06-27-2024, 02:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2024, 07:45 AM by AustinP0027. Edited 1 time in total.)
"- Talk about what inspired your players name and any meaning behind it"
So, to give important context, Akane as a character predates this RP. She's been an OC of mine I've been developing for about a year at this point. I've had other RPs I've been in, but Akane has been uniquely special in just how much I've grown to love over the years. I say that, because for as much as I love her, she was originally designed to be a background character in a little art piece my GF made for me (too personal to share publicly, sorry). As a result, the name she has, for a character who means a lot to me, hilariously is a little arbitrary. Akane's first name, 茜, literally means "red". It's a common enough female Japanese name, but the main reason I picked it? Her most obvious physical feature at the time was the bright red shirt she was wearing. Of course, there is some wordplay involved where red is often the color shorthand for anger, and the rage-induced trances she gets into is her defining characteristic. Not only that, but there's also Akane, the Ramna 1/2 character; there's thematic similarities between the two that likely subconsciously influenced me, both being stubborn, tomboyish women who have a proclivity towards violence. But I won't lie, her just literally wearing red was the big reason I went with Akane as a name, and had she been drawn with a blue shirt a year ago, I think I would have likely given her a different first name. It's funny how that works.
Her last name, Saruta, is where I placed more deliberate meaning behind it. In kanji, it'd be rendered as 猿田. 猿, or saru, means monkey, while 田, or ta, means field. Ta's placement in the name is just a common root for Japanese surnames, and doesn't really have much intended meaning alone. It is Saru that is important in her name. Like I said before, Akane's main identifying characteristic is that when she gets sufficiently pissed off, she basically gets into a trance like state where she reverts to essentially a bestial mode. Since humans are sufficiently evolved primates, in practice her angry trance self becomes very ape-like. Hence, very early on I associated her with monkeys and gorillas, and when it came time to name her-- remember she was initially a background character with no name-- giving her a name that alluded to primates just felt very natural to me. Monkeys, or more specifically the Japanese macaque, are an important cultural touchstone within Japan, so its not surprising that I managed to find a surname that uses that kanji. Indeed, if I recall correctly, I ended up deciding her surname before her first name when I was making her.
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So, to give important context, Akane as a character predates this RP. She's been an OC of mine I've been developing for about a year at this point. I've had other RPs I've been in, but Akane has been uniquely special in just how much I've grown to love over the years. I say that, because for as much as I love her, she was originally designed to be a background character in a little art piece my GF made for me (too personal to share publicly, sorry). As a result, the name she has, for a character who means a lot to me, hilariously is a little arbitrary. Akane's first name, 茜, literally means "red". It's a common enough female Japanese name, but the main reason I picked it? Her most obvious physical feature at the time was the bright red shirt she was wearing. Of course, there is some wordplay involved where red is often the color shorthand for anger, and the rage-induced trances she gets into is her defining characteristic. Not only that, but there's also Akane, the Ramna 1/2 character; there's thematic similarities between the two that likely subconsciously influenced me, both being stubborn, tomboyish women who have a proclivity towards violence. But I won't lie, her just literally wearing red was the big reason I went with Akane as a name, and had she been drawn with a blue shirt a year ago, I think I would have likely given her a different first name. It's funny how that works.
Her last name, Saruta, is where I placed more deliberate meaning behind it. In kanji, it'd be rendered as 猿田. 猿, or saru, means monkey, while 田, or ta, means field. Ta's placement in the name is just a common root for Japanese surnames, and doesn't really have much intended meaning alone. It is Saru that is important in her name. Like I said before, Akane's main identifying characteristic is that when she gets sufficiently pissed off, she basically gets into a trance like state where she reverts to essentially a bestial mode. Since humans are sufficiently evolved primates, in practice her angry trance self becomes very ape-like. Hence, very early on I associated her with monkeys and gorillas, and when it came time to name her-- remember she was initially a background character with no name-- giving her a name that alluded to primates just felt very natural to me. Monkeys, or more specifically the Japanese macaque, are an important cultural touchstone within Japan, so its not surprising that I managed to find a surname that uses that kanji. Indeed, if I recall correctly, I ended up deciding her surname before her first name when I was making her.
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