Interlude 2: Names


HI again! This is our second interlude. I thought I'd add one in every so often. Our last one was to introduce our cast, this one will be explaining the names I gave all the new characters and why I named them that. You can skip it if you want. No need to review. (But it wouldn't hurt. ^_-)

First thing to note, I don't speak or understand much Japanese, only what I've gleaned through fan sites and/or subbed anime. But I do realize that names are a very important part of a character in most series, what they mean and so forth as an example: Usagi Tsukino for Sailor Moon means, Rabbit of the Moon a play on the Japanese legend and the fact that she is secretly the moon princess. So I've taken characters with traits I'd like mine to emulate and given them those names, for the most part anyway.

Okay first the Saotomes, because, well they're the stars. Now Taki is short for Narutaki, which is the name of the main character in Steam Detectives. I'm not sure what it means, but Narutaki is smart and very cool, even if he is only like ten. I wanted Taki to be smart, athletic and kind. All the things Narutaki is, plus Steam Detectives is cool.

Kari. Now Kari is a little different then her name might imply. I got this one from Digimon, whose character's full name is Hikari, which apparently means light. Go figure. Anyway, I loved Kari and thought she was a very sweet girl with a lot of untapped power. Qualities I wanted in my Kari. Of course she was also a sweetie pie and mine, well isn't exactly that.

Yui, well given the fact that most names in Japanese can be male or female, I hope this one works. This is from Fushigi Yugi, Yui is somewhat of a villain, however, she is smart, cunning, stubborn, and at points utterly ruthless. All qualities that I thought would be suitable, in the character I wanted.

Which brings us to Kia. He's not named after a character but rather a writer. Kia Asamiya, who totally rocks! He is the creator of Steam Detectives, and Silent Mobius. He's also worked on Mobius Klien, Complier, Assembler, Gunhead, Dark Angel, Martian Successor Nadesico, and Corrector Yui. Not to mention that he is currently drawing and writing X-Men for Marvel. He's soo cool!

Now the Habiki's, first we have Mika. Now I got the name from a episode of Sailor Moon, where her brother had a friend, Mika who made dolls. She was very sweet and talented. Also I really liked the name and it fits really well with Habiki.

Keiichi was named after the main character in Ah Megumi-sama! or Oh My Goddess! for the English speaking. Keiichi Morisato is a smart, sweet, but slightly befuddled young man. These are the characteristics I thought would be best for Ryoga's son. Once again, no idea what it means. But Ichi is one.

Which brings us to the Amazons. For them I tried to find Chinese names, since they are in fact Chinese. The only one I found that I liked was Mei-Lin. Mei-Lin is also a character in the anime Cardcaptor Sakura, from Hong Kong who is an intense fighter. She reminded me a lot of Shampoo. I did think of giving them both ridiculous names of bath products, but thought that it would be trite.

Now Si Cwan. *giggle* That's not Chinese, or Japanese as far as I know. But he is named after someone. I was going to try and work it into the story but decided against it. I really can't believe no one's asked as it does seem to be a fairly strange name. Si Cwan is a character in a book series called Star Trek: New Frontier, he is an ambassador and a really, really good fighter, who was taken down twice in the span of the first book. Really bruised his ego. He has a strict honor code but is utterly ruthless to his enemies, and I do mean ruthless. He let a guy get eaten by a sand worm thingy just because he killed his teacher; granted the teacher was killed horrifically but still. The way it was going to work was that Shampoo was reading Star Trek novels Mousse had lying around while she was pregnant and loved Si Cwan. Hey they were living in America at the time, it could happen. I could totally see Mousse as a closet Trekkie.

Tacchi is a nickname for Takewaki, he was named for his father. This had nothing to do with what I wanted his character to be, I just thought that Kuno'd be the type of guy to insist that his son have his name. Tacchi was what Kuno's dad the psycho principal called him when they were 'reunited' so I thought it might be a good nickname for his son.

Makoto is the original, Japanese name for Lita, Sailor Jupiter form Sailor Moon. I can't quite remember what it means but Makoto is a strong, self reliant girl who cares deeply for her friends. She also has a bit of a temper, whereas mine is very shy, but little differences are okay.

Sora is from Digimon also, it means Sky. Now Sora is a loving girl who took care of the rest of her group like a second mother. Just what I wanted in Kasumi's daughter.

Kenji was, I believe, the name of Usagi's father in Sailor Moon, I just picked a random Japanese name for a male and tagged it on. Sora and Kenji aren't that important to the plot and only appear fleetingly so I didn't spend a lot of time on their names.

Michelle, now for him I needed a french sounding name that could mean and girl or a boy. I wanted to keep the audience guessing. I also tried to avoid pronouns with him so that you couldn't tell what sex he was. I wasn't going to say at all, and just keep you wondering, but it was too hard. Also I keep flipping him back and forth to female. I couldn't decide whether I wanted him to be a very pretty boy or a girl with serious issues, hence some gender confusion early on in the story.

I'm going to try give any upcoming characters the same consideration, especially the villains. And there will be villains. Like Robin. *grin*


"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Good majority of the elder cast rolls on the floor laughing and pointing at Si Cwan.

"What?" Si Cwan said warily

"Your named after a Star Trek character!"

"S'not my fault. Blame Shampoo or better yet Mousse. He's the one who left the books lying around."

"No see what so funny. Si Cwan is good strong name. He very brave."

"So you could've been a girl?" Makoto asked curiously.

"Yeah. Silly author couldn't make up her mind." Michelle grinned. "But either way I'd still love my Makoto!" Makoto just sighed.

"I'm named for a girl?" Yui said aghast. "A girl?"

"Oh deal with it." Kari said irritably. "Have you watched Digimon? I'm named after the silly weak girl."

"At least you have reasons for your names." Kenji said crossly. "'not going to be in it much' How insulting."

Sora rolled her eyes. "Do you really want to? Have you taken a good look at the chapters?"

Kenji frowns then goes back. Two minutes later he comes back more chipper. "You're right Sis, we lucked out. Exploding pom poms eww."

Taki looks up from a copy of Steam Detectives. "This kid's pretty cool. Have you seen this?"

Kia glances over his shoulder. "Oh, that one, yup, it was the Machine Baron."

"AW! Kia! I hadn't finished it yet. Thanks a lot!"

Mei-Lin is sitting watching CCS, she glares at the screen, "Girl is idiot! Can't she see Syaoran love Sakura?"

Keiichi settled down next to her and hands over the popcorn bowl. "She does get better."

"What about you namesake?"

Keiichi shrugged. "He's not so bad. A bit of a wimp but he does get Belldandy. And he builds the neatest things. Besides anythings better than being named after a Star Trek character."

"I keep telling you it's not my fault!"