not so much nonbelievers as completely out-of-the-loopers

[dragonyphoenix]

I believe the Council would have a word for people who are not in the Council or are unaware of demons but I'm not coming up with anything. Any ideas?

Comments

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I suppose "muggles" has already been taken?

I do remember Giles referring to some people as "civilians" which makes sense if you feel you're at war, which the Council definitely does. That way you could have "civilian" and "non-civilian" combatants, i.e. outside and inside the Council's control.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the word civilian but thought it sounded to military for the Council. I didn't realize it was canon! Excellent. Thanks.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that as well.


Gabrielle

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thanks.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

Mundanes if they're Terry Pratchett fans, Muggles if J.K. Rowling.

But officially probably something like civilians.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah, I hadn't read enough Pratchett to know about his use of mundanes. Muggles brings Rowling to mind too strongly I think. Civilian seems to be the consensus word, although I did play off of mundane and since it's evil!Giles thinking to himself, something along the lines of "uninformed rabble" could do. Thanks.

[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

Idiots? :D

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

*laughing* It certainly wouldn't be complimentary.

So far on my list I have rabble, rank and file, hoi polloi. None of them seem quite right.

[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

It is a problem - civilians seems best because it's a war between the forces of dark and light...but it also sounds like someone in the basement wearing a tin foil hat in an imaginary war. This is someone who is - by council standard's willfully blind but still in need of protection. Maybe an acronym? SING (stupid idiots needing glasses) or SNACKS (speak nothing as civilian kills snowball). Or something humorless and official - Safeguard Individual Needing iGnorance, which can be adapted in the field.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

snacks sounds like something vampires would call them. ;-)