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(Created page with "In one universe, '''Dwain Carter''' and his sister Karolyn Carter were 21st century descendants of Randolph Carter who carried on his legacy of opposing Nyarlathotep (Who Laws the Lawyers?). This translated into them trying to gather all Shining Trapezohedra, of which there were at least four. Having learned that the “''damn'' fourth Shining Trapezohedron” was in Manhattan, the siblings w...") Tag: visualeditor-wikitext |
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In her author's comments for ''[[Who Laws the Lawyers? (short story)|Who Laws the Lawyers?]]'', [[Delilah H. Smith]] pointed out that the etymology of Dwain's name equated it with “Shadow”, thus doubling the joke of the line about “that ''damn'' fourth Shining Trapezohedron”, a reference to a meme related to the ''Sonic the Hedgehod'' franchise and featuring Shadow the Hedgehog. | In her author's comments for ''[[Who Laws the Lawyers? (short story)|Who Laws the Lawyers?]]'', [[Delilah H. Smith]] pointed out that the etymology of Dwain's name equated it with “Shadow”, thus doubling the joke of the line about “that ''damn'' fourth Shining Trapezohedron”, a reference to a meme related to the ''Sonic the Hedgehod'' franchise and featuring Shadow the Hedgehog. | ||
{{quotebox|Randolph Carter is a recurring protagonist in Lovecraft’s stories, in at least one of which Nyarlathotep was the antagonist. I figured it’s like ninety years after Randolph’s adventures, so let’s give him some descendants instead. “Karolyn” just sprang to my mind randomly; “Dwain” is one possible anglicization of the Irish name “Dubhán”, which has the ultimate definition of “little dark one”. In other words, he’s “Shadow the Carter”, as in “where’s that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?” Dwain “The Shadow” Carter. (I didn’t actually know about Li'l Wayne, so I had to change the spelling from what I originally had …) Being that this story is released as Creative Commons 0, you don’t need any permission to use Karolyn or Shadow Carter.| | {{quotebox|Randolph Carter is a recurring protagonist in Lovecraft’s stories, in at least one of which Nyarlathotep was the antagonist. I figured it’s like ninety years after Randolph’s adventures, so let’s give him some descendants instead. “Karolyn” just sprang to my mind randomly; “Dwain” is one possible anglicization of the Irish name “Dubhán”, which has the ultimate definition of “little dark one”. In other words, he’s “Shadow the Carter”, as in “where’s that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?” Dwain “The Shadow” Carter. (I didn’t actually know about Li'l Wayne, so I had to change the spelling from what I originally had …) Being that this story is released as Creative Commons 0, you don’t need any permission to use Karolyn or Shadow Carter.|Delilah H. Smith}} | ||
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