#he says he just went by ren and stede is like :) like the bird. *touches his throat tattoo* you’ve always been a little bird haven’t u

[oldmanffucker]

Izzy in my mind palace eventually gets close enough with stede that he just drops his deadname eventually one day. He’s not like ill at the thought of the name or anything it’s just so Not Him it’s just a stranger so he never thinks to bring it up to anyone ever bc it’s just not relevant. One day they’re talking abt teenage izzy and he’s like “yeah they used to refer to me as a tempest bc I was just so chaotic lol” and stede is like “ah ‘izzy the tempest!’ so real lol!” And izzy is like. “Well it was temperance the tempest but yeah” and stede is like :0