I was referring to a lot of my characters as bastards/little bastards affectionately, and when my buddy dropped the character that became my sona On Contact, I joked that it was tempting to just call him Bastard because of that habit.

Then, I kept calling him "the VHS bastard" while trying to name him, and Bastard just stuck. Then I just absorbed it a week or so after, because I wasn't vibing as much with people I wasn't close with using the chosen name prior. May as well just grab the name I was already attached to the guy I was using as my online face, right?

Very few people have privileges to call me my prior name now, I consider Bastard my name, and the other one for ther sake of the post office doesn't raid my parcels lol.

(But if you're reading this and you DO know me like that, OG name is fine <3)