The "What's a good name for this?" thread

Unless this half-breed variant is common I don't really see why it needs a special name.

Brainstorming request. Topic: Alternative names for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, within the context of two What If? scenarios

1. The United States of America has become the United States of the Americas — and, for the record, all is not well in the Union (it's kinda like Front Mission, where the rich North America is arguably the one that reaps the lion's share of the benefits, leaving the poorer South America in the dust... and leading to a persistent rebellion in Venezuela a few decades later).

2. The CIA is put through extensive reforms (partly to deal with the many controversial things that they do get bad rep for in real life), as part of a larger reorgnization plan for the whole US Intelligence Community that came about in the wake of a persistent Fallen States of America situation (no longer the biggest and baddest boy in the world community, and a second Civil War that ended with the Union becoming considerably decentralized).

edited 16th May '14 5:38:42 PM by MarqFJA

Integrated Security Office?

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edited 26th Aug '14 11:40:04 PM by Eagal

Imke Thijs Hup.

A German-Dutch-Singapore mix.

Or, even more obvious, Imma Kit Hup.

edited 21st May '14 6:50:18 PM by Poisonarrow

I have two questions:
(1) What gender does the writer want to be read as (if they don't consider this important, what gender are they or do you think them likely to pick)?
(2) Does the writer specialise in any particular field of journalism? (War, inner-city crime, politics, environment, etc.)

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edited 26th Aug '14 11:39:55 PM by Eagal

Hmm... At the moment my only suggestions are "Imogen Trepid" and "Innis Ight". (In case they aren't clear: ImogeN Trepid and "Insight".)

edited 23rd May '14 7:40:24 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

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edited 26th Aug '14 11:39:48 PM by Eagal

Does "paranoetic" — derived from Greek para- "above, from, beside" and noetic "mental" (from noos "mind") — look/sound like an appropiately scientific neologism for a person with scientifically detectable and quantifiable form of Psychic Powers?

edited 24th May '14 11:43:16 AM by MarqFJA

To be honest? No. Psychic powers are not really what I think of at "para-mind".

OK. Honestly, I just found out that the same combination of words results in an already existing word that would probably cast too much negative light on the term. Any suggestions for alternatives? "Esper" and "psionic" are kinda overused and perhaps already loaded with their own connotations, expectations, etc. FWIW, these psychics are more or less modelled after ACertainMagicalIndex's Espers, who are simply any superpowered human being whose superpowers do not derive from Magic, and always involve the generation of a scientifically detectable energy field (implied to be either generated or influenced by the central nervous system) that apparently performs minor Reality Warping in accordance to the user's "personal reality" ^note In effect, said "personal reality" only affects changes to laws of nature to allow the Esper's powers to work the way we see them work, implicitly explaining why, for example, the completely normal human protagonist can do impossible-in-real-life close-call dodges of sudden lightning-bolt attacks by the resident Electromaster.

edited 24th May '14 11:56:44 AM by MarqFJA

Here's a glossary of real-life psychic terms. There doesn't appear to be one for psychic powers other than "psychic abilities," which is slightly more scientific. However, there is this (from Wikipedia's Parapsychology page):

edited 24th May '14 12:22:49 PM by Discar

How about "Gnosis", "Gnostic", or some variant thereof? The setting has a lot of religious themes and symbolism — some meaningful, some just for Rule of Cool — and it would also evoke irony given that there's a Magic Versus Science conflict going on, and while the term does literally mean "of knowledge", it's a term of largely occult, religious, or spiritualistic use that is being applied to the Science side's counterpart to the Magic side's mages (which, of course, is where the aforementioned occult, religious, and spiritualistic elements belong to). There's also the fact that "gnosis" is used in some Post Modern Magick traditions [1].

edited 24th May '14 1:33:29 PM by MarqFJA

What about "extranoesis"/"extranoetic"—(something along the lines of "outside-mind")—intended to indicate the mind having a direct effect on the outside world?

edited 24th May '14 2:54:35 PM by ArsThaumaturgis

A name for a villain, associated with the color gold, who is described as looking angelic. He's the embodiment of Light is not Good, there are lots of sun/ light motifs going on with him. I've described him in more detail over at the villain critique thread, here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13503408720A04680100&page=19#471

Aurum, Uriel, Urim, Thummium, and Raphael is assosciated with the sun.

The others mean Gold, Light of god, Light, and Sunlight respectively.

Some name based on a foreign word for gold (French or, Spanish oro, Latin aurum, and so on). Perhaps "Orville"?

edited 29th May '14 11:35:13 AM by Blueeyedrat

El Dorado?

Perhaps "The Radiant One"?

Auriole? Derives from 'golden', means 'halo'.

Aureus can work too.

There's always the obvious (Lucifer), too, of course. :P

And the modern Greek word for gold is chrysós, a variation of which might also work for the 'angelic' part... From Wiktionary;

edited 1st Jun '14 8:39:30 AM by ManInGray

Oh! Chrysaor was the son of Medusa and brother of Pegasus.