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text; anon
[Archer is well aware that some people will definitely recognize who this is, but he would still rather stay behind the mask of anonymity with this particular subject.
He's been thinking about his name. What people should call him. What his real name is now.]
Hypothetically, if you had thrown away your name for any reason and picked up a new one, would you still consider your previous one yours?
Especially if you lost your reason to hide behind the other name and don't need to hide who you are anymore.
Would you return to your previous name?
He's been thinking about his name. What people should call him. What his real name is now.]
Hypothetically, if you had thrown away your name for any reason and picked up a new one, would you still consider your previous one yours?
Especially if you lost your reason to hide behind the other name and don't need to hide who you are anymore.
Would you return to your previous name?
voice; un: rokumon
I dunno where it comes from, but there's this saying that goes like "what's in a name?" where this girl in this play goes on about how her feelings about this guy wouldn't change, and the name even seems to get in the way.
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Most tales I read talk about discarding names like discarding their very person. My name is still a part of me.
I wouldn't go back to it... only because I've not used it in so very long except to conceal my presence.
But... I wasn't a different person when I had it. So perhaps- I could allow it to exist again as mine, at least between those I am close to.
Is that a good enough response?
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The me who the name belonged to disappeared a long time ago. Yet, a part of him will most likely be with me forever.
Then there is also the possibility of the past version of me arriving to this place once again. Having two with the same name sounds confusing.
text | un: gawainknightoftheroundtable
Wear your names with pride, even if it is full of grievances that you wish you could live without.
Who it is you are now is what matters, stand tall friend. You are among good people within this Avalon.
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The problem here is that I'm not sure if I can call it my true name anymore. The one who the name belonged to and the me now are very different.
Then again, I'm not sure if I would be ready to give myself a new name either.
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text | un: octavinelle
If it's a matter of preference, I don't think you can really get an opinion on that.
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I was mostly looking at my options, seeing if more would arise with others replying. I know that in the end it's mostly my own decision.
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text; anonymous
Let history lie. You have the opportunity to choose who you are moving forward. Why choose to go back?
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Also anon text.
"I threw away my past. Or tried to. Everything that reminded me of that past nearly destroyed me. But I became someone new." [Many someones, in fact.]
"And I learned along the way that" [she wrote several things and erased them before settling on] "every step I took was leading me to where I wound up. That all the good things in my life were rooted in the bad. There might even come a day I could be grateful to those who hurt me, to the one I hate. Because if not for him I'd never have taken the steps I took to get to where I am. Or where I was at home, anyway." [She wrote a long thing about Faeries, came to, deleted it, and moved on.]
"I am coming to accept my past. I was told that everything we experience can help us, that we can learn from even the worst pain and use it to grow. I don't know if I'll ever be all that good at it," [she texted, sheepishly] "But if I had never reinvented myself, I don't think I ever would have been able to look back at my past with anything other than bitterness and hate. Not sure if that helps."
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text; un: crimsonflame
In my world, most shinobi went under two names. One for regular people, the other being our shinobi name for the job. Over time though, that second name became our only identity. I don't even remember what my old name was. Given who I was before...No, I wouldn't return to it.
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I suppose without the certain events in life I wouldn't even consider my old name.
[Though had he not been summoned by Rin into the War, he wouldn't even be "Archer". He'd just be some nameless counter guardian.]
@rose_of_gloucester
Personally, I should think being able to take up the name you "threw away" would be freeing. Maybe worrisome at first, of course, strange to grow accustomed to but allowing the people around you to learn who you really are perhaps would also let you get closer to them. If you're even considering it then I'm guessing you don't want to continue keeping people at a distance...
Who knows, maybe they'll even surprise you.
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It's really got nothing to do with keeping my distance.
text | un: G★pa
I am sure you wish for specific examples, yes?
Hypothetically, then. One would be unable to return to a name they formerly held if that individual were no longer intended to exist.
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Mission was abandoned and now you could become you again, but you're no longer the person you were before.
[If people who know him didn't know who this was before, they sure do now.]
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Text; anon
...Sorry, that probably isn't what you're asking though, is it? For starters the name isn't 'new', it belongs to an actual person. It isn't mine.
I guess I can trick myself into thinking it is mine when I'm on duty. Something I need to work on.
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You still work undercover even in this place?
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video; un: RiverofHeaven
The... what now?
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text; un: RiverofHeaven
Text : Un; Caster
...Not that she'd admit it, but her name and how it tied to her identity was something she'd been wrestling with as well- Should she just go back to calling herself 'Medea', now that the war was over?
Archer didn't have to know that, though.]
i hope you didnt think you were being subtle
emiya
anon still
[Worth a try, right.]
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text; un: beaumains
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still anon stubbornly
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text | un: damselfish
I am quite taken aback by how accurately you have described my own situation, Anonymous Person! This has all in fact happened to me as well.
I do still consider Cethleann my name, but I do not wish to use it anymore in everyday interactions, as I am attempting to move past that portion of my life and start anew. I have made many friends using my new name and wish for them to continue to see me the way I am.
If I may ask, what is the reason that you chose a new name?