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

[holdshisown]

We are the firstborn children of Eru, much older than humans and unlike them we are immortal. Once we come of age we do not age as they do, though we can be killed by violence or grief these deaths are not necessarily permanent.

[threebetrayals]

[So...some kind of godling or something. Got it.]

Grief?

[holdshisown]

[Not even remotely similar...]

Too much grief can kill us. We... fade, I suppose you could say.

[threebetrayals]

[He's trying! They don't have elves in Teyvat!]

Fade? As in you just stop existing?

[holdshisown]

[And they only have one somewhat absentee god in Arda! But he's not having too much of a problem accepting there might be others in other worlds!]

Fade as in... our life just slowly but surely fades away until our spirit has completely abandoned our body.

[threebetrayals]

[...so are you guys spirits?? He gives up.]

That sounds horrific. No offense.

[holdshisown]

[Only if they loose their bodies?]

No offense taken. It is horrifying for us too. Who, after all, want's to die such a slow wasting death?

[threebetrayals]

Hopefully that doesn't happen to you.

[Does Wanderer know this guy, personally? No but that still sounds horrific.]

[holdshisown]

Ah. I did manage to avoid such a fate and I... I do hope I wont fall to it here. But, considering I've been doing fairly well I think I wont have to worry.

[This is not entirely true, of course. He'd been pretty close to fading by the end of it, he doubts he'd have lingered long even if he'd chosen not to throw himself off of a ledge.]