#ami fey

Welcome to the sequel, where the rules of spirit channeling and the like have gotten way more complicated... (among other things)

(Cause she’s a spirit medium)

Dear Thephoenixxm,

Holy Mother? That's a new one. I was the former queen of Khura'in before giving that kingdom to my sister, Kee'ra.

I gave that kingdom to my sister, because she wanted it. I took the throne as the eldest and first to discover Spirit Channeling, but I could see Kee'ra didn't like me for it. I tried everything to make peace, but it grew to the point she hated me.

So, I left. I left Kee'ra a final farewell letter and left. This included my gift of the Spirit Channeling technique, so the kingdom would accept her as the new ruler. I stayed in hiding in Japan, then married. Once I began having children with the gift of spirit channeling, I knew I was no longer safe in Japan, so I moved to America where my family could live in peace.

I would eventually reunite with my sister and we made peace. She welcomed my family and, as a symbol of our promise, I gave her and her family the Crystal of Ami Fey, which they call the Sacred Orb. It's located at a sacred location, which can only be opened by those who know my full name so they may know that whoever enters are descended from me. It also means that if my sister's family ever try to take what belongs to my children, then the Crystal would return back to my home in Kurain.

So, if the Crystal of Ami Fey ever returns back to Kurain, it means the Queen of Khura'in has tried to rob what belongs to my children at least once. I and my children have found creative ways of knowing overseas and have created a system to make that happen under the radar.

I did find some connective tissue, but unfortunately, I'm going to have a really hard time working with said tissue for reasons I'll explain later

For now though, I'll just show you the Wiki sections to show you what I'm talking about

Maya Fey

Mia Fey

Pearl Fey

Misty Fey

Morgan Fey

Ami Fey

So the connection I noticed is that, with the exceptions of Mayoi and Harumi (the former of which is stated to have been chosen purely for aesthetics rather than character), each of these names seem to involve some form of wordplay or reference. Chihiro’s name is a pun, Maiko and her fake name Erisu work together to create a reference to a short story, Kimiko is a reference to a historical queen, and Kyoko’s name is the reverse of a word for “child”. Even their surname Ayasato has elements of wordplay, with aya possibly being a homophone

Though granted, now that I think about it, Ace Attorney is known for its pun names, and I think I’ve heard that this is the case in Japanese too, so this might not be exclusive to the Ayasatos whatsoever

But regardless, this use of wordplay causes problems for me because wordplay requires a degree of knowledge in that particular language, enough to know homonyms or other puns, or works or historical figures to reference. And I don’t know Japanese, so I’m kind of screwed on this front

Though maybe I’m overthinking it all. Like I said, I don’t think this wordplay is exclusive to the Ayasatos, and I’m pretty sure the 10 people who see the eventual OCs aren’t really going to care that I don’t have an extensive knowledge of Japanese to make the most perfect pun names ever. And it’s not like these characters are official anyways, and the official developers would give them those well-researched perfect names if they did. I can probably cheese it

The other observation I had is that for the older members of the clan, their names all have ko, which means “child”, and 2/3 reference children in some way, so I can probably use that for my characters, at least the female one. Could probably call her Tomoko to reference her friendly personality

Major Arcana | Cups | Pentacles | Wands

links to the individual posts under the cut

Ft. daemons au bc it’s me