Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160125214134/@comment-25396609-20170126001749

MiniDaggers wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: MiniDaggers wrote: Hmm... Nah I can't be assed arguing this. Not over what was just a joke, as shit as it may have been.

I was joking too, dude.

SomeoneYouUSedToKnow wrote: Schnapper doesn't fit at all, doesn't even fit the naming conventions. "Oh my god, it can snap! Definitely a snapper", extremely shallow logic. By that logic the Beowulf should be "Clawer" and the Nevermore "Flyer".

Shoggoth doesn't work because Lovecraft doesn't exist in Remnant to begin with.

And even when I give you ideas, which could at least give you some line to think on, you reject them for the pettiest of reasons.

I did provide an idea. Shoggoth. And then YOU immediately rejected it; even though its ability to form body parts from an otherwise amorphous mass is spot-on for the shoggoth; described as havign eyes constantly forming and melting away out of the protoplasmic ooze that forms its body.

Here's the thing; even if the name doesn't fit with something set by existing grimm, it doesn't matter. There's no official rule dictating how a grimm is named, unlike the CNR for characters.

I could name the damned thing Bumblefuck if I wanted, because there's no rule saying I can't.

Nevermore is a quote used as a name. A quote from a book which does not exist in Remnant.

Shoggoth is a creature from a book which doesn't exist on Remnant. I see no difference in the application of these names.

Naming a grimm Shoggoth is equivalent to naming one Beowulf. Both are references to a living creature from a work of fiction. The ONLY difference is that one of those creatures is human, and one is an actual monster.

Believe it or not I am TRYING to be reasonable here. I have already said I'm not naming it after a polyhedron, because only a mathemetician would look at the shell and call it that shape. And yet, you suggested even more polyhedron based names.

Also, for the last time, it's not a squid or an octopus. It is amorphous, the thing inside the shell has no fixed shape, and it is able  to produce any assortment of necks, eyes, and legs that it has body mass sufficient to extend from inside the shell at a single moment.