unknowntodeath: (Leaving heroes behind)
Archer | F/SN: UBW ([personal profile] unknowntodeath) wrote in [community profile] avalononline2021-07-17 02:39 am

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[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?
garyoutensei: (I'm a speed king see me fly)

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[personal profile] garyoutensei 2021-07-16 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's the sound of a match being struck, and the slow puffs of someone preparing to smoke a pipe, before she speaks. ]

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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menphina: (so long as you look like)

[personal profile] menphina 2021-07-17 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is anon so she doesn't mind answering. She doesn't like talking about her tribal name openly. ]

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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[personal profile] loyalbreed 2021-07-17 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
A person who hides behind names and cannot own up to the titles or namesake. The entire burdens of it, is someone I could not find myself talking to frankly.

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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dottedline: (Working)

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[personal profile] dottedline 2021-07-17 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
If this is a matter of legality, that's incredibly complicated and probably differs world-to-world.

If it's a matter of preference, I don't think you can really get an opinion on that.

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[personal profile] theleadingman 2021-07-17 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
The reason to conceal a given identity may be gone, but I'm no longer who I was when I cast the old name aside. It represents a person who no longer exists.

Let history lie. You have the opportunity to choose who you are moving forward. Why choose to go back?

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souls_of_roles: (Kyoko - Bow)

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[Oh look, Kyoko has recalled she has a phone. Happens every once in a while.]


"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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crimsongirl: (turn around; walking away)

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[personal profile] crimsongirl 2021-07-17 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, Homura couldn't tell it was him; didn't have nearly enough info on Archer to figure him out beyond his role in the war. Regardless, the post has her interest.]

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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[personal profile] silky_bearing 2021-07-18 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[The master of jumping to conclusions is here to assume he knows who this is.]

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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[personal profile] saxum 2021-07-18 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
This is quite the circumstantial question. An answer would be dependent on the purpose of why one sought to hide that which they did not wish to be.

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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corpsewarblade: (Zzz...)

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[personal profile] corpsewarblade 2021-07-18 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm working as an undercover operative so using a different name is part of my work. If my mission was no longer relevant, I'd probably go back to using my real name.

...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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[Souma is just staring at the screen, SO confused. He scratches his head, which is a mop of thick tousled black hair.]

The... what now?

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colchismagecraft: (Wouldn't you like to know?)

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[Hey Archer, guess who wants to resume stabbing you- just with words this time rather than Rule Breaker.

...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

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notcethleann: (flayn explains it all)

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[personal profile] notcethleann 2021-07-24 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah! What an incredibly relevant topic to Flayn's life. She sees no reason to go anonymous here, as anyone to whom her story would mean anything already knows about it.]

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?