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stiltonbasket · 10 months ago

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Lan Siwen has inherited grandpa wwx's terrible naming sense? His spiritual bunny has a pun name, his sword probably has a pun name, and if he ever acquires a kid, he probably gives the kid a pun name too. Or maybe he's like his great-grandma cssr, who named her baby "baby."

I don't really think Wei Wuxian has bad naming sense (afaik the only "silly" name he ever chose was Little Apple, since Jiang Fengmian named Suibian, and Jin Ling's courtesy name is actually quite beautiful)...but Siwen digs out the generation poem from Sizhui's maternal family and uses that to choose his child's formal name. Until said Wangxian great-grandbaby turns five, though, he answers to the baby name of "Salty Porridge." ᕙ⁠(⁠ ⁠:⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠∧⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠:⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕗ

#asks #lan siwen #i feel like wwx and jfm are a little alike in that sense #wwx jokingly names the demon slaughtering cave #and jfm jokingly names suibian #but the name wwx chose for Jin Ling was both thoughtful and very lovely #and jfm gave jc a courtesy name which feels very much like his own (to me)#and calls up the image of a night at lotus pier (to me)#meanwhile he knew from jyl's birth that she was probably going to be sent far away #much further than he himself would have liked her to go #and he named her in fear and anticipation of that parting #again this is all conjecture on my part #and there's jyl's place in the narrative as someone who's marked for death and all #but i feel like jyl's name was chosen (in-verse) to remind her that her parents didn't want to part from her #or at least just jfm #since i can't really see yzy choosing that specific name for her #or for jc for that matter

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