blazingdarkness | Shadowly Name Rambles

idr who has interesting nickname things going on, but:
"do they have a nickname? who gave it to them? if it's not derived from their real name, what's the story behind it?"

Once again I'm going to interpret this very broadly and just kind of take it as rambling inspiration for whatever catches my eye as I scroll down my character page haha.

Alphabet Soups: I think it's fairly common for some of them to get nicknamed their actual spellings! Earth ones in middle school and Astrocracy ones in particular. Ariel as Rel, Arienne as Ren, Ellie as Le, Ivy as Iv, that kind of thing. I think I initially had this in the backstory of the original one, in Sangrade with Polar, but now that she's been determined to be trans and with a deadname of Casey I think that doesn't really hold water anymore. Maybe they do it as a cute couple-y thing in the modern day (or "modern day", it's still 2014 there).

Ancora - Dumb Baby: I mean obviously there's the fact that I call her dumb baby and I think that's fun. The version who sticks with Cleo gets named Cora, of course, but I fully expect and want her to have different names for every hypothetical version that diverges from the point at the end of now that I know what I'm without. I think if she ever runs into Eugene he'll call her Mildred (you see, because he's an old man and also she's 'a thousand dreads' for sure) but if the two of them ever run into Izzy again for the monstrous domesticity premise of my dreams, she'll make him rename her something else, and it'll probably land on Agnes Mildred Cullen. I don't have any other ones planned.

Ancora - Ancorabenilisifentiliane: Okay don't say any of these out loud to them because you'll cause them physical pain! (Or, as physical as anything gets for them.) But I used to amuse myself by internally calling them "Ben", "Benny", "Lisy" (as in a cutesy version of "Lisa"), or "Tilly". Or "Ancora Hoover Hooper", because of Patti Lupone and the open-skirt coat thing with pants combo.

Delilahs: So on the constellation you might notice that the template is listed as "[de|i|a]scension", and that's because as I mentioned in the last post her main attractor is experiencing a drastic shift in consciousness, so the idea is that it's 'ascension', 'descension', and '"i"scension' (not a real word, but in theory it's meant to convey a lateral move). However the truth of the matter is that I used to listen to the radio host Delilah every single night growing up as I fell asleep, and I just wanted to use the name! Her theme is lyrics from songs of the sort that were played on that show (and I should really update the icons on her human gallery to match that sometime).

Jadey - Hope: I feel so bad (but also kind of amused) that Alicorn gave me so many volleyball-set chances for me to spike and name Hope into the actual text of stare, and I completely ignored all of them because I brain-wrote an exchange that I really need to happen first, where they tearfully proclaim that "She named herself Felicity" as explanation for why Jackie did that. :Þ

Jidas: It's still really really funny to me to call the version of Judy that got turned into a Tanzpire on top of already being a Sangrade vamp "Judy "Judy Jenkins" Jenkins". It's such a dumb joke but it brings me such joy every time. Also the reason Pieters doesn't have any of the appropriate phonemes is because she picks a different name later.

Starchild - Izzy: You know, I think she might actually be the only character of mine to have a nickname as the actual thing on the character account. Like if you look at the Jidae, Jackie is listed as "Jacquelyn" even though no one but Chevrons calls her that, and similarly with Jace and "Jacelyn" ~~and Nudge and "most star clouds don't have names"~~, and all the Soups that go by Ari but're listed as the full versions above. I'm not changing it though! For probably semi-obvious reasons.

Starchild - Cyllene: Cyllene is the name of one of Jupiter's moons (as is Ariel, which is why it was chosen), but if you look up the pronunciation it's supposed to be like 'suhleeni'? Originally I was going to hold with that, and in the toppost of seaweed you can see that her uncle does actually call her "Llene", which I don't think quite makes an entire sense now that it's officially been changed to 'sigh-lean'. Like you can argue that it works but you do have to argue it first, IMO.

Starchild - Simon and Silas: I think both of the valentine-gallery Starchen call each other "Si", and that's very cute to me :].