blinded by light.

ϟ ░┊ A few headcanons involving names:

“ Lightning ” is a replacement for her whole birth name, not just her first ( i.e. she would never call herself Lightning Farron. It’s either Lightning or Claire Farron. ) But neither she or I, the mun, will ever correct you on this if used in a thread since it’s easily confused.

In post-xiii and post-lr verses, being called her birth name doesn’t bother her anymore, but she still strongly prefers to go by Lightning and keep her birth name private. 

ONLY a few people she’s very close with can get away with calling her Claire, and only once in a while / on special occasions.

When she absolutely HAS to sign her legal name, she always signs it C. Farron.

She hasn’t legally changed her name and has no plans to. It feels disrespectful to her late parents, who only ever knew her as Claire.

It’s already hurting enough, so he only gives a small chuckle towards the fact that she says it might hurt a little. He could handle a little bit of pain, the star scourge was already a burden he had to bare – this was nothing compared to that. 

“Nah.” At least, not any external injuries. But he didn’t think he could explain the other kind of pain he was going through. “It’s just my leg.” His mistake is trying to adjust how he was sitting as he was saying this, and wincing at the spike of pain. Yeah, Yeah it hurt more than just a little. “sorry to bother you with all this.”

     He winces, and she can’t help but freeze up for a half-second, worried it had been one of her own movements that caused him pain. “ Easy, ” she repeats, gently placing one hand on his shoulder. “ Just try and stay still, alright ? This will only take a minute. ”