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Slurs for Tertians and Secubans
Jun. 27th, 2009 10:22 amOkay, so ... the Sun-Cutter graphic novel deals pretty heavily with the Tertia-Secuba conflict in the Kismetverse. As I'm working on today's page, I realized that I'm going to need some slang that both sides use for each other. The only thing that came up in Hunter's Moon was some of the Secubans calling the Tertians "terties", which is really just my half-assed "damn it, I need a slur here, what can I use in a hurry?" On this page, I need something kinda similar for the Tertians soldiers to use to refer to Secubans they're not fond of, and this got me thinking about my desperate need for fake-offensive but not actually offensive slang in the Kismetverse.
So I'll throw it out to you -- do you have any suggestions for slurs that the Tertians and Secubans could use for each other, preferably terms that aren't particularly offensive or politically loaded in our world?
Some salient points:
- Secuba is a clement, roughly Earth-sized waterworld; Tertia has a climate similar to Venus, though it's bigger with gravity about twice Earth's.
- Since the two groups diverged only about 150-100 years ago, there aren't any physical/racial/phenotype differences between them to speak of (as a population, I mean; not as individuals, obviously). Both planets were settled by North Americans and the majority of them are white.
- Secubans gain a tattoo on their arm when they reach the age of majority. Tertians seem to have kept the fondness for tattoos (since we've seen that both Signy and Sagan have tattoos) but don't attach any particular cultural significance to them.
Tertia's "hive" mentality is the thing that it strikes me the Secubans would be most likely to use against them, while the Tertians are equally appalled at the Secubans' loose political structure and lack of respect for authority. (Especially if the authority happens to be them.)
Ideas?
So I'll throw it out to you -- do you have any suggestions for slurs that the Tertians and Secubans could use for each other, preferably terms that aren't particularly offensive or politically loaded in our world?
Some salient points:
- Secuba is a clement, roughly Earth-sized waterworld; Tertia has a climate similar to Venus, though it's bigger with gravity about twice Earth's.
- Since the two groups diverged only about 150-100 years ago, there aren't any physical/racial/phenotype differences between them to speak of (as a population, I mean; not as individuals, obviously). Both planets were settled by North Americans and the majority of them are white.
- Secubans gain a tattoo on their arm when they reach the age of majority. Tertians seem to have kept the fondness for tattoos (since we've seen that both Signy and Sagan have tattoos) but don't attach any particular cultural significance to them.
Tertia's "hive" mentality is the thing that it strikes me the Secubans would be most likely to use against them, while the Tertians are equally appalled at the Secubans' loose political structure and lack of respect for authority. (Especially if the authority happens to be them.)
Ideas?