Erga Mortes: Chapter One link and Notes
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penitence_roadHere's a link to Chapter One over on ff.net.
-The title:
Erga Mortes Ambulamus translates to, as best I could determine with the help of a college Latin student, "We walk towards death." It's most specifically about Strega, of course, who are all walking open-armed towards the ends of their lives, but most of the characters in this fic are heading towards their deaths in one way or another whether they're aware of it or happy about it or not.
-Shouko:
My name for the Antiques Shop Lady, also heavily implied to be the author of the Old Documents the player collects for Elizabeth. Shown here younger and more temperamental.
-Electrocorticography:
This is a type of surgery involving slicing open the scalp, removing a piece of the skull, and using electrodes positioned against various parts of the brain (rather, specifically, of the outermost layer of fleshy protection the brain is housed inside) to measure the electrical impulses going on in the brain in response to various stimuli. Often it's used to help with epilepsy and various other health problems. Here, the scientists are trying to figure out if the strange kid's brain shows activity in any ways a normal brain doesn't (or, in Shouko's case, ways a Persona user's brain does).
-D-Boy:
The anime referenced is Tekkaman Blade, a sci-fi armored suits series that came out in Japan in 1992 and got a U.S. Release (that gave everyone more Western-sounding names) in 1995. It did well enough here, but was quite popular in Japan in its day; the main character (D-Boy/Takaya Aiba) appears in several crossover video games, including Tatsunoko vs. Capcom as recently as three years ago. I used it because I needed to get Takaya named; I didn't want to have to come up with something stopgap, then be facing the same problem a few chapters down the line of figuring out why he was going by Takaya in-game. As-written in the Persona 3 material, the name Takaya doesn't leap out to suggest interpretations that a group of scientists might select for someone of his circumstances, but I wanted something a little more substantial than a throw-away line about him reminding someone of a Takaya they once knew or what have you (which would require someone knowing a pretty strange Takaya anyway).
Not having seen Tekkaman myself, I'm informed by someone who has that the name works pretty well on a number of levels (both for young Takaya's situation and several aspects of Takaya in-game), so I decided to run with it, despite the potent contact embarrassment of 'naming' my lead character after someone in a show called Tekkaman.
-The title:
Erga Mortes Ambulamus translates to, as best I could determine with the help of a college Latin student, "We walk towards death." It's most specifically about Strega, of course, who are all walking open-armed towards the ends of their lives, but most of the characters in this fic are heading towards their deaths in one way or another whether they're aware of it or happy about it or not.
-Shouko:
My name for the Antiques Shop Lady, also heavily implied to be the author of the Old Documents the player collects for Elizabeth. Shown here younger and more temperamental.
-Electrocorticography:
This is a type of surgery involving slicing open the scalp, removing a piece of the skull, and using electrodes positioned against various parts of the brain (rather, specifically, of the outermost layer of fleshy protection the brain is housed inside) to measure the electrical impulses going on in the brain in response to various stimuli. Often it's used to help with epilepsy and various other health problems. Here, the scientists are trying to figure out if the strange kid's brain shows activity in any ways a normal brain doesn't (or, in Shouko's case, ways a Persona user's brain does).
-D-Boy:
The anime referenced is Tekkaman Blade, a sci-fi armored suits series that came out in Japan in 1992 and got a U.S. Release (that gave everyone more Western-sounding names) in 1995. It did well enough here, but was quite popular in Japan in its day; the main character (D-Boy/Takaya Aiba) appears in several crossover video games, including Tatsunoko vs. Capcom as recently as three years ago. I used it because I needed to get Takaya named; I didn't want to have to come up with something stopgap, then be facing the same problem a few chapters down the line of figuring out why he was going by Takaya in-game. As-written in the Persona 3 material, the name Takaya doesn't leap out to suggest interpretations that a group of scientists might select for someone of his circumstances, but I wanted something a little more substantial than a throw-away line about him reminding someone of a Takaya they once knew or what have you (which would require someone knowing a pretty strange Takaya anyway).
Not having seen Tekkaman myself, I'm informed by someone who has that the name works pretty well on a number of levels (both for young Takaya's situation and several aspects of Takaya in-game), so I decided to run with it, despite the potent contact embarrassment of 'naming' my lead character after someone in a show called Tekkaman.
