Someone smarter then me probably will or even already done post about it, but
Names, renaming and choosing your own name in tlt as a sign of power
It first hit me when in htn har and ianthe were calling eachother by house's names as a treat
Houses are close to nations in culture sense, and stripping them out of it and forcing into the white and shiny First House is something of colonization
(Yes, native Australian kids forced to change their names to European and socialized without their culture or language, yes, thousand times yes it is)
John done this with all his resurrection
He wiped memory of everyone, and change their names to fit into his greek-roman fantasy, even his "friends".
I don't think you actually love people if you destroy their entire personality so they wouldn't be angry at you
(Sorry, I have a memory problem, sometimes I forget years of my life. This hits very close to home)
Renaming is the sign of how he destroyed culture of all earth to make his new colonial utopia
Kiriona Gaia. Name that Gideon doesn't like and don't even react to it.
Stripping her of her ninth past (nav) and all that complicated story of her birth (Gideon), making and ideal (and dead) emperor's daughter
After jod ate solar system, he renamed every part of it including the sun.
You know, how colonizers rename stolen land, rename rivers
Earth was the planet of humankind
First house is the planet of Jod, and only him
This is exclusive ownership
But we have different way
Self-naming with the cultural context is (self)liberating way
Self-naming as a statement that you are more then sum of your parts, not combination of pal and cam, but someone new
There is of course trans analogy, like choosing your own name is a liberating act that bigots hate
