Post by Hollow, Sky, Laurel, Jay, Rye on Nov 27, 2014 16:30:04 GMT
To put it simply, there aren’t any.
If you’ve read the two previous rules, you probably have some inkling that the prefix is somehow correlating to the physical appearance of the cat. Therefore, naming a kitten because of something it did at its birth - like jump around (which doesn’t happen with newborn kits), shiver (which is just a natural response to cold), or anything similar - is just kind of silly.
There are canon instances of this type of naming, such as Sneezepaw, a Riverclan apprentice in the third arc, and Runningbrook from Windclan.
Sneezepaw is described as a grey-and-white cat, but sneeze- doesn’t reflect this. I don’t know what colour a sneeze is - technically, it’s an invisible and ephemeral response to stimulus, but I guess you could argue that’s it’s the colour of boogers? Moving on. Presumably, this particular kitten sneezed when it was young and its mother (Greymist) thought it was the most adorable thing and named her kitten after this action. All kittens sneeze at some point, I’m sure, and they’re all adorable, particularly when they sneeze. (Maybe I’m just basing this assumption on baby Pandas). Either way, these are not good reasons for a prefix. I am sorry, Greymist.
You have failed as a parent. Look at your life. Look at your choices.
If the kitten did something truly miraculous at its birth, such as a triple backflip or healing the blind, then that’s still no reason not to reference what the cat looks like. No one is going to recognise Somersaultface from a distance, and what happens when he is old and decrepit - can he still show his brilliant acrobatic skills? I doubt it, but he’ll probably still be brown-and-white. Over the duration of his hopefully long, gymnastic life, which of these two characteristics is continuously more obvious and applicable?
If you’ve read the two previous rules, you probably have some inkling that the prefix is somehow correlating to the physical appearance of the cat. Therefore, naming a kitten because of something it did at its birth - like jump around (which doesn’t happen with newborn kits), shiver (which is just a natural response to cold), or anything similar - is just kind of silly.
There are canon instances of this type of naming, such as Sneezepaw, a Riverclan apprentice in the third arc, and Runningbrook from Windclan.
Sneezepaw is described as a grey-and-white cat, but sneeze- doesn’t reflect this. I don’t know what colour a sneeze is - technically, it’s an invisible and ephemeral response to stimulus, but I guess you could argue that’s it’s the colour of boogers? Moving on. Presumably, this particular kitten sneezed when it was young and its mother (Greymist) thought it was the most adorable thing and named her kitten after this action. All kittens sneeze at some point, I’m sure, and they’re all adorable, particularly when they sneeze. (Maybe I’m just basing this assumption on baby Pandas). Either way, these are not good reasons for a prefix. I am sorry, Greymist.
You have failed as a parent. Look at your life. Look at your choices.
If the kitten did something truly miraculous at its birth, such as a triple backflip or healing the blind, then that’s still no reason not to reference what the cat looks like. No one is going to recognise Somersaultface from a distance, and what happens when he is old and decrepit - can he still show his brilliant acrobatic skills? I doubt it, but he’ll probably still be brown-and-white. Over the duration of his hopefully long, gymnastic life, which of these two characteristics is continuously more obvious and applicable?