We're all mad here

Sakazaki is the hesire Cat, Sodou is the Queen, Kirishima is the Doormouse and Souh is the Caterpillar

I just started laughing like crazy while remembering the Queen's solution for everything (cut off the head). For me Mikhail is the Mad Hatter and Yuri is the March Hare. Would Kirishima be Caterpillar? *0*

oops - typo - I meant Cheshire Cat

I know what you meant. I am fluent in Typos.

The contempt works. :)

Beware the Jabbawock. Yuri lives still. hahahah. Who is that coming to do battle? Alice, The white rabbit, The White Queen(kuroda) , The White King (kirishima) and Suoh as the Ch. Cat. (He brought his kittens with him).

Yes, for me Yuri is still alive. *0*

Yuri is too damn evil to die.

Oh Yes! Just for fun and speculation: Maybe Yuri left Mik's group and is leading his own organization know. Aaron is one of his underlings, and a former fighter of the IRA (he's Irish). *0*

I wondered about that too--like there may be some split in the Russian ranks.

As an aside, Aaron would be an unusual name for an Irishman, but not impossible. Remember trad Irish names have very weird spellings. The country "Erinn" would be spelt with an E and an I to make an A (eh) sound, and they throw in two Ns but only one R. I believe that when the Irish finally came up with an acceptable use of the standard alphabet for their language, they said, "Fine, but we are going to spell things in such a way that Europeans will never be able to make sense of it." (And then the Welsh said, "Us too, but with more Ds, Ws and Ys and no vowels without a special writ of permission.)*" Erin is a girl's name meaning the same thing as Eirinn, but I haven't seen it used for boys and it's unrelated to Aaron from the Bible/Torah. The Scottish Isle of Arran is probably derivative of some Viking name. It's a weird thing too.

*They also do this so that when people want to sound mystical and pronounce "Samhain" as "Sam Hain" instead of "Sow when" the Celtic language speakers can laugh.

**PS forgive me, I once did a semester abroad at UCD (Ireland). Sadly, I have no skill for languages.

Thanks for giving me these lessons about Irish pronunciation. I find it difficult to understand if someone speaks at me using British or Scottish pronunciation. I find less difficult to understand American English. I know Ireland's language family have Celtic and Goidelic. :)

Sorry about that. It's against my nature to withhold information (even when people beg me). :)

I don't find most Irish accents hard to understand when they speak English (and if I've drunk enoughI'll slip into a sort of Dublin accent, not to be rude but because my mouth just does it after hearing it). I think many people know "standard" American and English accents from TV and movies. The one that sometimes throws me is a thick Aussie accent (even more than the Kiwis). I don't know why this is--they are usually lovely people once I understand them. I suppose it is just what I am used to hearing (or not).

So I want to say Aaron could be Russian or some Slavic type or maybe even from the middle East (though he doesn't look it). Aaron could be anything.

I think that using the Cyrillic alphabet the spelling of "Aaron" would be more or less the same, but I don't know anything about Russian pronunciation.
Before I was talking about English different pronunciations because English isn't my mother tongue and I was just curious. :)

Since I'm oversharing (again) I'm going to add one of my weird little theories that isn't directly related to Finder. I've always thought there were parallels between England and Japan, both being island nations that had great imperial power. The analogy isn't perfect, of course, but that makes Europe kind of China West (if you follow me), and Ireland would be kind of a Korean West. Sure, I'd rather live in Northern Ireland than "Best" Korea, but I did say it wasn't a perfect parallel.

So it would be a little weird for me if Aaron comes from Korea West--you know?

Yes, you are right. Just in this moment I remembered all the matter about the"Iron curtain" and the "Wall of Berlin" that is a recent part of European history. Probably Aaron comes from an Eastern European country.

I like the idea of a power struggle between Mikhail and Aaron.

Erin is also the old name for Ireland. Aaron is originally Hebrew (and there is an Egyptian version too) but has spread in popularity to other parts of the world. Arran (BTW) is not Viking in origin - it is the Scottish spelling of Aaron from the Hebrew (says the Danish girl - with some confidence as Aaron is not commonly found in Scandinavia - the closest would be Aage - I have a relative with that name) *winks*

The Celtic and the Hebrew are really not related, though they sound alike. I was told Arran, as in the island north of Scotland (sometimes spelled Arrain), is from a Norse word meaning high place, and it is not related to the Hebrew/Egyptian word. It's also not a name for a person. It's just a place. :)

Aran with one r means kidney-shaped in Irish. Eirinn does mean Ireland in Irish (Eirinn go bragh!). I thought at first Lady L was making a pun on Eirinn/aaron but now I think it may have been a coincidence.

But since it's almost St. Patrick's Day, it's timely.

Do you think Aki would drink green beer?

Takaba would drink, period.He is a beer lover. love warm Sake on cold nights

Yes, it has been a coincidence. I only know that the name "Aaron" is ranked at the 24th place in popularity in Ireland. :)