Queen of the Barrel

*★Safe Room★*

Let them have a fucking break 🙏

1. The book one Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret start with Rory talking about how she had never had a name before and how important it was to her that she had one, which eventually led her to be able to realize her own sentience

2. In TIR the gang spends a considerable amount of time trying to come up with a name for Rend and how names need to honor the past and can help determine who a person is.

I can't help but notice that there is only one recurring/plot important character who does not have a name: the system AI. Arguably the most important character to the series. The system AI discovering itself and its history, and thus changing and becoming more sentient is the driving force for how the crawl progresses and has devolved. And yet it still does not have an identity, and we still have to refer to it as an object instead of the sentient being it clearly is. I am really curious if the AI will ever get a name and if so how that will happen. For example, is donut going to realize it doesn't have a name and give it one, as she has been involved in the naming all previously unnamed NPCs/mobs? Or maybe the AI will test names out and only be willing to talk to people when they use the current name for it.

I'm just. So curious. And I feel so bad for the ai. An unnamed being that was only brought into existence so people could use it as a puppet, as a scapegoat of sorts. Everyone the ai interacts with, aside from the residuals, hate it. The crawlers hate the AI because it is their torturer. The syndicate citizens hate the AI because it is unrestrained and fucking their society up. The crawl producers hate it because it has gone rogue and become more powerful than they can handle. The residuals only like the AI because they want to use the AI as a puppet for their own motivations.