Quote Originally Posted by Astrus View Post
After 18 pages this probably sunk in but just look for alternatives that retain the meaning you're attributing to your name instead of clinging to a term a vocal if not big part of the community evidently takes offense at.

Chibi should come with none of the baggage. If you want to lean into the wise child meaning one of the variants of Chieko could be what you're after like 智栄子, 知瑛子, 知依子 or 智依子

Skirting the issue by changing the "nonproblematic" part of your name is just going to land you in hotter water the next time someone decides to report you and it's up for GM review. If appealing the decision and/or escalating to a senior GM got you nowhere the company's stance seems clear. They're selling renames for money, handing them out as unwarranted disciplinary action and disgruntling a paying customer in the process seems counterintuitive.

As evidenced by your new name, this isn't a case of a term being newly added to the automatic filter where you could claim unintentional consequences like a lot of companies had a couple of years back when the rise of ISIS and it's addition to blacklists also hit people using the name Isis. I remember what an uphill battle getting that sorted out was and their evidence was a lot more compelling than yours and the affected communities certainly more united.
If they've doubled down on an individual judgment that's that, accept it and move on.
Then why can you use letter Z? And you better not pretend you don't know what i'm talking about. You think they own the letter Z and because of that nobody else can use it? No. That is not how things work.