No.6 Discussion Board

But no that makes perfectly sense. Wasn't Shion "burned" when No.6 declared him a criminal? I mean he first lost his elite status and then his rights and citizenship altogether.

@Meopat: yeah, it's a shame... so many characters just have no name at all, even quite important ones (though that might have been on purpose). Well, the kanji for medicine does have the radical for 'grass' in it, indicating a leafy origin, so I guess that's where it might come from re: Getsuyaku... But I've never ever heard that name before and even the English manga spelled it wrong once, possibly because it's so uncommon XD;

Japanese really doesn't differentiate between Chronos and Kronos; I'm guessing they always need to explain which one they're talking about when discussing mythology, because it literally is Kuronosu in both cases, not just in No. 6. I can only find that 'serpentine shape' thing on wiki and on the website that wiki copied it from, so I have no idea how accurate that is... so many clashing sources for mythology, and apparently even in antiquity they were already confusing the two deities because of the similar names.


@AoYokai: ah, I see! Quite curious to your idea about the self-fulfilling prophecy, so if you ever feel like it, please share?


I personally think Cronus/Kronos (can I just pick Kronos, it's what we Dutchies use XD) fits well because A) overthrew his father/predecessor, with help of Mother Earth if you want to tie that in, and B) got overthrown himself by the very people it tried to oppress/eat to avoid that from happening. I'm pretty sure his wife Rhea sought help from Gaia/Mother Earth for that too, actually.
... Would the birth of Aphrodite fit in there somewhere, I wonder. Because she was born when Kronos chopped off his dad's, eh, crown jewels and tossed them in the sea XD;

Oh, something else I just realized: in Roman mythology, their god Saturn was merged with the deity Kronos. Saturn was more benevolent than Kronos, but more interestingly, he was associated with agriculture among other things (his scythe later became part of the imagery of Father Time partly because of the Chronos/Kronos confusion, apparently, but that as an aside). In Japanese, the planet Saturn is dosei, which means 'earth/soil star' (and Satur-day is Do-youbi, earth/soil day).
... that probably wasn't super relevant, but hey earthy words!

I'll go shut up now about mythology how about that. Oops.

Aww, it's such a cute idea to give Nezumi his nickname because Shion just can't pronounce his name xD
It would even go along with speech development of children. Apparently they learn a, e and i first and the other two vowels later so it would make sense that little Shion just can't pronounce the o in Nozomi and makes it an e.

Oh my god @Ahiku that is adorable! (Hm, my kanji add-on informs me that the kanji on its own without 'mi' behind it can also mean full moon. Make of that what you will. Nocturnal and all XD) And meh, Shion is technically a girl's name too so psh Nozomi can totally work.
And Ne'chu'mi omigosh. Mouse sounds and kisses! XD
... must say though, I still associate Nozomi with the shinkansen. GOOD, THE FASTER HE CAN RETURN TO SHION.

@lawlya: oh, that's interesting, I didn't know that! Is that universal or does it depend on the language? Is that a thing that even depends on the language or am I spewing nonsense again...

@listenforthelove
Full moon is also cute. *-* Both is cute XD Haha... God, I have to admit, I really love that name now and I'll totally go for it. X'D Okay, it's not "Mao" enough for canon Nezumi, but I think it's a good name for an AU.

Ohhh, thank you o.o This is really interesting. X'D
(God, I always love it when you explain stuff for my work stuff haha. XD Like...how two men could have a baby...for the Baby Mao doujin... or how babies learn to speak XD)
Good to hear that "Nechumi" is not far-fetched at all.

Ah, but what do you think would Nezumi say? I guess Shion is not an easy name to say either. Although I could imagine that Nezumi can say that name pretty early because he's Nezumi.

Shi-an sounds cute XDD Haha... I guess I won't write thaaat much about them when they are still babies. ^^ (I plan on writing short stories, but they all belong to a big AU... I want to start with Shion's birth and 2-3 baby drabbles and then they'll be older. But I don't really need to be chronological I guess, so I can write a story about baby Nezushi even after I've already written about 14-year old Nezushi, depending on my mood. :3
Maybe Nezumi is not talking at all until he's a year and then his first year is a  perfect "Shion", don't know it yet. Otherwise he's just squeaking... haha XDDD Would also be a good reason to call him Nezumi lol

I swear Nezumi would be one of those creepy kids whose first word is a perfectly fluent sentence

Yep, that's what I thought XDDD Something like. "Omigod, our little Nozomi won't talk, let's get him to a doctor..." The doctor tries to touch him and 1-year old Nezumi is like: "Blabla, I talked. And now bring me back to Shi-an." X'D