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[amadaman]

[One December afternoon as carols and the sound of jingle bells belt from every business' speakers, filling people with Christmas cheer (and exhaustion) weeks before the actual event, one imPort posts a text to the network.]

You'd think that with there being four of us ordering at least one of us would get our name right, right?

l o l no

[Attached to the post is a selfie of teens showing off their favorite signature holiday drinks, but the focus of the picture are the names -- confidently scribbled across the cup of each drink are Grant, Kenneth, Utah, and Moore, and anybody who knows these boys will know that those are pretty much the 4kids dub version of their names at best.]

Let's pretend there's a campfire and share some stories about ways your name has been spelled or pronounced since coming here. I'm sure it's happened to a majority of us. （´。` ）


((ooc: Any of the boys featured in the post -- Gran, Kidou, Endou, Ken -- may respond to you!! Likewise, feel free to threadjack and hit up anybody and consider it a shitpost free-for-all. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.))

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[oceanthief]

Bob.

[all you need is a quick look at her network id to know...yeah. yeah. the disdain practically seeps out of that single text message.]

[amadaman]

im sorry

[oceanthief]

Is it that hard to understand? I thought humans had a regular gem named the same thing.

[amadaman]

At this rate I bet you could go in there and call yourself Bob and they'll get back to you with something totally off anyway.

[oceanthief]

I think that might actually be an improvement.

[amadaman]

Humans are full of dumb surprised, Lapis!

[oceanthief]

They're starting to not really surprise me at this point.

[she's been here over a year now. she's starting to expect all this stupidity - not that she can handle it any better.]

[amadaman]

Not being surprised is one step. I hope someone says your name properly one day.

[oceanthief]

I know how to say it. That's really all that I can hope for from anyone.

[amadaman]

Do the people you talk to most say it right at least??

[oceanthief]

Usually. [Steven......] If they don't get it after the first few times it's easier to just let it go.

[amadaman]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't understand that. I get it.

When I was back home people wouldn't believe that Ken was really my whole name and it got really tiring too. You'd think with how important people make names sound to be they'd be more careful about it.

[oceanthief]

The only name that's actually important to most people is their own, no matter what they say. It's up to everyone else to fix whatever mistakes they make.

[it's all about identity, right? and no one's identity is more important than your own, in the end.]

What's the matter with a small name? Is that an earth thing? It seems pretty practical.

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[starlinings]

[...






Nah, he's got nothing.]

I suppose there's always one that's going to be way off target.

[oceanthief]

It started at home. I don't know why it keeps happening.

[DOES SHE LOOK LIKE A BOB TO YOU]

[starlinings]

[Well your haircut is a bob so]

Cross dimensional coincidences. That's so strange.

Were you in America back then too? Maybe it's a cultural thing.



Maybe.

[oceanthief]

I might have been? Heropa looks an awful lot like Beach City.

[here's a confession time: Lapis still doesn't actually know how much of the globe 'America' encompasses. trying to equate the geography of two completely different earths is practically impossible for her.]

[starlinings]

Was it really called Beach City?

That seems so...redundant.


[Coming from the Alien from Aliea.]

[oceanthief]

What do you mean? It was a city by the beach.

[she's from a race of gems who names themselves after their stones, thus creating a species with thousands of people sharing the exact same name. Lapis doesn't see the problem here.]

[starlinings]

It's accurate, yes, but aren't there many cities like that?

[oceanthief]

I don't know, I only ever saw Beach City.

[starlinings]

Well, I suppose you can't fault them for false advertising.

[oceanthief]

What would they be advertising in the first place? It's just a city.

[starlinings]

Cities are often places where people meet up to shop or spend time together.

They like to advertise to bring more people in.

[oceanthief]

That's stupid.