Anonymous Coward · 3mo
is "higsby" claire's real last name or did she change it sometime between leaving brightport and arriving to greenridge?, since you said that "higsby" comes from a megaman game, wouldn't it make sense for claire to do that?, i think that if i disliked my parents enough to move away the instant i could i also wouldn't keep their last name and would instead change it to something from a something i like
Undecided currently. I lean towards it being her actual family name just because that's simpler, but it would be understandable for her to change it given the trajectory of her life. This is one of those things I've left up in the air based on what I want to do in future stories
I will say, though, that just because her last name was arbitrarily taken from a fictional character IRL doesn't mean the same is true within the story. Mega Man Battle Network doesn't exist on Reverie for obvious reasons, and I don't think Claire would intentionally name herself after the nerdy guy who runs the battle chip shop in those games (and is also a reformed cyberterrorist/occasional ally of the player/etc.). That isn't something she would resonate with her. It's just the result of me needing last names for the Novas and going "hey, this might be kinda funny" and liking the way it sounded
