Who, or what, is named Bright?
My first thought is that it’s an ironic name for something dark. Maybe there’s an assassins’ guild where every assassin’s on-the-job pseudonym is Bright, the way clients are all named Johnson in Shadowrun.
Hmm… that’s OK, but maybe it feels a little too much like an acronym, like THRUSH from Man from Uncle or KAOS from Get Smart.
Any other ideas?
(By the way, my group recently played a game of Shadowrun where my character was a Russian celebrity. The GM decided that my client was named Ivanovich. If that’s an old gag, it’s new to me.)
One answer
Argh. I’m not sure which is worse: the fact that, thanks to Noumenon’s comment, I’ve been exposed to a higher-than-recommended single-viewing dosage of Rainbow Brite images, or that I now have this stuck on infinite playback in my brain:
“There was a young lady named Bright
Who traveled much faster than light.
She departed one day
An Einsteinian way
And returned the previous night.”
😛
Ivanovich means “son of Ivan.” Ivan is the Russian form of “John.” Your character was another Mr. Johnson.
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