Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Something that I've seen people raise is that this is actually pretty in-keeping with some hispanic cultures; you just have multiple names for multiple contexts, it doesn't mean any of them are wrong names, they're just for different groups and different places; I feel like the most common instance we might be aware of outside of those cultures is kids going by a different first name at school, maybe because their given name is difficult. So Elenesh'pya is his 'home name', and Erenville is maybe more of his 'work name', and that's fine.

I think a lot of people actually mentally defaulted to something more like a trans person's deadname (ironic, given how some parts of the fanbase seem to hate trans people, but that's not important right now and I like that the lore subforum is mostly free of that). I know I did at first, but mostly in the context of congratulating Gulool Ja Ja for having exactly the right response. The fact it never comes up at all between Erenville and Cahciua does sort of correct that assumption--no, my mother does not get a pass for using my deadname, so the fact Cahciua doesn't get blowback, that means it's not.
I would agree with this if it wasn't for what MrKusabi says in their response. In that everyone either gets interrupted before his birth name is fully spoken or before they can even say it. To the point where Erenville states that he goes by said name now and the person goes about addressing him as Erenville. Even Iyaate ends up using Erenville at times. It's only his mother who refuses to call him that either from her being a mother who isn't fully able to come to terms with how her son has changed and that there is no more time to adjust to that information so she clings to the past.