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maskormenace2015-06-17 08:54 pm
footnoting) wrote in maskormenace2015-06-17 08:54 pm
video.
Names, names, names.
[This is a girl who hasn't been seen on the network in-- well, in months, actually. But she's just lounging back in a chair, looking bored and disinterested, her fingers drumming against the arm of the couch.]
They're interesting things, aren't they? Out there for everyone to see, here. Unless you have the means and desire to keep them hidden. But then again, why would you? It seems to be a common theme here- that so many worlds view names as nothing more than a way to identify one person from another.
[The girl grins, and her lips stretch maybe a mite too far.]
But for some of us, there's power in names. True names. If you know how to wield it. So I wonder, just how many names have you managed to give me these last few months?
[Someone's a little pissed that a certain someone else went home. Which is why he's acting like a C list villain.]
[This is a girl who hasn't been seen on the network in-- well, in months, actually. But she's just lounging back in a chair, looking bored and disinterested, her fingers drumming against the arm of the couch.]
They're interesting things, aren't they? Out there for everyone to see, here. Unless you have the means and desire to keep them hidden. But then again, why would you? It seems to be a common theme here- that so many worlds view names as nothing more than a way to identify one person from another.
[The girl grins, and her lips stretch maybe a mite too far.]
But for some of us, there's power in names. True names. If you know how to wield it. So I wonder, just how many names have you managed to give me these last few months?
[Someone's a little pissed that a certain someone else went home. Which is why he's acting like a C list villain.]
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Your true name. [The girl's saying flippantly. You can practically hear the shrug.] Most often your birth name, if you're human. But it's whatever was used as the first thing to really identify you. What you were first called.
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Even if it's not how you think of yourself? That's... pretty weird. Oh, sorry. It's the sort of thing that comes up in books, but they never really explain it all that well. Or how much of someone's name you need.