Hey I bet I can spell out your name with just 2 letters, I bet you were expecting KT but you are also a QT
They..don’t understand. What he said was, in fact, how they were expected to spell their “name,” but the latter..QT, was not. Just as they don’t understand the reasoning in the few gods that preferred to call them “Katie” over “KT” due to some..lack of association in the former -- they only know that “KT” ( or rather, the full imposed title ) made their friends upset. They don’t see what meaning “QT” could have in regards to them.
A few of the whispers they’ve come to understand as their collective “one” mind discuss it, landing on the idea that perhaps it, too, was meant to be a shorthand version of a larger word -- cutie. It made sense, if they thought about it. He was known for making puns wherever possible. That still isn’t their “name,” but..in that context, they supposed...
Dull purple-tinged fingers reach to brush && then cup the god’s face in their hands, eyes owlish as they silently stare -- distant, perhaps thinking or deciding.. They debate with themself, as seconds && minutes pass. They don’t consider at any point that this could be strange, but at the very least, their “guard” was likely used to them zoning out, like this. Finally, they seem to come to some form of a decision, && they speak -- whispered, spoken, hissed, -- all of them at once, at differing volumes && pitches. This, too, was likely normal, by now.
“ We..think we understand. We do not know, for certain. We assume..you are being nice, though.. Thank you. ”