Speaking of trans character names, I really wonder what Lev is short for, if anything, in The Last of Us Part II. Levinas? Leverage? Levitate?
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Also Trotsky (his real name was "Lev Bronstein", he took up a Gentile surname "Trotsky" as a pseudonym, hence his name being known in English as "Leon Trotsky")
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It also is a Yiddish first name in its own right (from the Hebrew word for "heart"), though less common in that context The first name of Lev Grossman, the author of The Magicians Neil Druckmann is Israeli and he may have been thinking of that derivation instead
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Oh shit, because "Leo" also means lion!!
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Well it's not super deep, "Lev" is just how you write the Latin-derived "Leo" in a Slavic language, it's like turning "Ivan" into "John"
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