Talk To Glowfic Characters

[alicornucopia]

So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

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Comments

[daniel_h]

Golden,

I’m writing to you because I think you know better than I do how to ask my questions politely. Allirea dislikes nicknames and considers them “for children”, and I’m curious about her attitude in more detail. For example, does she object to nicknames for the purpose of disambiguation (such as my calling you “Golden” above, or the more common case of me going by “Dan” sometimes when working closely with somebody else named “Daniel”)? What about if the user of the nickname knew about a magic system where somebody’s true name was relevant, and preferred not to give away their true name for that reason?

[luminous_regnant]

You may or may not be surprised to learn that her opinions don't hold up that well to detailed scrutiny or edge cases. She calls me Isabella, she'd call you Daniel and use last names if necessary to disambiguate, that sort of thing. She would be exasperated by a situation in which some more compelling reason existed to use a nickname and would probably prefer to absent herself. (She has almost always had the option of simply not interacting with anyone who was mildly inconvenient for any reason.)

[daniel_h]

I’m not too surprised. I forgot how easy it would be for her to ignore the problem as long as it doesn’t concern your alts or a select few other individuals, and she doesn’t need to be around you as much as your bodyguard so she can just avoid those people. As long as she isn’t forced to interact with any more Jokers, avoids thinking about cloned Sherlocks if she doesn’t accept that name, and doesn’t interact with any fairies once Promise peals, I guess she can just use worlds instead of nicknames to distinguish alts.