Breakfast Serial: Palate Cleanser
Two things occurred to me while reading over the first Breakfast Serial post:
I: I need to thank H.H. Neville, Alex Cook, Thomas Moses, Sam Street, and Douglas Bookey for helping me out with the power-sets. I asked for random, quirky abilities — the stranger, the better — and they delivered. I’ll get into who’s behind whom another day (after the whole cast has been introduced).
II: “Bleeder” is a really unfortunate name for a teenage girl, even if she does have to open up a vein to use her powers. But, I’m at a loss as to what to call a person whose blood coagulates into a nigh-invulnerable armor when exposed to air. “Scab” has its own pejorative connotations. “Blood Clot” doesn’t fit. “Coagulation” is unruly. And, I can’t find a technical term that works.
Thus far, the best replacement I’ve got is “BloodBath,” and I’m not sure that’s any better. Also: it’s got kind of a ’90s Image vibe, which might not be so hip.
So, if anyone’s got any ideas, I’m all ears.
Category: Breakfast Serial
April 20th, 2009 at 4.48 AM
Crust.
Or Scar, depending on if she heals after she’s been a-slicing.
Anything prefixed with Blood- *will* sound very Rob Liefeld-ish, it must be said. The bastard.
April 20th, 2009 at 4.59 AM
Or you could splice Scar and Carapace for the exo-shell of a beetle and make it Scarapace, which would just be far too clever for its own good.
April 20th, 2009 at 1.12 PM
Bloodbath, I have to say is fucking terrible unless you’re Rob Liefeld. It fits, but, yeah.
Sanguine
China White (you can jack the name if you want. Someone should use it and I won’t be)
And if you’re really silly: Veinity,
Nev
April 20th, 2009 at 1.15 PM
“Bloodline” also came to mind, but I should probably avoid “Blood-anything,” yeah.
“Sanguine” isn’t bad, though. Hrm…
April 20th, 2009 at 3.11 PM
“Gush,” “Gash,” and “Wound” are all off the table, as well, of course.
“Scratch” or “Scrape,” though?
There’s also the whole cutting angle:
“Cutter”
“Cut-Up” (I kinda like that)
“CutOut”
“Cut-to-the-Quick”
“Rough Cut”
“Cut Scene”
“Jump Cut”
“Incision”
“Scalpel”
“Ten-Blade”
April 20th, 2009 at 3.16 PM
Not that it makes a lick of sense, but I kinda like the name “Blood Sugar” despite its blood-ness.
April 20th, 2009 at 3.22 PM
ha ha ha, and I just realised that Meri and both name-checked Liefeld, and I certainly had no idea that he did when I posted. That’s twice, Meri (Ashes and Ashes being the other). Scary bidness.
Ten-Blade and Scalpel sound good if a bit too scientific.
(And yes, I’m fixing it so that my gravatar shows).
April 20th, 2009 at 3.25 PM
Maybe you could use…..
Bloodloss- kinda literal I suppose lol, but its all I got.
April 21st, 2009 at 2.41 PM
More?
More!
“Platelet”
“Cutlass”
“Bloodstream”
“Red Velvet”
“Pallor”
“Spatter”
“Blood Drive”
April 25th, 2009 at 10.29 PM
Vain or Sickle work too