Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24993958-20160209135716/@comment-24993958-20160217171157

Wow I’d hate to end up as your kid right now…your logic sounds all fine and dandy for Jaune and Ruby, but what about the kid? If you want to play the “it makes sense in Remnant” card, let me explain to you in one word why your idea is bull.

Individuality. I have 2 names, one my mother gave me out of her favorite character from a book, another from my godfathers great grandfather that they insisted I get out of respect for him…I barely acknowledge my second name unless I am introducing myself and have always insisted on people never using my second name when addressing me. Why? Well of the top of my list: cause I’m not my godfathers great grandparents, cause I don’t want to be him when I can be me…but most important of all, cause the first name was given to me out of love, while the second one was given to me out of love for someone else ….maybe that’s not objectively true, but it’s true for me, and it can be true for the kid you are treating like some slab of meat Jaune and Ruby can shove their regrets and gratefulness on. Naming their kid Pyrrha does nothing but take away his individuality, as the kid stops being herself, and becomes a mirror they will use to compare Pyrrha. I’d frown if this was done in real life and it’s doubly disrespectful in Remnant, a universe that EMPHATHISES individuality, a person’s right to stand on his own and make his own choices. In their child’s place I’d change my name the first chance I got. Try and tell her all you want about how important Pyrrha was to the world, but for her that name will be nothing but a burden and a weight she will carry on her shoulders, as every, single, action, she will take will get compared to Pyrrha, either by her, her parents, or the rest of the world.

So to summarize, for the love of everything good in this world, if you have a kid, name him after something that will make you love the kid more, not something that will make you love somebody else more.