Meatware 148
TheJagged on March 13, 2023
Carrying people is part of his features actually. Sometimes you gotta carry your charge outta danger.
So apropos of nothing, there is this German word Schützling (literally Protect-ling), which is simply somone whom you protect. I haven't found a good English equivalent for it. It keep getting protege suggested, but that means more like a student. So i went with “charge” for the person a Beast Head is assigned to, which seems the closest.
See, Schützling has a bit of a noble ring, that's a word you'd hear in a Game of Thrones episode rather than someone using it casually in everyday life. I wanna evoke a feudal vibe with how the upper class of Meatware works. They more or less regressed in their political/social level to a monarchy. Where the rich & powerful always stay in power (seeing how they can live several 100 years), so sometimes the same families rule over a whole planet for centuries. Jemma really is a scifi princess.
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kawaiidaigakusei at 11:40AM, March 17, 2023
I always liked how the secret team behind the Scarlet Pimpernel referred to King Louis XVI as “the Dauphin” when they were hiding him, but that is just the title for the eldest son in a royal family. Jemma would be the female equivalent of a Dauphin, a Dauphine (feminine), if she is the eldest daughter.
TheJagged at 10:35AM, March 18, 2023
Jemma has 4 more sisters, they're technically quintuplets (bred from the same genetic material) so all are the same age. Their father pitted them against each other to see who would be most suited to inherit the throne so to speak. Jemma beat the competition, gained her father's favor and is currently next in line. If she messes up tho, she will be quickly replaced by one of her sisters. Hence she's a little eager to proof herself.
PaulEberhardt at 11:42AM, March 14, 2023
Lol! Now I can't either, dammit.
PaulEberhardt at 3:03PM, March 13, 2023
I'd translate it as "charge", too. You might get a stronger ye-olden-daies-upper-class ring with "ward" but that'd be a kind of foster child or protegee again.
TheJagged at 2:25AM, March 14, 2023
Also I can't use the word "ward" without thinking of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkzBFNcThmE