Revelations Cycle Third Iteration: Beyond Porch and Portal

[half_life_wolf]

I swear to god this shit will be explained eventually. For now, uh, I guess I'm sorry your fill turned into such a fucked-up mess, OP.

Also if anyone would like to help me come up with troll names for Rose and Jade and a human name for Equius I would be much obliged. Won't become relevant for awhile yet, but it's giving me a headache and I'd like to

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[anonymous]

Yaay! More updates! Thank you

[anonymous]

And "Archippos" is apparently an ancient Greek name meaning "Master of Horses". Or if you're going for something closer to the sound of Equius, behindthename.com informs me that "Aquilinus" is an old Roman name.

[meted]

roses are also related to apples. not sure if that helps. 8D

[ladydestinia]

Cliffhangers are not cool. Good plot devices, but not cool. I'll just be over here in this corner crawling up the wall in suspense now, thanks.

My whining about cliffs aside, I really enjoyed this chapter! The conversations/banter/flirting/trolling between KK and Egderp (such catchy nicknames) is spot on. And it's very disconcerting to be on the other end of the screen here. On one hand, I can understand how Karl's feeling, as everyone experiences it vicariously through John. But now, starting over at the beginning again, I can really understand where the trolls were coming from.

Also, mental images of John just sulking at his computer after Karl blocks him. Best mental image ever. And the irony of Karl using a hammer asjkdfl /bows down to your brilliance and flails more in the corner

[ladydestinia]

Also, I've been looking through the net for ideas for names and it's really hard.

Jade was highly valued in ancient China, and they used the Nephrite type until the 1800s, when Jaedite was imported from Burma. It replaced Nephrite almost immediately due to its variety of colors and vividness. The brilliant green jade was almost immediately made the variety of imperial choice. It was named "Feicui" or Kingfisher jade, so there's one possible name. Another possibility comes from the two varieties, nephrite and jaedite. They were given different words in Chinese, "ying yi" (hard jade) for jaedite and "ruan yu" (soft jade) for nephrite.

Rose... eeeeeeeh. That one's tricky. I was looking through a few pictures and there are some that almost appear lilac. They're usually from the Rosa cinnamomea family, but there aren't many species that have six letter names.

[half_life_wolf]

Oh, man, if you think this was a bad cliffhanger wait until you see the ending of chapter four. Cliffhangers are my favorite plot device forever okay.

I'm glad you're enjoying it, man! I'm having a lot of fun writing it. I really appreciate the name suggestion stuff, too. This is going to be very helpful~

[ladydestinia]

At this rate, I'm probably going to carve a path up to the ceiling damn it.

Then this arrangement is going to work out wonderfully~ And no problem! It's kind of fun to look up all these names.

[anonymous]

Agreeing with the first comment regarding trollnames for Jade and Rose.

Equius = Enrique. Yes.
You could also do Ethan, Evan, Eugene, Ezra, Emmett...

There are a lot of E names out there, ehehe.

[anonymous]

Addendum: now that I think about it, "Eugene" might work especially well if he's still obsessed with rank and whatnot. Consider "eugenics."

Also, "Jaydia" and "Rosado" or "Rosari" might work as well.

[anonymous]

Post-postscript: I myself would have gone with "Jahhan" and "Daevid" for our other two trolls' names. ;)

[anonymous]

I am liking this so much. Don't worry that you aren't explaining much yet, it's adding to the mood!

Some possibilities for Equius' name; Earl (class crap showing up right in his name this time around), Elmo (goofy option thanks to Sesame Street but sort of hits the furry thing, and it means 'protector' which suits his relationship wit Nepeta if it's at all the same), or Evan (which is in no way meaningful for him, it's just a fairly common 'E'-name and I like it *g*)

[anonymous]

Aaaaand, I just remembered that you aren't only using four-letter names for your humans, pffff! So I'll just add Edward (wealthy guardian), Elias or Ellison (the lord is my god, appropriate if we go by the 'person who has general authority over others' definition of 'lord'), and back up the Eugene suggestion (well born).

[anonymous]

OP here, and sdkjhds fucked up messes are glorious, ok. I absolutely love stories with convoluted plots, and this is just perfect. *__* All the foreshadowing and details here and there are wonderful, so don't worry about it! Coming up with theories and then finally seeing explanations is half the fun in reading.

As for names, the anons above me have given several lovely suggestions and I am terrible at coming up with appropriate names, so. I am going to go ahead and second Eugene, as well as Jadite and Rosale.

[half_life_wolf]

Oh good! I was worried that it wouldn't be even close to what you wanted. >.>