#reading too much into this

[booloodle]

I’ve not blogged about this yet, but I wanted to share the way I broke down names for my current longfic Aptronym, a fic focused on Klavier Gavin based on how simultaneously brilliant and stupid his name is.

The fic spawned from a taking notes on the different connotations of most of the Ace Attorney names in their localised form. It’s something that really stuck with me so I wrote about it.

So here is a character-by-character breakdown of their names that I have on-hand whenever I write. It’s not my full notes on the matter, but a streamlined version:

Klavier Gavin

Klavier - Piano in German, begins with K, matches initials with Kristoph. Phonetic smoothness, musician career, plays guitar. Aptronym

Gavin - G, Gavinners, Gavin brothers

Kristoph Gavin

Kristoph - Begins with K, matching initials. ‘ph’ ending, westernised spelling? Link potentially with lack of random German.

Gavin - Legacy, Gavin law offices and Gavinners

Apollo Justice

Apollo - Greek and Roman God. God of Music, healing, light and the sun (and more) sun and moon metaphors. Apollo programme, link to space.

Justice - Lawyer, Aptronym, turning on Kristoph.

Phoenix Wright

Phoenix - Mythical bird, rising from the ashes, rebirth, fire. Fire connoting light.

Wright - Right, correctness, write, work on MASON system

Athena Cykes

Athena - Greek Goddess of Wisdom, strategy, war and protection of cities. Theme of Greek gods beginning with A with Apollo. Idea of civilisation and strategy, playing the long game (becoming a lawyer to save Simon). Link with Zeus swallowing Metis.

Cykes - Psychology

Miles Edgeworth

Miles - Travel, ‘merciful’, servant. Role as public servant, evolution of character.

Edgeworth - Edge, sharp, cutting. Worth, worthiness

Dick Gumshoe

Dick - short for Richard, level of causality. Dick Wittington.

Gumshoe - Aptronym, detective, police officer.

Daryan Crescend

Daryan - Just a name, idk

Crescend - Moon, contrast to Apollo?, crescent, not fully illuminated, secrecy.

Vongole

Clams in Italian. Also a popular pasta dish. Gavin’s and multilingual (4-1, Kristoph speaks French)

Simon Blackquill

Simon - ‘listen’, link to Athena

Blackquill - Bird, feathers, writing, old-fashioned (samurai motif)

Can you tell I’m a literature student?

[user-without-a-cool-acronym]

something I'm a little confused by is that a few of the new things that are part of "return to the wyldness" either directly or in the description refer to Kai's last words as being "Ninja never quit", when those were the last words he said in the episode, but only after already being trapped in nether space with bonzle, while they are here referred to directly as having been heard by Wyldfyre

[agnesandhilda]

yeah this is a self-evident biological hierarchy. that's why we have to enforce it with violence

[podcastwizard]

because here's the thing here's the thing the question was not "would you be more surprised to run into a fairy or a walrus" the question was "would you be more surprised to find a fairy or a walrus AT YOUR DOOR" and while no, i do not believe in fairies and would be surprised to know they EXIST i would NOT be surprised to find one at my door. HOWEVER, if a WALRUS shows up at my door i have to contend with the fact that a walrus somehow made it to my apartment specifically and knocked on my door for god knows what reason. i would be more surprised to know that a fairy EXISTS, of course, but NOT that they're at my door, do you get me?

[ekko-idk]

Uhhhh

I totally didn't forget monsters turn to dust when you kill them👍

((here he tried to eat a Vegetoid, Ik you can take a bite from them but u can't eat them whole, it'll consider killing it))

Bonus:

The original post I made

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

i think "many queer people are purposefully deprived of regular IRL social interaction with other people, both queer and not, by our society" and "lots of queer discourse on the internet would be rendered irrelevant if the people engaging in it were regularly interacting with other queer people in real life rather than online" are two statements that can and shouls coexist

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle” ↳ "Some people are really misunderstanding the dialogue before the scene in the cell" | (essay link)

[walkerrenee]

sometimes i randomly remember how insane maggie stiefvater was for making ronan lynch—a man that can create reality—a man of god, when he himself is a god of a man. then to take this man and have him be not only in love with, but a literal soulmate of a man named adam. parrish. adam parrish. who, mind you, lives above ronan's very own place of worship. and is the namesake of the first of mankind that the bible says god made from the literal dust of the ground (adam parrish: comes from nothing, hair "dusty" in color) and appoints him to care for the garden of eden (adam parrish: sacrifices himself to ronan's sentient forest). then has adam viewing ronan as a god and ronan saying "maybe he dreamt (created)" adam???? like who just fucking writes that and goes about their life?

[faeyuh]

guys. going insane.

in these scenes, his hair gets way spikier than normal, they look like knives for gods sake. this only happens when he wants to seem THREATENING

but when around people he trusts like ROSIE his hair (probably unintentionally) gets ROUNDER and SOFTER, even his coat has less spikes than usual.

GUYS HE HAS A LITERAL SOFT SIDE IM GOING INSANE

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[roppiepop]

Who’s coming to the cookout?

[hinamie]

sympathy for cain

[umulata]

good news! not to worry: the match is officially freaked

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Not So Artificial Intelligence

Barbara thinks it was Bruce, with his love for new additions to the Cave. Bruce thinks it was Tim, with his late hyperfixation on AI. Tim thinks it was Babs, with her ever evolving network of keeping everything under control.

They are all wrong, but the fact stays a fact: the BatCave has an AI assistant now.

It is not very good at first, not recognizing voices very well and messing up commands, but the Bats write it off as a learning curve. Besides, it never makes the same mistakes twice, and in a couple of months, even the tiniest slip ups fade away.

Its name is Betty. First, Dick named it Bat-AI (a reasonable name), then it transformed into Bat-I for easier pronunciation, and then Steph called in Betty once, and the name was sealed.

And they all love Betty. Betty is the best, keeping track of their everyday lives, reminding them of their civilian meetings and vigilante business, alerting them of any suspicious activity in the city. Oracle finally gets to sleep for more than 4 hours in a day with Betty's help. Tim gets company when he is three weeks in and elbows deep in a case - it's easier when he has an illusion of someone to discuss the matter with, and Betty even offers him insight. Damian learns to do digital art just to have a little competition with Betty. He wins, but the AI is a worthy opponent, in his opinion.

Even Bruce begrudgingly likes the AI assistant. She is competent and helpful, and Alfred seems to approve of how she doesn't let Bruce overwork himself when he escapes medbay to keep searching for answers.

That is, until one day, Tim installs speakers specifically for Betty in the Cave.

The voice that comes from them is not robotic or mechanical.

It definitely has human intonation.

"Hello, Red Robin," the voice - a male voice, actually - greets him with slight amusement. Tim feels an uneasy feeling sinking down in his stomach.

"Betty?"

"You know me as such. I would prefer it if you called me Danny. He/them pronouns."

Remind him, who installed the AI?..

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Danny got trapped inside the Batcomputer somehow - I suspect Technus had a hand in it - and decided to embrace it. He used to be a vigilante himself, so why not help this whole family of vigilantes while he is at it? They look like they need a hand.