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[pez]

Can someone please tell the clueless Pez what this thing about Rikkai and Troika really is?

Reverted to my ZukaFuji layout. Staring at this picture still makes me melt on the spot. ♥

And I still root for Johnny Depp to get an Oscar. But I'm biased.

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[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

JOHNNY = LOVE

Troika is a carriage pulled by 3 horses, by definition. The word's now being used as company names and such... I suppose they call Rikkai that because of the Yukimura, Sanada and Yanagi power triangle, but everybody's saying it and it's become some sort of a weird culture, I wonder if they know what they're talking about -_-

[quatorze.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "troika" is Russian and I think it means basically the same as "trio"... and actually it's not the carriage, it's the team of three horses pulling it, where typically the middle one is the one really harnessed properly to pull the most weight while the other two on both sides of it are there just to provide some more speed. I've mostly seen it in winter pictures where the horses are pulling a sleigh, not a carriage. And hence, "troika" is also often used about any team of three people that tend to spend a lot of time together, do things together, etc.

As I don't know much about PoT I'm not sure if this applies to the case in question, but: if there's, say, a sports team called XXX that consists of 12 people, and three of them are particularly visible/competent/famous, it would sound to me completely OK to refer to these three persons as "the XXX troika" - whereas it's completely wrong to refer to the entire XXX as "troika". Because a troika consists of THREE something, be it horses or people or whatever.

Okay, here ends the cultural history lesson *sweatdrop*