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Post by dragonchampion on May 1, 2007 8:13:25 GMT -5
Isn't Holly a girl's name? Why Are you say Holly Wolfrun is a guy?
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Post by Redcrow on May 2, 2007 23:21:04 GMT -5
Heh,
I volunteer to field this question!
I asked this same question of Sniper-san a long time ago. Back then I wasn't even sure that Wren was a boy.
Holly is male. It is our esteemed artist's artistic license that given names are given broader usage than they are in our own world.
Now, Holly portrayed without clothes could be a bit of a fright for some. Male bats of many bat species are so obviously male it borders on the ludicrous.
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Post by dragonchampion on May 3, 2007 8:57:29 GMT -5
O.K. now that l know that, I want to know if Holly his nickname. I mean for all we could know his full name could be something like Hollinaragalio.
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Post by Poofiemus on May 3, 2007 18:09:57 GMT -5
*laughs* That would be awesome! If his name is something like that, I can see why he wouldn't use it. The kids would probably all burst out laughing!
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Post by Topaxi on May 3, 2007 22:40:40 GMT -5
just like you did, so insensitive
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Post by martiansushi on May 4, 2007 16:10:34 GMT -5
heh, my take on that is snipes likes to use names androgynously and seriously, don't think about it too much. Ever heard the song "a boy named sue"? people do all kinds of crazy stuff to their kids... my husband knew a kid in high school named (no joke) nosmo king... (no smoking). and redcrow - I hope in this instance that snipes will refrain from either removing Holly's clothes, or from being true to the bat (considering on the rating, I'm betting on the former )
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Post by Poofiemus on May 4, 2007 17:34:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard of two sisters named Ima and Yura Pig. Oh, and my grandpa knew a girl named Lotta Current. (Her brother had an odd first name too, but I don't remember what it was.)
Um, YEAH, I agree with Sushi on the clothing thing. >.< *thinks of Puni Puni Poemi's villain*
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Post by Topaxi on May 4, 2007 21:18:27 GMT -5
hehe, that animes baned from being imported into this country
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Post by Redcrow on May 5, 2007 13:06:28 GMT -5
heh, my take on that is snipes likes to use names androgynously and seriously, don't think about it too much. Ever heard the song "a boy named sue"? people do all kinds of crazy stuff to their kids... my husband knew a kid in high school named (no joke) nosmo king... (no smoking). and redcrow - I hope in this instance that snipes will refrain from either removing Holly's clothes, or from being true to the bat (considering on the rating, I'm betting on the former ) Indeed. If Holly was proportional to the Fruitbat(aka Flying Fox), we would have noticed a bulge on him that would have made him look pregnant with octuplets. As portrayed, Holly looks like he could have started out as human. Then perhaps about age 13, he thought it would be really groovy and most meet to turn himself into a bat. He got halfway there, and couldn't get back. Sort of a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" situation.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on May 5, 2007 13:41:27 GMT -5
Well, that would explain Holly's knowledge of shapeshifters when the Student Advisor was explaining to Kit's father the danger of untrained magic users. For some reason though, "hung like a fruit bat" just doesn't seem to work as well as "hung like a horse."
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Post by Poofiemus on May 6, 2007 12:16:52 GMT -5
Puni Puni Poemi is banned? Odd. At any rate, despite the ban, you can still find it on YouTube.
I agree, it seems that Holly is a shapeshifter--or a hybrid. *bricked* Of course, we don't know that he necessarily got stuck--he could just find the halfway form most comfortable or something to that effect.
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Post by dragonchampion on May 7, 2007 0:24:17 GMT -5
Hey I think it would be cool if Holly came from a race of human like bats. After all this is fantasy world, we could have all sorts of races other than humans and elves. Interesting side note about elves in Norse mythology they are referred to as alves. Any way this is a fantasy world, so why not have humanoid bats and maybe even otters or lizard men.
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Post by martiansushi on May 8, 2007 19:00:35 GMT -5
and while we're on the furries... humanoid cats!!
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Post by dragonchampion on May 20, 2007 13:27:44 GMT -5
I was just going over the story again, for the shear fun of it, and realized that Vic use the term half-elf, according to the D&D players hand book elves don't do that. They usually refer to half-elves as half-humans, I know stupid thing to think about. Anyway I have know doubt you guys are going to bang on me for say this kind of thing, but honestly I play D&D like every third weekend with my bro and his friends so it's kind of hard for me to stop thinking of MH in D&D terms.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on May 20, 2007 23:11:50 GMT -5
Well, Champ, sometimes you need to let go of DD and let the author tell the story in her own way. There's nothing wrong with liking DD, but since Snipes is the creator of the whole MH world, she can decide how she wants to handle things. There's a lot of different ways to tell a story, and just because the same word appears in two different worlds, doesn't mean they're the same species.
With that said, I would like to emphasize there's nothing wrong with DD. I enjoy a bit myself. This just happens to have nothing to do with it.
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