Wondering about names again

So it looks like Pottermore is making another round of chewing through the brains of the Milliways muns. Someday I will read the Harry Potter books. After I do all the things. You know, I have a list of priorities, and having fun isn't on that list. Fun happens anyway, so, whatever.

So besides that, I had the weird urge to RP Ariane from Runescape. To which I say, dammit, brain, what's with you and redheads? I swear, you are attracted to red hair like a moth to flame.

Well, one day you might find a nice redheaded girl and you'll thank me.

Shush you.

In fact, you know four already! Five if you count that girl you are twitterstalking!

Goddamn I hate my brain.

Anyway, I hate my brain. No, I mean, anyway, Ariane. You might know, the name Ariane is a French translation of the classical Ariadne, the most holy, and wife of Dionysus (in some versions). She is also attached to the Ariadne's Thread algorithm, a brute force method of problem solving that refers to the story of how Ariadne helped Theseus figure his way through the labyrinth of Minos so he could slay the minotaur. (She was also killed by Artemis or Perseus, maybe because of something Dionysus said, or maybe she hanged herself, or maybe she died giving birth to Theseus' child, and maybe Dionysus resurrected her, or maybe there were just a bunch of attempts to fix Ariadne's canon :P )

Ariane is also the name of the rockets used by the European Space Agency, and I think this might have been the inspiration for Ariane's name. 'Tis the quest for knowledge thing. A while back, a pair of Milliways DE's came up about the seven heavenly virtues and the seven deadly sins and Ariane's character is definitely Diligence/Lust. She is so totally a Lust For Magical Knowledge type. There are very strong hints that she does not care where the knowledge comes from or the consequences of uncovering that knowledge is, she just wants to find it, wants to study it, wants to use it (for the betterment of mankind or the world as a whole, as she sometimes adds parenthetically). It approaches Greed, and if it were magical power that she desired instead of magical knowledge, I might be more inclined to classify her as a Greed type rather than as a Lust type. Diligence I choose because she seems very bookish, methodical, and steadfast about the things she does. There are no instances of using her using Ariadne's Thread type methods yet, but the opportunity may present itself.

I think she and no_vampires_plz (and possibly asar_suti) would get along in a read all the magic books way.

I don't think I would be able to do her justice in RP. That being said, I adore whoever it is playing her on twitter (ArianeTheSeer). Sadly, given the nature of Runescape twitter RP, I don't get to see much from her.