Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-1694018-20161124051757/@comment-1694018-20161125103615

I meant more to help others, should they need/want it, with their creations, specifically use of Kanji or kana.

For example, the Kanji given for Kagaseo would, *more* truly literally, mean "bearing the torrent of warped ego", and actually read *Kaga sese o; using only 化我瀬負 would read *Kagaseo and also allow a meaning like "torrential burden of (the) ego warped". (I like to use the phrase "more lit[erally]" to denote general accuracy while also avoiding the restrictions of sheer literalness where this would make the gloss sound inelegant, then give alternate interpretations as notes for fuller nuance.)

Otherwise, it's a very clever, homophonous rewriting of the usual Kagaseo Kanji, 香香背男, which, though more lit. "man of perfumed (x2) stature", are explained as ateji supposedly meaning "brilliant man". This is just the kind of wordplay I much favor myself.

But this is the kind of thing, in my active spans, that I would hope to assist with; likewise if someone knows what they want something's gloss to be, or has a rough of idea of this, but can't seem to find the right Kanji for it--esp. if they also have an idea of how they want its form to be.

For example, to a question like: "Is there a way to make a Zanpakutou name something like 'Onosuke' mean something having to do with a powerful blade or such?"

I could reply: "How about this: Onosuke is spelled 斧助, with ono "ax, hatchet" + masculine name suffix -suke (sic roughly "ax attendant"). In its Bankai, we switch it up a bit, making it, maybe, ono kami  ("ax god ") in a name like Mizuchiosae Onokami (水靈鎮斧神), "ax god queller of the soul of waters". Here, mizuchi specifically references Yamatano Orochi; and Onokami also recalls onokami (男神, "male god"), here referencing Orochi's slayer in the mighty storm kami Susanoo.

Thus, we go from an ax-attendant to a mighty ax-kami, who himself serves as a divine soul of the tempest sea, smiting a malign soul of the tempest sea.

Stuff like that. My own ideas would be hard to fit into the framework of others'; and, at any rate, it would be even harder to find the time to consistently pursue my own RP. Thus, the assistance outlined above, when and if I can, is what I'm most interested in the possibility of.

Thank you. Adam Restling (talk)