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[muji]

From Kate:

What are the various names your pup is known by in terms of nicknames, pet names and other variations on their name? Do they like their name? What's the history behind it? Does who they're talking to change what name they use? As an example, my name is Kate, its not short for anything so it makes me uncomfortable when people lengthen my name and a quick way to make me bristle is to call me Katie.

A good example for this with me is Mal - Sallie calls him Malcolm, and she's the only one that's really allowed to do so.

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part one

[ashen_key]

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames!

Trudy is actually a Gertrude - she likes the meaning of her full name (spear strength), would feel odd if she actually DROPPED it, but she tries never to use it. It's Trudy, occasionally Trudes, never Gertie (unless you are her sister Frankie). But, actually, mostly she's known by 'Chacon', due to being career military. At Hell's Gate, for someone to use 'Trudy' actually says a lot about their relationship. In M'ways, Carl calls her 'Marine' sometimes, and Thirteen calls her 'Hobbes'. And I'm pretty sure that Trudy-as-Gertrude is actually named after someone in her family, but I haven't worked it out yet.

Jake is actually a Jacob, but no one really calls him that. Pretty much, he's either Sully (again, career military) or he is Jake. The Marines in his squadron also call him 'Oz' and 'Ozzie' due to his Australian-American accent.

Kait's full name is Kaitayarenne Noellaurelai Taghdottar Aire an Galweigh - and they would all be family names, too. But pretty much, she's Kait.

Lola...goes by Lola. In my own backstory for her, I THINK she was originally a Charlotte, but I honestly have no idea. Lola is the name she uses, so it is her name - she does go by others should she need to for assignments, though.

part two

[ashen_key]

Camille isn't a nickname kind of girl; some people aren't. And I'm pretty sure her parents just liked the name.

Medusa has the nickname 'Meda', which is similar to the Sanskrit version of her name, Medha. She won't ever introduce herself as 'Meda', though - the right to use it has to be earned.

Esfir is formally Esfir Shostakovna, but no one really in M'ways gets this, so she just goes by 'Esfir'. In short, she's a 'Fira', but that has to be earned. Her beau, Ben Wade, calls her 'Lieutenant' and, 'Sunshine' and, occasionally, 'Yazy'.

[alsoagreengrass]

Scorpius is Scorpius or simply Malfoy. I shorten his name to Scorp a lot, but it hasn't been used or given as an in-character nickname yet, I don't think. His mum and dad will sometimes use his full name, Scorpius Hyperion, if he's gotten into a bit of trouble.

He likes his name just fine, but he sometimes feels the need to explain that it's a family tradition of sorts if anyone raises their eyebrow at it. Most of the Blacks were named after stars or constellations and the Malfoys mostly get their names from the ancient Greeks or Romans. He'd likely continue the tradition.

Ronald is Ron to most of his friends and family. A few people will call him Ronald and he's forgiving of that, depending on the person. Weasley tends to be used by the prat-like sorts, and he doesn't like it very much how they go about saying it. Won-Won was the nickname Lavender gave him. Please don't call him that, he'd only scowl at you.

I don't know about his first name, but he got his middle name from his uncle, Bilius. I think he's happy when people call him by his real name and/or haven't forgotten it.

[innerbrat]

Mel really doesn't care. Her name is Melaka, sometimes she gives it, but she's so used to people calling her Mel that she gives that first. Splinter is the only person I can think of who calls her Melaka all the time, and Harth is the second most common.

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Renee only has Renee and the Question, and she only gives the Question when she's got the mask on. She doesn't do that in bar, but she obviously does more masked work outside. Here's the thing though - even as the Question she rarely introduces herself: she just shows up and does the job, so often the faceless woman has no name at all.

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Will is only William to Jack Sparrow, because William Turner is his father (even if that's really Bill). To Elizabeth he's Will, and to everyone else he's Captain Turner. Or Captain William Turner if you need to differentiate between the two.

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Dinah will intorduce herself as Dinah if she's in civvies, and Black Canary if she's in the wig. Easy. Except she's not very good at keeping her secret identity, so sometimes she'll clairfy tht she's the same person. Sometimes she won't. Given what's happened with J'Onn, right now she's clinging to the identity.

Otherwise her mother (and once her father) will call her Dinah Laurel if she's in trouble (there;s also a flashback in which Larry calls her Diney, which - LOL, and her uncles will often call her Junior. When Ollie comes into her life, he'll start calling her Pretty Bird nas an affectionate nickname; this starts when they're just friends and I've seen Barry Allen use it in canon, but it never stuck for anyone else but Ollie, because it's ridiculous.

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Marguerite should, by rules of etiquette, be introduced as Lady Blakeney, due to being married to Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart. but by those same rules of etiquette she shouldn't be introducing herself. When she does in bar, it's as Marguerite Blakeney because she's a Republican at heart and no stickler for titles. And it's fun for all these future people and strangers to call her Mrs Blakeney or Marguerite. Her very best friends may call her Margot - so far she wouldn't expect that from anyone except maybe Jane.

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Floyd Lawton actively doesn't care which name people call him by - he'll give either first or second name or Deadshot depending on circumstances, because he doesn't care about anyone and frankly, having to introduce himself is new in Milliways, because at home, people he meets either know him already or it's about not to matter. 'Floyd' is uncomfortably close to affection, however, and it feels weird from anyone. Still, using it is a surefire way of getting him into protective mode regarding you.

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Death has any number of names and will always respond.




And my potential July app? Well, not even I know her real name. Thanks, canon.
Thanon.

[kd7sov]

I don't think any of my pups has ever had an assumed name, or a canonical nickname, or anything. Interesting.

Felix has never put a lot of thought into whether he likes his name; it's his name, it's part of his foundation, and that's that. Rather curiously, it literally means "happy" - which is not exactly the first adjective I think of when I think of Felix. I wouldn't be surprised to find that his mother had a difficult pregnancy and/or that he was the first live birth in Vale in several years.

Kain... I'm not sure that he actually likes it, but he doesn't dislike it any more than he dislikes most things. (The man is not exactly cheery.) I assume he has the Dragoons address him as "Highwind" or "Commander Highwind", but outside of that I'd imagine he'd even answer to "Dragoon!". I dunno.

Karis, I think, does like her name. It apparently means "grace", and she does her best to live up to that. I don't really have much sense of why it was picked or anything; we know nothing about her mother, and very little of what her father's been up to for the last thirty years.

[sdelmonte]

Knox - There is a point in Batman where Knox is referred to as Allie Knox. That was what I used for a long while, though he's also called Alexander and Alex in the film. Eventually, I shifted away from Allie and towards Alex, or just Knox. I suspect that as an Alex myself, I went with what I know.

Kirk - If you want to get under Kirk's skin, call him Jimmy or Jamie. He prefers Jim with his friends, and Captain with his colleagues, and has a tendency to always introduce himself as James Kirk or even James T. Kirk.

Gibbs - His first name (Joshamee) isn't used in canon till the new film. Otherwise, it's Gibbs, or Master Gibbs.

Cyborg - His real name is Victor Stone, like in the comics. He never, ever uses it. He sticks with Cy among friends, Cyborg elsewhere.

CharlieQuestion - Saved the best for last. As I've often noted, he's an orphan. He has no idea what his name is. And was saddled by someone at the orphanage with Charles Victor Szasz. For a long time, after he left college and was in the TV news business, he was the self-styled Vic Sage. New career, new name to match. But once that was behind him, he was merely Charlie, a callback to the ill-defined person he's always been. He's content to never use a full name.

As for his alter ego, the number of people who knew he refers to himself as The Question in the classic 80s series was about six. He and Prof. Rodor admitted they simply didn't have anything better, and never bothered to correct people who knew him as "the no-face guy." Only later, when he was interacted with other heroes, did he use The Question regularly. Like Renee does (as Debi notes), it was sometimes more effective to nameless as well as faceless.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

"Who'd want to counteract paradise, Jimmy-boy?"

Lord, if he knew it was so irritating... he'd probably do it more often.

This is Cam, I'm just too lazy to change logins.

[first_of_steel]

Ray's full name is Raymond Joseph Stantz, and he's had a couple of titles and things added along the way, but everyone just calls him Ray. Egon will occasionally use his last name instead. Most other people don't bother.

Gordon gets called either 'Gordon' or 'Dr. Freeman'. Some people just don't encourage the existence of nicknames. The closest he gets is that the Vortigaunts call him 'the Freeman'. I'm not counting the various titles and epithets people use for him; those are something else again and no one uses them to address him anyway. Well, other than Anticitizen One, which he basically got by killin' a whooooole lotta Combine and which he is just fine with. (Especially since he holds this title in two unrelated universes, thanks to long-ago plottage involving the Marvel 1620verse and the time frame Rojhaz originated from. He's kind of proud of that.)

Adrian's primary nickname among the living is Ado, and it's only used by his brother Dan and a few of his surviving family members. Dan Shephard was a twin; 'Ado' was what he and his sister (now dead) called him in their childhood twin language. The other HECU Marines probably had a nickname for Adrian but it died with them.

Nobody calls Medic anything other than Medic, except the occasional 'Doc' from Herr Soldier or 'DOKTOR!' from Herr Heavy, and that is exactly how he likes it. No, seriously, nobody. Not even his grandmama.

Belar's been around for at least twelve thousand years I am NOT going to speculate on name variations or epithets accumulated during that much time kthxbye.

There's no indication in-game that Varric gets called anything other than Varric. Except maybe 'dwarf'. Can't find any evidence for alternate designations for Mordin, either, other than 'Dr. Solus' or 'Professor'.

Fawkes has no nicknames. Fawkes chose his own name after reading about a man he admired for being willing to die for what he believed; that's as close as he gets to a nickname.

Arcade Gannon says 'if I had any nickname, any at all, do you think for one instant I would let people know my name is Arcade?'.

And Ellen gets called '101' a lot, thanks to Three Dog the radio announcer speaking about her frequently but never actually using her name, just the Vault she was from. Within a few days of her joining the Brotherhood of Steel, everyone in the Citadel other than Elder Lyons himself was calling her 101. She finds this annoying but doubts it's worth the effort to try and get people to stop.

Re: This is Cam, I'm just too lazy to change logins.

[camwyn]

I almost forgot. Adrian has got one other nickname, which he is unaware of as of yet. One too many Resistance radio operators has heard about Adrian's habit of puking after a helicopter flight, and a few of them have heard him comment on the phenomenon- and talked with Manny, the Mexican fellow Shep's been training in the hopes of getting a replacement pilot.

He's going to be stuck with the callsign Zanahorias for a very, very long time.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

Ace is Ace by choice, not by naming - her mother had a thing for Wizard of Oz (or, a certain someone else might have commentary about things being meant to be) and named her poor daughter Dorothy Gale McShane. She was called Dotty for ages. There's only one person currently who gets away with it, and that's only 'cause hitting him would just be embarassing for her, and he insults everyone anyway.

McCoy goes by McCoy to most folk he knows now, thanks to StarFleet being (at least theoretically) military. Kirk is pretty much the only one who calls him 'Bones' though everyone knows that he's the one being referred to, and a very select few call him Len or Leonard.
Only one person calls him Lyonya, and he likes it that way.

Romanadvoratrelundar doesn't tend to go by her full name when not on Gallfrey, because no one seems to have the time to say it all. At least it's not Fred.

No one else really has nicknames in my crew - Shaz, I suppose, you could call a nickname, but it fits her better than Sharon, and 'WPC Granger' is a little too formal for the setting.

I am constantly amused at how my name mutates when folk find out I'm a DVM - I'm Doc at the apartment complex office, Dr. Triple-0-G (I don't even know) to the office manager of our sister hospital, and known by various combinations of my title and my name to my clients.

[genarti]

Eeeheehee names.

River doesn't have any nicknames based on her name per se, but she has plenty of other nicknames kicking around. I can never keep track of them all, but some are: Mèimei from Simon but also half the crew. Stabby or Stabby McMurderson from Jayne. Little Albatross is a canonical one from Mal, who's also called her others I can't remember at the moment. School friends once upon a time called her Little Mouse. Roland used to call her mo cuishle (spelling variable, since I think this one is incorrect but we stole it from Million Dollar Baby); Bran called her River Afon; Crowley called her thygatera mou at least once, and I think will more in the future sometime. Epimetheus calls her Stilts. I know there are others.

Oh, and I believe we millicanoned that her parents just liked the name. No family significance or anything.

Trowa doesn't have any nicknames! Well, Duo sometimes comes up with them, but that's because Duo likes playing around with words and trying to get a reaction out of friends; I don't think there are any he uses consistently or anything.

And he stole his name from a dead guy he knew and didn't particularly like, in part to help cover up the guy's murder. Uh. Yes! He was born Triton Bloom, but he doesn't know that; he grew up with no name, going by no-name if anything.

Piotr is another with a bunch of nicknames, mostly variants on his name -- Piotr, Peter, Pete, Petey. He answers to all of them equally. His codename is Colossus, which doesn't really nickname well but sometimes he gets "tin man" or whatever if somebody's feeling like being a smart aleck. He used to get Petey Pureheart and similar from some of his teammates, which is less true nowadays; his girlfriend Kate sometimes opts for Russian nicknames like Petrushka. His little sister Illyana used to call him Piotr Nikolaievitch sometimes, which is canonical but also ridiculously formal for a sibling and so I think we millicanoned that that was an old private joke in the family. (He called her Illyana Nikolaievna, similarly, except when he was calling her snowflake or little snowflake, which was... most of the time, really.)

Regan, on the other hand, is another without real nicknames. I mean, she and Gabriel use endearments, but that's about it.

I'm not actually sure where her name comes from! Probably another where her parents just liked the name?

[genarti]

Ones I play less often or hardly at all:

Lan has no nicknames, at least to his face. (Hi, Ace.) He has a half ton of titles, but that's slightly different. For years and years no one called him those to his face either, at least not without getting stonefacedly slapped down for it, but he's kind of loosened up about that nowadays. What with being post-canon and actually becoming king and stuff.

I'm completely sure Lan is a family name and/or a common Malkieri name, probably with centuries of tradition. Borderlanders are like that.

Edel means "noble" in German. I have no idea why Drosselmeyer picked that specifically. Uzura is "quail" in Japanese, which makes sense given that she's a bouncy toddler-puppet with hair that looks kind of like a quail itself, but I have no idea at all what the IC reason here is. BECAUSE.

Lt. Riza Hawkeye mostly goes by her last name and/or her rank, because she's career military. And because she and her superior officer/best friend/co-conspirator/it's-really-complicated call each other by rank pretty much exclusively. This doesn't count as a nickname, but it does count as notable.

Some friends call her Riza. She uses Elizabeth as a code name sometimes, too. (That's presumably where Hiromu Arakawa got the name Riza, since in Japanese it transliterates as Erizabesu, but ICly Riza doesn't seem to be short for anything.) Her last name lends itself to puns, given that she's a sniper, so she also gets called The Hawk's Eyes, although that's mostly when people are talking about rather than to her.

[slutbamwalla.livejournal.com]

The Doctor has a name but never uses it. The only person canonically that we know knows it is River Song, and even she doesn't use it publicly. He also uses the alias John Smith at times, and was known as Theta Sigma in his Academy days.

Echo is just her Dollhouse designation. Her real name is Caroline, though at this point in her personal canon, she doesn't know that. Depending on her imprint, though, she could be called anything at all.

David Xanatos goes by Xanatos to most people. Fox gets to call him David, but she's sleeping with him, so she gets special privilege.

Agnes Nitt is Agnes to pretty much everyone. To those people with a healthy respect for witches, she's Mistress Nitt. Call her Aggie, though, and Bad Things will happen.

Kitai doesn't have any other names, and wouldn't respond if called by one. She was known as Black Cat when she was burglarizing homes, but that was a name given to her, not one she took.

Gaius Baltar is usually Baltar or Dr. Baltar. Some people will occasionally call him Gaius, but Caprica Six is the only one who does so consistently.

[moofoot.livejournal.com]

Mine have a variety of nicknames (some of them, anyway) so this is a DE I can answer.

Starting with the most obvious, naturally!

Doc goes by title almost exclusively; his real name being Josiah Gordon Scurlock, but once he joined his very first gang -- shortly after dropping out of medical school -- he needed a nickname to go by and it was natural that 'Doc' is the one he ended up with.

Carl Benton tends to be pretty straightforward; being military the last name is pretty common especially among his friends he knows through the service, etc. So it's either Carl, or Benton. Later in canon it will be Mr. Benton (once he opens up the school) and most of the characters in 24 Redemption address him simply by his last name. Trudy calls him 'D-Boy' on occasion, just like he calls her 'Marine' (though he tends to call her 'Marine' pretty regularly) and I'm sure Jack has some nicknames for Carl that aren't fit for out-of-Delta consumption. (Men will be men, and soldiers will be soldiers...ahem.)

Skellig gets called a lot of things. Most are not very nice. Though 'birdman' gets tossed around occasionally by people who know him but not his real name.

Dan Evans has a pretty awesome nickname, thanks to Ben Wade: Lazarus.

Han Solo has a variety. Like Skellig, a lot of them are not very nice or in languages that can be typed out or pronounced. 'Flyboy' he gets a lot. Also, 'nerfherder'. And Grandpa. (But only from certain little girls, thank you very much.) And of course, 'Captain'.

Bad Blake goes by 'Bad', because he was born bad and he'll be bad until the day he dies. (His real name is Otis.)

James Bond will use a variety of aliases and false identities as he needs to; 007 is a designation, not really a nickname.

Jonah Hex doesn't have any nicknames, really. He is who he is, and people know what that means. And he doesn't want them to forget who he is, either.

Diego doesn't have a nickname either. Except for perhaps a pet name Sally Reynolds might have for him. :X

[withherhands]

...and I'm sure Jack has some nicknames for Carl that aren't fit for out-of-Delta consumption. (Men will be men, and soldiers will be soldiers...ahem.)

*sniggers*

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Mike and Raph are their nicknames. If pressed they'll introduce themselves by their longer names: Michaelangelo and Raphael. They hardly, if ever, use their full names: Hamato Michaelangelo and Hamato Raphael.

Mike hates Mikey. HATES IT with a WHITE HOT PASSION.
But...will never correct anyone for using it, or even comment that he HATES it. As for his longer name, that's pretty much only used by Splinter. Pretty much everyone else uses it as a "middle name", meaning when he's in trouble.

Raph is rather fond of just Raph. If you piss him off, or if he gets the sense that you think you're better than he is, he'll insist on Raphael. He's also known to introduce himself as Gamera, but only in Tortall where his Shang credentials mean something.

Ida is Ida. And no matter how many names the Hophead tries to give her, she'll always just be Ida.

For the most part the Loompas don't have names, they have numbers. Though, the leader did have a name for a brief period of time, but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was...
*RP FAIL*

[jothra]

Don doesn't really like 'Donnie' either, but it's not like he'll tell his family to quit it either.

Mikey will remain Mikey. (Sorry, kid.)

[evil_koala_626]

Jumba still gets away with calling Stitch 626. Other than that he has no nicknames. Unless you count what Pleakley and Myrtle call him. In which case he also goes by "the little monster" and "Weirdlo's disconfigured dog."

Cerberus was generally referred to as Cerb in narration but very few addressed him as such. Lethe was one. Medusa was another. Demeter tried it once and it creeped him right out.

[the_gene_genie]

Gene has many nicknames! But it is important, he tells me, to let it be known that Gene is not short for Eugene. It's just Gene. Partly this is millicanon (his mother was a fan of Gene Autry, which also explains early cowboy influences), and partly because none of his warrant cards, or his signature, in canon has ever said anything but Gene, so. And he loves it! It's him. When a pregnant journalist shows up claiming that the kid is his, one of his stipulations for proposing to her is that 'he is gonna be called Gene'. So he's obviously proud of it if he wants it carried on.

Other nicknames - the Gene Genie is probably the one used most often, to refer to himself. There's also 'The Manc Lion' and he's referred to in Ashes, by Alex, as 'The Lion of Fenchurch East'.

...he's referred to in many ways by the various criminal elements he comes across. Apparantly one of their favourite names for him was 'Hunt the C**t' - for obvious reasons. Though he's not called that in canon (definitely not suitable for a 9pm show on the BBC), it's just revealed by one of his old adversaries, and he's also asked a few times if his name is rhyming slang.

Professionally, he's DCI Hunt. But of course, by far the most popular name for him is 'Guv', and that's good, as it's also the most apt. :)

[sardonicynic]

Ahaha, my dad was such a Gene Autry fan that, when he was a kid, he penciled his painstaking approximation of Autry's signature into the back of his beat-up acoustic guitar, and then etched over the pencil with a pocket knife to FOREVER emblazon the "autograph" on Champion. (The guitar had a name, see. Six-year-old boys are apparently adamant about this!)

Please oh pleeeeeease tell me Gene Hunt did something just like this, because I will be laughing forever and a DAY, Write.

[varadia]

Raven has Adobebutt, courtesy of Ace, 'stupid bird' and several variants thanks to Coyote, and if I remember correctly (my god it has been a long time) niao from Mal.

X-23 has X as a nickname, and her chosen mode of address. Some people have been grandfathered in at calling her Laura (grandfathered from before she had a preference, in part), and both Lilly and Constantine can (and do) call her Joe. Yeah.

Dean really has no nicknames. He is not sorry about that.

Galadan is sometimes Gideon Wolfe, but that's an alias in Edwardian England more than it is a nickname. So.

Sam Tyler gets called Gladys a lot. And unless I have totally misremembered, Dorothy, too. It fills him with joy each and every time. *solemn*

I do not think the rest of mine have nicknames. Michael, for one, would not stand for it.

[jothra]

Michael definitely needs a nickname. *_*

[withherhands]

I'm kind of debating whether Jack's legal name is actually "John", as I can't remember whether we've actually seen, say, Jack's drivers' license on screen and I think he might go by Jack so much that even his CTU files would be indexed under that name.

He doesn't really have any nicknames, though people sometimes call him by his last name (usually when they're not happy with him).

He usually has more aliases than nicknames. :) Currently he's sometimes using the name "William Dempsey" as an alias, which gives him a few nickname possibilities.

[sardonicynic]

Um!

For all the nicknaming Ben Wade tends toward, he's just typically Ben. (Though Fira gets a lifetime pass with "Venya.")

Gina Cowell is Gina, through and through, and she will cut you if you ever call her Regina. She hates any and all uses of her full first name. Richard Castle probably has some, ah, choice pet names for Gina, especially when she's needling him (again) for missing deadlines (again).

Kate Warner's given name is Katherine, but she's Kate to everyone who meets her. Bill Pardy teases her with "Blondie" sometimes, because she made the mistake of admitting she was good-naturedly annoyed by that moniker in high school. (In private, Kate pretty much melts anytime Bill calls her darlin'.) Her family occasionally calls her Katie; she'll never live down "Katie-Beff," which is what her little sister, Marie, called her before Marie could produce the th sound in Beth. It stuck throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, much to Kate's chagrin.

Mary Morstan is proper as you please, so she's Miss Morstan to her charges and contemporaries. Before his death, her fiancé used to lovingly tease her with "Hail Mary, full of grace," and sometimes just "Grace," for short. She has no nickname now, but a certain Dr. John Watson may change that. (Which, b'aww.)

Raylan Givens is synonymous with "marshal;" he answers to both. (He's called "Ray-Ray" by a fellow marshal he once worked with in Texas, when they run into each other out in L.A. in "Long in the Tooth." This tickles me to no end, and Rachel witnesses it. I'm still waiting for her to pull that out of her back pocket at some point.) Art Mullen has also referred to Raylan as the Hillbilly Whisperer. To which I say: bwah.

[dynastessa]

Albus Potter's full name is Albus Severus Potter. It is a mouthful. There is also a lot of pressure on him with a name like that.

He mostly goes by 'Albus'. I tried to see if he'd take to people calling him 'Al' like they seem to in canon, but he actually doesn't like it very much! Not that he'd ever say that aloud.

Annabeth Chase is Annabeth's full name. If she has a middlename, I don't know it. She goes by Annabeth - not Anna, not Beth, not AB, nothing like that. As far as nicknames go, Percy calls her 'Wise Girl'; he's also called her 'Owlhead' once, which she didn't take kindly to. She's also been called 'Princess' before, by one Clarisse LaRue.

Rory Williams has collected a number of nicknames over the years (and so so so many of them delight me): Mr Pond (or Rory Pond), The Boy Who Waited, The Last Centurion, Roranicus Pondicus, Rory the Roman, The Nose (to go with The Legs, and Mrs Robinson), 'Stupid Face', The Pretty One aaaaand Idiot.

Um. Calling him Rory is just fine, though.

Nathaniel goes by his Given Name 'John Mandrake' (or Mr Mandrake, for formality's sake), which was bestowed upon him when he became ~of age~ as a magician. His actual name, Nathaniel, is his birth name and anyone who gets a hold of that knowledge will be at a great advantage back in his world. Particularly if you're a spirit from the Other Place. Names mean power in Nat's world.

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Aegnor
Aikanaro - The Fell Fire - The Sharp Flame
Champion of Doom (Ambarato)

His friends can call him Aggie and his sister calls him Aika.

[misslucyjane]

jack_inthegreen's list of names is all nicknames, really, or convenient handles. His children have all sorts of nicknames, as he is a firm believer in the proverb, "Beloved is the child that has many names."

firstcptjack: Jack is a nickname for John, and I think it's at least my head!canon, if not Millicanon, that he's actually named John and called Jack, because his father was named John as well.

Call likesthecoat "Yan" and he will hurt you. Or deny you his coffee. Constantine used to call him "bright eyes", which he liked.

dragonsemrys is just called Merlin, though the Druids (and other supernatural beings as well, I think--time for canon review!) call him Emrys, but that's basically his name in Welsh.

seesomemore just goes by John, or Dr. Watson if people are being polite. (Mycroft just calls him that, IIRC.) I would bet Harry has something embarrassing that only she gets to call him.

The new kid, jimfrom_i_t, goes by Jim, at least when he's Jim From IT. I can easily see him answering to James, though not Jamie or Jimmy so much. Of course, most people just call him Moriarty, in rather hushed and frightened tones. He's like Voldemort that way.

luckytohaveme...time for canon review for him, too, because I can't think of what people call him aside from his name and the occasional insult.

My newly-apped kid only goes by his last name in canon. I can't imagine anyone calling him by his first, but that may change.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

She-Hulk has a few sobriquets: Shulkie, Big Green, Greenie, Greenjeans, Greenie Greenjeans, the Big Green Lawyering Machine, the Jade Giantess, Hey You With the Fabulous Rack, etc.

None of my other pups have nicknames although less imaginative people will call Hawkgirl "Wings" or "the Winged Barbarianette."

Actually, Siryn does have two nicknames: Red, and Jimmy Proudstar and Wade Wilson both call her "Beautiful."

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Meg's given name is Meghan, but she never really uses it any more (except when she's annoyed with herself, at which point she'll address herself that way in her thoughts). Alain tends to call her ma belle and she has a couple of childhood nicknames -- Megs from Kim and only Kim, Megkin (a meshing of Meghan and munchkin) from her father and only her father. And Edward Cullen seems to call her -- or at least think of her as -- "Little Miss Meg Ford from Canada," though I don't think Meg is really aware of that fact.

Mostly, though, it's just Meg. And she's good with that.

A couple of my others have had nicknames -- Amy is a nickname for Amethyst and Perry calls her "kitchen maid," Angela is "Ange" to Brennan and "Angie" to Hodgins. I've seen various theories that Anna's name is really Anael, but since she was only ever called "Anna" on screen, and as we've also met angels with names like Zachariah and Rachel, I've always just gone with "Anna."

And Castiel used to come up with some fabulous names for Verity, my favorite of which remains "Spawn of Perdition." Michael generally went with the far simpler "demon" or "creature."

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Nikola generally goes by Nikola to people who actually like him, Tesla to those who don't, and some sort of nickname to people in between. Actually, he prefers the nicknames. One good way to earn his respect is to use a nickname on him. Some notable ones are Skinny, Sparky, Vlad, and later in canon The Magnet (as in "Magnus and the Magnet"). Historical Tesla went by Niko among family at least when he was younger, but he doesn't get that from anyone anymore, and I'd imagine he wouldn't take kindly to it. Yrael calls him kiddo, which he likes if only for the novelty.

Lorne goes by Lorne primarily because he didn't have a canon first name for so long. He was always Lorne or Major. He's used to it by now, so it's weird to him when people call him Evan. He likes it when Jack does, though.

Bertie goes by Bertie because Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is quite the mouthful. Compared to most of his friends, he got of easy in the nickname world.

Tolkien almost always goes by John or The Caretaker. Every time someone calls him The Caretaker he feels inadequate, though. The badgers call him Scowler John, which makes him secretly smile.

Posner is Posner's nickname, sort of. It's his last name. Pretty much all the boys in canon go by their last name, though all of the other boys get called by their first name at least once by the other boys. Posner only gets called David by his parents. I suspect when he goes to Oxford that will change. Scripps calls him Pos, and I'd bet some of the other boys do on occasion as well. He likes it because it makes him feel included, which he so rarely does.

Teyla and Hatter don't really have nicknames at all.

Lucifer has titles rather than nicknames. In fact, Lucifer is a title. He gave up his real name (Samael) when he left heaven. He gets called Lightbringer and Morningstar most often, though every culture has a different name for him. He really doesn't care what you call him as long as you don't call him late for dinner Samael.

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Oh, and Orpheus! Who also doesn't really have a nickname, though he does have some epithets. (Silver-tongued and other things of that nature.) I did once play him with someone who insisted on calling him Or. I maintain that's not a nickname, it's a conjunction.

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Rue's name is short enough that she doesn't really require a nickname. I'm sure her family members had their pet names for her, but I'm still working out her pre-HG head-canon so nothing's come to me yet.

Lily Luna was named after her late maternal grandmother, Lily Evans Potter, and her parents' friend Luna Lovegood. Friends and family normally call her "Lily", with a tendency to shorten it to "Lil" every so often.

Dani Phantom's legal name since coming to live in Amity Park is Danielle Fenton, although originally it could be said to have been Danielle Masters since Vlad Masters created her (she really rather it not be said, though). Basically her first name is the feminine version of Danny Fenton/Phantom being that she's his clone and all.

She almost always goes by Dani, "with an i" as she always emphasizes.

John Munch commonly goes by his last name as far as his friends at work go. It's rare that they call him "John". It's unknown what his friends outside of work call him or if he even has any friends outside of work. His former colleagues from Baltimore sometimes refer to him as "the Munchkin", a moniker that has yet to make it to Manhattan.

Timothy Speedle is usually Tim or Speed to those who know him. Only Alexx can get away with calling him "Timmy".

Rennes is the man's last name; canon never gave him a first and he's not telling me anything. He has been called, among other things, "The Wren" and "The Bird of Attica" as his claim to fame is "flying the coop" on seven major prisons. Worth also called him "The Wrenster", but that was after he died and Rennes is probably better off not knowing about that one anyway.

Klara Prast has Wildweed, Rose Red and Tower of Flower as unofficial codenames, thanks to Molly Hayes, but the chances of those actually being used are probably very slim.

Molly Walker is Molly to all in America who know her, and Ujala to her adoptive grandmother and acquaintances in Chennai. While she was in the custody of the Company she was referred to as "the Walker System".

Malu, during her lifetime, became known as the "Ghost Witch" to the Fire Nation soldiers due to her using Airbending tricks to keep them away from her home.

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Ben is, among many more I am sure, the ever lovin' blue-eyed Thing, Aunt Petunia's favorite nephew, the idol of millions, The Ben, and Savior of the Universe. He mostly goes by Ben nowadays, the Thing came about when Susan saw him post-transformation and said "Ben's turned into some sort...of...thing" or something like that. The only people who get to call him Benjamin are his Uncle Jake, Aunt Petunia, Reed's dad and Aunt May (though I'm not sure is they've even met in canon, I just know she would get to use his full name). I do wonder what his call sign was when he was a pilot though. I'll have to reread Before teh Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan to see if it's mentioned.

Ult. Ben is just Ben. His canon hasn't officially declared names for them but they've joked about him being the Asbestos Man as he's pretty immune to fire among other things. In high school football he was called The Grimm Reaper.

Jessica Drew is always Jessica or Spider-Woman, though recent milli-canon with She-Hulk has given her the nickname of Jess.

Valeria von Doom is Val and only Val unless she's in trouble or being formal.

Julie finster is currently either Julie or flying girl. She will eventually become 84.

Artemus Gordon is just Arty though he does have many aliases.

I can't think of any nicknames Rincewind might have though I am sure there are many choice titles he's picked up.

Thalia is just Thalia and if you call her Pinecone face she will blast you with lightening.

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I'm glad you liked this DE though I forgot to mention that in Milliways' circles I'm also Fi. That wasn't a nickname I expected but it connects with my AIM screen name and inspired the one I use on Archive of our Own, FiKate. Today has been long. I didn't get lunch before class and I think I didn't sleep well. Though on my way home I found some good books really cheap.

Will's full name is William, he's named after William the Conqueror but he's always been Will. Sometimes he's Scarlett and he's one of those who has been called a lot of horrible things that aren't really nicknames.

Sameth gets called Sam and Sameth in canon, Yrael refers to him as princeling a lot, which he hates. I have no idea where his name came from as its never explained in canon.

Moist von Lipwig hates his name and uses aliases all the time. His main name in Bar is Alfred Spangler, Claudia calls him Al, Clem can never remember his name and Urquhart knows his real name and likes it. In terms of aliases, he tends towards simple names.

Jane is just Jane, she doesn't seem to have any nicknames and is pleased with her name.

William seems to go by William in canon, I think of him as William to keep him separate from Will in my head. So far he's yet to pick up any nicknames in Milliways but I can see that changing.

Demeter as a goddess has a variety of titles but none of them are exactly names. I refer to her as Dem but in Milliways only Malcolm actually calls her that.

Tumnus is called Mister Tumnus by Lucy in canon, which he likes since its her way of naming him. That's really the only one he has.

The Pirate King's name is one he chose and took upon himself. He does have a real name but that's not who he is now.

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I still love that Clem can't remember Moist's name. It kills me.