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beckyh2112) wrote2009-08-08 07:16 pm
beckyh2112) wrote2009-08-08 07:16 pm
OCs, whoo
As per usual, listening to a new bunch of Vixy and Tony and Seanan songs gave me a new OC. Also, I want to write my next-gen Avatar OCs.
So toss me a prompt word or phrase, and I'll write you something.
So toss me a prompt word or phrase, and I'll write you something.
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Ursa lifted her head, listening to the singer. The voice was male, but with an accent like she'd never quite heard before. Sometimes it reminded her of a Fire accent, sometimes it reminded her of Uncle Aang's
(Papa, she thought in her heart of hearts)
accent.
"The devil himself only counted to seven. Tell me what does it mean, thirteen?" The singer drew out the last word, and Ursa knew she had heard that song before.
She walked over to the window and leaned out, listening to the sounds of the Fire Nation palace and the singer with his song. She pulled the palace's breezes to her, curling them in her hair and over her arms like garrotes or jewelry.
Some of the breezes did not come at her bidding.
Ursa frowned in annoyance and strived harder to pull them to her.
Laughter, male and amused, sounded in her ear, and she whirled.
No one was there, and then she cocked her head as a breeze stirred her hair and crept down her neck like fingertips. Airbender.
Just like her.
"But thirteen's a charm, and thirteen's a murder, and thirteen's the feathers underneath your skin!" The singer sang, and Ursa realized whoever was singing had to be on the roof.
It clicked into place where she'd heard that song before. Nima, one of Uncle Aang's students, knew five million songs. Anyone who had trained at the Northern Air Temple would have heard the magpie-counting song before.
Ursa reached for a set of 'sticks and pinned her hair up. If the hairsticks happened to be unusually sharp for such items, well, she was Firelady Mai's only daughter.
She climbed out the window and up the side of the palace. At the edge of the roof, someone stuck a hand down to help her up.
She regarded the hand dubiously. It was dark-skinned like a Water Tribesman or one of the Firefolk of the western islands. The nails were kept short, and she briefly considered biting.
She didn't. Instead, she let herself be helped up onto the roof by a red-haired young man. He looked a few years older than her with storm-grey eyes and a cocky grin. He wore loose yellow and orange clothing in a cut that was mostly Earth Kingdom, but the blood-orange armor was oh-so definitely Fire Nation.
"Kitsi?" Ursa asked, remembering Jee's little boy. Had it really been eight years since she'd seen him?
He'd... grown. And he was still holding her hand.
"Most people call me Kit these days," he said, his smile as infectious as ever.
"What are you doing here? Did your father come to visit Daddy?" Ursa tilted her head slightly. "No, I haven't heard any news of anyone from the Air Temples due to visit the Firelord's court, and that sort of thing would be widely announced."
He shrugged easily. "I thought I'd do a flying visit. See the old country. You people eat frightening amounts of meat, you know."
"You're such an Air boi." She smiled at him, and he smiled back, and-
He kissed her. Soft and gentle, and neither of them quite meant to spawn a tornado.
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The song Kit sang is Thirteen (http://www.sendspace.com/file/rsfe0a) by Vixy and Tony (http://www.vixyandtony.com/index.html).
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- Fire Nation: Japanese
- Earth Kingdom: Chinese, Korean, Thai
- Air Nomads: Tibetan, Mongolian
- Water Tribe: Inuit
This is just a rule-of-thumb for my own convenience, and I'll mix up Japanese into the EK or Chinese, Korean, Thai, or Mongolian into the FN.
Then I either Google something to the effect of "japanese names" and browse for something that looks interesting meaning-wise, or I Google for a foreign language dictionary and input words that are appropriate to the character. Or which make horrible puns. (Da Yi and Jian, my Dai Li twins? Cloak and Dagger in Chinese, more or less.) (Yeah, name-meaning is important to me.)
I tend to strip out various accent marks for ease of typing.
I'll then tweak if I feel they need tweaking. Mostly prone to doing that with FN names. Those guys really like their Zs, and their ao and u vowels. I usually don't tweak vowels, but soft Cs or Ss can be usually changed to Zs without too much change to the sound of the name. I actually probably use ee sounds too much with my FN names. That seems to be the vowel-sound we hardly see with the various named FN characters.
EK is convenient, because it has lots and lots of people with all sorts of different names. WT tends to have fairly hard consonants with a favoring of Ks and soft As. AN, we don't have enough of a pool to come up with naming conventions with.
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And now I just had a random thought. I wonder how common namesakes are. I know Azula was named for her grandfather, and I believe you named a Zu-spawn Ursa? So it's probably a FN royal thing. And "Mushi" said "Li" was named for his father ... hmm, could have tipped off Song, if that sort of thing isn't common EK practice. Totally went off on a tangent there, sorry. :D
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I assumed the gold eyes gave them away to Song. ;-) It is an interesting idea, though. Azula is pretty much the only example we have of someone having a namesake, but we also have a very limited sampling of multiple generations of a family. So there's no reason why not.
*notes, for the record, that Ursa is not actually Zuspawn*
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And yeah, you're really right about finding the right name. I've cycled through about 6 for the character I'm thinking of now, but none of them have really stuck. I'll keep looking, though. I'm bound to find something eventually.
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