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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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Canon Date Fails:

It's incredibly hard to date when you only have two hours to maintain your human form before being forced to turn back into a bird again. It's even more complicated when you've been a bird for so long that basic human behaviour no longer comes naturally to you. The icing on the cake? You're constantly paranoid that you have to act "normal" enough to not rouse the attention of any Yeerks that might be nearby, and your weird blue centaur-alien uncle often decides to tag along so you have to keep making sure he hasn't run off and consumed something inedible again. Y'know. Typical Tobias things.

- Tobias Fangor (Animorphs)

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Canon Resemblances:

Jason Grace and Tobias Fangor, my two strongest IDs, look incredibly similar if you account for a few canon divergences allowing for them to look even more similar to each other. As Jason I had longer, wilder hair that resembled Tobias' book/graphic novel appearance and I dressed in a similar way to the ratty, 90s grunge baggy jeans and layered sleeves that Tobias wore. Both as Jason and Tobias (especially as Tobias), I resembled a young Kurt Cobain for hair and fashion choices. I suppose you could say as Francis Short I also had the baggy daggy ratty clothing theme going on a bit as well, but it was more hippy leaning than grunge or punk.

As Tobias, it's not canonically stated what my eye colour was as a human (as far as I'm aware) but it wouldn't surprise me if they were blue and "intense" like Jason's because that seems to be a theme I have going on in a few different kintypes and questioning sources now (if I confirm Jayfeather then the unique blue eyes definitely gets added to that list lol). Facial scars also seems to be another theme; Ecco The Dolphin with "the marks on your head look like the stars in the sky" and Jason having that scar across his lip.

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