My lovelies, I want to hear the wonderful stories of how your name came to you. True or fanciful, poetic or prosaic, how did you meet your name?

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@Willow My fedi name comes from one of the drivers of the Crazy Taxi Sega Dreamcast game (the one I always chose to play), and also happens to be a translation of the name of a cat in my family.

My IRL name comes from a female character of a movie. A girl with cute eyes that I wouldn’t have minded to have been born as.

My name story goes like this.

In the dark of a spring night, I met myself for the very first time. I slept, exhausted.

With the dawn, I sought a guide. She nursed me, stunned, through my first day as myself. As night came, she asked me, gently, if I knew my name. I did not. I slept, wrapped in my acceptance of my femininity.

As I woke, my name was with me. She hid inside me through the morning, until I spoke her aloud while sitting beside my partner amidst a swirl of petals falling from the cherry blossoms.

That is how I met my name, “Willow.”

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@cinnamon Resonating with a character and feeling a connection with them seems like a wonderful way to meet your name.

@Willow Kasdeya was an angel who was cast out of heaven for teaching the human race about medicine, poison, abortion, psychology, and hypnosis. she’s almost like the Abrahamic equivalent of Prometheus. I could probably write a 12-paragraph essay about what all that means to me lol