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[bestmachine.livejournal.com]

GUYS.

GUYS.

LOOK AT WHAT I JUST GOT ON REPATCHA:



Of course, I already knew that:

cavil
v. intr.
To find fault unnecessarily; raise trivial objections.
v. tr.
To quibble about; detect petty flaws in.
n. A carping or trivial objection.
He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.

BUT ALL THE SAME. REALLY? REALLY?



So guys, so this post isn't totally useless:
One. Tell me about your character's names, what they mean, HOW THEY'RE VERBS.
Two. Tell me about the ridiculous things reCaptcha does.

Comments

[dragony]

One: Ruka and her twin brother are still the only /main/ characters in 5D's who don't have an actual surname.

Two: Narnia helicopters

[bestmachine.livejournal.com]

You'd think having a sibling would raise the odds of getting a last name!

[chrysophilist.livejournal.com]

Scathach is the Celtic goddess of war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scathach). The verb scathe means "to attack with severe criticism."

Rikku is... Al Bhed, I guess. It translates to "Huggo." SO HUGS ALL AROUND???

[ravagekitteh.livejournal.com]

Um.

Mew is the sound a cat makes or something

Ravage is a word but I'm lazy and refuse to look up the definition. My Ravage doesn't do that shit though.

Artemis.... well Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, a point that he actually uses in his favor a couple times. Fowl is... a surname idk if I means anything besides being able to make puns with the word foul involved

[dragony]

Fowl is birds.

[wolfofmibu]

CARPING OR TRIVIAL OBJECTION, YOU SAY.
SAITOU DOESN'T MIND THIS DEFINITION also I guess
I will
need to look this up hang on o.o

Hajime: beginning; start; origin
Saitou: intelligence and virtue

aha,hahahFFFF VIRTUE I VERY MUCH DOUBT IT

[goryteller]

CARPING OR TRIVIAL OBJECTIONS = CAVIL'S LIFE

Come now, we know Saitou is a shining beacon of virtue.

[ironjill.livejournal.com]

STARK: I.e. Stark Raving Mad or STARK NAKED. I like the second better!

Mara: Technically, her name means bitter in Hebrew, which I think fits her pretty well!

HUNDRED: Well, it's 100. :3

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head and I am le tired

[wolfofmibu]

... yeah Stark Naked is the more suitable one

[drainy-brainy.livejournal.com]

Gesicht is German for face!

Snitter.....um, Wikipedia says "Snitter is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is near the Northumberland National Park. The closest town is Rothbury."

[bestmachine.livejournal.com]

Snitter sounds like his name, if that makes any sense. It sounds like a sad, chittering/sniffing animal. :[

[goryteller]

Oh right. And Katurian's parents were just batshit.


...except from a literary perspective, Katurian is a character who dreads his family ties, and yet is such a perfect, unwilling product of them. And his name is his family name three times in a row. SO.

[goryteller]

--AND HE KILLS THE OTHER THREE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY okay I think I'm good now.

[gamblers.livejournal.com]

Yuugi's name means game.

... As for the other Yuugi's real name... WELL. IT MEANS "AS ONE" technically. But it's also the name of a hermaphrodite god. YEAH.

Yeah.

[dragony]

You forgot the part where he jizzes the universe into existence.

[shiromadoushi]

Quoth Ochodre's analysis:

"..‘baku’ translates roughly to ‘tapir’; ra is ‘good’ or ‘skilled’.

Tapirs are herbivorous mammals of the order Perissodactyla, or odd-toed ungulates, making them cousins to horses and rhinoceros. They live in jungles in South America and Asia, sport odd, elephant-like snouts, and have absolutely nothing in common with either a particular quiet, polite white-haired boy or the spirit of the Ring’s previous incarnation.

Or do they?

As it turns out, tapir are associated with a certain Japanese youkai, a spirit or demon from folklore. Fans of Pokémon may recall that Drowzee, one of the original 150 monsters, resembled a tapir and had the signature move ‘Dream Eater’. This was a nod to this particular variety of youkai; the baku.

The baku are mostly benevolent youkai that are said to eat bad dreams and nightmares so people can sleep peacefully. They are often depicted with the body of a lion and the head of an elephant, which results in something that looks a bit like a tapir. Pictures, toys, and statues of baku are sometimes placed in Japanese bedrooms to ward off bad dreams. However, baku are also sometimes depicted as trouble makers that rob people of all their dreams, and sleep.

The role of the baku may sound similiar to a more Western tradition. Dreamcatchers served the same purpose, hanging in bedrooms to catch nightmares before they could enter the sleeper’s dreams. Dreamcatchers are almost circular and laced with webbing and beds, like a spider’s web, and decorated with threads and feathers hanging off the bottom.

Very much like the Millennium Ring and its pendants.

So obviously, Takahashi was trying to send some sort of baku / dreamcatcher vibes when he named Bakura and designed the Ring. What that means, though, is still up for debate."


The kanji for Ryou means 'complete; finish' and is far more boring :D

[sekaigaodoru.livejournal.com]

Anzu means...Peach. Meanwhile her English name, Tea, is Spanish for "Gift of God". Also, apparently all main female protagonists in Yu-Gi-Oh! have names starting with "A".

[wolfofmibu]

you know come to think of it I could totally see her as Princess Peach
.. no wait Daisy is the one with brown hair but WHATEVER

blah blah blah

[is-fear-itself.livejournal.com]

According to Jon's narration, he was named "Jonathan" by his great grandmother after the boy she never had, and Crane was his father's name (They also linked it in canon back to Ichabod Crane, and made Jonathan offended by what a cowardly pussy the schoolmaster was). He claims he drew Scarecrow from the "universal symbol of poverty and fear", but it's really from way earlier in childhood than that.

"Craddock" is Welsh in origin and originally meant "amiable," which suits. Jim adopted the nickname "Gentleman Jim" in life as a highwayman, making up for the fact he was born a title-less bastard. In death he carried it over and put 'Ghost' after it because he was dead and it seemed like a good idea.

[bestmachine.livejournal.com]

Oh, right! Something I forgot to mention in the relationship meme was that Cavil once shanked a child for being named John.

Hearts and kisses. <33

[returntoeven.livejournal.com]

Knives: ...kind of self-explanatory, though I really do wonder exactly how a pacifist like Rem ended up naming a small child after sharp objects. :|

Slade: Interesting bit of trivia I discovered is that Slade is the name of a band. It is also the last name of a singer (Isaac Slade) whose back ground reminds me of Jericho a bit.

Rudy: It has German roots that mean "famous wolf". Not really sure if it fits, but there ya go!

[goryteller]

Oh man, it always surprises me how much I'm willing to tune out common nouns when they're used as a name. I ALWAYS FORGET THAT KNIVES = KNIVES.

[messiah-maybe.livejournal.com]

Takaya = "respectful one".

Sakaki is also known as Cleyera japonica, AKA the Sakaki tree, a sacred tree in the Shinto religion. Back in myth, when Susanoo was a dick to his sister the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami, and caused her to run away and hide and pretty much take all sunlight with her, the gods dug up a 500-branched Sakaki tree from a sacred mountain, hung an 8 foot string of 500 jewels from its top branches, an 8 foot long mirror from its middle branches, and on its lower branches were blue and white offerings. Then they all partied and tricked the goddess to come back out, and then tossed a sacred net over the entrance to the cave she was hiding in to fix it all.

Also, to "Takaya" is to give a speech about half as long as one of the Major's, except replacing the topic of war with morality/life and death/hopelessness/THE VOID THAT IS EXISTENCE/etc. May or may not include trying to gun down people and children just because.

Trufax.

[goryteller]

trying to gun down people and children just because

WHY CAN'T KATURIAN HATE YOU?

[ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT POSTING HOW MY CHARACTER'S NAME IS A VERB, NAI

[goryteller]

OH GOD.

[endless-bitch.livejournal.com]

Beatrice is, of course, named after the dead lady Dante wanted to do. This is very suitable, since she is the dead lady Kinzo wants to do. There are various references to the Divine Comedy sprinkled throughout Umineko besides that, though.

Rue is both a verb meaning sadness and a poisonous plant, but I doubt the people who named her knew any of this. She actually named herself, after the last syllable of kureru, the Japanese pronunciation of her other name, Kraehe. Which means crow in German.

[yayashton.livejournal.com]

Ryan is an Irish given name meaning "little king" and "that which is worshipped". + Evans is of Welsh origin. In its anglicised form the name means "son of Evan". = "Little King, son of Evan, that is worshipped."

Alternately: The Evans family thought it would be weird to name Ryan like. Shi-tzu. Especially since his sister is named Sharpay (Shar Pei). Re: HSM stage play! "They could have named you Pug . . . Or Shi Tzu."

From boobattacked's journal: The recaptcha for this account was "travesty is." Which is basically true.

[satisfiedsigner]

/o\ I am way too lazy to look up Kiryu's name. I can tell you that he is one of the few characters who is only ever addressed by his last name, even by his closest BFFs (whom he all addresses by first name). :( In fact, we only hear his first name a couple times.

Cliffjumper is...obvious. But! he can't really jump up cliffs. xD He is a fail verb.

[wolfofmibu]

/goes to look for you :P

Kiryu: temporary residence; sojourn
atmospheric current; air current; air flow

... didn't get any words in kanji for Kyosuke xD;

[squad6lt.livejournal.com]

Wow. I can't fine a meaning for Renji anywhere. I've searched at least a dozen sites. It's almost as if Tite Kubo threw together some random kanji that worked. I finally put it through a kanji translator and got "love is the next..." I could not make this up even if I tried.

This is the kanji if you guys want to try this out for yourselves. 恋次.

Most crazy recaptcha... I think I got something related to Leeron Jenkins once. (Note to the recaptcha people. Never cross World of Warcraft and Gurren Lagann.)

[wolfofmibu]

Renji:
range; stove
latticework
copula


no I am not bored stop looking at me like that

[antiduality.livejournal.com]

carnage = i dunno chaos and murder and mayhem

cletus = a standard name for trailer trash

the end

[spadassin.livejournal.com]

Cletus: Short form of ANACLETUS. This name is sometimes used to refer to the third pope, Saint Anacletus. It can also function an an Anglicized form of KLEITOS.

LOL HE WAS NAMED AFTER A POPE

[punmanarmy.livejournal.com]

Metabee is METAL and BEETLE mooshed together. o henry u so clever

Felicia is a good catwoman name because, uh, feli. V: It also means "lucky", a trait typically attributed to cats, or close enough.

Kelton's full name is Dewey Dwayne Kelton and it is just the dweebiest thing I love it.

As for Ranamon, Rana is a genus of frogs.

AND THERE YOU GO.

[pacifister]

Adrian means from Hadria. I have no idea what Hadria is, so yeah.

Phoenix is an immortal bird that bursts into flames every 500 years to be reborn and cries tears of healing and sings songs of pretty. It lives in Arabian deserts or on mountains.

Quatre is French for four and totally pronounced wrong in the show.

Remus is the dead founder of Rome that got killed by his brother.

Sari means essence in Indonesian. It's also a dress. So... essence dress?

[yayashton.livejournal.com]

Hadria is a place in Italy also called Adria.

It's also a place called Atri.

[pacifister]

Also, reCaptchas

besides arsenal

blazon altman

[unnamed-nothing.livejournal.com]

TROWA BARTON is actually a take-off on Tim Burton, thanks to one of the people on the main team for the anime being a total fanboy. TROWA is also a bastardization of trois, or 'three'. (BARTON happens to mean something along the lines of "the barley town".)

MILES EDGEWORTH is a bit to do with the Japanese version of his name. To quote Court Records, "'EDGEWORTH' probably comes from his Japanese name Mitsurugi, as in, 'edge of a sword.'" MILES is usually seen by baby name books everywhere as meaning 'soldier'.

WRECK-GAR is a shortening of "worthless wreck-walking pile of garbage'.

[wolfofmibu]

TIM BURTON REALLY

[rock-it-punch.livejournal.com]

Santo means Saint

Vaccarro means cow herder

I shit you not

[spadassin.livejournal.com]