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10 shocking word roots the leaders don't want you to know.

Many of you have probably already guessed many of these but while killing some post time, I might as well spell the rest of them out for you for curiosity sake.

Cain- Combined with Aya, AyaCain, sounding like Iocane, the fictional poison used in Princess Bride. Also in reference to coCain
Fern- it a plant
Victoria- Victorious i.e in a sparring match
Adrienn- Fae-drienn. Some roots of the name Adrienn also liken it to mean 'eternal' matching their timestuckness.
Amaria- Marine; 'Ama' is also a pronunciation of the kanji for rain
Aya- See Cain's. Also in reference to c-Aya-nide.
Charlotte- Charmander,char!
Ciel- Means 'sky' in french
Corey- From 'corrosive'
Florinia- Flora
Hardy- hard. the least inspired name tbh.
Julia- from joule, a unit of electricity
Luna- wow im a moon
Noel- sounds like slurred 'normal'
Radomus- from french prophet Nostradomus
Samson- biblical strongman
Saphira- highkey taken from eragon despite me not having read those books
Serra- from 'serac'
Shade- wow dark spooky
Shelly- referring to bug's exoskeleton, totally forgot about the aqua admin tbh :/
Terra- wow its earth
Titania- im bulletproof, nothing to lose, i am---
Anna- from Anna the Prophetess; sounds similar to 'fantasy'
Arclight- DJ name taken from a type of lamp called arc light
Bennett- 'net' for bug-catching
Blake- catch a snowblake on your tongue-- wait that's dirty
Cal- from calor/caliente/etc
Elias- religious name, ias sounding like 'eyes' with his blindness; fun fact 'el' was originally going to be short for 'noel' but i just straight forgot about that for years until after it became elias and noel already existed separately oops
Heather- feather weather bo-beather fi fie fo feather
Laura- laurel
Sigmund- referencing sigmund freud; (sig)mund con(nal) > signal in electricity
Gossip Gardevoir- from tv show Gossip Girl hence her signature XOXO thing
Lin- lindwyrm

the other meteor characters (taka/zel/solaris/sirius) were not part of the league and as such not actually made by me. i know offhand that taka means hawk in japanese, and apparently lumi is snow in like finnish or something?-- but I don't recall if there was any particular reason for the others. shrugsville.

Comments

Ramiru

"Many of you have probably guessed many of these" but I only know the obvious ones like Hardy and Terra... FeelsBadMan

Michael Hamann

wait what Amaria is not pronounced Amahria but Ameria? jeez I'm too German for that edit: or is it messier for English speakers to properly get the romaji "ame" >< the more I think about it, the more confused I get can't I just play video games

Erikaru

Taka also means trash in swahili. Learnt this because apparently it's Scar's real name, from Lion King. Also I confirm that lumi means snow ^^ (Finland mantioned w00t! \o/)

Therrester

Noel was always weird to me because "Noël" is Christmas in French. Charlotte also stood out because it's a very traditional name, which didn't really match the rest of the cast. So its interesting that you chose is as a derivative from Charmander. I also never made the Sapphira connection because I'm a dumb-dumb. Also, Ame confirmed to follow one of the main rules of comedy: Comedy comes in threes - "Wow I'm a moon; Wow dark spooky; Wow its earth"

Amethyst Liddell and Chasing Selene

ok the charmander thing was just me being silly, it was just from char but well i think names like julia/terra are pretty traditional too to be honest there's a pretty clear divide in the season 1/2 leaders names because season 1's names predated the characters and season 2's characters predated their names i didnt do the threes thing here on purpose but i do sometimes... rule of three is a very powerful magickal principle even outside of comedy ^~^

Jacob

I can not believe that I didn't realize Julia is a pun of Joules.

ZEL

An entire month late, but yes, Taka's name is supposed to be from 'hawk' (but we all embrace the trash jokes here) and was chosen because Ice intended him to be a pure Flying type trainer at first (but that went down the gutter because he REALLY wanted him to have a Cradily). Similar with Lumi = snow because y'know, Ice types. Zero got his name from Umbreon's markings, and Eve is probably the most vague of them - it's literally just eve/evening, because Espeon is the 'sun pokemon' and pink like (sometimes) the evening sky. Also gosh darn it, I can't believe that /really/ is where Noel's name comes from <

Amethyst Liddell and Chasing Selene

o hello you exist here welcome!!! if canon can get away with roark i can get away with noel ;~; i didnt know that was what eve was for but i see! yeah a lot of this was. not communicated to me at first if ever. i didnt even know ice was behind those characters for so long tbh >~<