Help me pick screennames! (Contains Effulgence spoilers)

[Kappa]

ooh nifty.

[BlueSkySprite]

thanks! is this the sort of thing you'd prefer to be posted here in the future too?

[Kappa]

Sure! :D

By the way, what I'm currently working on is a Bothari screenname. caravanserai has been proposed, and I liked it but I'm wavering; I think there was another idea put forward but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

[PlainDealingVillain]

I'd think Bothari would want a quote from Cordelia (about him) as his screenname. Don't have the books searchable, but I did find this:

“He talks to demons. The demons talk back...Good guy to have with you on your next trip to hell. He speaks the language.”

[Tamien]

Cordelia on Bothari

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She got down into the line of his sight. "Bothari. Bothari, look at me. You've got to get up, and walk a little way." She took his blood-coated hand, and tried to think of a line of reason, or more likely unreason, that might reach him. She tried a smile. "Look. See? You're washed in blood. Blood washes away sin, right? You're going to be all right now. Uh, the bad man is gone, and in a little while the bad voices will go away too. So you come along with me, and I'll take you where you can rest."

"Just what I always wanted, my very own monster. What am I supposed to do, keep him in my closet?"

"Yes. Bothari enjoyed it. But Bothari is not, even by Barrayaran standards, a sane man. Do you aspire to be a monster?"
"You call him that!"
"Oh, but he's my monster. My good dog." She always had trouble explaining Bothari, sometimes even to herself. Cordelia wondered if Droushnakovi knew the Earth-historical origin of the term, scapegoat. The sacrificial animal that was released yearly into the wilderness, to carry the sins of its community away . . . Bothari was surely her beast of burden; she saw clearly what he did for her. She was less certain what she did for him, except that he seemed to find it desperately important. "I, for one, am glad you are heartsick. Two pathological killers in my service would be an excess. Treasure that nausea, Drou."

Aral on Bothari, regarding Cordelia

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"Bothari . . . does not have a good sense of self. No strong center. When I first met him, at his most ill, his personality was close to separating into multiples. If he were better educated, not so damaged, he would have made an ideal spy, a deep-penetration mole. He's a chameleon. A mirror. He becomes whatever is required of him. Not a conscious process, I don't think. Piotr expects a loyal retainer, and Bothari plays the part, deadpan as you please. Vorrutyer wanted a monster, and Bothari became his torturer. And victim. I demanded a good soldier, and he became one for me. You . . ." his voice softened, "you are the only person I know who looks at Bothari and sees a hero. So he becomes one for you. He clings to you because you create him a greater man than he ever dreamed of being."

Bothari on himself, regarding Cordelia

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"No. I am Lady Vorkosigan's dog."

After a long silence, Bothari spoke again. "If I were killed, you wouldn't leave me out there, would you, my lord?"
"Huh?" Miles tore his attention from trying to make new constellations. He had just connected the dots into a figure dubbed, mentally, Cavalryman.
"They leave bodies in space sometimes. Cold as hell. . . . God can't find them out there. No one could."
Miles blinked. He had never known the Sergeant concealed a theological streak. "Look, what's all this all of a sudden about getting killed? You're not going to—"
"The Count your father promised me," Bothari raised his voice slightly to override him, "I'd be buried at your lady mother's feet, at Vorkosigan Surleau. He promised. Didn't he tell you?"
"Er . . . The subject never came up."
"His word as Vorkosigan. Your word."
"Uh, right, then." Miles stared out the chamber's transparency. Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them. Cold . . . "You planning on heaven, Sergeant?"
"As my lady's dog. Blood washes away sin. She swore it to me. . . ."

Based on those quotes: blood_washes_away_sin, at_my_ladys_feet (or maybe at_her_feet), vorkosigans_dog, my_very_own_monster
Also, as far as I can tell, the phrase was never actually applied to him (it was used to describe Negri and Aral's service, so I think it might be a Barrayaran term for a specific sort of service), but I think it would be really appropriate: body_and_blood

[Kappa]

Ooh. *piles all these quotes into a pile and scoops them up and snuggles them* Eeeexcellent....

[tau]

Oh wow. Those are all really really good names. Well done.

[Kappa]

I'm contemplating washed_in_blood at the moment.

[BlueSkySprite]

that sounds pretty good from the quotes! I haven't gotten to the books his character development happens in yet, so I don't have much input. I've been thinking and none of the really quotable song lyrics I could think of really fit him.

[Marri]

As mentioned elsewhere: I'm working on an Emma to go with Juanita, the Jenny from this world. But the Emma has no screenname yet. I am historically the worst at Emma screennames. Help please? :)