I have a genuine question. Why are people calling Varian's travel party in Varian and the Seven Kingdoms "Team Radical"? "Radical" isn't just another word for awesome, it's a very specific word depending on how you use it.
So, I went to the dictionary and I pulled up every single definition to try to figure this out.
* (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.
"a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework"
(synonyms: thoroughgoing, thorough, complete)
* forming an inherent or fundamental part of the nature of someone or something.
"the assumption of radical differences between the mental attributes of literate and nonliterate peoples"
(synonyms: fundamental, basic, essential)
* (of surgery or medical treatment) thorough and intended to be completely curative.
* advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political party.
(synonyms: revolutionary, progressive, reforming)
* characterized by independence of or departure from tradition; innovative or unorthodox.
"the daring, avant-garde spirit of the music was too radical for the conservative audience"
denoting or relating to the roots of a word.
belonging to the root of a chord.
of the root of a number or quantity.
of, or springing direct from, the root or stem base of a plant.
7. Informal•North American
"Okay, then. Seven o'clock. Radical!"]
That's all the adjectives, now let's look at the nouns.
[noun: radical; plural noun: radicals
1. a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims.
(synonyms: revolutionary, progressive, reforming)
a group of atoms behaving as a unit in a number of compounds.
3. The root or base form of a word.
any of the basic set of 214 Chinese characters constituting semantically or functionally significant elements in the composition of other characters and used as a means of classifying characters in dictionaries.
a quantity forming or expressed as the root of another.
Since they're all some form of nerd, and I don't think they're trying to revolutionize anything, my guess is that, of all these definitions, "Team Radical" is either using the "excellent" definition, or it's the chemistry one, with a group of atoms, or people in this case, behaving together in a group of compounds. Which is fascinating, but I gotta ask; why did people even start calling them that? Is this from a fanfic and people just picked it up? I would love to know the origins of Varian choosing to call their team "Team Radical" and why Hugo and Nuru agreed to it.
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