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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Replying to @BootlegGirl
"Lev" by itself is a real Russian first name, it means "lion" Tolstoy's actual first name was Lev, "Leo Tolstoy" is a translation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I was just saying to someone who told me this that it seemed weird if that was it since the Seraphites are so obviously Christian, but then I realized Christians use Hebrew names sometimes (and do in TLOU, Joel is clearly Christian and named his daughter Sarah)
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Christian use Hebrew names *all the time* considering that's what all the "Bible names" are It's just that the more hardcore Christians are the ones more likely to use the more obscure names
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