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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2012-08-10 11:40 pm

sunlightverse - help needed :(((

It's for the Ancestors' screennames. ;__; Some of them came rather easily, some are hrrm, and some refuse to give me anything. Suggestions welcome. (not anything you've read or used yourself in another fic tho plz?)

Anyway, my current list:

Handmaid: aridAnachronism
Summoner: aviaTerrorist
Psiionic: tornAugury (hmm.)
Signless: cardinalGallivant
Disciple: ardentlyCarnivore
Dolorosa: governatrixAupair (ehh)
Redglare: gC: ?????? ( my ideas leaned toward garrot, crooner, chronicler, cipher, but i can't put them together in a satisfying way)
Mindfang/Aranea: affectedGlory (Aranea). (I think Mindfang would use another screenname because wtf affected. D: aG: ??????)
Darkleer: cT: ??????
Grand Highblood: tumblingCraniums
Dualscar: cA: ?????? (covetous courter cavalier admirer angelshark ????)
Condesce: codComplex (Aranea set it up and her meenah side cracked up so she kept it)


edit: also Dad Egbert has that PipeFan413 name but it's not a trollian-formatted name, so should I find him a new one? Pff he'd likely go with pipeFan, but idk, I kind of want him to go with E and B words so he matches John's second screenname. But... zero ideas.
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[personal profile] cest_what 2012-08-11 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Darkleer: cobaltTurncoat? (or Traitor?) Mindfang: anarchicGablignant? (or something using Gambling/Gambler?)

(Anonymous) 2012-08-11 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
For Redglare, how about gibbetsCounter?
For Darleer, certifiedTechie
And for Dualscar, coxswainAdmirer?

(Anonymous) 2012-08-11 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That also came to mind when I saw the definition for coxswain so I'll suggest another one for Dualscar.

commandingAdmirer

Here via brilliant kinkmeme fic

(Anonymous) 2012-08-23 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
gC: gibbetsCalescent

(I had to use a Scrabble word finder to get words that begin in CALES, but it was so worth it.)
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[personal profile] tanarill 2012-08-29 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Dualscar: cavalierAdmiral

Also hi, I'm three-post-anon from a while back. Only not so anon anymore c.c

Re: Here via brilliant kinkmeme fic

(Anonymous) 2012-08-29 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Heat and burning seem like a reasonable thing to bring up in the name of someone who rides a dragon and brings down flaming justice. Plus, this was the only way I could see to get "scales" into the handle (as a callback to gallowsCalLIBRAtor)...

(Anonymous) 2012-08-10 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
calmTechnician, compassionateTerminator?

Angel might be applicable to Dualscar, as Sollux says they're a form of demon.

governanceCorrector for Redglare? Her job seems to include bringing corrupt government officials to justice.

(Anonymous) 2012-08-10 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
cavalierAdmirer can work for Dualscar because mire is another word for sunk. Though it usually refers to bogs, so kind of weak. :/ (Is anybody going to mention his and Mindfang's pirate names being kind of silly now? Because all the kids know the surnames they were born with, and any adults that knew them or remember past selves well. Especially contrasting with their previous (boring) lives, when you look at it through the lens of those memories then it seems like the kids playing LARP.)

For Darkleer if you wanted to go very blunt and straightforward it could be courtTechnician, which would be kind of cutting-edge depending on the level of technology when they first got their handles. Plus it shows his devotion to his job and the hierarchy.

My names are all boring but I love your stories and want to help.

Depending on when exactly they're setting these handles up Psiioniic could be twofoldAnguish, because he had a horrible life and now he has to live with the people who made it bad, plus watch Sollux and Feferi be adorable together. (The adults are going to be SO CONFUSED by the handmaid if they don't remember their young selves well, she only came face-to-face with the Condesce.

governmentCrusader because Redglare is win. Though again, depends on when they're choosing handles.

[identity profile] explodingfrogs.livejournal.com 2012-08-11 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Mindfang/Aranea: affectedGlory (Aranea). (I think Mindfang would use another screenname because wtf affected. D: aG: ??????)

Keep "glory" for the second word, but use a different "A" word to express Mindfang's...Mindfangness.

ascendantGlory? anarchicGlory? allGlory?

governanceCorrector for Redglare? Her job seems to include bringing corrupt government officials to justice.

I second this, though not without reservations. It lacks the morbid, unsettling tone one expects of anyone related to Terezi, but if nothing better is suggested...

Hmm. garrotCorrector? Works as a kind of synonym-trolltag to gallowsCalibrator...

Dolorosa: governatrixAupair (ehh)

governatrixAdrift (because to become Signless's "governatrix", she had to become a "drifter"; also, maybe her pre-Scratch self felt purposeless, drifting aimlessly through life?)

Darkleer: cT: ??????

citizensTelos? (Telos: ancient Greek term referring to the ultimate Purpose of a thing and the fulfillment thereof; its Reason For Being; the end for which it exists. Ties in nicely with the "personal desire" vs. "societal obligation" conflict that characterizes both Darkleer and Equius.)

Dualscar: cA: ?????? (covetous courter cavalier admirer angelshark ????)

covetousAdmiral? commandingAdmiral? commandingAdmirer? cavalierAdmiral? corsairAssailing? (Oh dear gog that's a horrible pun. Assailing=a-sailing, but also attacking...and given that Dualscar actually was an infamously aggressive pirate, and the seadweller tendency towards punning, that actually works well for him. Huh.)

edit: also Dad Egbert has that PipeFan413 name but it's not a trollian-formatted name, so should I find him a new one? Pff he'd likely go with pipeFan, but idk, I kind of want him to go with E and B words so he matches John's second screenname. But... zero ideas.

egBert?

No one ever accused Dad of being creative.

Alternatively...excellentBaker (much to John's horror)?

[identity profile] vesca-viridian.livejournal.com 2012-08-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
ebauchonBakelite for Dad Egbert? Ebauchon is a kind of wood block used in pipe making and Bakelite is sometimes used in a pipe stem. Plus the added joke of baking in the name.

[identity profile] zepysgirl.livejournal.com 2012-08-11 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hm...

tA:
- twistedAdvent (both of his lives were "twisted"/doomed for failure since the beginning)
- torturedAdaptor (both for the science pun and the "one who adapts" aspect)
- tellingAbstract (I just like the contradiction)
- terrifyingAmbrosia (do not eat the mind honey~)
or, tornAsunder might work? That's probably too easy. >_>

As for a horse pun for Darkleer, the only C ones I can think up are corralling or coltish (ha. "Energetic but awkward in one's movements or behavior").

cA:
- cruelAscendant
- corruptedAttendant
- capriciousArchangel
- convolutedAmbition
...argh, Dualscar, why so hard to come up with names for. >_>

And I like garrotCorrector for Redglare! It does match well with Terezi's name. Either that, or something like... gruesomeCalculator? gallivantingCoroner? (Gallivanting: "To go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment." Coroner: "An official who holds inquests into violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths.")

Can't think of much of anything for Mindfang either, except maybe ancestralGlory? Maybe to be like "NO IT WAS ME, ME THE ANCESTOR ME WITH THAT *REAL* GLORY, THANKS"

Edit: Oh, and I just thought of "accrueGlory"? (Accrue= A Crew. Pirate puns, oh I slay me. Time for bed)
Edited 2012-08-11 07:04 (UTC)

[identity profile] joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com 2012-08-11 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"caliper" might work as both an engineering and a horse pun? (sounds like "galloper")