I'll bite! c:
Xheja Rajhera: Â
Xheja's name is a one I made up with Keeper naming conventions in mind. I really was aiming for something exotic and remote-sounding, hence why I didn't go with any of the more "standard" Keeper names, as I imagined her tribe being pretty far removed from everyone else. I also really wanted to play around with the miqo'te 'hissing' sound and whatnot, hence all the 'h's in her name.
Fun fact! Even though everyone pronounces her name something like "zay-jzuh", the actual pronunciation is more akin to "zshay-ah". With the funny little miqo'te hiss. When I first started out with her, she actually would introduce herself as 'Shae' on occasion as it was the closest equivalent to her name. But she's so ICly used to it now and I'm so OOCly used to it, I just let it fly.
N'hadiya Khei:Â Â
Not much to say here. N'hadiya is a name recycled from this character's first iteration, which I chose because it sounded like the real name Nadya. Which I love.
Meiko Amano:Â Â
Oh gosh, where to even start with Meiko. First, I guess I should mention that her name is actually Meiko Jameson. Her mother was Doman, but her father is very much Lominsan. However, given their less-than-lovely relationship with him, she and her sisters decided to drop his surname and adopt their mother's maiden name soon after she passed away. (Something which he really, really did not like.)
As for 'Meiko', in Japanese, it is written non-traditionally as 明å. Typically, those kanji would be read as 'Akiko'. But for OOC reasons, because I really like the sound of 'Meiko' and the aesthetic appeal of the kanji, I went the non-traditional reading route. ICly, I'm sort of hand-waving it as having an aunt named 'Mei' (For the phonetic component) and an uncle named 'Akihiko' (For the kanji component) that she was named after.
Edit! Forgot to mention Meiko's 'alias' amongst those in the Rogues' Guild and mostly the Lominsan underground. She's known by the moniker 'Lightfoot' amongst those circles, because - surprise - she's so skilled as creeping about.
Xheja Rajhera: Â
Xheja's name is a one I made up with Keeper naming conventions in mind. I really was aiming for something exotic and remote-sounding, hence why I didn't go with any of the more "standard" Keeper names, as I imagined her tribe being pretty far removed from everyone else. I also really wanted to play around with the miqo'te 'hissing' sound and whatnot, hence all the 'h's in her name.
Fun fact! Even though everyone pronounces her name something like "zay-jzuh", the actual pronunciation is more akin to "zshay-ah". With the funny little miqo'te hiss. When I first started out with her, she actually would introduce herself as 'Shae' on occasion as it was the closest equivalent to her name. But she's so ICly used to it now and I'm so OOCly used to it, I just let it fly.
N'hadiya Khei:Â Â
Not much to say here. N'hadiya is a name recycled from this character's first iteration, which I chose because it sounded like the real name Nadya. Which I love.
Meiko Amano:Â Â
Oh gosh, where to even start with Meiko. First, I guess I should mention that her name is actually Meiko Jameson. Her mother was Doman, but her father is very much Lominsan. However, given their less-than-lovely relationship with him, she and her sisters decided to drop his surname and adopt their mother's maiden name soon after she passed away. (Something which he really, really did not like.)
As for 'Meiko', in Japanese, it is written non-traditionally as 明å. Typically, those kanji would be read as 'Akiko'. But for OOC reasons, because I really like the sound of 'Meiko' and the aesthetic appeal of the kanji, I went the non-traditional reading route. ICly, I'm sort of hand-waving it as having an aunt named 'Mei' (For the phonetic component) and an uncle named 'Akihiko' (For the kanji component) that she was named after.
Edit! Forgot to mention Meiko's 'alias' amongst those in the Rogues' Guild and mostly the Lominsan underground. She's known by the moniker 'Lightfoot' amongst those circles, because - surprise - she's so skilled as creeping about.
