why does every morris family's name start with the letter M except Collin
Oh my god, I've been waiting for this ask, thank you thank you thank you.
So the main canon reason for the au is, Collin is technically supposed to be the main focus, and this au is supposed to be about grief and moving on and just trying to continue to live, and the main focus of his grief is his family.
Meg is the starting point of that grief, they are a big reason the rest of the family fell apart to their own grief.
Matthew went missing a few years later, right after he finished his schooling causing more grief.
His parents hadn't even fully processed their youngest child's death, and then their eldest son disappeared a few years after, they aren't going to be well after all of that, so they both focus on Collin in ways that should've been seen as love and protection but it just made Collin feel suffocated and trapped until he moved out.
Collin's name being the only one that is different is because he is trying to find a way to work with his grief, trying not to let it consume him, he just struggles sometimes, like any human would, and it doesn't help that before he moved out it was just a circle of grief in his house no matter what, so he has to start from scratch on his own after wallowing in it for years.
That is the lore and canon reason at least, the original reason is, when trying to figure out what Matthews name should be, Matthew was the only name I could think of, and I went with it, and at the time I had plans for Trans Masc Collin, so I made Collins dead name start with an M and thought it was a cool turning page for Collin, to move past grief he had to start by making a difference between him and his family.
So it wasn't planned at first, it's just something I personally stumbled across a couple days after I started this au.
But if the Morris family didn't start with M I do have names that they would have instead, but I don't think I'll be changing them as I do like the symbolism I have going rn