what's in a name

[threebetrayals]

Sender: Anonymous
To: Everyone
Subject: Names

[Sorry, he's not going to put his "name" to something like this. It's awkward, and given that his "name" right now is just "Nameless Wanderer", he's pretty sure attaching it to this post would get people asking questions that aren't any of their business.]

Do you like your name? What does it mean? Who gave it to you? Would you change it if you could, and if you would what would it be?

I'm doing some research on names and why humans get so attached to them or don't.

Comments

[threebetrayals]

Religious? I don't think I've ever heard of names coming from a religion, where I'm from.

[notachickenhawk]

Well like - there's a lot of holy books of different religions? And there's people in those books, so people like to name their kids after them to try to give them the qualities of those people in the books.

I think that's the reasoning, anyway.

[threebetrayals]

Oh, virtue naming.

[That...might be an option. He needs to see if Nahida will tell him what characters she was thinking of for those Inazuman names, dammit.]

Is the religious text you're talking about here?

[notachickenhawk]

I think that's what it's called.

And I don't know, it might be somewhere in the library? I don't believe in it so I didn't exactly go looking.

[threebetrayals]

What's it called?

[notachickenhawk]

The Bible. Or the Holy Bible, I think?

[threebetrayals]

Thank you. That might be something interesting to look at, if nothing else.

[Nahida will probably love the chance to look at another world's religion, if he can find the book.]