china_shop: Guo Changcheng writing in his notebook (Guardian - rookie taking notes)
The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2019-02-06 01:02 pm

Question: list of character names?

Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of Guardian characters (from the drama)?

(This question brought to you by my spending way too much time trawling through subtitle files because my sieve-brain can’t remember even quite significant non-main-characters’ names, let alone the actually incidental characters.)
foxghost: (Default)

[personal profile] foxghost 2019-02-06 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
There's a cast list. (courtesy of the resource page) It's in Chinese though.
extrapenguin: two women descending a staircase together (teamwork)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2019-02-06 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I can do it; give me a few days to trawl through my notes and match that to the cast list.
trobadora: (Black-Cloaked Envoy)

[personal profile] trobadora 2019-02-06 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that would be excellent! ♥
asya_ana: (Default)

[personal profile] asya_ana 2019-02-06 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I've only seen lists of mains, but I would LOVE something like this. :'(
asya_ana: (Default)

[personal profile] asya_ana 2019-02-06 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so desperate for a wiki since these kinds of things are so much easier when they're central and crowd-sourced, but I also don't want to be the one who MAKES the wiki. lol

BUT if anyone is interested in making such a wiki, I will love you.

*whispers*

And Wikia and Wikidot are two free hosted sites.

*runs away*
jo_lasalle: a sleeping panda (Shen Wei)

[personal profile] jo_lasalle 2019-02-06 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
I ran into this issue the other day when I tried to confirm the spelling of crow lady. I found comprehensive *looking* lists on IMDB that seemed not to list reasonably important supporting characters!

(So, I'm of no help, unfortunately, but I feel your pain!)
jo_lasalle: a sleeping panda (Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei)

[personal profile] jo_lasalle 2019-02-06 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yep - the subs seem to vary between Yaqing and Ya Qing - I ended up asking [personal profile] solo for subs familiarity and she said Ya Qing was the most common spelling. I was very weirded out when she didn't appear to be listed on IMDB (unless I was really, really blind) when one-off characters are.

A crowdsourced list might not be a bad idea! It would be a useful resource for fic writers, I suspect. I'm usually not horrible with names, but between the Chinese and the inconsistent subs, we went through our first viewing talking mostly in shorthand ("Nakamaru", "crow lady", "geek boy", "the Chief" - yes, srsly), it's no wonder nothing stuck. And while I might have been extreme with my flailiness, I doubt I was the only one...
solo: Buggre all this for a larke (Buggre)

[personal profile] solo 2019-02-06 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It has finally sunk in for me that Dick!Dad is Zhao Xinci; still can't remember Demon!Dad's name...

Also, wig boy. Something Zhu... and I see him in the subs all the time now, it should really start to stick.