pairing name conventions and pairings

[lazulisong]

So I was thinking about pairing name conventions and being annoyed at the younger fans because I am allowed after five years, as long as I don't actually hurt them. The thing is that a lot of W-fen come into JP fandoms and -- I know what I am talking about, because I did the same damn thing -- don't understand the logic of the pairing name

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[catystorm]

The Gundam Wing "numbers" game came about from the model numbers of the mechs. Wing is 01, Deathscythe 02, et cetera. Once you get out of the five pilots, thou', I have no frikkin' clue.

GWing numbers, more

[muimi07]

It's also analogous with their names:
Hiiro (Heero) / 1 - the "hi" of his name originates from　一 . At least, that's what I recall seeing somewhere but I was a fan of this back in, oh, 1999? x.x;

Duo / 2- the english meaning of the word "duo"

Trowa / 3 - Stretching here but he's 3 somehow. I guess it's the "Tr" in his name? :P

Quatre / 4 - like "duo" it's easy to see the correlation with the number 4

Wufei / 5 - the first syllable of his name is the Chinese 五 (wu)

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[catystorm]

I always found it easier to point people to the mech model numbers because I could never remember how Heero = 1. *amused* (You would think it would be some variation of 'ichi'.)

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[tatsu_ko]

The "hi" = 1 probably comes from the counting system you hear sometimes "hi, fu, mi..."
The pronunciation of Trowa = "trois" being French for 3.

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[sub_divided]

And Treize is 13 because, well, treize is thirteen in French. No one else gets numbered as far as I know. No one's being arbitrary here, the numbers really were built into the canon.

My only other comment (to Meg) is that I see S x S meaning Syaoran x Sakura all the time. Or did when I was in the fandom. I don't think you can really generalize.

Generally I think conventions are conventions until someone thinks of a funny pun. XD

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[startredder]

Actually, two of the female characters have numberish names too (or, I guess, they -could-, although I don't know if they are, fandom's scary and all). Lady Une (one, again) and Noin (nine, I think?). But if that's reflected in fandom or not, I can't say.

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[sub_divided]

So Une plus Zechs equals Noin? Heero plus Trowa plus Quatre plus Wufei equals Treize? XD

Poor Sally, she must feel so left out.

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[regonym]

Lady Une is usually numbered as 11, actually. Not sure why. Zechs is 6. And yep, Sally, Hilde and Relena are pretty much the only characters without numbers.

-Clayr