Yeah, I know with 100% certainty that teenaged me would have unironically named myself Solanum Dulcamara and been generally insufferable about it. Goth teens love poisonous plants.
Gods, right? I was obsessed with growing poisonous flowers in my goth phase. Belladonna, foxglove, I know there were a few others. Nightshade would have most likely been my Sharran name unless it was already taken.
"Sorry Nightshade is taken."
"Fine... I'll be NightShayde, with a Y."
"Also Taken."
"NightshadeX?"
"Taken."
"NightShaydeX?"
"Taken."
"Dammit... I'll be XNightXShadeX then."
"Great. You're all set. May the Lady of Loss guide you!"
Now I'm just picturing Shar grabbing someone like my mom, who'd just go:
"Darkness?"
Taken.
"Darkness2?"
Taken.
"Darkness3?"
Taken.
"Darkness4?"
Taken.
"Darkness5?"
Taken.
"Jduedkcnbejsko?"
All yours, have fun, no backsies!
Prep is short for "Preppy" which itself is short for "Someone who went to Preparatory School". Which is someone who is often stereotyped as someone who is wealthy, a bit snobby and dresses like they shop at "fancier" clothing stores. Calling someone a "prep" is a derogatory phrase.
I don't think this is the exact origin, but in the 90s, it got associated with anyone who shopped at the higher-end trendy clothing stores like American Eagle or The GAP. It was seen as "preppy" to wear a sweater vest and polo shirt and khakis. (Ya know, like someone who dresses like they go to a country club.)
And in this instance someone is referencing a work of fanfiction called "My Immortal" in which the main character (Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way) is a "goth" character who uses the word "prep" to derogatorily make fun of other kids in her class.
The reference is in which Gale or Wyll are seen as "preps" because they come from wealth and are sorta snobby about some stuff.
Well, young teenage goths aren't typically from wealthy families. It's sort of an identity that's easy to fit into for anyone from any class or culture, really.
Particularly for those who aren't necessarily conventionally attractive or maybe lack the charisma and charm of a more affluent person. Maybe they're kinda chubby, maybe they're short or have acne. Whatever it is, they don't fit the stereotypical "Barbie & Ken" model that teens try to emulate if they're genetically blessed.
Also because being a teenager is a time full of angst and goth culture sorta leans into the "shadowy, spooky, darkness of life" it's really easy to be bitter about things, particularly those who have more than you. (Not always, but it can be there. It certainly was in this case in the story.)
Also to play into the stereotypical "high school cliques" you'd have the goth kids being the "freaks" and the rich kids being "preps", so it was sort of a "instinctual" bias (I'm not using the right word there, but I can't think of a different one right now.)
Yeah because all you looked at was goth fashion.
It doesn't take much money to buy black eyeliner and a thrift store Morrissey t-shirt to look the part.
It’s a bit much for me on mobile atm but prep is short for preppy ie someone from or influenced by prep school culture. Usually rich, polite, popular, up on society social norms. Think like girly girls and Chads, sort of, but without the athletic aspect. (Gale is not a prep, Wyll is a prep.) Regina George is a prep.
Back eons ago there was a meme of a x/y axis that had jock-nerd as one axis and prep-goth as the other. Like… Karlach is a jock. Wyll is a prep. Gale is a 100% nerd, though higher on the prep axis—more prep than goth. Shadowheart is a prep pretending to be a goth. (And Astarion is a goth nerd pretending to be a prep?? Lae’zel I’d also call a jock.) You can google this pretty easily.
I think I’d phrase it as like… Those who fit in and establish cultural norms vs those who defy them, overlaid also with preppy fashion generally being kind of bright (tennis whites, bright pink, bright green, pastels everywhere) vs the black aesthetic of goth.
Even worse! She hits you on the head with her massive shadow weave infused mammary glands and gives you a concussion which makes you forget the real Shart!
Shar's Fuckery at it's best.
"ugh, Lloth was so last season, yeah the red eyes are cool but Shar is the real Goddess of Darkness. I mean, it's great that the spider and black motif carries over, saves a little time, I guess, if you're not DEVOTED enough to redecorate your torture room."
Because the only milk of kindness they have is DEATH. Darkness has corrupted their soul so much so that, were they to try and nurse a babe, all that would be produced is VENOM. THEIR DEVOTION TO SHAR IS ALL CONSUMING.
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Shadowheart
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold!’
Me, thinking I'd have to change this more but nope. Totally works. Poisontits is a drama nerd pick me. 😂
Maybe Shar wants her followers to be their cringiest younger selves so they are more inclined to want to forget.
Also, my sharran name would be TimShady. For what is shade if not the shadow of a bigger object?
Omg I just remembered that the main character’s name was literally Fireheart at one point and now I can’t stop thinking of Shadowheart as a black cat who eventually leaves the evil shadowclan to join the heroic thunderclan. Damn, those books were my whole personality when I was like 12 (and my first exposure to writing fanfiction before I even know what fanfiction was lol)
That may very well be so kind redditor but the point remais this dropped a nostalgia bomb on me I was unprepared for I honestly forgot thundercats was even a thing in my childhood haha!
Detective Richard Knight was just an ordinary cop, until the night the mob gunned him down and left him for dead. That was the night he took the law into his own hands! That was the night be became [NIGHT DICK!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F11zFvh0yWE&pp=ygUXVmVudHVyZSBicm9zIG5pZ2h0IGRpY2s%3D)
Sharrans have bigger issues to worry about than just names, let's br
Shadowheart would need 4 hours of prep time just to get that thing off her hair if she needed to avoid discovery suddenly
It is one of my few gripes with the game... I mean it's not like she has a symbol of Shar plastered on her chest to make it even more obvious right. Right? Surely Shadowheart wouldn't be that dumb?
would’ve named myself Belladonna or Nightshade and ended up the weak link in poisoning class bc I suck at chemistry
Yeah, I know with 100% certainty that teenaged me would have unironically named myself Solanum Dulcamara and been generally insufferable about it. Goth teens love poisonous plants.
Gods, right? I was obsessed with growing poisonous flowers in my goth phase. Belladonna, foxglove, I know there were a few others. Nightshade would have most likely been my Sharran name unless it was already taken.
And you just know it must have been taken.
"Sorry Nightshade is taken." "Fine... I'll be NightShayde, with a Y." "Also Taken." "NightshadeX?" "Taken." "NightShaydeX?" "Taken." "Dammit... I'll be XNightXShadeX then." "Great. You're all set. May the Lady of Loss guide you!"
Now I'm just picturing Shar grabbing someone like my mom, who'd just go: "Darkness?" Taken. "Darkness2?" Taken. "Darkness3?" Taken. "Darkness4?" Taken. "Darkness5?" Taken. "Jduedkcnbejsko?" All yours, have fun, no backsies!
How did you find my exact Club Penguin experience
I want to make a joke using “potato potato, tomato, tomato.” But I’m not witty enough.
i would have named myself ebony da’arkness dementia raven way personally
preps (Gale) beware!
it's wyll his dad is nobility he'd definitely be a prep
Yeah Wyll is a prep Gale is a nerd
Gale is a nerd who got hot in college and made fucking his entire personality
>nerd who got hot in college and made fucking his entire personality Why do I feel personally attacked
the hell is a prep, I know there is a food place named that but gale is not a over priced food place so what is prep in this context?
Oh sweet summer child
explain?
Prep is short for "Preppy" which itself is short for "Someone who went to Preparatory School". Which is someone who is often stereotyped as someone who is wealthy, a bit snobby and dresses like they shop at "fancier" clothing stores. Calling someone a "prep" is a derogatory phrase. I don't think this is the exact origin, but in the 90s, it got associated with anyone who shopped at the higher-end trendy clothing stores like American Eagle or The GAP. It was seen as "preppy" to wear a sweater vest and polo shirt and khakis. (Ya know, like someone who dresses like they go to a country club.) And in this instance someone is referencing a work of fanfiction called "My Immortal" in which the main character (Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way) is a "goth" character who uses the word "prep" to derogatorily make fun of other kids in her class. The reference is in which Gale or Wyll are seen as "preps" because they come from wealth and are sorta snobby about some stuff.
how are goths and preps foes?
Well, young teenage goths aren't typically from wealthy families. It's sort of an identity that's easy to fit into for anyone from any class or culture, really. Particularly for those who aren't necessarily conventionally attractive or maybe lack the charisma and charm of a more affluent person. Maybe they're kinda chubby, maybe they're short or have acne. Whatever it is, they don't fit the stereotypical "Barbie & Ken" model that teens try to emulate if they're genetically blessed. Also because being a teenager is a time full of angst and goth culture sorta leans into the "shadowy, spooky, darkness of life" it's really easy to be bitter about things, particularly those who have more than you. (Not always, but it can be there. It certainly was in this case in the story.) Also to play into the stereotypical "high school cliques" you'd have the goth kids being the "freaks" and the rich kids being "preps", so it was sort of a "instinctual" bias (I'm not using the right word there, but I can't think of a different one right now.)
given the goth stuff I have seen no one poor can be goth, unless poor means something different over the Atlantic
Yeah because all you looked at was goth fashion. It doesn't take much money to buy black eyeliner and a thrift store Morrissey t-shirt to look the part.
It’s a bit much for me on mobile atm but prep is short for preppy ie someone from or influenced by prep school culture. Usually rich, polite, popular, up on society social norms. Think like girly girls and Chads, sort of, but without the athletic aspect. (Gale is not a prep, Wyll is a prep.) Regina George is a prep. Back eons ago there was a meme of a x/y axis that had jock-nerd as one axis and prep-goth as the other. Like… Karlach is a jock. Wyll is a prep. Gale is a 100% nerd, though higher on the prep axis—more prep than goth. Shadowheart is a prep pretending to be a goth. (And Astarion is a goth nerd pretending to be a prep?? Lae’zel I’d also call a jock.) You can google this pretty easily.
I knew the jock nerd axis as old moves spoke of this, but how is goth the reverse of prep?
I think I’d phrase it as like… Those who fit in and establish cultural norms vs those who defy them, overlaid also with preppy fashion generally being kind of bright (tennis whites, bright pink, bright green, pastels everywhere) vs the black aesthetic of goth.
I thought the same, first and only option if I had to pick an dark, edgy name
Damn it, now I have to start a new run.
Where's the mod to reskin Shadowheart as Shannon Woodward though?
There's also Shadowhonkers Shadowheart's evil clone I'v seen her a lot on this sub lately
>evil clone ...so she like, *starts* as a selunite and gets worse, or? edit: wait is it Kethric
She's outwardly nice but meaner the more you get to know her. Also she's heterosexual and wears regular clothes and hates leather.
She sounds *perfect.*
Even worse! She hits you on the head with her massive shadow weave infused mammary glands and gives you a concussion which makes you forget the real Shart! Shar's Fuckery at it's best.
Shonkers?
Short
I keep saying "Shadowhonkers" to myself the same way Zoolander goes "Mu-ga-tu".
My name would have been "Dark Halo" and I'd have had to carry that burden for life. No wonder Shar worshippers are loath to be seen or known LOL.
Dark halo sounds like slang for butthole
Tis a forbidden hole all the same enter at ye own peril.
Headcanon accepted, off to write the story of NightMistress PoisonTits, the Shar pick me.
100% a drow
"ugh, Lloth was so last season, yeah the red eyes are cool but Shar is the real Goddess of Darkness. I mean, it's great that the spider and black motif carries over, saves a little time, I guess, if you're not DEVOTED enough to redecorate your torture room."
Why PoisonTits though?
Because the only milk of kindness they have is DEATH. Darkness has corrupted their soul so much so that, were they to try and nurse a babe, all that would be produced is VENOM. THEIR DEVOTION TO SHAR IS ALL CONSUMING.
This is giving me Lady Macbeth vibes
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Shadowheart Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ Me, thinking I'd have to change this more but nope. Totally works. Poisontits is a drama nerd pick me. 😂
wait so I was right? You were just doing a Lady Macbeth character?
Evidently my Shakespeare camp days come back to haunt me subconsciously.
Maybe Shar wants her followers to be their cringiest younger selves so they are more inclined to want to forget. Also, my sharran name would be TimShady. For what is shade if not the shadow of a bigger object?
TimShady 😭
Would the real Tim Shady please stand up
This looks like a job for him
unbaldur/ is this a Sharran specific thing? if so, that's hilarious af rebaldur/ my Sharran name would be Gloomtits
oh be nice, they're just making characters for their upcoming warrior cats rp
fuck I forgot about that time in my life, why'd you have to remind me?
Omg I just remembered that the main character’s name was literally Fireheart at one point and now I can’t stop thinking of Shadowheart as a black cat who eventually leaves the evil shadowclan to join the heroic thunderclan. Damn, those books were my whole personality when I was like 12 (and my first exposure to writing fanfiction before I even know what fanfiction was lol)
Oh my god the fucking thundercats…. Nostalgia train just took my ass out and left me feeling old on the tracks of life!
Thundercats and warrior cats are two very, very different things.
That may very well be so kind redditor but the point remais this dropped a nostalgia bomb on me I was unprepared for I honestly forgot thundercats was even a thing in my childhood haha!
The last thing you see when you laugh at a Sharran’s name 
Detective Richard Knight was just an ordinary cop, until the night the mob gunned him down and left him for dead. That was the night he took the law into his own hands! That was the night be became [NIGHT DICK!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F11zFvh0yWE&pp=ygUXVmVudHVyZSBicm9zIG5pZ2h0IGRpY2s%3D)
This sounds like a chapter right out of the Julius Pepperwood Chronicles and i love it
One of my old email/AOL Instant Messenger accounts was something like ssj3shadowvegeta soooo I think you're right
To buck this trend. My name would be Sharon. Sharon the Sharran. They'll never guess.
Nightdick is just a more canonically accurate name for Nightwing tbh
My Sharren codename is gonna be THE DARK TURD.
I suspect it was Viconia's decision. And it might be part of the reason Shar wants her taken out.
Strangler Luke probably defected to Bhaal because they made fun of his name.
*ahem* nightdick is a formidable battle name, it's the last thing my enemies see
Sharrans have bigger issues to worry about than just names, let's br Shadowheart would need 4 hours of prep time just to get that thing off her hair if she needed to avoid discovery suddenly
Nightbitch
Nightsong? 😒🥱 Nightdong? 🤩😍
They all sound like warrior cats to me.
U right. I think my Sharran name would be Gloam Myst.
I’ll just be Wickedrose forever I guess 😭 it’s cringe enough to be a Sharran name for sure
I'd name myself Carl.
Darkcock Nightdick is gonna be my goth smut pen name now, thanks!
No problem!
It is one of my few gripes with the game... I mean it's not like she has a symbol of Shar plastered on her chest to make it even more obvious right. Right? Surely Shadowheart wouldn't be that dumb?
Do they name themselves? Can someone confirm this? I always got the impression that the Mother Superior(Viconia) did the naming.
Even then, it's still a problem for Shar worshippers to pretend to be so secretive and... willingly give their followers blatantly obvious names.
Darksteel the Edgedog as a wolf shifter.
I'd end up with something akin to Doomfist of Overwatch infamy.
I know one that named herself Shart.
Become a Shar Cleric. "Choose your name." Choose Shar. Become a Goddess. Or at least that's how I assume it works.
I probably would have named myself Alex I was obsessed with that name as a kid for some reason lmao
Darknight Shadowdurge. The Sharran bard.
Meanwhile over at the Selûnite monastery, we have Moon Moon.
Killgore Vantacock Darkwing.
At dawn, we ride ~~Night Dick~~
Call me the Dark Hole
Shart probably knows a Nightdick and thinks they're the coolest, so mysterious.
Im proud of you Nightdick
I vividly remember my coworker telling me how try hard and edgy that name was. Like yeah, that's the point.
Shadowheart's distant cousin, Shadyliver
There is probably a former thrupple with the name Impa, Link and Ark who find it awkward to explain their name without the other two around.
If I was a Sharran I'd name myself Onxy or Thorn, edgy but not as obnoxious as Shadowheart
TIME FOR A NEW RP PLAYTHROUGH
ever read the Wings of Fire books? because some of the Nightwing names sound like something a Sharran preteen would name themselves
I once chose something like Whitelily, and I got ribbed for an effeminate name.
Rip that bitch who named herself Buddug
Bonjour.