Originally Posted by Rayne
Okay...Here goes
The name on my birth certificate is Catherine
It was my grandmother's middle name...I kinda dodged a bullet there, my grandmother's FIRST name was Gertrude, and my mother was afraid people might shorten it to 'Gerty', which made her think 'Dirty Gerty'
When I was 10 years old, I decided to change the spelling, and I started writing 'Kathryn' on all of my papers...I had a few reasons for that:
1) I don't really like the letter 'C'...It looks like it's incomplete...A circle with a piece missing, or lazily left hanging open...It also looks like a gluttonous slob, round and always with its mouth hanging open, just sitting there ready to eat up all of the other letters in my name
2) The letter 'K' is a more aggressive letter...It has legs, it's on the move, it is always standing up and it's a 'tall' letter, with a firm, straight back...It always looks like it's ready to kick the other letters if they get out of line, it keeps them moving...It's a motivational letter, and it just looks better (stronger) than the letter 'C'
3) 'Kathryn' in its entirety looks better than 'Catherine'...Kathryn is shorter, more precise, it doesn't waste letters, it doesn't take up as much space, and it looks more phonetically accurate
As with most 2 syllable names, it has been shortened in casual speaking
Kathryn = Kat + Rayne
My family tends to call me 'Kat', while my friends usually call me 'Rayne'
While I was playing the BloodRayne video game, my daughter was watching and she said "OMG, she's YOU"...She was referring to Rayne's demeanor, her attitude, her sarcasm, and often caustic wit...When she says "Ok, you can stop shooting me now" in a deadpan voice, my daughter said that I would say something along those lines in pretty much the same tone...BloodRayne also does things herself, and takes charge of the situation (NOT the MOVIE BloodRayne, that was NOT BloodRayne!...Uwe Boll should be shot for calling that character 'BloodRayne'...If for no other reason)...Also, everyone said that I looked like BloodRayne (Video Game Rayne, the REAL Rayne), until I started dying my hair black because I never really liked being a redhead (my natural color)....And so, my first ever forum name was BloodRayne (This was my first ever forum, btw)...And after Boll screwed up the association for me, I just shortened to Rayne
I'm sure that there's all sorts of psychology mixed into this litany of verbosity...But...It is what it is :)
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