Subject: Ooh, nifty.
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Posted on: 2025-07-08 15:42:38 UTC
What is your name?
Jenni. Well, Jennifer Robinson on my ID.
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
I chose this one for myself. I've had others, but "Jenni" is the one that stuck. I don't exactly remember when I started using it, or why, but I guess I liked the sound of it.
I don't tend to go by "Jennifer," but it looks better on official forms and such, you know? In World One, it's a descendant of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, which I'm told means something like "white/blessed spirit." And, I mean, fair enough? The name is also cousin of Guinevere, but I guarantee I wasn't thinking about that Guinevere at all.
"Robinson" is one hundred percent an homage to Masterharper Robinton of Pern, whom I admire greatly. Again referring to World One etymology, it literally means "son of Robin," where Robin was a nickname of Robert, which apparently descents from an old Germanic name Hrodebert, meaning "bright fame." A good description of the Masterharper's career! Of course, a robin is also a bird. Whether you picture the European robin or the American robin, they're both associated with springtime, and I like that.
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
I... changed the spelling from -y to -i, for exactly the reason you'd think: I wanted it to be more unique. So cringe, right? In hindsight, it was a silly thing to do, but now it would feel somehow dishonest to change it back. Don't ask me why.
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it for yourself or did someone else?
Er, yes? And yes? And also yes? That's a digression nobody has time for, haha.
What would you name your pet(s)?
That depends. You can't name something without knowing it first.
What is your name?
Supernumerary.
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
Oh, you thought we were going to talk about my birth name? Nope; not happening.
As for "Supernumerary," I chose it as a joke. There was this Star Trek fic about redshirts who all had names like Ensign Cameo, Yeoman Extra, Lieutenant Walkon, and so forth. Since the Flowers paired me up with someone going by Cameo, I picked Supernumerary. Just another warm body for away missions; nothing special.
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
I'm going to assume you don't know why that's a stupid question to ask me. If I had to pick a memory... It doesn't get much more memorable than accidentally wandering into an interdimensional space-time nexus and finding out everything you thought was fiction turns out to be real, then signing up to protect it from bad fanfiction, right? Someone who isn't cursed with an eidetic memory will have to fact-check me on that.
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it for yourself or did someone else?
Since people are allergic to words with more than three syllables, I go by Nume. Cameo started calling me that as soon as I said I wanted to be called Supernumerary. That should give you an idea of how functional and healthy our partnership was.
What would you name your pet(s)?
I wouldn't. Pets are messy and get underfoot. Even worse than partners.
What is your name?
Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill.
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
I do not believe it means anything. The second and third segments of an Andalite name may be handed down from one's parents or other relatives, but since it was not possible to know my family, the agents who chose it simply intended it to sound phonetically plausible. I do recall that, since Andalite names often sound similar to Tolkien's Elvish languages, the fact that the final syllable can be placed in front of the forename to sound like "Gilraen" was intentional.
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
As a formerly nameless bit character, receiving my own name was quite memorable. I will always be grateful for it.
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it for yourself or did someone else?
Young children often call me 'Raen—it is similar to the Terran name Ryan and easier for human mouths to say.
What would you name your pet(s)?
That is a difficult question. Most agents keep minis as pets, and they come with their own names. In any case, Nume never allowed us to have pets, so I have never thought about it.
What is your name?
Derik.
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
Oh, well, my parents named me Ezerik. No particular meaning; Pernese names are unique, although they often blend sounds from the parents' names. When I became a dragonrider, it was elided to E'rik, in the old tradition. ... That is, that's how I remember it now. Truthfully, I was called E'rik because the Suvian who co-opted me into her story wanted me to resemble the Phantom of the Opera, who calls himself Erik. In FicPsych after I was recruited, they called me Dragonrider!Erik, and in the Reality Room, when I came to understand why, I decided to follow the pattern of "Lerik" for Leroux!Erik, "Gerik" for Gerrard!Erik, and so on, and made it Derik. The resemblance to similar Terran names is entirely coincidental.
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
... See above?
What is your name?
Gall Knutson.
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
It means "don't mess with me, cuz I'm a pain in the ass." Or, like, a tree parasite or something? Anyway, Knutson's just my family name. At some point, we had an ancestor called Knut, I guess.
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
Well, I picked it myself. In the fic where they found me, they were calling me Luga. Yuck, and not in a cool, troll-scaring way.
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it for yourself or did someone else?
I tried to get people to call me Bonecrusher for a while. Didn't take. Losers.
((Trivia: Gall's surname was originally Bonecrusher. I retconned it to be more in line with canon surnames.))
What would you name your pet(s)?
Fellrazer is literally right here, dude.
What is your name?
Henry Dale Robinson.
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
So I guess I'm named after Henry Jekyll and Agent Trojanhorse? My mom is so weird.
((Trivia: Henry's middle name originally followed the tradition of naming badfic rescues after the author of their canon, in this case Rowling. I retconned it because I've lost respect for her. Another tradition is naming rescues after the agent(s) who save(s) them. Dale comes from the heales in Trojanhorse Heales-Shadowfax, the full screen name of Agent Trojie's author. One meaning of heales is a remote valley, and dale is a synonym that also serves as a not-too-outlandish name.))
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
I dunno, uh... getting called up to be Sorted at HFA, I guess?
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it for yourself or did someone else?
Not really... nobody calls me, like, Hank—or Harry, obviously. My screen name is The Half-blood Ponce, so I sort of walked into getting called Poncy for short, though. Younger Me was an idiot.
What would you name your pet(s)?
I dunno. Something cool, like Leonidas? Or whatever?
What is your name?
Simon Wolfram Robinson. I'm nine!
What does your name mean? Did your parents/guardians or whoever named you have anything in mind when they gave you your name?
Ummm... Not the Chipmunk. A friend of my mom's, I think? I forget. Oh, but Wolfram is like Wolfric, and that's one of Dumbledore's names!
((Trivia: Simon is indeed named after a friend of Jenni's, who probably would have stopped her doing it if he'd had a say in the matter. {= ) Wolfram is a meta reference to the Boarder Tungsten Monk, whose agents were part of the team responsible for PPCing Simon's birth fic.))
What memorable experience did you have involving your name?
Um, I don't know. That's a funny question.
Do you have a nickname? Did you choose it for yourself or did someone else?
Sy for short.
What would you name your pet(s)?
Something like... Spider-man! Or Ponyo! Or Steve!
Gall and Derik's son Gadrik will not be taking this survey, since he is currently six, but he's named after his parents in Pernese tradition. {= )
Aaand that's more than enough for one post!
~Neshomeh