I am still laughing at the writing for the Qwib Qwib scene's penis joke in Mass Effect 2.
Admiral Koris has contemplated changing his ship name to Dehfranz, or the Iktomi. The Quarians use a naming system of <First Name> Vas <Ship Name>. Dehfranz is corruption of "Vas Deferens," which is a real medical name that refers to the duct that carries sperm from the testicle in the male reproductive organ. And of course, Iktomi when read as a Quarian name sounds like vasectomy.
Yknow, part of my writing process is just deep diving into literatures and archives to find names, and then recontextualizing their meanings to fit your canon. Maybe corrupt them a little bit to make the reference less obvious. It's been a lot of fun, but also really enlightening to come across ancient words and syllables used for games media I'm familiar with. For example, Chesed, a Hebrew name, is used in Blue Archive and Library of Ruina.
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