This was part of an old fanfic concept that never took off because I guess I was a wuss/got lazy/lost steam and I’m just dumping one of the ideas here I really oddly put more effort into which is what would (Wei) DW characters pick as their Western names (they were working for a company that recently placed its headquarters in the US, so they would need to pick their names)
if you’re still with me, i guess you can go here where i dumped these ideas, foolishly believing that I would someday come back to this
The bit where everyone picked their names was mostly by using a baby book/websites for baby names. There are some exceptions.
Cao Cao - Alexander (originally picked Ambition, but was told that it was not a real name in the West by Xun Yu)
Cao Pi - Leon (liked that it sounded similar to “lion”, I thought his hair is kinda similar to Resident Evil Leon when it was short)
Xiahou Dun - Johnathan (he wasn’t very creative at the time he picked the name nor trying to be)
Xiahou Yuan - Jason (Like Dun, he wasn’t trying to be that picky and thought of the first common name he had heard of)
Dian Wei - David (he flipped through the baby book and placed his finger on a random spot and went with the name that he think sounded good to him)
Xu Chu - Max (the simplest name of them all)
Cao Ren - Austin (he used Cao Cao’s chosen name as a starting point, so he just searched around in the A’s)
Zhang He - Sebastian (sounds pretty, was also leaning to Maximillian)
Xu Huang - Robert (Originally chose John because he wasn’t too picky, but was discouraged from getting similar names, just then settled for a plain professional-sounding name)
Zhang Liao - Eric (don’t think i made a reason, he probably just picked what was the most popular baby name)
Pang De- Kevin (don’t think i made a reason, possibly just went on a website to pick the first name on there)
Zhen Ji - Monica (she just liked how pretty it sounded)
Cai Wenji - Daisy (she just liked how it sounded)
Wang Yi - Michelle (she did not want to go with a flower-based name, but still wanted something nice)
Jia Xu - He actually did not have one during when the fic was going to take place since he had recently retired, so it was never revealed nor ever thought of.
Guo Jia - Jack (It sounded similar to “Jia”, his original name. Another idea was that he picked that name after watching Titanic, so that people will be confused about why would he name himself after the guy who drowns in the end. I also wanted to make a Metal Gear/Raiden reference)
Yue Jin - Justin (I don’t think I made a reason for him during development) not all of them have some special reasons behind their names lol
Li Dian - Jake (I think I just wanted to make him Jake because of Brooklyn 99)
Yu Jin - Edward/Eugene (He wanted Edward, but many people suggested Eugene because... you know. He still goes by Edward and prefers it, but is called Eugene by people trying to pronounce his Chinese name/his friends jokingly as a nickname)
Xun Yu - Charles (he was born in a British Chinatown must make him british til the end , so he already had a Western name on top of his Chinese name. I also just wanted to make an X-men reference because Charles X. if written that way. No, you may not call him Mr. X or Charlie )
(Xun You, Cao Xiu, and Man Chong did not debut during the time I was developing this, but I can give them names too for the hell of it)
Xun You - William (he would be born in the same place Xun Yu was and given a super British name)
Man Chong - Mike (He would like the sound and simplicity of Mike)
Cao Xiu - Alan (he wanted Alex because Cao Cao, but was discouraged to get similar names)
I also had Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua’s names because it was going to be from their POV.
Sima Yi - Henry (He chose John because he didn’t care and thought that sounded decent enough, but was discouraged from taking it Xiahou Dun sure screwed everyone over)
Zhang Chunhua - Rose (well, her name meant “flower” already, she had an easy job there)
I distinctly remember I was planning to have other factions’ characters get Western names if they somehow pop up, but never got to that stage.
Hey peoples! So I'm currently working on a few fics now (still works in progress) but once those are done, I was thinking of changing stuff up a bit and doing a chaptered fic??? It won't start for a while but I wanted to see if that's something you guys would be interested in! Let me know (and also if you have any good prompts or just asks for me please send them in they are much appreciated 😊) Thanks (and see you with a new fic on Saturday???)
Chuuoku demands that all of the divisions need managers, and will have them assigned from who chuuoku deems ‘acceptable’ this ends up in several women from chuuoku working as spies to see what the divisio members are up to.
id like to think some of the spies turn to the side of division leaders, and deciding the ways chuuoku is going about isn’t correct and so they have a double spy life.
also imagine since young people are more impressionable they end up sending a bunch of mind controlled teenagers or smth to do all this and it’s more of the division members going ‘hmm, this is my child now. Back off otome’
anyways yah. Have a good night, sweet dreams
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One thing I secretly like about you? It's not really a secret but I love the fact you're rebloging almost all my silly posts ! It makes me very happy. Thank you.
No problem! If you're who I think you are, your art is great!