Day 30: Middle Names

Names are interesting things. We don’t choose our own names, for the most part… we’re stuck with what our parents chose.

I’m utterly ambivalent towards my name; I don’t know what that says about how I see myself!

I used to get teased at school: Vicky the Viking (there was a cartoon in the 1980s), Sticky Vicky… and now it often gets shortened to Vic, which I HATE AND LOATHE, because Vic is a greasy middle-aged dude in a string vest.

Victoria is for when I’m in trouble. And Vicky is just a bit… insipid.

(If you’re reading this and your name is Vicky or Victoria, this is no reflection on you and your name. This is about me, so don’t @ me.)

It’d be cool to have a splendid middle name to use instead, but… my middle name is:

Jayne.

Which is about as basic as you can get. There’s a little added glitter with the extra Y, I’ll grant you, but… meh.

Which is why I’m deeply envious of Joe’s middle name, which is Duthac.

I know right? Literally nobody else has that name except St Duthac and he died about a thousand years ago. Big ups for Catholic naming conventions, you end up with the weird ones.

I’m trying to persuade Joe that we should both choose a new surname to share, and that we should combine our surnames to become—wait for it—

QUASER!

I mean this is a plan with NO drawbacks, why would anyone not want a name like Quaser, and if you could write to him in support of this idea that’d be great kthxbye.

Now over to you: what does the prompt “middle names” get you thinking about?

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Happy writing!

TTFN,

Vicky

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