And as Names were brought up let me take this moment to wax lyrical about names in stories! I love names used with intentionality in stories. Because stories are about words, and names are our words for people. https://twitter.com/zvetnopetno/status/1254427168089812998
And so a demon’s true name has power in the Demon’s Lexicon, but Alan can re-name Nick and that’s true, because Alan truly loves him and Nick truly loves him back.
Only Holly can call Angela ‘Angie’ in the Lynburn Legacy, Angela would ruin the lives of anyone else who tried.
And part of why I loved writing my tie-ins was that there’s Name Stuff in them: Aiden consistently forgetting the names of his hook-ups because they cannot Truly Touch His Heart in #FENCEcomic is amazing and I ran with it.
And in #ChillingAdventuresofSabrina there’s so much name stuff: Sabrina’s struggles with autonomy and identity via signing her name away, and the nature vs nurture question of whether she’s Sabrina Spellman or Morningstar. Plus...
... Her love interests both having diametrically different special names they call her. & that Nick (Scratch! different Nick! Pls read my novel An Abundance Of Nicks) makes the amazing decision to forget Harvey’s name while perfectly able to recall & re-use his joke name for him.
My critique partner was like ‘You cannot DO your name stuff in these tie-ins!’ But I was able to proudly tell her it was in the source material. Names Being Important is so important to me!
And in summary Luke actually forgetting the names of his many admirers is juxtaposed with Elliot pretending to forget Luke’s name to say something about both of them, how they interact with the world and each other, pls also read my book Call Me By My True Name.
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