Why does your parent get to decide your name
Like, what a dumbass idea
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@kimdanes now I'm coming up with increasingly ridiculous ways for a baby to "choose" it's name
I also invented a fictional culture where people hold name shedding ceremonies where you shed whatever name you used in a precious life-stage and take a new one
child name, teen name, adult name half life name, life name, death name
@lopsigon it needs to involve some kind of divination to determine the name
maybe a blindfolded choice between different possessions of long-dead people to determine if you'll have the same name
Or we could go with name aptitude testing? Then a name can be a signifier of a specific sort of person, or a conglomerate of a bunch of syllables that each categorize your identity
@kimdanes now I'm imagining (in graphic novel format) a story about a cabal of dimentional witches who wander the various planes divining names for babes