#Tma hebrew

[scp-1296]

Chag Extended Sounds of Brutal Pipe Murder sameach to all who celebrate

[little-watcher]

“le ave me!” it groans, sticking out his tongue. “i’m do ne fo r!”

Rustling announces the presence of someone near Ellery. Alis peeks out from behind a tree and waves, their moths swirling in a cloud around their face.

"Hi! You're Laertes' brother, right?"

- @eyes-that-decieve

ellery whips around, grinning at the sight of moths.

“he llo! thats, er, th ats me!” it rasps, some of his moths already examining the others.

[pinkelotjeart]

So I thought it quickly Google the names of all the protocol characters to see if there’s any meaning behind them. Altough I don’t think there’s anything besides coincidences, Jonny has famously been bad at naming characters lol. I just like going through all the information we have to find anything.

Maybe someone smarter than me can piece some things together.

Alice Dyer

Alice: Origin:German. Meaning:Noble, exalted

Dyer: The surname of Dyer comes from the medieval ages in England, and comes from an occupational name for someone who works as a dyer of cloth

Samama Khalid

Samama: A Muslim Boy name that is originated from the Urdu language. Samama name meaning is “Companions of the Prophet or happy”

Khalid: Origin:Arabic. Meaning:Immortal, everlasting. (This has me interested)

Gwendolyn Bouchard

Gwendolyn: A feminine name of Welsh origin, meaning “fair bow” or “blessed ring.”

Bouchard: A Norman name with German elements means "fort" (bourgh) and "brave," "strong" (heard).

(Ofcourse Bouchard is also the name of everyone’s favourite boss Elias)

Lena Kelley

Lena: Lena is a female given name, usually meaning “light”, “bright” and “shining”

Kelley: Meaning:war, lively, bright-headed. (War? Slaughter related maybe?)

Colin Becher

Colin: Meaning: Whelp,cub. (It’s giving hunt)

Becher: Becher as a boy's name is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Becher is "young man, first born".

Celia Ripley

Celia: Celia is a girl's name of Latin origin, meaning “heavenly.”

(Celia is also the name of a previous character in tma with the same voice actor)

Ripley: Ripley is a gender-neutral name with British origins. The name, Ripley, is an old English word meaning “strip of clearing in the woods”.

(My Agnes Montague Theory brain is really grasping at straws here. The image of a clearing between trees is one I heavily associate with Agnes, as she was born in a burned down forest, and the ritual Gertrude preformed to tie Agnes down was in a clearing.)

Teddy Vaughn

Teddy: Teddy, which has French origins, means "wealthy protector," "brave people," and "God's gift."

Vaughn: Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning "small”.

Lady Mowbray

House of Mowbray: so I am not good with history but there’s some actual historical connections. Especially with this character being referred to as lady, it implies they are some kind of old nobel.

[ashes-in-a-jar]

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Ref

[terriblelizbians]

trying Very Hard not to start analyzing magnus archives character names because we KNOW jonny doesn’t do meaningful names he does self-inserts and multiple michaels but aaaaaa i want to think about what they mean anyway

[dspd]

Okay but Jonathon can also be translated as the gift of Jehovah from Hebrew and since Sims is several steps derived from Simon in Hebrew as well, you could almost read it as Jonathon Sims > he who hears the gift of Jehovah.

On another note, if we want to fanon Jon's dad's name in the way Johnny does (by stealing IRL names) we could base Jon's father on Don Sims, the father of a Jonathon Sims who was born in Belfast in '84 and died slowly, in a coma after after trying an experimental treatment for vCJD. The reason I suggest folding Don into fanon is because Don is translated to world ruler/world wielder and Jon, son of Don Sims could mean the gift of Jehovah, son of he who hears the world ruler. Jonathan's mom was named Karen which could mean pure, ray of light, or antler but I like ray of light or pure for this thought process because her death could signify Jon's loss of innocence/purity or that he lost his guiding light which opens the door for Mr. Spider and therefore Elias and The Watcher.

Coincidentally, following Johnny's formula of building on real world fears, Belfast Jonathon contracted vCJD as a teen, meaning if we folded Jonathan's timeline into Jon, Annabelle's meddling into Don's death could have been the catalyst for why Jon wasn't in Belfast in high school to get vCJD because she'd manipulated him into living with Grandma in Bournemouth.

Alternatively, we could pull a different level of Johnny and just name Jon's parents after Johnny's, meaning tma!Paul, who died when Jon was 2, really lived up to his name meaning - small/humble - as a small part of Jon's life whereas tma!Sue really lives up to her lily/rose/flower name meaning, innocence and rebirth, signalled the end of Jon's innocence and set him on the road to his "rebirth" as The Watcher's favorite little boy, the Anti-Christ.

Sorry to hijack this 3am brain is spiraling coincidentally the Belfast Jonathon Sims could have gotten vCJD from eating...you guessed it: Johnny's favorite body horror dead to write, meat.

Oh I almost forgot - tying Jonathon's unfortunate demise into fanon would also be honoring the most horrific part of TMA, whether you get eaten by a fear isn't based on morality or social standing or worth. It's based on random bad luck. And Jonathon in Belfast could have had the bad luck to eat a bad burger and die over a decade, feeding the Flesh and the End that whole time, or, in Jon's case could have had the random luck to be pulled by Annabelle's web across the UK into the path to Jonas

The name Jonathan means 'God has given' while the surname Sims means 'He who hears' and I could write an essay on the importance of the name and how it connects to the plot of tma but I CANT because all Jonny did was PLAGIARIZE his FUCKING BIRTH CERTIFICATE

[who-needs-words]

It’s “I went searching for a small tma detail and now have a weird theory” time. This one is about our dear friend; Allan Schrieber. That’s right the newly revealed maybe-boyfriend-definitely-best-friend of our dear, dear OG Elias Bouchard.

I was typing his name, and went “oh that’s odd, this a very German name” so I went to look it up. According to ancestry.com it means “occupational name for a clerk, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schriben ‘to write’ (via Old High German from Latin scribere). Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Schreiber, Yiddish shrayber ‘writer’, adopted as a translation of Hebrew Soffer ‘scribe’.”

Yeah you read that wrote, the college student killed by one of Albrecht Von Closen’s empty books and haunted by an eye-less creature and has a German last name meaning “scribe/writer. (See this post and this one and this one about the book not being a Leitner)

Coincidence? I think not. 

So here’s my theory: Allan Schrieber is a Von Closen descended. Just like Mary and Gerry.

Do I have any proof? Only his last name and what killed him. Which are both pretty compelling and I think it’s enough for a fun theory.

Maybe not a direct descended like the Keays, but some kind of relation? Perhaps Albrecht’s nephew Wilhelm or one of the of the branches that stayed in Germany.

“I have located a genealogy for Wilhelm von Closen, though. He married and had children, and the family remained located in and around Schramberg for almost another century, before one branch emigrated to England in 1908...”

The other bit is we have no idea how Allan got the book. It’s not from the college library, or any other library. While it’s a possibility he got it from a book store- what book shop owner puts empty books on they’re shelf? Rather odd idea. And if anyone else who read the book had the same reaction- how did it end up in Allan’s possession?

Family heirloom. 

A mysterious family heirloom. Grandma dies and Allan going through her stuff? That’s a solid and reasonable origin of a weird, empty book.

That’s a decent amount of evidence.

This is all to say that Jonah Magnus hired the traumatized best friend (possibly boyfriend) of a descend of Albrecht Von Closen.

[iridescent-peasant]

Going to acknowledge that I'm not Jewish, so I'm not claiming the final say, but it feels like the Lukases are based on the broader concept of rich but cold families. 'Mordechai' and 'Judith' generally sound like old white names, so I wouldn't think they were chosen for specific associations, unless that appeared to be a trend for the majority of named Lukases. As for serving an unorthodox deity, that seems standard for notable TMA characters.

I see you anon and it's probably me reading into it but I've noticed that tma,,, doesn't have any Jewish main characters? I don't think? I may just be forgetting someone.

I do think bc I'm Jewish I may be too quick to call out what looks like antisemitic Jewish stereotypes that are completely unintentional.

But... unintentional or not, it comes off that way. And the names especially stand out to me because "Judith" means 'a Jewish woman' in Hebrew.

I'm not "calling out" tma its just something to keep in mind

The post in question:

[hohoemu-kami]

jewish tma headcanons

ok I just watched prince of egypt again with my roomie and was like "oh shit moses is the reason why I find jon's voice and fanon character design so attractive" so anyway here's this

jon was raised by his jewish grandma, and even though he didn't practice a lot of religious observances they still did the basic stuff like passover seders

he was always the favorite student at hebrew school bc he loved to read and asked really good questions

he really loves "prince of egypt" but he will passionately rant to whomever will listen about how inaccurate it is to the torah and talmud

later on, he and martin will watch it and martin will fawn over how hot moses is. jon pretends not to be offended

(martin just thinks moses looks and sounds a little like jon but he also would rather die than admit that he's just messing with jon)

jon and tim at one point (before all the fears drama starts) have a sing along when the interns bully jon into joining them for karaoke. tim makes a mean ramses to jon's moses in the plagues song. martin falls a little bit in love with jon's voice

tim is a patrilineal jew (his dad is mizrachi and his mom is chinese). chinese food on christmas therefore became one of his favorite childhood memories

tim was a songleader at his hebrew school and was very popular among the kids bc of his killer pipes, fun loving personality, and mad guitar skills

sasha converted after finding out about her crypto-jewish great grandparents

she decided to start dressing tzniut bc it made her feel closer to hashem

tim desperately wants sasha's challah and brisket recipes but she is adamant that will go to her grave with that secret

melanie is also jewish and has struggled with her anger with g/d a lot

plus that explains part of melanie and jon's animosity. when there's only two jews in a certain place they'll probably not get along, in my experience (rip jon and tim's relationship after not!sasha)

go ahead and add on if you want!

[grantwilson]

@you-choose-a-username-first @hilahorizon according to google translate, this means

1: Are they not brothers?

2: Really no

3: So what are they?

4: Like, just good friends I guess? They're pretty monstrous partners for life so .... it's hard to define it a bit

i don't know how much english you both speak but they are neither brothers nor good friends. they are monstrous partners for life. again, according to google translate, the hebrew word for soulmates is חברי נפש so. hopefully that helps

breekon: i love you

hope: prove it. scream to the world that you love me

breekon: [whispers] i love you

hope: why did you whisper it to me

breekon: because you're my world

[shittyavatarideas]

avatar of the spiral but it's someone in my friend's tma Group chat sending a video of them reciting the entire jurgen leitner speech in Hebrew.

ICONIC 

[azarland]

PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER.

01. ALIAS / NAME.     mainly go by edward but because i love to hoard names i’m also michael, soren, & sixsix. 02. BIRTHDAY.     march 27th. 03. ZODIAC SIGN.     aries sun, capricorn moon, leo rising. 04. HEIGHT.     5ft7/8-ish, & i only remember because it’s 69 in inches :). 05. HOBBIES.     writing, drawing, gaming, reading. 06. FAVOURITE BOOKS.     good omens, the martian, his dark materials series, perfume. 07. LAST SONG LISTENED TO.     kaladū! by auļi. 08. LAST SHOW WATCHED.     not counting my ongoing re-watches, the last show i watched was the falcon & the winter soldier. 09. INSPIRATION FOR MUSE.     arthurian myths & legends.     adam, very specifically from he-man & the masters of the universe (2002).     the concept of the slaughter entity in tma.     hozier’s discography.     the concept of becoming something you never intended to be & not knowing how to feel about it, of becoming more something inhuman & wondering how it’s affecting your humanity.     gethsemane from jesus christ superstar.     youngest child syndrome. 10. MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL.     azriel’s name is derived from “azrael” which is a variation of “azarel” in biblical hebrew, coming from “azar” & “el”, “to help” & “God”, a name that means “god has helped”, though some sources say it means “angel of god” or “help from god”.     taking the “azar” part of azriel’s name & combining it with the “land” part of his family name, it can be interpreted as a cousland having helped or as helping the land.     azrael is also the name of the angel of death  ;     while azrael only transports the souls of the deceased & doesn’t actually kill, he is still closely tied with death.

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[creekfiend]

I would love for people in tma fandom to think for one hot second why they think it is at all appropriate to use hebrew angel imagery for drawings of avatars or servants of an evil fear god

Symbols fucking mean things you absolute chuckleheads. We live in a society

[little-watcher]

his eyes are bright green and full of inky tears as it watches their face. it looks conflicted and terrified

“-אני”

it shakes its head, frowning.

“puis-je avoir un câlin?” it asks, then frowns again. “non, c’est n’a pas- english. so rry. ca n- ca n i- ha ve a hu g?”

it looks small when it asks, with big tears and wide eyes. it looks like a little kid.

Rose arrives at the Institute after briefly gathering a few of his things, quite literally buzzing with energy, zapping anything metallic nearby unintentionally. His heart races and he knows that, when caught in a certain mood like this, he'd be stuck wanting to do nothing but what he'd just done over next. He wanted, no. Needed to reassure. To speak of the volume quickly rising in his chest, threatening to spill over, split him apart at the seams. He loved and he cared, both of which he did too much. But with his thoughts racing in a crazed manner, like an animal in a cage, like the Minotaur stick in his labyrinth, he needed to get it out or he might just-

He needed to say it. Say these things, tell them, face to face, to someone. To Ellery. To Laertes. Rose didn't even know what he was going to say, not in a concrete manner, but it needed out.

ellery sits in reception, kicking its feet. it had a feeling this would be the first place rose would come. it winces slightly at their windswept look, he must’ve traveled by the vast?

ellery waves them over, smiling weakly. “he y rose! o ver her e!”

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

kinda wild that the closest thing tma has to a jewish character is like. the very hebrew name of mordechai lukas & those patients of that doctor who was using mary keay’s book of the dead to steal people’s money

[ashes-in-a-jar]

"תקשיב לי, אני יודע שאתה חושב שאתה רוצה להיות כאן, אני יודע שאתה חושב שהמקום הזה בטוח... ואולי זה באמת נכון. אבל אנחנו צריכים אותך. (נואש) אני צריך אותך."

"לא אתה לא. לא באמת. כולם בודדים אבל בסופו של דבר אנחנו שורדים."

(חותך אותו) "אני לא רוצה רק לשרוד!"

"אני מצטער"

"מרטין? מרטין תסתכל עלי. תביט בי ותגיד לי מה אתה רואה."

"אני רואה...

"אני רואה אותך, ג'ון. אני רואה אותך!"

"(בהקלה) מרטין!"

"הייתי כאן לבד. הייתי לגמרי לבד."

"כבר לא. קדימה. בוא נלך הביתה."

"איך?"

"אל תדאג. אני יודע את הדרך."