yeah. I eat it less cooked so I want that.

cool.

I finally read something to help me understand chinese names.

lol why'd i'd take raw since i just had cooked

what is that? and any particular reason why?

Well, I haven't had either so either would be fine.

My new characters are both princes in a culture based off ancient china. (rp I was talking about earlier with the genie and kidnapping princes and drama).
https://www.quora.com/How-do-Chinese-names-work
Easier I show than explain.

lol yeah

ah that makes sense. you definitely want your names to be accurate.
huh so it's very similar to how korean names work but just more complicated (mainly cuz larger population)
though i didn't know the doubling thing, which makes sense now that i know it cuz i've definitely noticed the name doubling.

yeah. And I wanted to know in the first place what was with the given names sometimes being one or two characters and how to write it and how I might form it properly.
It's similar to Korean for sure, but not quite with the given names because it seems more common in china to have a one character given name. In the period based manhua/manga I've read, they're definitely two characters overall.

hahah yeah. definitely. i know i did that research when we were making the kpop rp characters.

well yes cuz almost all Korean given names are two character. which is the exact reverse from China. a one character Korean name is rare
cuz what i found when looking that up is korean names are almost always 3 characters. family name and given name
but both China and Korea do the generational character

I knew Korean names pretty well at that point, but I did not read much to make Hong-li's name. It's fine though.

indeed.
Yeah, I found the generational name bit interesting. That's something unique to the east and that mentality because western society would never come up with something like that.

but I found it interesting how it seems if you have a two character chinese name, you'll be called by both your sur and given name. That's why I was always confused about what the given name was.

yeah it still works. and that was definitely when i did not know much at all.

yeah it's definitely something that's just not quite something the western world would understand. we pass down whole names. but that's about it.

yeah that definitely makes it more confusing.
but i've also noticed with both koreans and chinese people that they're more willing to call people by their full names than anyone in western society would ever be.
the kdramas are really good at highlighting that in koreans. and in china the one syllable names that i know where almost all called by their full names.

but now you do and it's great to know!

It seems at least if the given name if two syllables that it's less likely to be said with the surname, but there must be something real weird about saying just one character.
and like, japanese is totally different from that.

most definitely.

i'd say it's still much more prevalent in china for it to be just the two character names. in korea i'd say it's pretty equivalent across both and they definitely do it less than china on a whole. even with one character given names.
but yeah i have a feeling just saying one character sits weirdly in the mouth.
though definitely it's to avoid confusion too. cuz on the go fighting show i watched they had a Hong Lei, Huang Lei, and Huang Bo. so like.

yep japanese is a different ball game all together

yeah.
of course. There are so many less name choices so you have to do two characters to avoid confusion and even then it can be.

Japanese is a lot easier to follow.

yeah. cuz it just is gonna get way to confusing to function after awhile

i don't know it as much, so i wouldn't know.

okay did we every agree on an average age for the marks to appear in the marked AU? cuz Tristian likes to give me info as i'm writing posts -.- and completely change the direction i was taking a post. at least information wise.
that being said. i've officially gotten frustrated with that method of character writing so i just looked up one of those character quizzes, though if you have any you like/prefer i'd take the suggestions for sure.

That's why chinese names are more often three characters now. Because how many people are in china? I mean, really.

Japanese sure seems a lot less structured. Names are more unique.

Uh, I thought we did it as a puberty thing and that it didn't have a set age...or maybe it was 16 or 18 or something. I do think we actually decided. Who knows where though.
Is Tristian being difficult?
I can link you some in a minute.

yeah. they definitely need to increase it to three characters

ah so more like western names then.

it's kinda a need to know for my post. cuz tristian apparently got his mark hella early. thus why he's so not concerned with it. he's long since stopped being anxious about it.
not so much difficult as it's happened like three times now where i've started planning out a post, gone to write it and tristian has dropped information that i previously didn't know. thus changing the plan for the post.
cool cool :)

yeah. I mean, that's fairly obvious even if I've not researched any. Just look at anime character names. It's all different lengths and unique sounding.

Check out the early posts in Fake Bonds and see if we wrote it in there. Otherwise we just said it here and we can make up the answer again because we clearly can't remember it.
haha. I mean, that happens for me a lot though. I think it's fun but I really find myself wanting to plan more and know a lot about my characters early on.
I have a couple links here.
http://www.menewsha.com/forum/rolepl...post1773342865

lol yeah that i definitely remember thinking japanese names had a tendency to be longer than korean and chinese names

cool cool. i'll try and figure it out and post at some point tonight. i have the post written. it just needs that one detail solidified.
it happens to me often enough but usually not with this level of frequency this early on in an rp. and i definitely don't want to take out the naturalness of it,but like really tristian.
cool i'll look after i search though the early fake bonds posts.

But a name like Kai is also Japanese. It seems like a perfectly random structure like western names.

I'm patient so take your time figuring the details out.
haha yeah. At some point you just need to get your character's act together.
cool.

yeah it definitely does. and like names like Daisuke or Sakura rise to popularity in the same way as names like Rachel or John do it seems

from what i can tell from what i saw on a quick search. we established that Tavis had had his for years at the age of 23 and i remember us talking about Corena having gotten her mark a little late.
lol yep you do. though it also does somewhat depends on your character being cooperative.

Sakura is so common especially since it seems okay to name either gender that.

okay then, it seems it's not a set year. Just a puberty thing.
ahaha. Characters aren't always cooperative.

lol yeah.

yeah.... can we set it maybe more likely around 16-18, towards like the end of puberty? cuz that would actually make more sense, i think?
nope. though i just tried to a couple of those, and i am definitely too tired at the moment to do any of them.

I do think later is better though I think I also got the image of Davvin and friends being young stupid teens when they first got their marks, trying to figure it out. And that being mirrored with Javi and Erik. But as young as puberty can start, is definitely too young.

haha. detailed ones are hard when you're too tired to think a lot. Crack ones are better for that.

i always had the image of davvin and co like from 18-21 with the trying to figure out there marks and it leading to a few drunken nights of trying to figure it out
right now that's where i'm considering setting tristian really outside the norm. pretty much he had just started puberty and was still a kid when he got his mark.

lol yeah which the only crack one on that list was the ten ocs see one. and while i'm aware i have that many ocs that's a lot to think of right now

I guess. my memory of your description of that was dumb teen brats. But it doesn't really matter so just set some ages and go for it.

I think two were crack? The last one should have been real simple.

lol. well my characters are dumb brats no matter the age, so that could probably color it a bit
lol k. well posting now.

the last one was the ten OCs one, and i started the other one that seemed like it would be crack and it was more just basic info than anything else.

probably.

ah well, whatever. The site those came off of has a million different memes of all sorts.