Since you've finished Apocalypse Girls, I figured I'd collect what I have for its character names!
We'll start off with Saria. Arabic/Hebrew in origin, depending on area it can mean either 'noblewoman' or 'prize'. I don't really feel that either of those match with the character of Saria, but oh well.
Hildea or Hilda, it is of Germanic origin and means either hilt or battle. There's actually a Saint Hilda, who was an abbess!
Ornea is a Greek name meaning bird. Which makes sense. 'Orn', Bird. It has the common association of 'freedom' which makes sense seeing as she is the only Featherrun sister to end the story 'free'.
Dorothea is a Greek name meaning 'Gift of God'... sigh. You've got two saints and a martyr with this name. Fun.
Sithona is a Greek peninsula. Its potentially named after a son of Poseidon? That's really all I can find. Everything else is pseudo-spiritualism baby name blogs with no basis in history or myth, and information about the island as is today. Which is disappointing.
Hollesso is either derived of the name Hollis, a gender neutral name based on the plant Holly, meaning 'One who lives by the holly tree', some claim it holds a Christian connection with the 'crown of thorns', but I don't know; or it derives from the name Alessio, which is an Italian name which comes from the Greek name Alexios, which means defender/protector, which works when you consider how most of the girls saw him.
Oliver is an Old French name meaning 'Olive tree planter' or 'Olive branch bearer'. I think it suits him really well! :)
Tatiana is a Sabine name which later became considered a Latin name meaning 'fairy queen' (which is probably why Shakespeare named his fairy queen Titania). It is also the name of a martyr and saint, and is popular in Russia!
And now for the most important one.
Elsa is a name originally derived from the biblical name Elisabeth as a nickname, but 'Elsa' being an actual name can be found in 15th century Sweden at earliest. It means 'Pledged to God' or 'God is my oath'.
Important Elsas we may consider include the Hurricane Elsa, the hurricane, and Elsa the Lioness, the real life lion. (The lion got a film made about her)!
Worrying things all around I feel.
Hope you're having a wonderful day!
-LN38
More stuff then I expected here for these Featherrun’s tbh.
Firstly on Saria, yeah I’m in agreement w/ you on none of those words fitting. Though I guess she did live in a mansion headed by an influential person in the country like Holosseo so perhaps one could argue the noblewomen bit could apply to that.
On Saria’s other half, a German name made me raise an eyebrow. Tappei seems to enjoy German shenanigans. Not sure how the abbess bit connects to Hildea but the whole battle bit or the German stuff 100% does work with her.
Regarding Ornea, I’m not quite so surely if really she’s the only Featherrun whom ended free at the end as you say. Afterall, her mind is utterly shattered and there’s no hope of recovery for her. The other sisters atleast died as themselves.
Frankly her bird association actually to me additionally made me think of her as less free given the other semi-bird association we got in naming was Flugel with his whole Wings shtick and I expressed in the past how he might’ve named himself that due to feeling trapped by his role as the Sage & desiring something more free.
Dorothea’s name is just. NOPE. Big bad. No wonder she had such a nasty fate of being burned alive.
Sithonia’s named after a Greek peninsula…? Why do I feel I’ve heard that before? Weird. Aside from my wonky moment of deja vu, the Son of Poseidon stuff does make me raise an eyebrow.
Those sort of individuals are typically portrayed as being more wild & loose cannons that are free which is pretty much the opposite of Sithonia whom is acutely not free and understands that.
Though, I guess Sithonia does become more wild towards the end of her life as her masks drop and she desperately does everything she can to attain her freedom.
Both of these tidbits for Holosseo are super neat. The “defender/protector” portion I also think fits rather well like you said given the girl’s view on him.
The whole “crown of thorns” Christian thing though immediately yoinked my attention. In this story there is legit that whole “Iris and the King of Thorns” thing Sirius yapped to Priscilla about that got her big mad. I now wonder if something about Holosseo has a connection to that story.
Oliver’s name is pretty cool he’s something that is planting new life. That fits him wonderfully given he tries to give others new chances at more prosperous lives.
Anyhow. Tatiana. Ohhhhhh. I SWEAR I had heard this name before somewhere. The Russian stuff here probably is why? Her being a “fairy queen” in the meaning is kinda interesting given lesser spirits have been referred to as fairies in this story.
Tatiana wasn’t a Spirit Arts user but I wonder if what made her mind get mushed to the point she couldn’t communicate normally was due to some spirit stuff.
Ahem. On Elsa here. AYOOOOOOOO?? These God things are sus as hell. A thought I have on this “pledged to God” timing is maybe her allegance to Capella since Dragons in this world are considered Gods & Elsa’s first meeting with Capella primarily took place when she was a Dragon.
Regarding the other Elsa associations genuinely can’t think of anything else about them I can make a connection to.
Impressive that Saria didn’t scream despite being eaten alive. That must’ve taken a significant amount of mental strength.
I assume her spite to make sure Elsa didn’t enjoy it probably drove this fortitude since her face was twisting in “hatred” just before she got plopped into the beasts mouth.
Alsoooo. Elsa’s last line cold as heck. It do be going hard.
Hildea’s getting eaten alive!? Good grief! I was so utterly correct to have said a nasty fate was in store for the girls wielding s weapon connected to a full moon.
The smallest of silver linings here is that Saria won’t have to live long with the horrible scene occurring to her sister given she too shall be removed from this world.
Also. Elsa’s final assessment here regarding Ornea. I’m honestly not as confident as she is that Ornea could regen from being chewed up in such a focused way. Elsa appears to be projecting her unusual regen capabilities unto Ornea.
MAN. What a question from Elsa at the start here. Powerful question indeed.
Aside from that, Elsa’s mental state basically seems to be describing an out of body experience here. That does check out given the emotional instability she’s undergoing rn. Tappei’s doing a wonderful job continuing to show how Elsa’s mind is doing during this entire debacle.
Not a bad play by Saria but Elsa might just genuinely not give a hoot and still keep on going anyways due to her emotions being at the helm atm rather then solely logic which would dictate that trading Hildea for Oliver is a good play.
Jesus… if Oliver survives this I don’t think his fingers are gonna be functional even with water magic applied to them.
Moving on from that depressing thought, atleast the twins have said what they wanted out of their charade with Oliver. Better then mindless sadism I suppose even if “better” is a relative term.
