What would be a good word for that?

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

Been thinking about Aurora and Frederick and people like them...


What would be a good word for people whose biological clocks are suddenly switched over to the "PAUSE" setting?

(with wildlife, there's diapause and cryptobiosis...but that's almost as much of a mouthful as "the magical sleep" or "the engolding")

Any ideas on what word we could use for Frederick and Aurora and anyone else like them, should we encounter others onscreen or in fic?

Comments

[earthspirits.livejournal.com]

Well, hibernation is rather accurate for describing their state of being, as they aren't truly "dead" (although certainly dead to the world for all intents and purposes), but are instead deeply frozen in a state of suspended animation.

And of course, suspended animation, could also be a term that describes their condition.

Snow also briefly fit this description, after she ate the poisoned apple, and fell into her death-like "sleep" in the glass coffin (young Henry too).

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

those make sense, yes.

I suppose I was - in the beginning - looking for something for when they woke up..."and Aurora's hibernation came to an end at last."

but then I started to think about it more broadly...ie, Lancelot: King Arthur in tales is supposed to have gone to sleep for a (ages? a long time), and will wake when he is needed.
...then I thought "maybe it wasn't just him - the entire Round Table went to "sleep"...and Lancelot was kicked out after they woke up.

I'll stop rambling now.