon-full moon ", and Saku being short for "Sakura"... The totally overloaded that name... ^^;;;;
I also just realized "Sakubo" is also a homophone for "Machination", in addition to meaning "new moon-full moon ", and Saku being short for "Sakura"... The totally overloaded that name... ^^;;;;
I always believed Kite's name stood for either the bird or those you'd see attached to string and getting eaten by trees.
Note: Trees do eat kites. They just don't show it. And if they could, they'd break into ear-splitting grins everytime they chomp on a hapless kite. <JK> <JK> <JK> <JK> <JK>
There's some significance in Tsukasa's name, which almost made me think of 'wings'. But that's wrong because it's actually 'tsubasa', not 'tsukasa'. -still looking into that-
Note: Trees do eat kites. They just don't show it. And if they could, they'd break into ear-splitting grins everytime they chomp on a hapless kite. <JK> <JK> <JK> <JK> <JK>
There's some significance in Tsukasa's name, which almost made me think of 'wings'. But that's wrong because it's actually 'tsubasa', not 'tsukasa'. -still looking into that-
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Interesting topic.
I checked my Finnish-Latin-Finnish dictionary: Nope, just fili doesn't mean anything.
Hmm. Why would Hotaru need a clear, traditional gender? We're living 21th century, we have all kinds of amazing and weird techinacal stuff, but we still try to label others by such a pretty meaningless thing as a gender? Doesn't make sense to me. Actually, I think that it'd best if we'll never get to know Hotaru's physical online gender. Has anyone else than me thought that Hotaru could possibly be a transgender or transsexual? Or just a person who doesn't care that much about gender stereotypes.
I've seen Macha also spelled as Maha and Maho. In Finnish maha means stomach and maho's old word for sterile. XD Oh yeah, I had lots of fun while watching Sign.
Sorry, but you're wrong about that. As far as I know, 'fili' doesn't mean anything in Latin. Filius means son and filia means daughter.marthwmaster wrote:I think Fili is also Latin for "son."
I checked my Finnish-Latin-Finnish dictionary: Nope, just fili doesn't mean anything.
Hmm. Why would Hotaru need a clear, traditional gender? We're living 21th century, we have all kinds of amazing and weird techinacal stuff, but we still try to label others by such a pretty meaningless thing as a gender? Doesn't make sense to me. Actually, I think that it'd best if we'll never get to know Hotaru's physical online gender. Has anyone else than me thought that Hotaru could possibly be a transgender or transsexual? Or just a person who doesn't care that much about gender stereotypes.
I've seen Macha also spelled as Maha and Maho. In Finnish maha means stomach and maho's old word for sterile. XD Oh yeah, I had lots of fun while watching Sign.
I can't remember what issue of Legend of the twilight refers hotaru.End of a Shadow wrote:He's a he check out .hack//Unplugged in the manga or the sound drama file .hack//Lets Meet Offline.Kay wrote: You do know Hotaru is a girl right?!
Reki to Ouka and Mereille(can't spell):He(Shugo) and some girl with a sick grunty went to the valley of hades to battle cerebus.
So there.
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While Hotaru's character model is a girl, and is refered to as a girl online, the controversy is whether or not the offline player is a girl or boy. But ultimately, there's not enough evidence on either side to prove anything. And it's not like it really matters anyway, the story is predominantly online, not offline.Narayu wrote:I can't remember what issue of Legend of the twilight refers hotaru.End of a Shadow wrote:He's a he check out .hack//Unplugged in the manga or the sound drama file .hack//Lets Meet Offline.Kay wrote: You do know Hotaru is a girl right?!
Reki to Ouka and Mereille(can't spell):He and some girl with a sick grunty went to the valley of hades to battle cerebus. So there,.
A thought: assuming Ovan's name is Latin in origin and not Japanese, then the root of his moniker is 'ova', the plural of ovum, or egg.
Eggs are a type of seed birthing living creatures,
Corbenik is modeled after a seed,
Ovan is titled 'The Rebirth'.
Or maybe he just likes Greek poetry and named himself after the exiled writer Ovid?
Eggs are a type of seed birthing living creatures,
Corbenik is modeled after a seed,
Ovan is titled 'The Rebirth'.
Or maybe he just likes Greek poetry and named himself after the exiled writer Ovid?