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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 343
Message ID: 56
#56, RE: First Dates and Firefights
Posted by pjmoyer on Jun-17-13 at 07:35 PM
In response to message #54
>>>>I know that "Teletha" is her proper, canonical, creator-confirmed
>>>>actual name from Full Metal Panic. But lord, that is an UGLY
>>>>romanization. Would "Theresa" have been so hard for them? Really?
>>>How is this our problem? Besides, I kind of like it. It's, I'unno, exotic. >And fun to say.
>>
>>It is, but then again, explaining where the hell "Tessa" comes from is
>>good, too. I always assumed "Teletha" was Greek or something until
>>this thread...
>
>Well hey Bob, where *does* Tessa (the name, not the person) come from?
>I just figured it was a Japanese pronunciation thing in FMP.

According to that Wikipedia thing:

Teletha Testarossa is an American by birth, as she was born in the USA's northeast (it is intimated that her cultural background is akin to Boston Brahmin), to a family of Swiss and Austrian descent. It can be inferred that she is of Italian descent judging by her last name Testarossa. She traveled the world extensively as a child; however, she has spent a great part of her life living on submarines and military bases.

Not all of that applies to UF, but the cultural ties are there in her background.

--- Philip





Philip J. Moyer
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