Name Game

[rekall]

Soooo...I got a review the other day for HC and in it the person mentioned they hated the name Atemu. Umm...why? It's his name. I would use it more often but I know most people use 'Yami'. Still though I think in all my fics I mention that Atemu is his real name but simply 'adopted' the name Yami.

Honestly...I never liked the name Yami. lol

Comments

[crimsondragon61.livejournal.com]

I personaly like the name Atemu better, I use it in MOST of my stories. I like the meaning of Yami... I think it suits him as a spirit, but when writing him with his own body I prefer to use the name Atemu. I mean hell, he went through all that trouble to learn it, had to redefeat Zork, had to fight Bakura, had to fight Malik/Marik for it, why would he suddenly drop the name and go back to Yami? His name was highly important and so was his past and i just don't think he would give it up that easily.

Atemu was an egyptian name and we all seem to write him as egyptian when he has his own body and when writing him in AU's so that name suits him much better than the japanese name of Yami and in the japanese anime, he was never called Yami.

but i do hate the name Atem.... can't stand that. Don't leave off the 'u' people!

[crimsondragon61.livejournal.com]

And another thing that irks the hell out of me is when people have Ryou use the name Yami for Bakura. And when people say "...and the Yamis all looked...." when used that way, it should be lower case people. Yami with a cap is a name. Lower case yami is refering to what they are. To me, that kills a story when I see it capped out of context.

...and I'll shut up now, or there will be a novel here of things like this that irk the hell out of me.

and by the way rekall, that was you that forgot to sign in on my LJ lol I knew you from te :p you added to the end.

[rekallthegreat.livejournal.com]

*nods* I hate the yami thing too.

And yes it was me. :p

[rekallthegreat.livejournal.com]

I *hate* Atem! His name in Egyptian is translated as "Atemu" and it's pronounced with the U (unlike Mariku).

[elektra-alpha.livejournal.com]

lol my country ygo publisher translated it to atem!
well it kinda confuse with jpn language term since most of last characters wrote in katakana were "-u" (like "mariku" and "ishizu") if it not end with "n"