...cool.
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - NarbonicOkay, now for all you people (read: probably Matrix) who know Japanese.
For my Higurashi fanfic, I need a good arc name. It's going to be a two-word portmanteau. Pick the combo that sounds coolest or most interesting in Japanese (romajin, to be exact).
- First word: fake, false, illusory, unknown, lieing, untrustworthy, different
- Second word: friend, brother, lover, crush
edited 2nd Nov '09 6:20:58 PM by Thnikkafan
Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.I am feeling pretty good about myself right now as a creative person! For Na No Wri Mo right now, I am writing an idea I tosed into the Pitch Testing Zone a while ago, called "Always A Hero." General premise: Hero from our world who was given Victory-Guided Amnesia several years ago is suddenly needed to save the world from the Big Bad again because he got a can-opener. The original, unseen adventure was a Cliché Storm, while this new one is an Affectionate Parody.
Anyway, in there (and up until today), Big Bad was operating under the generic name of Thanatos. Even for a Troperiffic original adventure, that was kind of... lame. But the Exposition Fairy was explaining most of our premise today. He needed a rename, fast! I wrote him talking about Thanatos, Lord of Rot while trying to come up with at least a better villain name...
...And suddenly thought of one, and derailed it. As it turns out, Mr. Exposition, Boysenberry, just went off on a tangent. Thanatos, Lord of Rot (or, as friends call him, Than) uses his exquisite knowledge of death and decay to be the kingdom's best forensic sorcerer and a decorated detective.
The actual Big Bad is named Arabesque, the Elegant Seam. He can control patterns in cloth and thread. So, for example, he can make a tapestry into a Portal Picture. Oh, and if there's, say, a pair of hands on your shirt, he can make them reach up from the fabric and strangle you. That sort of thing.
So, for example, all the tailors have been run out of the kingdom, and the heroine is nearly run out by her former admirers at first because she wears a shirt into the First Town with a pair of eyes on it. I am operating under the principle that I hate it when children sleep.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada@Freezair For A Limited Time: That sounds pretty awesome.
edited 2nd Nov '09 7:32:19 PM by Nyktos
I guess it is.@Moony: First Episode Spoilers, if that. If I really wanted to spoiler you, I'd write something about how haha, you actually highlighted this.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaPft. William, you enhance the forum.
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Hey peeps.
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic