Hello, everyone!
I was wondering what the origin of some of your names are.
There are some which I can figure out on my own (or at least have a very good guess at), such as Mae being from KoMAEda, Eda being from KomaEDA, Kichi being from KoKICHI, Cusp being from the term used for parts of teeth (relating to how he swapped a tooth with Mandible), Lucky from the Ultimate Lucky Student talent, Lockpick from the ability of Kokichis to pick locks, Cotard/Cotard's Corpse from the mental health condition of the same name, and so on.
But what about Bindle? Cookie? Moonpie? Lyra? And other such names? What are their origins?
- Saber
Ooh, that's a fun one! Since we have a lot of dupes around here, it's easiest to give everyone nicknames to differentiate. Like you said, our first inclination is to derive nicknames from their original name, but when you accumulate enough dupes, you quickly run out of ways to do that! As such, derivative names are first come first served. After that, we have to start getting a little more creative, so let's see!
Cookie
My name is actually also derivative! Kichi and his twin already took Kou and Kichi, but Cookie honestly also came from a pun on my name: Cookiechi! Hence why I use that as my tag for posts. My Amami-chan, who isn't on this blog, goes by Milky to match. Ain't that sweet?
Bindle
Okay, okay! This one's actually a REALLY funny story! See, I picked Bindle 'cause it matches my Ranran's nickname: Duffie, from Duffel Bag! See, they're both names for bags, isn't that cool? Plus, it makes me sound like a vagabond or somethin'!
But anyways, Ranran got that nickname from the doctors at the hospital when he first got here. 'Cause what happened was, he had a habit of sneaking off 'cause he didn't like being stuck in one place for so long. And one time, he stole one of the overnight nurse's duffel bag and then hid in the boiler room, wedged up behind the boiler and then using the bag as a cushion to not get burned.
He was there for like hooooours before anybody found him!
Moonpie
He declined to answer, but to be fair I kind of just vibechecked him with this nickname on my own, there's no real story behind it.
Ender
Another vibecheck, as he was barely conscious when he first got here and is rarely cognizant enough to ask about abstract concepts like nicknames.
Umami
Mine is a derivative pun like Cookie's. Ironically, I also happen to do a lot of the cooking for Cookie's faction of DICE, but that wasn't really by design. More of a funny accident. Lots of people even shorten it further and just call me Uma, too.
Lyra
Since I'm the only Akamatsu here, I technically don't need a nickname. Ever since I realized I was from the same universe as Gem and regained my memories, though, I wanted to have a nickname anyway to match his and Kai's.
Kai had already taken Aries, so I couldn't use my astrology sign like he and Gem did, so Aries suggested Lyra, the lyre constellation, for its association with music.
Everyone we've gather so far has been picking out similar nicknames. So far we also have Polaris (Amami, not on this blog) and Ursa Minor (Hoshi).
Wafer (and Nilla)
When Nilla first got here, he initially didn't plan to stay, but the next day Lock found him back and out in the park eating a vanilla ice cream cone. It was November www
He's also a mouse regressor and one of his favorite treats is vanilla wafer cookies, so when I first popped back into awareness that's kind of just how things panned out to match. I don't mind it, really, I think it's kind of fun!