Naming rules on Naboo
I am tired and headachy and trying to get bronchitis, so I’m very likely running a fever. Just keep that in mind here, y’all. I am not sure how clear this post is going to be.
I have I don’t even know how many Sabedala pictures that didn’t get posted (and that I wanted to make but didn’t get to) for Pride Month because of various real life interruptions, including two weeks in which we we had two deaths in the family among the marrieds-in (a great-aunt’s brother died [she was married to one of my maternal grandmother’s brothers] and the grandmother of a cousin by marriage died). I am tired. And my sister is coming in to visit towards the end of the month, so I will likely have neither time/energy/means/patience/coherency of thought to do or to try to post much of anything from roughly the 21st until probably halfway through next month, if I am lucky and don’t have a complete mental breakdown before then. But - ! I said I would try to post something about Nabooian naming rules back in April, when I was doing my own personal modified version of a handmaiden challenge month, and it’s not like it’s all that difficult to actually do it, considering it’s basically the same LJ post that I threw together probably … oh gods, maybe as much as thirteen years ago, if not longer??? My sense of time is absolutely worthless and right now I’m too tired to actually go back and check, but it’s got to be at least a decade old. So. Yeah. If anyone has ever come across any of these ideas before, I’m the details-oriented idjit who sat down and actually worked this out, because there are entirely too many Nabooian characters whose names end in either -é or -a or -e and patterns like that usually mean things in real life. And also, saying that those specific patterns in names only exist because certain individuals (but not by any means all of the individuals involved, for reasons that no one official has ever even tried to explain) apparently legally changed their names in some kind of show of respect for yet another character (even though that makes literally no sense, as the character, herself, has changed her name in order to become what the other characters are supposedly honoring and respecting her for) is a frakking lazy cop-out that doesn’t even fully work, much less make rational sense.
I am pretty literally just copying and pasting from a Word file that’s full of text versions of various old LJ entries that are either me ranting (and therefore accidentally worldbuilding) about SW in general or me actually methodically working away at trying to explain something about SW to myself (and potentially others) (and therefore also, if much more purposefully, worldbuilding). Most of the examples are of minor and/or supporting OCs (usually family members or childhood friends of various handmaidens, some of whom are also OCs. It’s a [MAJOR] pet peeve of mine that the vast majority of the so-called professional SW writers like to act as though individuals can spring fully formed out of thin air, without the help/support of family of any sort, much less friends, and my response to this is to always, always, always establish that these individuals do, indeed, actually come from somewhere and have histories that involve families, even if they’re orphans who’ve lost their families) or EU (and/or Legends now, I suppose, maybe?) characters hailing from Naboo, but of course some of them are of canon (or pre-DISNEY buyout canon, anyway) characters.
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