#rhodians

[classicalshorts]

PINK and an Ancient Pun!

Our word pink seems to derive from the colour of the flowers we know as 'Pinks', specifically coming from their frilled edges and may come from German.

However, there are two words, one Greek and one Latin that give us very familiar English words.

We shall go to the Latin first. roseus means the colour of the rose, rosa, that is to say, pink, reddish-pink, or rosy. The rose is a favourite flower with many, including myself. It's pretty name comes from the language of the Romans.

The Greek word is related to the Latin rosa and you will notice the similarity between them: ῥοδος (rhodos). You may well be a fan of the lovely flower the rhododendron, which, yes, is commonly a pinkish-red. The name means 'red or pink tree'. In Homer the word ῥοδος forms a lovely adjective with δακτυλος (rhododaktylos), which the poet uses to describe dawn, capturing the lovely pink-reddish-golden colour of the sunrise sky.

Now, here is where the pun comes in. ῥοδος can also denote the flower the rose.

The lovely coin above shows a rose, a ῥοδος. You will have also spotted a word at the top which reads ΡΟΔΙΩΝ (ῥοδιων - rhodion). This tells you the people who minted these coin. Wait for it...(*drum roll*)...it was the Rhodians. The coin puns on the name of the people and the flower.

So, that concludes Cool Colours entry VII. Who knew you could connect the colour pink with ancient numismatic punnage? Wonderful!

[timeneverforgets]

"It's the centre of Rhodian religion. The soul of every Rhodian who dies is supposed to go there. It's a repository for a future paradise. And a weapon. Yes. That, too. It's the power of all that life crammed down into single specks of light. It could be enough to destroy an entire species.”

[mango-llama]

theory time idk

so it’s not the Cabinet that’s the weapon, but the souls within it right?

this means that not only are the souls within the Cabinet weapons, but so is Charlie. Every Rhodian seems to have a power within them able to be used. It sounds vaguely like Rhodians are the soul bullets for a Cabinet gun

that was a fun one to write

What I’m basically saying is Rhodians sound vaguely manufactured, similar to the Inhumans in Marvel. 

Some super advanced race try to make super weapons/soldiers/bombs and by some weird space thing the fuel for the weapons become actual people, and thousands of years later the original creators are long gone but their weapons remain?

Its not the first time Doctor Who has included beings who’s entire existence is war related, so my tired migrained brain is like... 

hey! What if one of those races who were created artificially for warfare moved on from their original purpose, say the Doctor freed them, and they thousands of years later had their own culture and lives and forgot they were originally super weapons? I mean, Charlie said the Doctor was a figure of legend, what if he’s some kind of god in Rhodian culture because of something he did a looooong ass time ago.

also, Charlie could use himself as a weapon. Like he could take out a big bad by killing himself and using his own soul to take them down. Charlie’s always armed in a horrible sense

idk blame the almost two week long migraine 

[doctorwholgbtheadcanons]

Quill and Rhodians have a very loose concept of gender and 0 concept of sexual orientation, but in human terms Quill is a lesbian (and needs a gf).