finally went and downloaded blackhole so that i can record audio off my computer. im unstoppable now
watching back the cooch return game and heard drew talking about pickles pulling a face because he didnt get what he wants and then the camera cuts to him to show he is indeed making a face <3 big fan of the dynamic between that old man and pickles, who is an old man in hockey years and likes to attack him in pregame segments
Transcript under the cut:
[During a break in play in the 3rd period of a Ducks @ Sharks hockey game, over a shot of Fabian Zetterlund skating around and waiting for play to resume.]
Randy Hahn: "—scoring for the season." [Camera cuts to a shot of the refs and linesmen talking to each other while Marc-Édouard Vlasic looks on with a displeased expression and body language.] "And it comes on this night for Jan Rutta, the 3rd Sharks defenseman to score a goal in this game, and the 2nd Shark to score his first goal of the year; Kyle Burroughs was the other."
[Camera cuts to a close-up shot of Mike Hoffman talking to someone who is out of frame.]
Drew Remenda: "They're talking about where this faceoff is going to be." [Camera cuts to a shot of the refs and linesmen talking to each other. Anthony Duclair's voice can be heard in the background.] "Ah, I think it's, the faceoff is outside, and now they're talking about inside. *laughs* Anthony Duclair is going 'let's go, let's go, let's go!' [Camera cuts to David Quinn behind the Sharks bench, who is visibly displeased.] And Marc-Édouard Vlasic is lobbying and has the Marc-Édouard Vlasic look when he doesn't get what he wants." [Camera cuts to the back of Vlasic's head.] "And I think... ["Camera cuts to in front of Vlasic. He turns in the direction of the camera with a look of disgust on his face.] "...yeah, it's coming back outside the line. I love Marc-Édouard; he is so good when he is talking to the officials. Respectful, but very deliberate in his speech."
[The camera cuts to a zoomed-out overhead view as the video ends.]
I’ve had multiple panthers fans now tell me that they have had limbs impaled (by javelin and by arrow) and it still hurt less than being a panthers fan......and that trend is....a tad alarming. But.... it got @proprane (one of the impale-ees in question.) and I talking and she suggested I make the a list of “players I would trust not to impale me with an arrow by accident.”
Because thats a hilarious idea, and because its 3am and i’m bored. I’ve decided i’m going to do one better. Im gonna start vibe checking NHL teams based on this criteria. Starting withhh.......
The San Jose Sharks!!! (are we shocked? no, were not)
Erik Karlsson: I would trust him not to shoot me by accident. The man is elegance and grace and precision personified. I refuse to believe he would ever hit anything he did not intend to hit. I simply choose to believe he would pick up a bow for the first time and immediately Artemis and Apollo a run for their money.
Tomáš Hertl: Gonna be honest, I do think turtle boy would fuckin nerf me. But he would feel very bad about it. And be very apologetic, and like, take me out to ice cream or something as an apology. And I would absolutely forgive him.
Brent Burns: Burnzie would not shoot be by accident with an arrow because the man is an ACTUAL ARCHER. Like he hunts in the off season with a fucking custom compound bow. So the man knows what he’s doing and would not fuck up a shot so bad as to hit me. NOW IF HE WAS AIMING THATS A WHOLE OTHER CAN OF WORMS. But uh...idk what I would have to do to get Brent Burns to start most-dangerous-game-style hunting me...
Evander Kane: I think he would shoot me on purpose, for fun.
Martin Jones: I could make a cheap joke here about accuracy. But I hate when ppl pick on my sweet deer eyed goalie. So I will simply say...he may or may not, but either way he would be very nice about it.
Timo Meier: I think he would shoot me on purpose, for fun. And to out do Kane he’d probably like, do it twice.
Kevin Labanc: Would shoot me on accident, and just kinda toss me sheepish “ah fuck sorry bro!!” and scurry off.
Mario Ferraro: Is not allowed to have a bow. Because he’s the team baby, and thus cannot shoot me by accident.
Marc-Édouard Vlasic: Would shoot me by mistake because one of his dogs distracted him as he was releasing the shot.
Patrick Marleau: Would shoot me on purpose because he’s only just come back to the sharks and the dark timeline energy hasn't worn off yet.
Logan Couture: Would shoot me and then go on twitter and claim I was the one who shot him.
Stefan Noesen: Would not shoot me, in fact, he would appear after Bancer ran off and help me get cleaned up. And then invite me out for drinks with his chaotic friends probably.
Marcus Sörensen: Karlsson “forgot” to invite him to the rec day. So he does not shoot me. because he’s not there.
Radim Šimek: Straight up just stabs me. Like, with a knife. Where did he get a knife?
Antti Suomela: Isn't shooting actually, no one remembered to rent a bow for him, but he’s still there, just smiling, happy to be included.
Some more meta about the reasons (or lack thereof) for various characters having their names.
The Soldiers So Far
The soldiers are a hodgepodge of serious and joke names. It’s a bit of a mess, honestly.
Marc-Édouard Picard: First name from Marc-Édouard Vlasic, a hockey player. Last name suggested by Squeaker, and while I’m not yet 100 percent sure I think it’s amusing enough to keep. Picard is also the only member of Strike-One to have a name not randomly generated by the game.
Lera Ferresol: I didn’t have any particular goal in mind when looking for a first name for Lera, I just wanted something short that sounded cool. Skimming through behindthename a few times I eventually settled on Lera, which is ultimately derived from the Latin valere, which means “to be strong.” For a name almost entirely randomly selected, it fits her very well. Her last name is something I crafted on my own with some bad Latin skills. A mash of ferō meaning “to bear, to carry” and sol meaning “the sun.” In her own canon, she can magically summon a light source.
Tomáš Horák: Like Tatiana, I wanted her Czech crew member to have a name that was noticeably different from the rest. In my very first drafts, I called him Matěj, but I had a few doubts about it. Eventually I decided to rename him Tomáš after a hockey player, Tomáš Hertl. I still wasn’t too sure of the name then, but at this point it’s stuck around long enough for me to like it. His last name I believe I just googled for a list of common Czech surnames again and picked one I thought sounded nice.
Violince: Violince exists entirely because of her pun name. I was watching a Shadowrun campaign and had the idea for a musician-turned-decker with the name Violince. That’s it entirely.
Archie Williams: I was writing a scene and needed a name, so I pulled up a video of someone playing XCOM 2 and just grabbed one of the names from there. It wasn’t supposed to make it this far, but sort of like Tomáš, it’s stuck it’s place in my mind. His first name was selected from a list of popular first names in New Zealand.
Eva Santiago: Like Williams, I was mid writing a scene and needed a name, but this time I was binge watching Brooklyn 99 as I was doing so. And so Amy Santiago is immortalized in my writing. Also like Williams and Tomáš, it was always just supposed to be a filler name that’s now stuck. Her first name was suggested by Bat, which is a Gears of war reference I think?
Robyn Labanc: I had the concept for a Reaper prankster character with no other idea of who she might be. So I went into the character generator, generated a few characters, and eventually got one with the first name Robyn. She looked cool, and I liked the sound of her first name, so I figured that was that. And then the second I backed out of the character creator I realized I had to change her last name to Labanc, once again, after a hockey player. But also to make her name sound like “robbing the bank” because that was just perfect for her character.
Elvis Pernal: At the same time I was generating Robyn, I also needed to generate her friend, the ghost hunter Templar. Again I just generated characters until I found a guy that looked cool, I was much less concerned about his name. I think at first I settled on someone named Jules and called it a day. As I continued generating characters to eventually get to Robyn, I got a character named Elvis. Elvis is a much funnier name for a gag character, so I said goodbye to Jules and made Elvis the Templar character. I can’t remember if Pernal was Jules original last name or if it came with Elvis, but it was also randomly generated.
Soote Degrir: Soote started out as Kato, just a name incidental everything else in an early draft of Taint Not Thy Mind. I never had any plans to do anything more with her than that. Somehow she got brought up and I decided to give her some traits like an actual character. I was also reminded that there is one single instance in game where the Spokesman is referred to as Cato, and that was much too close for my liking, even if the two would likely never be mentioned in the same fic, much less the same chapter. Squeaker pulled the list of Skirmisher names from the game and after inspecting it for a while I was leaning towards “Sote.” But I wasn’t happy with that alone, I decided to bastardize it to “Soote” because I am a nerd and would think of Canterbury Tales every time she came up.
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
It’s a bit ironic since Soote is anything but sweet. Kato might her callsign just as a meta-joke, I haven’t decided yet.
For her last name, I once again just looked at the list of options and sort of gravitated towards Degrir. Once I went to go make her in game, the first Skirmisher I spawned had the last name Degrir, so I figured it was destiny.
All of the rest of the soldiers that you may find in either the Strike-One page or the Avenger Crew page have all been completely randomly generated by the game as of the time of this writing.