Jun 19
phantom deciding on their name after hornet uses it as a term of address but having it only Really click for them after lace calls them that for the first time (gets pulled up into the sky by aliens and you never see me again)
#silksong spoilers#technically#its one thing to me like “oh damn that sounds cool... that should be my name actually”#and another when your baby sister. one of the only people who has ever been in your corner#the only family you have left. debatably the only PERSON you have left#the same person who knew them at their worst. the same person who knew them in their fledgling state. pre-metamorphisis#having her look them in the eyes and call them phantom#yeag...#i think a lot about phantom's pronouns and phantom's NAME being rejected at different points of their life#with the pronouns going away first#and so by the time phantom gets rid of the name. they don't have anything to replace it with...#lace tries to make suggestions but they're all kind of ass. sorry lace but they're bad...#but she never calls them their 'birth'name again. simply sibling#something something. lace when she contextualizes them as a tether to herself#lace when at the end of the day- no matter what they look like or sound like or what they are called-#the one thing that will always stay the same is that they are kin. siblings. family.#and phantom when they are reduced to their bare elements... but this- at least- is something they still have.#family. connection. understanding. they may be less than a bug. a brittle bundle of rotting silk.#but beneath all of that they are lace's sibling. her family. her kin.#and that is not something mother could take away. and that is not something that rots with age or rusts or frays.#and that is something that remains. even if they themself do not.
