#this is mostly spurred on by my surprise that lians name was supposed to be vietnamese

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someone get an asian person on the dc team bc the asians ppls names are making me laugh lmaooo like when i heard of roy harpers daughter, lian harper and that she was vietnamese i was think oh cool vietnam mentioned (i’m viet) and i thought she just had an english name because her dad is american, not a big deal since her mom also has an english name. and i was thinking “oh if she had a viet name it could be liên since it’s close that’s cool that’s my aunts name” come to find out lian is supposed to be her vietnamese name?? but vietnamese vowels don’t even do that ia thing so idk what’s up w that and apparently it means willow tree but liên (which i’m guessing that’s where they got it) doesn’t even mean willow tree, it means lotus like?? and i found out lian is a chinese surname that also means lotus so they’re wrong in two different countries 😭 liễu means willow tree though so sorta close ish idk where they got all that from but i guess just a teensy bit of slack can be cut since this was the 1940s*

idk what’s up with ghostmaker minhkhoa khan though bc i literally did not know where he was from until i googled it an hour ago bc i’ve only heard his name in passing but i was expecting like cambodian or smth central asian bc minhkhoa is painfully vietnamese (though it would be minh khôa) but khan was ambiguous to me i only knew it from genghis khan. found out he’s singaporean which i did not expect at all. random reddit thread abt singapore where someone asked abt minhkhoa khan basically said “viet first name mongolian last name” lmao and his first appearance was in 2020 so idk how dc did that like the internet is free 😭 minh khôa is such a specific vietnamese name too like they had to work hard to find that name if they weren’t just like. basing it off an existing minh khôa idk

this is just me rambling abt viet names cause i like knowing them and also these random asian generator ass names are kinda funny it’s giving cho chang

*edit: it actually was the 80s which is funnier bc that was pretty much the height of vietnamese boat people immigration to the us and other countries since it was following the end of the vietnam war so there were def viet ppl around at the time lmaooo (doesn’t guarantee that the writers would be acquainted w any but they were there)