#//imagine hearing 'dumb idiot' as genuinely and unironically and as heartfelt as possible

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nickname for Izanami, would they go by Izzy or Nami 😂

they don't really care what they're called as long as they know that they're being referred to ksajdfbakshdgf

Short answer, in regards to gsaslau, they're called "Nami" (it's Yosuke's fault) and adopt it as their legal name "Nami Kusumi," like Marie's "Mariko Kusumi"

i hope you liked the parkour joke. anyway, long answer!!!!

Personally, I only use "Nami" in writing while I actually use "Mim" which came from "Mimi" (y'know cuz theres an izana-mi and an izana-gi. anywho) but I butchered it further bc I'm insane also the new nickname sounded more fun. I reserve "Izy" for Izanami-no-Mikoto, the being that split into two which became Mim and Marie.

As for the general scheme of my au, they,.,.,,.don't get a proper name until somewhere in the middle of the Arena plot (Episode Izanami, if you saw my pinned post). Yosuke gets tired of calling this guy "Seta's senpai" or "The Manager" or "Teddie's mom." And after being informed that they don't want to be called "Izanami," considering Marie's existence, he opens his mouth and then comes out disappointment his opinion, "so, Nami-san..." as casually as it goes.

They're stuck with "senpai," "friendly employee at the gas station in the shopping district," every iteration of "dumb idiot (bakabaka)," "mister attendant," "big bro's big bro" and whatever else the people can think about them. Not that people would actually ask for their name, haha that's so silly (or possibly taking advantage of their godlike power to manipulate one's cognition with fog where it never lets anyone think to ask about anything about their identity especially anything close to a name because names are a sign of intimacy no matter how little a fragment of knowledge it may seem but it's the first step to knowing someone so what if you skipped that step entirely certainly you wouldn't get anymore intimate than needed right you're only here for one (1) thing so don't mess it up by getting either party ATTACHED).

Just following the scheme that Mim finds no need for names, as I like to interpret. They never actually named the "Midnight Channel." They only mentioned the rumor about TVs turning on at midnight and the rest of the details, and it was the people themselves who called it "the midnight channel" after they started tossing it around Inaba. Along with the "TV World." As the deity governing the place, they know it well as "the sea of unconsciousness that exists within human hearts" and other iterations, along with describing Inaba's collective's unconscious as a "hollow forest" (Marie's tomb in Golden makes things unnecessarily complicated...so we'll put that aside). Even bringing up their npc dialogue in their attendant facade, they don't even say names. They don't even call Junes "Junes"--just "that mega-store" which I thought was funny (a fun fact, they never say "Moel" or whatever the hell eng loc had going on, they just said a colloquialized version of "welcome" in the original jp release like alright my first npc without a portrait greetin me to town be this fruity soundin gayboy vampire lookin ok i got it).

To be clear about how I write Mim's name calling habit and their general attitude around names in their facade, they avoid saying names but rather use titles or descriptive labels. Like "kiddo," "mister deliveryman" or "mister detective" if you've noticed.

That being said, in any post-p4 plot after they're revealed as something more than a gas station attendant, they're more obviously more than welcome to use people's names. But the fact they've grown into their facade to the point it's their own identity, I doubt they'd drop the silly labeling habit anytime soon. It's fun, and shows their own signs of intimacy by this point.