Aestrix Ramblings and Q & A

[Bluelantern]

If it is Rulers, the group name should be a Measurement

[Aestrix]

Mathemadarins is funny, and a delightful pun, but alas. Too long to be more useful than 'Adarin.' <3

My analyses of the provided words with occasional commentary from Adarins...
Abacuses: I am tempted here to make some kind of pun, for example, Adacuses. But I should probably not. Pass, so I resist the urge to pun that terribly.
Computers: Not accurate, no Adarins so far are any brand of technology, and even with the alternate definition of the word they'd avoid the name to avoid confusion.
Calculators: Makes sense, but it also makes them sound like that's all they do.
Scales: The Adarins actually kind of take offense to being treated like a scale, so pass on this one.
Assayers: Adarins: "That's pretty good, actually, we'd be okay with tha-" Zevs: "Heh, 'ass.'" Adarins: *heavy sigh* "Nevermind."
Touchstones: It would make a good template name for something, I'm certain, but I don't think it's true of Adarins. They don't feel magical enough for 'touchstone.'
Quanta: It sounds like a Nadia nickname, so I should probably not throw it at Adarins in any capacity to help avoid confusion.
Auditors: Adarins: "That could be fun, judging people." Me: "Too confusing with Nexus and Crossroads, also I can't pun with it." Adarins: "Is that seriously a major selling point for you?" Me: "Yes!"
Appraisers: Despite the delightful jokes about them running an antique store with Prime, this doesn't really fit them.
Accountants: Adarins: "We do way more than just manage money!"
Calibrations: Alas, all I can think of is Garrus, calibrating the guns.
Gauges: Makes me think of the body modification.
Rulers: Me: "Guys, guys, it's a pun because you measure things and you also rule, c'mon this is gold!" Adarins: ".... No. Just - no." Me: "You never let me have any fun."

I am amused at the phrase 'particular brand of stubbornness,' but I'm curious as to how you would describe it - I know what's in my head for their stubbornness, but often I am hilariously bad at descriptions.

Adarins in quantity words are harder to think of and I will withhold any sort of opinion of them until there's a template name that is clever and accurate.

[Shoal]

I only thought of it because I've recently begun calling one of my cats "the mathemakitten". His real name is only two syllables long, but I did name him after my favourite mathematician. He has a half dozen nicknames at this point, but he always knows when I'm talking to him <3

[Aestrix]

Mathemekitten is the most adorable nickname. <3

[Tamien]

I'm super amused by Adarin's responses to the suggestions XD

As for their particular brand of stubbornness... they have this tendency to, whenever a potential problem presents itself, really dig in. Like, utterly entrench themselves and refuse to budge and just keep plowing away at it. Which works well when they are correct about what the problem is and what solving it requires, and allows them to accomplish some really extraordinary feats compared to those who lack their tremendous tenacity, but.... doesn't work very well when the problem could be easily solved by a slight shift in perspective? Adarins have this sort of... tendency to get fixated on things being one particular way (I think it's related to their general alignment with Order and feeling that there's a particular Way Things Should Be), and thus they can sometimes fail to consider other perspectives from which their problem may seem more trivial. But then instead of ever despairing that the solution is just not possible and giving in to helplessness, Adarins... Just. Keep. Going.

They have this really dogged persistence long past any sense of, well, sense. Like, I could see an Adarin coming up against a wall, and being like "Oh a WALL, HUH??? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" and just slooowwwly chipping their way through the wall. Meanwhile, everyone on this side of the wall is like "They're crazy, it would take forever to chip through the wall, there's no point!" and maybe there's someone else who's like, "Huh, actually, this wall is not that long, I'll just go around it". And then in the end the Adarin gets through and everyone who gave up on getting past the wall is like "Holy crap, did you just go THROUGH the WALL?!" and the people who were a bit more flexible/perceptive and went past the wall are like "Sure, I guess that is pretty impressive but uh, why didn't you just, like, go around it??" (And then the Adarin probably is like "THIS way EVERYONE can get through the wall" and nods righteously, meanwhile the around-goers are like, muttering amongst themselves, "...but no one needed to go through the wall, because they could just go around it??" and technically both sides are right.)

Or worse, the Adarin comes up against something that does whatever you do, and is like "Grrrr, I will set myself against this thing" and then sits there butting heads with it forever, meanwhile other people are like "hmm, if I go to MY right, it goes to ITS right, and then we just happily go around each other". Adarins are the Immovable Object, even when actually if the object just moved a little bit it might help? or the Unstoppable Force, even when oh hey, from this other angle it's actually pretty flimsy! But if you *actually need* an Immovable Object or an Unstoppable Force, Adarins are invaluable and amazing. (And I don't mean to belittle their intelligence or perceptiveness. They're normally pretty intelligent and perceptive, and come up with better solutions than most people do probably. But they're a little overly willing to do things the Long Hard Way and rarely consider whether they could just cheat.)

So that wall of text is my impression of Adarins and their stubbornness. Hopefully I'm not too off? >.>

[Aestrix]

You're not far off at all! I would say you hit the nail on the head, actually. I am impressed and flattered! :D

[Tamien]

Yay! I'm glad :D

[Bluelantern]

Is there a tendency to have Lynn to be older than the twins in Earth typical settings? What would she be like in Hogwarts?

[Aestrix]

I've made Lynn older than the twins because typically she's more interesting when she's older than she was when she was, say, 17. When she was 17 she was witty, passionate (In a very Lynn way, don't think Zev type passionate), practical, bold, stubborn, impatient, prideful, and sort of - desperately scrabbling to be an adult and be taken seriously. When she's in her early 30's (Mrs. Adam's age) she's more interesting, because all of those traits are still present, except the last. She is an adult, and if you don't take her seriously, you're going to have a bad time, and she knows it. At the same time, she's been tempered, with time - the passion and temper aren't gone, they're just giving way to her practicality, the pride is less pronounced, impatience has given ground to foresight and planning. Essentially, there's more to her, when she's older, more ingredients for me to play with.

I might play her younger self, eventually, just for something new. Same with Veron, he was quite a handful when he was young.

In Hogwarts, I would put her in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. I suspect the sorting hat would waffle for a while, and then sort her into Gryffindor.

[Bluelantern]

Ah, I can see that.

I think she is strongly Gryffindor, even Mrs. Adams fits that.

I was just idly thinking of "Highschool AU" variations of our templates.