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BULLET, CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
Jul. 4th, 2013 12:44 pmThere've been a couple of updates to the Liebster list!
http://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/18288.html
HEADCANON: There are other Sin-named tigers besides the ones we meet. Pride and Envy just try to make the best of their names, but the others use nicknames, and not dumb ones like Devil either. They derive theirs ether from names that can be found in the English name of the sin they're named for, or, if that doesn't work, in the Latin. Lust goes by Luz or Lux, Gluttony by Tony, Greed by Reed, Wrath by Ira (Latin for anger, but also a unisex name in Hebrew), and Sloth is Cordie (from the word socordia, which is Latin for Sloth).
Jake's Marlowe-maniac master has been naming golden tigers after the seven deadly sins and Mephistopheles and Good Angel and so on for generations. Their poor family tree is just a repeat of these names. So nicknames are also necessary when someone has the same name as their aunt and grandma and they're all living together in whatever place the Harlequin had them all cloistered up. Of course, he's also named them after other characters from other works of Marlowe too, such as Dido, Tamburlaine, etc., so there are a lot of those in the line too. Hey, they've been hiding and breeding the goldens for twenty-two hundred years, he's had time to go through a lot of names...though Marlowe plays weren't completed till the 1590s so that's only about 400 years for generations of Marlowe-themed names...god almighty WHY AM I THINKING SO MUCH ABOUT THIS?
And now, someone help me, I'm considering if the other vampire masters involved with keeping, raising, and naming the goldens (like the ones that named Martino and Thorne, Meph's cousins) ever did 'theme' names too, if only to make coming up with new ones easier. I TOLD YOU I AM THINKING TOO MUCH.
This all makes me very glad that Ruthven (my Anitaverse vampire char, controls all swanmanes in England) never took any interest in getting to name the kids of the swanmanes. If he were ever asked to, I'm sure he'd just call them after dogs and horses he's had. Of course, while "Jip" is not much more dignified than Mephistopheles, it's at least shorter and easier to spell.
SPEAKING OF COLORED TIGERS...
http://cocojigglypuff.tumblr.com/post/53711103927/sapphrikah-inseptica-iou-a-colt
Rat news: Ratsputin, Sid, and Blatz were chilling on the couch, but shortly after I took Blatz away the boys started to fight. Not sure if Blatz has any connection to it or not. I also introduced Sid to Sam. They get along alright, but he's very into the fact she's female and Sam really does NOT appreciate having her undercarriage sniffed so every time he tries she jumps away and climbs up something. She's very agile, he hasn't a prayer.
Nor does anyone in...
( BULLET, CHAPTER FORTY FOUR )
http://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/18288.html
HEADCANON: There are other Sin-named tigers besides the ones we meet. Pride and Envy just try to make the best of their names, but the others use nicknames, and not dumb ones like Devil either. They derive theirs ether from names that can be found in the English name of the sin they're named for, or, if that doesn't work, in the Latin. Lust goes by Luz or Lux, Gluttony by Tony, Greed by Reed, Wrath by Ira (Latin for anger, but also a unisex name in Hebrew), and Sloth is Cordie (from the word socordia, which is Latin for Sloth).
Jake's Marlowe-maniac master has been naming golden tigers after the seven deadly sins and Mephistopheles and Good Angel and so on for generations. Their poor family tree is just a repeat of these names. So nicknames are also necessary when someone has the same name as their aunt and grandma and they're all living together in whatever place the Harlequin had them all cloistered up. Of course, he's also named them after other characters from other works of Marlowe too, such as Dido, Tamburlaine, etc., so there are a lot of those in the line too. Hey, they've been hiding and breeding the goldens for twenty-two hundred years, he's had time to go through a lot of names...though Marlowe plays weren't completed till the 1590s so that's only about 400 years for generations of Marlowe-themed names...god almighty WHY AM I THINKING SO MUCH ABOUT THIS?
And now, someone help me, I'm considering if the other vampire masters involved with keeping, raising, and naming the goldens (like the ones that named Martino and Thorne, Meph's cousins) ever did 'theme' names too, if only to make coming up with new ones easier. I TOLD YOU I AM THINKING TOO MUCH.
This all makes me very glad that Ruthven (my Anitaverse vampire char, controls all swanmanes in England) never took any interest in getting to name the kids of the swanmanes. If he were ever asked to, I'm sure he'd just call them after dogs and horses he's had. Of course, while "Jip" is not much more dignified than Mephistopheles, it's at least shorter and easier to spell.
SPEAKING OF COLORED TIGERS...
http://cocojigglypuff.tumblr.com/post/53711103927/sapphrikah-inseptica-iou-a-colt
Rat news: Ratsputin, Sid, and Blatz were chilling on the couch, but shortly after I took Blatz away the boys started to fight. Not sure if Blatz has any connection to it or not. I also introduced Sid to Sam. They get along alright, but he's very into the fact she's female and Sam really does NOT appreciate having her undercarriage sniffed so every time he tries she jumps away and climbs up something. She's very agile, he hasn't a prayer.
Nor does anyone in...
( BULLET, CHAPTER FORTY FOUR )
