I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.
It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you’re even a person yet.
mrw I read the roster for my 8th grade class, and I see my students are “Abundance Of Onslaught, Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints, I Blame The Parents, The Usual But Etymologically Unsatisfactory, Of Course I still Love You, Fine Till You Came Along, But Who’s Counting?, Grey Area, Uninvited Guest, and Prime Mover”
Banks’ style is so satisfyingly recognisable here
See I’m more on that 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil, that 10 Vigilant Gaze Purges the Horizon, that 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe, yknow that 23 Liminal Blossom Punctures the Heart of the Unrepentant Deliciously shit.
Sounds like a badass 8th grade class