Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20150103204745

67.67.8.132 wrote: I really hate Curtess as a name, it doesn't sound right, and I think that the chess connections has far more ground than a name obviously derived from the word courteous (seriously, Curtess is only a few letters off an Kachess is not that courteous).

To be fair, a number of mothy's names taken from real people don't seem to have any actual connection to the character (see Chelsea, Mariam, Kyle) unless you want to really start making speculations.

I like the idea of the chess connection, but it would definitely be more believable if there were clear chess allusions being made for the character or more were shared with surrounding characters.

But the theory revolves around the idea that Kachess (a "pawn") has a name alluding to the entire story scenario being a chess game, hence the idea it is supposed to be "chess", with Veno as the King, Yufina as the Queen, etc. Why isn't the name "Kapawn" then? Why would it just be "chess"?

If mothy wanted to make a general chess allusion, why only have Kachess be in on the wordplay? Like mentioned, Maylis' connection got supported by her siblings setting a clear pattern in the names.

Similarly, other eras are also pretty guilty of having a heavy mixture of made up and legit names (EFEC especially) and the fact the Lunacy story does use real names like Carol, Ferdinand, Donald, and Martius shouldn't be ignored either.

It's a neat concept but it's derived from specfically looking at the "chesu" part of the name and not the "Kaachesu" name as a whole.

As far as real names go, Curtess would be suitable based on the points made in previous posts. We could try changing it to another made up name (Kerchess, Karchess, Kurchess, etc) as well.

My position on doing a made up name though is that it looks more like we're really trying to keep a speculated pun in there that has lots of holes, which is a bigger jump than I am personally willing to make. In that case, a real name like Curtess feels like a much safer bet to me personally.