im glad she at least kinda doesnt have a deadname to worry about since she never went by her first name anyway? i mean michaels is KIND of a deadname but its not for gender reasons so maybe it doesnt have the same weight to it (its for bad relationship with father reasons, also no not inspired by who youre thinking of its a total coincidence)
btw thats kind of why shes trans lmao, i was like oh isnt it funny that this character like refuses to let anyone call them by their original legal name isnt that so weird. and then i was like oh yeah theres like an entire demographic of people who have a tradition of doing that. btw the reason for that is she originally just had my name (bc remember loren and michaels are both characters who were originally self inserts) and i just couldnt think of a better name so we used her last name as a placeholder until i thought of one and i never did.











