Karkat was already a name, if an uncommon one here, bc it's derived from the sanskrit name of the cancer constellation personally, I'm waiting for the inevitable hordes of tween girls in cat ears named Nepeta to start showing up at cons in about 15 years
the really terrible thing about Homestuck-named children is gonna be, like, the stealth ones. 'cause the human kids do actually have, y'know, human names, and even "Calliope" is pretty legit compared to, like, "Sollux." so for the rest of my life, whenever I encounter a kid born after 2010ish (when were the alpha kids introduced again?) named John, Dave, Rose, Jade, Jane, Jake, Roxy, or Dirk, there will always be that terrible, terrible suspicion...
little did we know canadian politician Maryam Monsef was a homestuck all along ((yes i know the name came first im being silly))
Not gonna lie, the first thing I thought of when I saw "Jaygo" the other day was oh god this child is one letter away from being a wicked elixir
@Socket There was a couple in my local anime con scene that named their baby Sephiroth years ago. Either it's the same kid or there is more than one child named Sephiroth. Which. Why.
I remember seeing more info about him - his parents let him and his sister change their names as children, if they wanted to, and that's what he chose. I love that he chose that name and then stuck with it. That is a man who knows what he likes.
Yes! He was an inspiration to me when I was worrying that changing my name to Léo was "too silly". Dr. Loki Skylizard says choose your own name! Follow your dreams!
One of my high school teachers had a family that did the same initial thing for him and his two sisters. None of their names are that weird, since they all start with S...except their last name also started with S. Failure to think out initials.
I just remembered a guy I went to school with had the unfortunate name of James James. He loathed it, and changed it pretty much as soon as he hit 18.
Honestly, I'm jealous of how easily you can change your name in the US. Until just now, you needed to go to court for a first name change here, and you basically can't change your family name at all.
One of my friend's professors in college was named kenneth weed and he had a doctorate so everyone called him dr.weed and if that doesnt sound like a supervillain/hero name i dont know what does
One of my teachers in High School told us that he had a childhood friend whose first name was "Mer", which is "Sea" in French... and whose last name was "da Silva", one of the most common surnames in Brazil. His name was Mer da Silva, but "merda" in portuguese means shit. So he was Shit Silva. This same teacher once had a student named Uri Noll.
My grandmother tells us that she used to have a classmate in school whose name was Mika Gay - and at the time "gay" didn't have much of the connotations it has now, but "Mika Gay" sounds exactly like "I shat myself" in BR-PT ("me caguei"). She tried to pronounce it Guy instead but then it sounded like the very old-fashioned 2nd person plural imperative ("me cagai"), something like "I beg thee shit on me". Which... didn't help.
psst actually if it's second-person plural it'd be "I beg you shit on me" because "thee" is exclusively second-person singular (bring back second-person singular and plural distinctions in English 2k16) /grammar sperg
