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Not ready for prime time, so it's friendslocked. (Or not, as was pointed out to me. No big deal - just don't link to it yet because the URL will change after I'm done. I'll let ya know when it's ready for official release.)
Got out of work early since tomorrow's the Fourth of July, and naturally instead of doing anything useful, I'm messing with the random generators again. This particular one I'm working on started as a potential silly LJ entry - I'd accidentally run across somewhere online a forum thread where people were making up what their zanpakutos* would be. Naturally, most of these zanpakutos were highly Mary Sue-ified, if you can call it that (but you know what I mean), and were super-powerful and capable of taking out most captains with a single blow.
* Weapons Soul Reapers use in Bleach. Each is attuned to the wielder, each has a name, each has a couple of forms - shikai and bankai - and special abilities. Wikipedia.
This struck me as silly, and I started wondering what zanpakutos would be in the real world, but realized that if I posted an LJ entry asking you what *your* zanpakuto was, in the vein of asking you what your superpower was*, that meant I'd have to come up with one of my own, and I ahvne't been able to do it yet.
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bpggle is the Weird Attractor, calling all insane people from near and far to discuss their opinions with him. I merely have the ability to make anybody ask me if I've found God yet.
But it started me thinking about random generators, and how complex it would have to be, because the form and ability of the zanpakuto tend to be related to the name. I haven't figured out how to do that yet, but I've been working on a zanpakuto name generator, at least.
I've reached the point where they all look alike, because I'm intimately familiar with every term used in it. And they're ... OK. I've taken out most of the really silly ones (I plan on making a silly zanpakuto generator once I hammer out the problems of this one), but the rest are mostly blah and not spectacular yet.
http://www.magatsu.net/zanpakuto/names.php Cleaned up the directory, now at: http://www.magatsu.net/zanpakuto/
Good, or at least Not Bad:
Whisper of the West Wind
Crimson Flower Cloud
Unseen Wind of Hell
Threefold Lotus Sword
Waterfall of Agony
Hell's Fang
Ethereal Fire
Um (probably Squad Four):
Eternal Cherry
Spectral Spirit
Secret Flower Bridge
Sailor Moon:
Mystic Rainbow Justice
Gossamer Light of Wisdom
Romance Novel:
Savage Midnight Sacrifice
Ignore the bold words on the generator page - those are the patterns of the types of terms in the data, and I have them up there to make it easy to see which one is throwing up weird results.
What I know I need is more Meta-Actor words - they're the words like "Cutter" in Ichigo's "Moon Cutter", a noun made from a verb that modifies or acts upon a noun and comes after the noun. I've got "Cutter" in the generator, naturally, as well as the (boring synonyms of) Slicer and Splitter, and added Healer, Singer, and Dancer. But that ain't near enough.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Proposition? Porn?
This isnt' going to be the final generator - ideally, I'm going to randomly come up with shikai and bankai forms and abilities. We'll see if that happens. :D
Got out of work early since tomorrow's the Fourth of July, and naturally instead of doing anything useful, I'm messing with the random generators again. This particular one I'm working on started as a potential silly LJ entry - I'd accidentally run across somewhere online a forum thread where people were making up what their zanpakutos* would be. Naturally, most of these zanpakutos were highly Mary Sue-ified, if you can call it that (but you know what I mean), and were super-powerful and capable of taking out most captains with a single blow.
* Weapons Soul Reapers use in Bleach. Each is attuned to the wielder, each has a name, each has a couple of forms - shikai and bankai - and special abilities. Wikipedia.
This struck me as silly, and I started wondering what zanpakutos would be in the real world, but realized that if I posted an LJ entry asking you what *your* zanpakuto was, in the vein of asking you what your superpower was*, that meant I'd have to come up with one of my own, and I ahvne't been able to do it yet.
* My friend
bpggle is the Weird Attractor, calling all insane people from near and far to discuss their opinions with him. I merely have the ability to make anybody ask me if I've found God yet.But it started me thinking about random generators, and how complex it would have to be, because the form and ability of the zanpakuto tend to be related to the name. I haven't figured out how to do that yet, but I've been working on a zanpakuto name generator, at least.
I've reached the point where they all look alike, because I'm intimately familiar with every term used in it. And they're ... OK. I've taken out most of the really silly ones (I plan on making a silly zanpakuto generator once I hammer out the problems of this one), but the rest are mostly blah and not spectacular yet.
Good, or at least Not Bad:
Whisper of the West Wind
Crimson Flower Cloud
Unseen Wind of Hell
Threefold Lotus Sword
Waterfall of Agony
Hell's Fang
Ethereal Fire
Um (probably Squad Four):
Eternal Cherry
Spectral Spirit
Secret Flower Bridge
Sailor Moon:
Mystic Rainbow Justice
Gossamer Light of Wisdom
Romance Novel:
Savage Midnight Sacrifice
Ignore the bold words on the generator page - those are the patterns of the types of terms in the data, and I have them up there to make it easy to see which one is throwing up weird results.
What I know I need is more Meta-Actor words - they're the words like "Cutter" in Ichigo's "Moon Cutter", a noun made from a verb that modifies or acts upon a noun and comes after the noun. I've got "Cutter" in the generator, naturally, as well as the (boring synonyms of) Slicer and Splitter, and added Healer, Singer, and Dancer. But that ain't near enough.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Proposition? Porn?
This isnt' going to be the final generator - ideally, I'm going to randomly come up with shikai and bankai forms and abilities. We'll see if that happens. :D