David Johnston wrote:
The Wanderer wrote:
Bert Miller wrote:
Quoting goodwin <flipper123@optushome.com.au>:
I might ever want to marry, is you, Phoebe."
I thought that an odd choice for Mar's old name, given its
lunar associations. Especially with "Aphrodite" for Minako,
why not "Aries" (or a feminization thereof: "Ariana")?
Phoebe would be a feminine form of Phobos,
Except it's not. If "Phoebe" were a feminine form of anything, it
would be "Phoebus", as in Apollo, meaning that the feminine
would be Artemis. Seriously, I did a google "define:Phoebe"
before I posted, just to double check, and Phoebe can up with
multiple references as a goddess or titaness later identified
with Artemis.
A reasonable argument. Let me put it to you backwards: what *would*
be a feminine form of "Phobos"?
"Phobia". And no, that isn't a joke, although I'd bust a gut laughing
if a previous incarnation of Sailor Mars was named "Phobia"
Thank you; I agree on both counts.
The name didn't seem obvious to me, but now that you've provided it it
makes perfect sense. Its unsuitability as a name, in an English-language
context, is also entirely plain. <grin>
(Though now that I think about it, I can come up with setting and
character types for which it would do quite well....)