#tropos rotundin spheros

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Early morning thoughts

I've headcanoned Betrayus' birth name to be Trayus, and his middle name Rotundin, named after his mother.

But thinking about it now, he could've easily been named Tropos.

As in, the troposphere and stratosphere.

Stratos Spheros.

Tropos Spheros.

I mean, it's plausible only on the basis that it fits the theme and rhyme, but it would need a bit of extra lore and explaining as to how he went from Tropos to Betrayus.

My reasoning for Trayus, initially, was that it could be a good starting point for him to build the roots of his rebellion on. It also works if we bear in mind that his mother's nickname for him is Tray-Tray. He's always been known as Trayus, but at some point, he realised by chance that if he puts two simple letters in front of his name then it changes the meaning completely. He liked the new meaning. And so he used it as his new identity when he led the revolt against the nation. He's been known as a betrayer ever since.

It's not as easy to come up with similar lore for Tropos. But if I spitball it a bit, it could be something like this:

His nickname ranged between Tro, Troppy, and Tro-Tro. Tro was often the go-to, in which everyone who knew him simply called him Tro for short. Tro-Tro was an affectionate nickname from his mother, and Troppy was mostly used by Stratos as a teasing term. 'Tropos' as a full name was only ever used when he was in trouble ("Tropos Rotundin Spheros, what did I say about stealing the cookie jar?!") With time, Tro slowly grew into the maniacal character that we know him as, and part of this change was his growing disdain for his name. It wasn't the name itself that he loathed, it was his old self and the family connotations that he came to despise. His relationship with his mother grew broken and sour, and so he hated his middle name more than anything else. By the time he made the decision to revolt, he was a completely different person compared to the Tropos that everyone knew in his youth. So much so, that in a twistedly ironic way, he gleefully dubbed himself as Betrayus Sneakerous Spheros as part of his rebellion and revolt. In the changing of his identity, he decided to live up to his new name to the fullest, only keeping his last name as a cruel reminder to his family that the world would now associate the name Spheros with tyranny.

If I had to choose, I'd probably stick with Trayus. But man, missed opportunity from the creators to play around with Tropos Spheros.

Headcanon that their father was named Exo Spheros.