Gay robit

Canonically, the reason why no-one ever uses the twin's original names is because no-one knows what they are, not even the twins themselves (they have sporadic memory-loss as a result of Gero's experiments, and Krillin finding their names written down in the lab is solely a TFS thing) so I imagine 18's relationship with her name is mostly one of grief and loss and bitterness, over a name she'll never know and wouldn't even recognise if she heard it thrown her way.

I do wonder if anyone's ever suggested that they just choose new names for themselves, and why they've never done that... maybe they don't want to have any names unless it can be the long-forgotten ones that used to belong to them, a piece of their humanity that they'll never get back... although, surely they could summon Shenron and wish for their memories back, but would they want them? To know of everything they've lost, everything that was taken from them? Maybe trying to rediscover their names would be like opening a whole can-of-worms of their trauma that neither of them wants anything to do with. Maybe you're right and they feel non-human enough that they don't think they deserve names anymore or are simply uncomfortable going by them.

Thankfully, sweethearts like Krillin and Gohan are especially insistent on adding enough honorifics to 17 and 18, to humanise them, that being referred to simply by a number never feels particularly degrading, and maybe they're happy enough with that. Maybe they don't really care what they're called, it's enough to just feel loved and respected and welcomed into this weird little family of outcasts.

The suno17 miniserie is almost finished, the playlist is at the end of this post :D