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True, but he was the closest one would get to an angsty antihero :)

Heh. Blades would probably be like "ooo dolphin alt-form! Why can't I have an alt-form like that?" Because the Narrative Laws say so, Blades And yeah, Salvage is Blurr's friend but also occasionally gets 100% fed up with him. Fairly occasionally. I could see funny either way

catches the mini Blur that I created

Also, on the note of Vigil: I know it was probably listed, but he was meant to be a safety controller for Griffin Rock, meant to help keep the island safe. It was the mayor's fault why he is like he is: a control freak. Had the mayor let Doc Greene configure Vigil to less than 100% safety rating, Vigil wouldn't be an enemy (at least, in my eyes), so it's partly the mayor's fault. He could've been a help, but no. So a redemption could totally happen.

Also, the second (and last? Maybe?) episode Vigil appears in, he jumps from tech to tech and isn't in his console, but this sacrifices his sanity ability to control everything... and probably his redemption, too.

For a redemption fic, I'm thinking, after Vigil powers down, instead of throwing him to the Island of Misfit Tech, he's reprogammed (slightly) to want less than 100% safety, then thrown on the island. Through his visit at the island, he still learns how to hop tech... but doesn't want to utterly make "Griffin Rock 100% safe," so he learns things. oh gods do I have another idea when I already have a million and one things to work on? Nooooo!

-kA

(Edit: The mayor might host parties, but it's partly his fault for Vigil being an enemy.)

PEPA (AND FÉLIX)
Incest is a big no-no, no no no
Incest is a big no-no
But!
Since you’re still doing it (Never not doing it)
Here’s a valid lesson
And we won’t unpack your reasons why (No time for your reasons why)
Incest’s not drama, it’s heavy-weight trauma (Expelled!)
You’re leading this lesson or am I? (Sorry mi vida, go on)
Incest is a dicey game (You won’t put the time in)
Leading to disgrace and shame (With no reason or rhyme in)
Sullying the family name (Actions have consequences, hey)
Incest is a big no-no, no no no
Incest is a big no-no

It wouldn't just be Pepa (with a supportive husband to calm her down if she sweeps the students away in a hurricane) but her entire family getting in on it... Each of them giving their take. Dolores might lay out the reasons for why she gets it, basically all the developed characters of the movie are part of the same family so pairing them up makes a sort of bizarre sense, but with the ease writers seem to be doing it she's also a little worried about them. ("But seriously though I am here if you need to talk / Do you need to talk?") while Camilo might just be like... grossed out.

PS. Though I think the idea of Dolores as a school therapist is funny and there are jokes to be made about hearing vs. listening, the Madrigal who should be the therapist is obviously Mirabel. But maybe in Dolores' room, because I believe people who worked on the film have mentioned it being soundproof, so Dolores wouldn't be able to listen in on sessions. She absolutely cannot be trusted with secrets, as we know.

Did a bit of wiki-walking, and Blurr seems more the arrogant, brash type?

I find myself more interested in kind-but-timid Blades—but on the other hand, Salvage has an actual recycle symbol on, which fits so well with Nella's/Eccotone's "let's save the planet" shtick that it's pretty tempting to point at him. {X D Plus, he seems a bit hard done-by, getting caught up in Blurr's nonsense through no fault of his own, so that fits my her type, too.

I'll also note that Vigil seems like exactly the sort of villain who only ended up as one through a misunderstanding followed by a failure of everyone to use their words. Sounds redeemable to me! He also happens to be voiced by Bill Mumy, who I know as Lennier from Babylon 5, which automatically makes him cool in my book. ^_^ It's a shame he seems to be a stationary console, but since the wiki says he gains the ability to jump into different devices, it's not much of a stretch to imagine a fic where he gets his own body, perhaps as part of a happy ending where he learns to get along and maybe even finds love...

Well, those are just some thoughts. A wiki obviously isn't a patch on the actual TV show, so I'll leave the final decision up to your discretion. Do what sounds most fun to write!

~Neshomeh

Since it might help with coordination to have a concrete thing for people to agree to or oppose - let's have the Gathering on Nesh's birthday!

And would you mind if I make Eccotone Lust Object Blur (I think that's what it's called)?

-kA, who can't get out of their head the funny image of a robo-dolphin chasing Blur while he's clearly freaked out.

(Edit: Forgot some words.)

Because I can totally see that. She doesn't /mean/ to half-drown the students - she just gets so worked up!

hS

I know absolutely nothing about Rescue Bots, but might as well sign up anyway.

Name: Vanya Cooper

Species: Human

Age: 16

Gender: Female. She/they

Appearance: Short, tan-skinned, and stocky. Wears extremely heavy black eyeliner. She has (dyed) green hair and multiple ear piercings. She has freckles and brown eyes, although she wears red contacts to be EdGy. Wears nothing but black.

Personality: Sarcastic, overdramatic, and generally trying way too hard to be edgy. She thinks she’s being cool and trendy by saying things like “her heart is a black hole” but only succeeds in being annoying. In reality, Vanya is cheerful and friendly, but heaven forbid someone see it. It might distract from her “gofficness” and “I am the ice queen” act.

Favorite Character: She hasn’t even watched the show and only wrote the fanfic that got her here on a drunk dare.

Anything else noteworthy? She wrote one terrible crossover slash featuring Eòwyn and one of the female bots on a drunken dare. Vanya was very embarrassed later, but it was too late for her.

Don’t worry, Vanya gets better after her stint in the OFU. She even becomes a PPC agent and is partnered with a certain Thalia Quinn ;).

Eldamo helpfully provides a Semantic Category page, so let's look at the category for flowers. I've looked at the Neo-Sindarin page, because mature Sindarin has like... two real flowers.

The neo-language has lots! Roses, lilies, irises, daisies, poppies, dandelions, daffodils, buttercups. Add in elanor, alfirin (aka simbelmynë) and niphredil, and glance at a few other categories to pull out things like sedge (lisg), hawthorn (tadhos), teazle (tuthlos), cornflower (menelluin), and of course snowthorn (aeglos), and you've got a tolerable set.

Quenya adds a few more - I see hyacinth, pansy, violet, clover, bluebell, and anemone. It might be possible to reconstruct the Sindarin form of these words.

There are also a few flowers that have no analogues in our world; Tolkien Gateway throws up lissuin, mallos, and seregon. You can have athelas, too, though I don't think it's said to have flowers. There might be a few more in Numenor, though as I recall they're all trees.

How you then create a language out of those (other than by directly cribbing a Victorian list)... well, I'm not really sure. ^_^ Out of my wheelhouse, I'm afraid.

hS

How would you construct a Sindarin version of Victorian flower language?

Sindarin, tathar-(?)hel, "willow-ice". It's not clear what -chel actually represents, but it shows up in Forochel, "Northern Ice", so we can safely use it with the ch. A variant would be Tathrechel.

The Quenya version would be Helcatasar (helca-tasar, "ice-willow"), which is just about possible but feels a bit clumsier.

hS

Now that 'guya has his own solo backstory piece, it's time for Momo to have one too.

I know zilch about Rescue Bots, but I'll try to pitch you something you can adapt for the purpose!

Name: Nella Bauer (Eccotone)

Species: Cybertronian

Age: 14

Gender: Cis female, she/her

Appearance: She has a dolphin form. It might be a small submarine that looks like a dolphin, but then again it might be an actual robo-dolphin a la Beast Wars because that's the one Transformers show I actually watched; pick whatever sounds more fun to write. Her anthropoid form is unusually sleek and doesn't really fit the show's aesthetic. Colors are silver and blue with green eyes.

Personality: Kind; sincere; clueless.

Favorite Character: The angsty antihero one who just needs someone to really listen to him and break through his shell. (Every ensemble show has one of those, right? I have no idea, plz halp. ^_^; )

Other: Nella earnestly wants to save the world from climate change and figures she just needs the right team of dedicated friends to do it. She is completely naive about her chances of even making a dent. She isn't a gamer and has no idea why people keep accusing her of stealing the name "Ecco." She also doesn't understand why people keep saying her fic is ripping off Captain Planet. (She's never heard of him. He must be a DC character. Marvel is way better!) Her fic is technically a power fantasy about rallying the good guys (and possibly even the bad guys) around her self-insert, but it's just so gosh-darn well-meaning and optimistic it's hard to see through the rainbows you just vomited.

I hope you have fun with her. ^_^

~Neshomeh

In other ALLCAPPY fics by the same author, there are also CAISTA, DLORES and MARANIO. There may be more, but the ALLCAPS are making my eyes swim already.

Student's Name: Braelynn Wright

Species: Human

Age: 15

Gender: Cisfemale, she/her/hers

Appearance: Straight blonde hair worn long, wears a lot of pink stuff with girlboss slogans on it. Would wear snap filters irl. Very fashion-conscious. Hazel eyes. Wears contacts because glasses make her face look stupid. Pretty, but thinks she's a lot prettier than she is. Like, a lot a lot.

Personality: Shallow, vapid "rich ovgpu" kind of girl. You've seen girls like her having full-blown meltdowns on My Super Sweet 16 because the new car she got given by her dad didn't match her shoes or something. Cares about being the queen of her high school. Does not care about your feelings. In fact, it's funny to her that you care about stuff. Spreads rumours and gossip just to see what happens. Genuinely thinks that high school is everything. Has yet to be proven wrong. Will probably wind up a thirtysomething psycho helicopter mom with a valium addiction and a fixation on living vicariously through the daughter she had with some other loser who peaked in high school.

Favorite Character: "I mean I guess Quickie or whatever was kinda cool but whatever."

Anything else noteworthy?: Braelynn is a Popular Girl at her podunk Nevada high school, on account of being a conventionally blonde cheerleader type. She's also just... not into the show. She only pretended to be into it to string along a nerdy boy at her school who really loved the show, and eventually wrote a huge, really nasty fic in which they both get transported into the setting... and she snarks about how the whole thing's dumb while he got abused for comic relief and told what a useless loser he was by all the main cast and Optimus Prime, who was also there for some reason. CW: discussions of suicide

If the above is too dark, just cut out the spoilered part.

What's a plausible masculine name that means "ice willow" in any elvish language?

One thing does seem off... The quote is not "And this is why coffee's for grownups", it's "And that's why coffee's for grownups." Tiny detail, you might even want to keep the mistake as an intentional misquote, but yeah. ...I watch reaction videos to Encanto songs WAY too much. No regrets!

And definitely throw me a line if you want more filks! Especially if you have ideas for what the song should be about as well; it always helps to have a plan on what the song's meant to accomplish before I start writing. XD

So! According to the first paragraph, we have the following family tree:

Halavadar Dorlana, who once lived in Doriath, probably.

Their son, Ailwin Luvyre

His daughter, Y/N Luvyre.

Now, elves can quite happily have as many names as they like - but surnames? The only thing that comes close is House Finwe's use of the name, uh, Finwe. (It goes like this: Finwe had three sons. He called all of them Finwe, then added an extra bit to their names when he figured out their personalities: Curufinwe, Nolofinwe, Arafinwe. Then Curufinwe had seven sons, all of whom he called [something]finwe, including one he just called Curufinwe. At a later date, Nolofinwe and Arafinwe both needed to claim authority, so they augmented their names and became Finwe Nolofinwe and Finwe Arafinwe.) So technically Halavadar could have named their son Luvyre, added the Ailwin later, and Ailwinluvyre's daughter could have had the same treatment. But it's not likely.

As Doriathrin elves, all three should speak Sindarin, or at least Nandorin (closely related). How do the names shape up?

• HALAVADAR: actually surprisingly close! Hal+avad+dar is plausibly Sindarin, something like tall+reluctant+stop. It has a few too many As to sound properly Sindarin, though. "Tall and Unstoppable"?

• DORLANA: Dor+lann+a is probably the best parsing here: land+wide+from. It's an archaic form, but that's Doriath for you. I think it would actually be Dorlanna, but y'know, isolated people, variant spelling. "From the Wide Land".

• AILWIN: Not Sindarin, but I know where it came from. "Ailin" is a Quenya word for a lake, and in Tolkien's very early work, there was a Gnomish (proto-Sindarin) equivalent, "Ail". "Ailwing" is an attested Gnomish word, "Lake Foam", while Ailwin is Ail+win, lake+female, also in Gnomish. "Lady of the Lake". Not valid by the time LotR was written.

• LUVYRE: Cripes. Could just about also be Gnomish, Luv+yr+e - hanging+smith+[Sindarin] he, "dangling blacksmith". But even in Gnomish that would more likely be Luvur, and also NO NO NO. No elvish language would ever shove a -vyr- in the middle of a word. It's horrible and I hate it.

So I think they did use a wordlist, but it was one that presented all stages of Sindarin together, and they applied no thought whatsoever to the result. I should point out that there are later versions of most of these words - Luv+yr would be easily transformed into Glinga+tan = Glingadan and be relatively sound. (By what I think is fluke, none of their compounds run into consonant mutations, so they don't have to do what I did to get -dan on the end.)

The amusement value of Y/N having a surname meaning 'male smith', while her dad has a name meaning 'lake woman' is quite high, though.

hS

Ignore the quality of this fic; what I'm merely discussing is the OC names. You see, this is a Tolkien fic, and the OCs are elves, but their names seem rather suspicious, and not only because two of them appear to actually have a surname. I don't speak any elvish language, but names like Ailwin Luvrye sound at least a little sus.