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thebirdandhersong · 1 year

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Also to be completely honest--warning: I have been obnoxious about names since I was a kid (which is why I gave up reading the Green Ember series... I remember reading it in high school and being Incredibly Frustrated by the lack of consistency in the way the writer chose his characters' names, so despite the fact that I liked the story somewhat, I just never read the rest of the series based on this sticking point)--it really bothers me that Paige and Rose are named Paige and Rose

#YES i know there's a luke in this universe there's an ezra and so on and so forth #but the 'real life' names used in sw (as far as I can recall) have ALL been rooted in something biblical #like luke (the evangelist) ezra (the prophet) mara ('bitter'--the name naomi wants people to call her when she loses her family)#ben is also a jewish name and so is din i think. kanan is a reference to canaan?#the other characters have names like padme and cassian and jyn and hera and ahsoka and jar jar and bail and lando and boba #some drawing from classics mythology etc. some completely made up some from other cultures i assume #so why do we have two characters called PAIGE and ROSE ???????#on that note do roses even exist in the star wars universe???? i wanna know #anyway this just bugged me #ps. i have just remembered that finn rey and poe exist. i thought about this for a few seconds. i'm fine with their names being those names #finn comes from his number rey makes me think of Ray of Light (which she is) poe is on thin ice #because it reminds me of edgar allan poe. that's not the point #but paige and rose are like Super 21st Century names and it feels off #tlj liveblog

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