#archmagesparrowhawkkin

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Canon Nicknames ask game, part 1 (names for myself). Might put Part 2 (names I gave others) in a separate post as not to make this one too long.

Bird Boy: I got this one across so many different kin lives it's actually kind of bizzare how often it came up. As Tobias, pretty much everyone of the main animorphs called me Bird Boy after Marco used it once and it just kind of stuck. I got it a few times as well in my Jason life too after Leo used it (the irony that both Marco and Leo are Hispanic jokesters with mother related Angst and an endless thesaurus of nicknames is not lost on me).

Bluejay, Jaybird, Jay, Jace: There are only two people allowed to call me Jay and those two people are Percy and Nico. Everyone else had to use Jace. Percy is the only one who's allowed to call me Bluejay though, that one was very personal and intimate between us. Piper occasionally got to use Jacey but that was more of a teasing playful thing. I also had a BUNCH of electricity and storm related nicknames given to me by Leo (Sparky-G, Thunderboy, Superman, etc.) but there's so many that I have legitimately lost count of them all.

Zapmeister: Admittedly I gave myself this cringey-ass nickname after I ended up discovering Techno World. It blew my mind that I could live a whole second life there, provided I never ran into my double and kept myself disguised on the down-low. Given the Techno World version of me was seen as a bit of a celebrity, I figured I wanted to inflate my own ego a bit as well, thus Francis Zapmeister was born. Certainly a better nickname than The Werrinup Thief, at any rate. Also side note, if anyone actually remembers this source (I have found exactlyOne fic on AO3 for the Australian TV show Parallax) then you are probably at least in your 30s by now and already agree that Hippie World Francis was a Mischievous Little Shit. No, I'm not apologizing for it either.

Sparrowhawk: Less of a nickname and more of a chosen name. Anyone who's read the original EarthSea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuinn will remember the power of invoking someone's True Name, hence why I mostly kept it hidden once I became an Archmage. Even to this day I still feel a little weird about hearing my True Name for that source. Maybe it actually became a deadname of sorts for me in that canon? I don't remember much from this life though as it seems to be more of a minor kintype.

- Jason Grace (Heroes Of Olympus), Tobias Fangor (Animorphs), Francis Short (Parallax), Archmage Sparrowhawk (EarthSea Trilogy)

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