@catra.victorious

[purrsistence]

What's the deal with your surname? If you have one. We don't have them, where I'm from. I'm not stupid, for what it's worth-- I don't need the concept explained to me. I know they're just... family names, or whatever.

I just wanna know... what does yours mean, I guess. If it has a meaning. Where did it come from. If you don't have one, how did you... I don't know, choose yours, when you got here?


Anyway I guess I was gone for a bit, now I'm back, don't make a big deal about it.

Comments

@jon.snow [private]

[northerndragon]

Didn’t I tell you before?

Most children where I come from have their father’s name. But if their father was a lord, and they weren’t married to the child’s mother, the child is given a different name. All bastard children in a kingdom are given the same name. Snow is the name for Northern bastards.

It’s not a name anybody wants. Why are you asking?

[It’s been a while since they spoke of it, but he’d swear she thought this was stupid.]

[private forever etc]

[purrsistence]

Yeah, I remember.

I've just been thinking a lot lately. About... stuff. Where I belong. What I want.

Y'know. Lame stuff like that.

@jyn.erso

[realists]

I don't know what it means, if it means anything. It was my father's family name.

I used to pick names that I would remember, I used my nanny droid's name once.

[purrsistence]

Yeah, but that was just for undercover work, right? It's not like any of those names actually meant anything to you.

@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

Where I hail they're usually patronymic, but can be matronymic, depending on preference.
Of course that all depends if which side you'd wish to take- depending on the circumstance, I'm not just "Odinson," I've been "Laufeyson," too.
I'm just Loki, really.

[purrsistence]

Wait. Let me get this right. You just put "son" in front of the father or mother's name...?

What about women? "Soandsosdaughter" is kind of a... mouthful.

[ And not applicable to her anyway. ]

text; @adora.weaver

[dumbjockenergy]

I just want to know how to change it.

[purrsistence]

[ She could make a snide comment, but... honestly, it feels a bit too like low-hanging fruit. ]

... What would you change it to? If you could.

[sparklequeen]

I was wondering this too, honestly.

Also if you want a different last name, how about Meowmeow?

[ She's funny. ]

[purrsistence]

Hilarious. So funny I forgot to laugh.

[dumbjockenergy]

Would that make us the Meowmeow household?

@nill.klein

[culver]

I didn't have one before coming here. I guess I just picked one I'd heard before that didn't sound weird.

[purrsistence]

No one has one, where I'm from. So I hadn't heard any before. I didn't know what "sounded weird" and what didn't.

I dunno. The people at Morningstar made some suggestions of common names, but-- if I can't just be Catra and I have to pick up another name, I figured it's sure as hell not gonna be anything ordinary. Know what I mean?

@terrence.ephemera

[requiemshark]

Mine means "temporary". Kept it out of spite.

Re: @terrence.ephemera

[purrsistence]

Ha! I like it. Stick it to 'em.

@helena.prizvyshche

[sestra]

mine is ukrainian. just means last name.

[purrsistence]

[ Catra takes a bit to reply-- she has to look up the word "Ukrainian" first. ]

... Huh. There are so many different languages here. It's weird. The planet I come from is a lot ... smaller.

Did you pick it for yourself?

@kylo.ren

[warfares]

I took it from the prior Master of Knights.

[purrsistence]

Oh yeah? What's that about.

@nathan.drake

[nonscriptum]

mine is [ Something he and his brother decided to take on after changing their identities when Nate was twelve. I mean, uh- ] middle english. the old english it evolved from was "draca". but both mean "dragon"

[purrsistence]

Finally, a good answer! Dragon, huh? Now THAT'S a cool last name!

[sor]

They're literally family names. Really, they don't mean much else.

[purrsistence]

Well, a whole bunch of other responses here would call you wrong, but hey, don't take it from me.

@bellamy.blake

[jettisons]

I don't know what it means. I don't think about it much.

[Stunning response, Bellamy.]

I grew up on a space station, and some people would brag about their great great great whoever. Whatever person they were related to that was sent up there in the first place. Not so much what the name meant.

[purrsistence]

What's so great about being sent up to a space station?

@marian.hawke

[championofsnark]

I'm more annoyed I wasn't able to avoid my first name. Hawke's what everyone calls me, even my own siblings did, and we shared a last name.

[purrsistence]

You hate it that much, huh?

@cal.amari

[kinkprofessor]

[ While not his actual surname, he can still answer. ]

Mine means I come from a very prestigious family.
I kept it because of the privilege it provided me.
But as I got older, I used it as my given name to forge my own identity separate from those in my family previously.

[purrsistence]

[ Great. More family stuff that can't help her. ]

Bully for you.

What'd you switch your last name to, then?

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

The Griffins were among the people who survived in space after the bombs hit below.

More specifically, there is a mythical creature named the gryphon.

How are you doing? Since you went home. Or is that making a big deal of it?

[private]

[purrsistence]

Everything sucks and no I don't want to talk about it.

What's a gryphon supposed to look like?

@david.washington

[hardwearing]

The one I'm using here -- the one I chose to use -- is my codename. I didn't pick it originally, just like I didn't pick my name when I was born, and I don't know what that name means. If it means anything.

The one I'm using, together with the first name, is who I see myself as. Who I was before Washington, and that person, and after.

I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but me, though.

[purrsistence]

... Soooo. Which one am I supposed to call you?