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Playing the Name Game
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Bear with me here, because I'm going to have to ramble a little before I get to the point.
Why hasn't anyone played the Name Game with Bluestreak and Silverbolt yet?
We know that Bluestreak got his name because he talks so much. He talks so much because he's traumatized from the destruction of Praxus. Before the city was targeted, Bluestreak had to have had another name, probably Silverstreak if we factor in the trademark/name-change.
According to Mark Bellomo's ID and price guide, Bluestreak can fire a "lightning-like 80,000-volt beam up to 12 miles of limited accuracy." The original Bluestreak toy is silver, not gray, so that explains his name. He's silver and he shoots streaks of lightning.
Assuming that Silverbolt also got his name because he's silver and shoots bolts of lightning, their names might be really similar in Cybertronian. "Streak" and "bolt" may be different words, but the meaning is pretty much identical in this case. And it's the meaning that counts with Cybertronian names, right?
So how does Bluestreak feel about Silverbolt having almost the same name? Is it awkward, in that few Cybertronians have such similar names? (Transformers seem to have a One Steve Limit.) Is it cool that the name is living on now that Bluestreak has been renamed? Or does Bluestreak hate that someone else has his original name? Does Bluestreak ever have to stop himself from answering when someone says Silverbolt's name in Cybertronian instead of English? Does Silverbolt even know about any of this? What do the other Datsuns think? How about the Aerialbots?
I just think it's interesting. But I'm insomniac and haven't slept in way too long, so what do I know? :-)
Bear with me here, because I'm going to have to ramble a little before I get to the point.
Why hasn't anyone played the Name Game with Bluestreak and Silverbolt yet?
We know that Bluestreak got his name because he talks so much. He talks so much because he's traumatized from the destruction of Praxus. Before the city was targeted, Bluestreak had to have had another name, probably Silverstreak if we factor in the trademark/name-change.
According to Mark Bellomo's ID and price guide, Bluestreak can fire a "lightning-like 80,000-volt beam up to 12 miles of limited accuracy." The original Bluestreak toy is silver, not gray, so that explains his name. He's silver and he shoots streaks of lightning.
Assuming that Silverbolt also got his name because he's silver and shoots bolts of lightning, their names might be really similar in Cybertronian. "Streak" and "bolt" may be different words, but the meaning is pretty much identical in this case. And it's the meaning that counts with Cybertronian names, right?
So how does Bluestreak feel about Silverbolt having almost the same name? Is it awkward, in that few Cybertronians have such similar names? (Transformers seem to have a One Steve Limit.) Is it cool that the name is living on now that Bluestreak has been renamed? Or does Bluestreak hate that someone else has his original name? Does Bluestreak ever have to stop himself from answering when someone says Silverbolt's name in Cybertronian instead of English? Does Silverbolt even know about any of this? What do the other Datsuns think? How about the Aerialbots?
I just think it's interesting. But I'm insomniac and haven't slept in way too long, so what do I know? :-)
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Seems like you have an interest in linguistics.
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Kind of? I share my name with maybe five other women on the planet, and none of them spell it the same way I do. Years of mockery, misspellings, and mispronunciations have left me with a fascination with names and deep-seated bitterness toward my parents. :-D
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I'd actually just incorporated the pre-war=Silverstreak thing into my own personal canon myself not long ago. I mentioned it, briefly, but I like the way you wrote it better. I've never heard of the shooting lightning like-things before though. (I feel like a bad Bluestreak fan now! D: )
I've always kind of liked the fact that they can pick their own names according to who they are. It seems to work the other way around for humans in general though (or at least the ones I know)
I share my name with maybe five other women on the planet, and none of them spell it the same way I do.
I almost had to check the poster for a moment, just to make sure I wasn't posting in my sleep or something- until you mentioned your bitterness about it. Definitely not me. I never minded the confusion or mispronounciation, though that may be partly because people really like the sound of it once they do get it. It's also about the only thing that makes people look at me twice.
The only time my name got really awkward was when someone once automatically assumed I could speak swedish- which I can not.
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The only time my name got really awkward was when someone once automatically assumed I could speak swedish- which I can not.
Ha! That would be awkward, yes. My name tends to cause some ethnic confusion; I'm the only one of us with this name who isn't black.