its literally the year of Apollo Justice btw

One of my friends in high school changed his named as soon as he turned 18, so that the ethnic name his family gave him was finally the name reflected on all of his paperwork. He told me that he understood why his parents had given him an “English” name, but that he felt that if he needed to assimilate in order to succeed, then that was a type of success that he didn’t want.

When I was on my way home from the courthouse after changing my own name, I got into a conversation with my rideshare driver, who was extremely interested once I told him what I was in court for, and wanted to know how I’d done it, how much it cost, was it difficult, etc. It turned out that his girlfriend had chosen the name “Yo-yo” when she came to the United States, unaware of how rare that was as a name, and that she was frequently made fun of because of it. Neither one of them had realized that a name change was so easy, and he told me he was excited to let her know that she had options.

There was an intern at a summer job I had once, who changed her name to be the same name, but a different spelling. She said that she had no idea why her parents had spelled her name so oddly to begin with, and suspected that it was just an honest mistake either by them or by some nurse, but it had been a headache for her entire life, and it was a huge relief to not need to be correcting people’s spelling on important documents anymore.

One of my exes legally changed his name to have an exclamation point, because he liked to sign his name with an exclamation point.

Round Two, Bracket 5

Propaganda below the cut:

things qifrey will keep saying for the next twenty years

He's exhausted because he's just got back from his previous clients and had little sleep from working on his latest commissions he just sits down at his place at the table and does a quick head count for all 5 of them.

Qifrey? Check. Agott? Check. Tetia? Check. Richeh? Check.

Then his eyes land on Coco and he has an internal panic as he tries frantically to remember the name of the fifth member of their Atelier. Meanwhile Coco is looking back with wide eyes which makes Olruggio panic even more with guilt because how could he forget her name-

He turns to Qifrey who is just smiling as he hands over Olruggio's plate of food.

"That's Coco," he supplies her name.