Introduction
Thanks to Valetta's Weibo for the birthday graphic and this is a translation plus other birthday references that I realised.
Hypergryph is really stuffing the real life references from the story to archives and even the birthdays give some clues. Operator birthdays generally make references to birthdays of famous people, holidays or other historical events.
After all, this is the main lead I had on my other article about Rhine Lab being the parallel to the Manhattan Project: Because Sesa's birthday of 22 April is the same as Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project.
The list will be in chronological order. Feel free to comment about other references. I won't check this list, so the comments may have something too.
January
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Matoimaru | 1 January | Birthday of Sakamoto Ryoma, a famous samurai in Japan (Higashi prototype). The sword type used is similar. |
| Phantom | 19 January | Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer. His writing is in Gothic style, which matches Phantom's aesthetics. One of his famous works is Black Cat. |
March
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Leizi | 5 March | 3rd of the 24 solar terms in the traditional East Asian calendars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingzhe. Also, Nikola Tesla tries to describe ball lightning on 5 March 1904. This may explain why her lightning looks like this. |
| Pinecone | 12 March | Birthday of George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer who was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Related to her portable battery. |
April
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Iris | 2 April | Birthday of Hans Christen Andersen, author of many fairy tales. His famous works include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Match Girl," and "Thumbelina."Matching to Iris's fairy tale theme. |
| Sesa | 22 April | Birthday of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Father of the atomic bomb and director of the secret Manhattan Project during World War II. Matches Sesa's stint in the Columbia military laboratory. And Oppenheimer's interest in Hinduism might be the reason why Sesa is a codename that originates from that mythology. |
| Nearl | 23 April | St George Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George%27s_Day Represents the knightly and sacrificial spirit. |
May
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Elysium | 8 May | World Red Cross Day and the birthday of its founder Henry Dunant. A humanitarian who was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize and inspired the Geneva convention. Matches Elysium's personality of bringing peace to RI. |
| Lancet-2 | 12 May | International Nurses Day, also birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing. |
| Silence | 18 May | The modern scalpel was patented on this day. |
| Midnight | 20 May | China's online Valentines Day as 520 sounds like 我爱你 |
June
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin | 27 June | First time when the coagulant dicoumarol was extracted. This is the foundation of warfarin research. |
July
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Astesia | 10 July | Peak of viewing the Telescopium constellation |
August
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| FEater | 10 August | Birthday of panda Huan Huan, the panda lent to France. |
September
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger | 1 September | The day when the last passenger pigeon, Martha died. This made the species extinct. |
| Arene | 7 September | Birthday of August Kekulé, organic chemist who founded the theory of chemical structure. |
| Mudrock | 21 September | International Day of Peace |
October
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Shining | 7 October | First day of Tishrei in the Jewish calendar |
| Snowsant | 17 October | World Poverty Day or International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. |
| Purestream | 24 October | Changjiang Porpoise Protection Day |
December
| Operator | Birthday | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Waai-Fu | 1 December | Death date of Ip Man, Chinese martial artist and a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun |
| Exusiai | 24 December | Silent Night, matching to the angel theme |
