St. Barachiel ≁ Chiara Baratti (fiorebianco) wrote in forgotten_ooc, @ 2010-08-09 23:13:00 |
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too curious for my own good
I'm in a bit of a sleepy mode (will get to tags tomorrow, I promise ♥), so it's time for one of Angie's Curious Questions! Because I always get neat answers. Tonight's question is: what are your characters' usernames and why did you pick that name?
Alt Rock | audioslavery ► Taken from the band Audioslave, I tacked on a "ry" because, well, he's a music god, and he's a slave to music. You'll find a lot of my names are literal lmao.
Barachiel | fiorebianco ► Means "white flower" in Italian.
Calypso | seanoevil ► I totally didn't make this to match with Odysseus', but it somehow ended up matching anyway. Switched the "see" to "sea", and it's mostly a reference to Calypso being so secluded and sheltered on her island in The Odyssey that the only evil anyone ever saw was her (though I beg to differ; she was just lonely).
Freyja | mardoll ► Freyja has quite a few nicknames, and Mardöll is one of them. The "mar" part means sea, and the other half... I have no clue.
Hector | armystrong ► LMAO okay maybe this one is a bit of a joke. I took it from the Go Army slogan for the U.S. army because I've seen those damn commercials so many times, and Hector was a commander in the Trojan War, so it fit?
Iseult | falseheart ► When she met Tristan, she was already betrothed to a king, and so the false heart bit comes from her both betraying her husband and for drinking the love potion that bonded her to Tristan, meaning that maybe the love wasn't actually real in the first place.
Lamia | childeater ► Lamia is a monster who eats children. I'm original, yes.
Mnemosyne | recalled ► She's the goddess of memory, so recalling... yeah, also original.
Morgause | inflagrante ► It's a Latin term (full term being "in flagrante delicto") for being caught either in a criminal or sexual (or both) act, and in Morgause's case, she didn't quite get caught sleeping with her darling half-brother, but she did reveal it.
Nut | bottledsky ► Actually a pre-made journal name I snagged for her. She's the goddess of the sky, the personification of the sky in fact, and so... bottled as in now she's in a tiny mortal body, when she once used to span the entire length of the flat Egyptian earth.
Pan | pantastic ► Fantasic + Pan = pantastic. Oh yeah.
Percival | percival ► Original and early sources indicated that Percival was the first to acquire the Holy Grail, not Galahad, but after Le Morte d'Arthur, everything changed, and he just got integrated into the tale rather than being credited as finding it first. So uh. He was "there first"!
Sedna | cadavered | Also a pre-made name, I used it because it was creepy and fit her well. Also because hunters needed her permission to hunt for animals (and still do today, actually), which would mean there'd be carcasses. Yay!
Soda | hasbite ► She's the new goddess of soda, obviously, and Barqs is a soda. "Barqs has bite" is the slogan, and I knocked off the brand name for her account.
Verrine | crywitch ► Verrine was written as present at the Aix-en-Provence possessions in 1611 (which was essentially a witch hunt) and was credited as possessing (with Sonneillon, uhuhu) Sister Louise Capeau. Hence "CRY WITCH!" -- but it's not like Verrine's not already a bitc-- I mean, a witch.
Ready, set, go!