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"Yes, I do. I've been playing for about five years. I like playing folk music. Especially Irish." (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 19:13:51 UTC
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"Nice to meet you!" said Mina. by
on 2022-05-02 18:53:48 UTC
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"Do you play violin?" She nodded towards the violin case.
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"I'm Rebecca. I've never thought of naming an instrument, I guess." (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:46:22 UTC
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"What else would I name it?" (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:36:12 UTC
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Mina looked puzzled. "Anyway, what's your name?"
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Howl's Moving Castle? Yes! Someone else has read it! (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:34:30 UTC
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"But why would you name it that if it isn't fluffy?" Rebecca asked her. (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:32:10 UTC
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((I just realized that i forgot to add the references. Here they are.)) by
on 2022-05-02 18:31:20 UTC
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References:
(Most of these are phonetic spellings. I’m willing to change them if they don’t fit the naming system.)
[1] Narnia
[2] Howl’s Moving Castle
[3] Terraria
[4] No Man’s Sky
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"No, scales, of course. Why would I have it covered in fur?" (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:28:02 UTC
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"You named a guitar Flurffles? It isn't covered in fur, is it?" Rebecca wasn't sure... by
on 2022-05-02 18:25:11 UTC
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... what to make of that.
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"A wise course of action," said Linstar. (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:24:13 UTC
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"Cool!" said Mina. by
on 2022-05-02 18:22:06 UTC
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"I'm Mina, department of Floaters, RC -?. And this," she nodded towards the guitar case she was carrying. "Is my guitar, Flurffles."
((Yup, she named her guitar.))
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I love it! (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 18:19:38 UTC
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So instead of Sable, on a bend sinister argent, an open book proper, would it be a bar or something? (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 17:51:23 UTC
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"I will take you there, for my friendship with you," she answered. "How long must I wait for you... by
on 2022-05-02 17:37:53 UTC
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... once we land on Weab?"
"I think we can do it in 2 days if nothing goes wrong. It may be 3 or 4 days if we are delayed. My plan is to sneak into the castle, do the job, and get the heck out of there," said Claire
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I mean, it could be? by
on 2022-05-02 17:33:34 UTC
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But I work in Flagmaker Junior Plus because I have the artistic talent of a dead gecko, so I tend to go more abstract in my depictions of charges.
Flags do still have fields and blazons, though. =]
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"Yes, I am. Hopefully it'll be better than the one I was in at school, but I don't know." (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 16:20:46 UTC
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Can't be worse than my backstory. by
on 2022-05-02 15:17:12 UTC
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Nice. I especially liked the shield.
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*scribbles* by
on 2022-05-02 14:53:48 UTC
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The Wizard of Math is a strange knight indeed, with a half cloak, bright red shoes, and an odd long sleeve shirt with a red vest over it. Their brown hair touched their horse and then some, and their brown eyes looked around the scene.
"Do you happen to know where the Library is?" they asked a passerby. "The nearest one, if you could?"
"That would be down in Barony Neshomeh," said the passerby. "That is about directly south of here, two hours on horseback."
"Thank you," they said.
A strange knight indeed. They come from Heroes of the Robots Acadmia¹, back when it was Heroes of the Robots. It was a pleasant land, with all kinds of people, including those made of metal that towered above the normalfolk. There, the Wizard was merely known by their name given at their birth: Kittyauthor. Everything was as peaceful as it could be.
Until, of course, the Marizu attacked.
It came all at once. Some ran to the neighbor country, Robots Primary². Kittyauthor tried, but they were caught by some of the Marizu. Unlike some, Kittyauthor was actually covinced to join them in their conquest. The Marizu were just like Kittyauthor, they said. Working people from many nations. Some came from Tivit, had seen the Marizu get murdered (although from what, Kittyauthor didn't know), and had gone to the Marizu League willingly. Others came from many other lands, some invaded by the Marizu, some not. All agreed, however, that the Marizu's forces were required to change the nation they lived in for the better.
Kittyauthor, fully convinced, joined them willingly and was granted a shield with a coat of arms on it.
"What are these strange colors?" they asked.
"Well, the background is vantasable, the dragon Orzure, and the border is a color called Arghent," someone said. "All together, it is an oval shield, Vantasable, a dragon rampant Orzure; a bordure Arghent."
"Interesting," Kittyauthor said.
"You also get this," the someone said. They led a snow wolf out to Kittyauthor. "This is Snowy. Take care of her."
"I will," they said.
The nation, under the Marizu, changed to Heroes of the Robots Acadmia for reasons unrelated to the Marizu's leadership. Disgusted, Kittyauthor asked for a transfer to a different nation under the League. It was granted, unsurprisingly, and Kittyauthor was transfered to a base in The Dwelling of the Crescents³, where insistently not-undead beings roamed and played with the elements. Kittyauthor was also disgusted and got transfered back to Heroes of the Robots Acadmia to fight against a nation called "Union of Plort." Disgusted at the trickery tatics the Marizu was using, they hid until the conflict ended, then ran off in the direction of the Plort army.
They ran into a knight (whose name they never got), who at first acted defensive, seeing Kittyauthor's shield. But Kittyauthor said that they came in peace and threw down their Marizu shield and unnamed glittery sword.
"I don't want to be a knight of Marizu," they said. "I'm disgusted by their tactics. They fight with trickery; they seem to invade innocent nations 'for the better' but my homeland is worse off; they have nations that praise less virtuous values. I don't want to be with them."
"Some of our nations don't have the best values," said the knight. "You fled battle, did you not?"
Frustrated, Kittyauthor left.
After this, they changed their name (unoffically, sort of) to Wizard of Math and wandered off to another nation called "Me'Towpe'ah"⁴ and was a merely civilian there. They met David Null there, and they obtained a horse. They exchanged their Marizu clothes for the more fitting plain clothes they have now. The wizard offered David a job as their servant, which he accepted begrudgingly.
Me'Towpe'ah, for a while, was a neutral nation, siding with no dominant power. Both Marizu and members of the Plort stayed there when needed. The wizard had discussed with some of the members of the Plort nation They asked to go with the Plort army back to their home nation. The request was accepted. So they did.
They settled in a shack somewhere in the Confederation of Diskord before alerting the barons of their presence and their peace, which caused much confusion, as the barons intially thought they were someone else (another knight^). They were eventually knighted by Baron Na'Shirah and spends most of their time traveling with their servant.
Their new coat of arms references their old coat of arms and is as follows: Shield, per bend sable and argent; a dragon dormant agrent in sinister chief; a lion dormant sable in dexter base.ⁿ
Snowy had wandered off after the Wizard of Math left the Marizu.
¹ Rescue Bots Academy
² Transformers Prime (following off of the Robot trend)
³ House of Night (Dwelling for house, and Crescents to represent the marks the Vampyres wear)
⁴ Miitopia (this is just spelled like it sounds. Feel free to change it!)
^ In reference to the fact that I joined Discord before I joined the Board and was mistaken for another member named Kitty.
ⁿ I used a website, but hS can remake if he wants. Here is the site.
A lot of this story references bits in my own life leading up to the PPC.
Joining the Marizu, but not fighting: My love for some badfics (after all, that's how I found out about the PPC: looking for more badfic).
Snowy the snow wolf: My first every OC. She was a Mary Sue (but also a vampire. I changed it to a wolf because it made more sense).
Disgust in two nations (Hero of the Robots Acadmia, The Dwelling of the Crescents): Me hating Rescue Bot Academy (former) and me realizing that my once-favorite series sucks (latter).
Not wanting to fight with the Marizu, but being called a coward by another knight: I took a break from the PPC for some months before coming back. In this time, I neither read fanfic nor wrote missions (I didn't have Permission at that time). I, effectively, fled.
The Me'Towpe'ah thing, rebranding under a different name: I came back to the PPC and realized how nicknames worked on Discord.
Settling without alerting anyone: I joined Discord before making an introduction post.
"Spends most of their time traveling": The vagueness represents me not publishing finished missions, either due to no betas or I don't want to publish it right yet. The traveling represents, well, writing missions.
I hope I didn't shpx up the canon. I think I'm good? I might not be? I did wiki walk for quite a bit.
Oh! And the design (I keep calling it a coat of arms) represents things. The black and white represents the black and white thinking that the Wizard of Math once held, but, with Argent meaning silver, it also means that they think the Plort is not necessarily an entirely good nation, but the Marizu messing everything up, so they fight against the Marizu. The dormant dragon represent the past as a bad writer. It is asleep because I still write bad things, in my opnion. The lion is there to represent bravery. It is asleep because
it looks coolI sometimes am not brave enough to write a mission over some of the badfic I run into.I hope this is good, honestly.
-kA
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Oh, nice! (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 14:30:29 UTC
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Er, no it doesn't? by
on 2022-05-02 06:06:10 UTC
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The statement that the name is used among speakers of English and Dutch doesn't imply that is isn't used among speakers of other languages—especially a very closely related language like German. It might be less common, but Google around a bit and you'll find it comes up as a German name or name element, too. I like Behind the Name because it's more scholarly than the gajillion shlocky baby-name sites out there and doesn't hide the information behind a pay wall, but it doesn't know everything. {= )
~Neshomeh
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The page says it's only used in English and Dutch, by
on 2022-05-02 04:15:22 UTC
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but not gonna lie, Wil Schönheit looks sexy.
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Agreed. by
on 2022-05-02 03:08:58 UTC
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And, can confirm that W is pronounced like V in German, and OE is an acceptable substitute for Ö if you can't or choose not to render letters with umlauts. If they're using a strictly English alphabet for romanizations, that makes sense.
I'll add that Wil with one L is a valid name, though not as common as Will with two Ls, so the fully Deutsch-ified name could simply be Wil Schönheit.
... I miss Hieronymus Graubart. An actual German person would be nice to have on hand right now. I'm pretty confident, but I don't actually speak the language, so... sigh.
~Neshomeh
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Very spiffy! Thank you, hS! (nm) by
on 2022-05-02 02:28:41 UTC
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I think Schönheit is fine. by
on 2022-05-02 01:59:14 UTC
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That’s the same issue with Viktor versus Victor — one is closer to the spelling in the character’s language and the other is an anglicisation. As for Vil — iirc German pronounces “w” like “v”, so Wilhelm as the actual name would also make sense. It’s not necessarily canon if you’re strictly considering canon to be what the developers have decided are the official spellings, but in considering a fic’s authorial intent and style, it wouldn’t be a misspelling either.
Edited to get rid of a bit of irony in misspelling “misspelling” 😅