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willow_fae_20 in sentinelficfind

What's In A Name?

Nov 11, 2010 11:37

I'm looking for stories that feature naming as a prominent theme. Whether it be 'What's Blair's middle name (I see Jacob a lot is that canon? 'Cause I also see some more 'hippie' names like Sunshine, and Rainbow, and the like.)' or Jim and Blair naming a child, or Jim and/or Blair re-naming themselves when they come into their Sentinel/Guide powers ( Read more... )

theme: sentinels/guides known, character: naomi, character-related: blair's past, *recs, character-related: jim's past, theme: sentinel/guide bond, theme: adoption, character: grace ellison, hurt: amnesia, fic type: kid, category: gen, character: william ellison, category: slash

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janedavitt November 11 2010, 17:21:26 UTC

'Jacob' is pure fanon. Blair, in canon, has no middle name. I never give him one in a fic and I don't know why people DO when he hasn't got one. Why bother introducing something that isn't canon when you don't need to? ::baffled::

Jim's is often 'Joseph' and I think there is canon evidence for that? We definitely see the 'J' as a middle initial on a computer screen or something and I think there's a prop that shows 'Joseph'.

willow_fae_20 November 11 2010, 18:15:21 UTC

Thanks for the explanation, Jane. I've kind of reached the conclusion that 'Jacob' has become canon, because so many people use it in fic (which like you I don't understand...). I have my own problems with it: Mainly why would Naomi give Blair such a 'common' middle name, (especially one with biblical/religious roots) when (in my opinion) she probably left her family/home to escape overly religious parents, especially when she (basically) went out of her way to give him a unique first name.

I think it's easy to pair Joseph with James because the names 'flow' together. I've seen it in other shows. So that works for me.

janedavitt November 11 2010, 18:20:01 UTC

Heh, it might be used a lot but it'll never be canon even if it's in every fic there is ;-)

I do find it fascinating how powerful fanon can be, though and to someone new to the fandom, it'd be incredibly easy for them to assume it WAS canon after seeing it in a dozen fics and that they'd just missed the episode where we found out about it and so they'd use 'Jacob' in a fic to fit in and perpetuate it.

I assume whoever first used it never dreamed it'd catch on so well :-)

Same with Rafe, who's often called 'Brian'.

alynt November 11 2010, 20:29:55 UTC

We don't know that Naomi left home at all - to escape overly religious parents or any other reason. That's totally fanon too.

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mab_browne November 11 2010, 18:37:24 UTC

On the naming a child front, Escargoat's House Calls features Blair giving great thought to picking a name. Be warned though - this is a potentially disturbing story written for Spook Me.

http://escargoat.livejournal.com/tag/house%20calls

magician113 November 11 2010, 21:54:56 UTC

There's so many stories with names in them, I'm sure I'll just stumble across them and have to come back here. But ones I can think of are ( ... )

ainm November 12 2010, 01:46:04 UTC

A short & silly little ficlet I wrote for sentinel_thurs that features a hated nickname is ' Bunny.' It's pretty gen-ish, and can stand on its own. However, it does follow the not-funny ' Unseen Truths' and precedes the also not-funny ' Omission, Commission,' which between them total only 325 words and are... well... let's say "pre-slash" for lack of a better term. :-)