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Character name meanings! This looks fun.
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Prefacing with: I cannot remember where I managed to dig up a translation of the specific kanji used for Naoki's name, and I would have to do the same for Yusuke or Shinji.
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Claudia: That'll be a feminine form of Claudius, which I think means 'lame.' Probably it means her parents thought it was cool-sounding and fairly unique.
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I could actually find those for you on jisho later
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Naoki I can't explain without also covering his sister, as I looked it up after realising Naoki and Saki's given names have the same ending kanji. Hers is something like 'short chronicle' and Naoki's is 'long chronicle.'
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right now though I'm about to eat supper
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HE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO OUTLIVE HER
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No worries, Bii.
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I can see Naoki eventually naming a kid Saki but written completely differently because he's not going to do that to a child.
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Shinjiro: Again, I don't have an exact translation to hand, but I know from Behind the Name that '-ro' is usually 'son.' And 'shin' (as in Megami Tensei) can be 'true.'
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I like 'true son' even if he can't see something that positive attached to himself.
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Hifumi I don't need a translator for, she's literally 'one two three.'
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Her mother's name doubles down on the theme and is written 'three four.' The way I've written her mother, Hifumi's name means 'aha a piece of my legacy to use for my own ends.'
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Crowley... I am honestly not sure I could look up anything useful for. He picked it himself, after his angelic name was taken from him and he spent a while stuck with 'Crawly.'
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Arachne Charlotte Dowling wanted to be a spider when she grew up and is living the dream.
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'Charlotte' doubles down on the spider theme while balancing the drama of 'Arachne' nicely, and most other fictional spiders are male (Boris), even MORE dramatic (Shelob) or both (Aragog).
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Also Boris is squashed within two minutes.
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