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Really productive things I have done today: Try to make up Japanese names for versions of Sue and Johnny Storm.
It’s hard when utterly ignorant. I poked wiki and some names websites but I still don’t know how to even pronounce anything.
Also, since the purpose of the exercise is to file the serial numbers off them for stories that aren’t fanfic enough to just leave as an AU but are using my favourite ingredients to be ‘original’, it’s hard to double check them. I mean, nobody is paying attention anyway, but in theory when I write my awesome blockbuster movie / epic 100 episode TV series / award winning books it would probably help if I hadn’t left a breadcrumb trail all the way back to Marvel.
… except is that even true any more? Properties of mostly unobscured origins seem to be becoming more popular.
Mostly though I don’t want to look like I’m writing bad fanfic. It’s not bad fanfic, it’s just that certain persons (like Sharpe, or Methos) took up residence in my brain long ago and show no signs of leaving yet, so whenever I make up a new world they’re always trying to find out where they fit. And other times it’s particular actors that moved in.
Like, since Toshiko Sato, Naoko Mori.
*picture goes here*
A geneticist striving to understand the strange new powers affecting ever increasing numbers of people, including her own family.
… I looked for a picture where she was smiling, but Torchwood was all grim and imposing for publicity photos.
She could be a little bit Sue Storm, a little bit Kimiyo Hoshi, so her super powers would be either not being seen at all or being so bright everyone sees. I don’t know about invisible force fields or destructive laser beams though. She would be a single parent with two children, and her brother would help her raise the kids. Plus a bit of Toshiko Sato, to stir in an origin story.
Recasting a character with invisibility powers as a person of color is kind of the same joke/point as being the Invisible Woman in the first place, like there’s all these people who rarely get noticed but secretly kick all the arse. And then if her family is essential to the story that would hopefully eliminate the thing where some series seem to think having one regular character means they’ve got that whole people of color representation thing covered.
If I want to keep casting Naoko Mori in my head I have to keep thinking up Japanese names. I could keep Sato, apparently it’s as ubiquitous as Smith, but it feels a bit lazy. I like Mori too, because of what it sounds like from Latin, but using that for characters feels oddly creepy, like RPF with supervillains. I’ve tried random generating names but the generator has no logic so it can’t notice that Itsuki Fukui sounds a bit funny in English. So then I start out fine tuning and end up reading all the names and all the meanings and on occasion trying to learn a foreign language by way of name parts, which doesn’t even vaguely work and I should think of something more useful to do.
Like actually writing story. That’s totally a thing that could happen. Any year now…
It’s hard when utterly ignorant. I poked wiki and some names websites but I still don’t know how to even pronounce anything.
Also, since the purpose of the exercise is to file the serial numbers off them for stories that aren’t fanfic enough to just leave as an AU but are using my favourite ingredients to be ‘original’, it’s hard to double check them. I mean, nobody is paying attention anyway, but in theory when I write my awesome blockbuster movie / epic 100 episode TV series / award winning books it would probably help if I hadn’t left a breadcrumb trail all the way back to Marvel.
… except is that even true any more? Properties of mostly unobscured origins seem to be becoming more popular.
Mostly though I don’t want to look like I’m writing bad fanfic. It’s not bad fanfic, it’s just that certain persons (like Sharpe, or Methos) took up residence in my brain long ago and show no signs of leaving yet, so whenever I make up a new world they’re always trying to find out where they fit. And other times it’s particular actors that moved in.
Like, since Toshiko Sato, Naoko Mori.
*picture goes here*
A geneticist striving to understand the strange new powers affecting ever increasing numbers of people, including her own family.
… I looked for a picture where she was smiling, but Torchwood was all grim and imposing for publicity photos.
She could be a little bit Sue Storm, a little bit Kimiyo Hoshi, so her super powers would be either not being seen at all or being so bright everyone sees. I don’t know about invisible force fields or destructive laser beams though. She would be a single parent with two children, and her brother would help her raise the kids. Plus a bit of Toshiko Sato, to stir in an origin story.
Recasting a character with invisibility powers as a person of color is kind of the same joke/point as being the Invisible Woman in the first place, like there’s all these people who rarely get noticed but secretly kick all the arse. And then if her family is essential to the story that would hopefully eliminate the thing where some series seem to think having one regular character means they’ve got that whole people of color representation thing covered.
If I want to keep casting Naoko Mori in my head I have to keep thinking up Japanese names. I could keep Sato, apparently it’s as ubiquitous as Smith, but it feels a bit lazy. I like Mori too, because of what it sounds like from Latin, but using that for characters feels oddly creepy, like RPF with supervillains. I’ve tried random generating names but the generator has no logic so it can’t notice that Itsuki Fukui sounds a bit funny in English. So then I start out fine tuning and end up reading all the names and all the meanings and on occasion trying to learn a foreign language by way of name parts, which doesn’t even vaguely work and I should think of something more useful to do.
Like actually writing story. That’s totally a thing that could happen. Any year now…