The story behind your story's name?

[SparklingBlue]

My anime remix titles usually reflect the version I played, but if you wanted know what the remixed titles would be for every version...

Gen I:
Flame Red/Ocean Blue/Lightning Yellow/Forest Green
Gen II:
Sunshine Gold/Moonlight Silver/Aurora Crystal
Gen III:
Ruby Earth/Sapphire Sky/Emerald Cosmos
Gen IV:
Shine Diamond/Aqua Pearl/Platinum Sheen
Gen V:
Black+White 2=Storm Gray/White+Black 2=Smoky Gray
Gen VI:
Saviors of Creation/Saviors of Destruction
Gen VII:
Island Sun/Tropical Moon
Gen VIII:
Hero's Sword/Guardian Shield
Gen IX:
Ancient Scarlet/Future Violet

The bolded titles are the version I played or chose to use for the project

 

[Flyg0n]

Blood Is Thicker Than Poison is almost entirely credited to panoramic_vacuum's brilliance, she helped me nail it down. I knew I wanted a title that referenced poison/toxic etc, and was thinking of things like 'Toxic Chains' or 'Toxic Bonds', to encapsulate the idea of a main character ensared in a toxic relationship, but also all my prospective titles didn't vibe at all and were kind of on the nose or awkward.

Toxic Roots was also a strong contender to reference Orre's toxic past, and the MC's and how those things can influence us, but again, blah. other ones were Poisoned Streets and Toxic Nature, Corroded Bonds and ... yeah you get the picture. They were all rather plain to me for this project though.

Pano was the one to suggest the title, and it was spot on. As you can surmise the name references the popular phrase "Blood is Thicker than Water" which usually means family over friends, but unreported sources say 'blood of the covenant (friendship) is thicker than the water of the womb(family).'

Regardless of if thats true, it encapsulates the idea of the struggle of the poisonous relationship and a good one, and which one will win out in the end. Also, Blood + Poison hopefully suggests it while be a whump/angst kind of story.