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How Blu got his name

It was his big sister, Gren, who named him really. When he was born, she started calling him Boo, after the Monsters, Inc. character. One time she slipped and added the L. Rubia made fun of her, so Gren got mad and stubbornly stuck to calling him Blu from then on. The name just stuck.

As he got older, he decided to stick with the Trollish tradition of a single simple name. Li Blu sounded too sing-song-y for him. As for Blu Li, well, as he put it, "Really, fucken?"

The reason why his sister's nickname stuck had a great deal to do with his parents not being able to decide on a name in time. Jong had convinced Gunna to go with the Heldannic tradition of naming a child after someone else, such as an ancestor. Jong liked the name of Gunna's great-grandfather, Tor. Actually, he rather liked Zor, Gunna's grandmother, but that wasn't going to fly. Besides, Tor was coincidentally a Heldannic name. The baby would fit right in up north, and it would appease Jong's mother.

Gunna however, preferred Aghi, after Jong's famous ancestor Aghi Yacobson. That would certainly please Jong's mom, as she styles herself Illysha Aghisblood. It's a strong name, from a strong ancestor. During one of their transtemporal jaunts, Gunna and Jong met that famous warchieftan of ages past. He was well known for his battle-prowess against Trolls. Needless to say, he didn't have many kind words for our little technomancer.

Jong was prepared for his famous ancestor to be disappointed in him. He wasn't prepared to be so disappointed in his great-grandfather. Gunna has suffered racist idiots her whole life; Aghi's comments didn't even register. She still thought that his name would be the better one for her and Jong's son. Aghi was interesting to her, if abrasive, and Jong certainly took after his great-grandfather, at least physically. Jong could handle Aghi's disapproval over siring children with a Troll. He couldn't tolerate Aghi's comments towards said Troll, however. Jong was ready to kill him. It was only because Aghi had not yet met Faegi Khansdottir that Jong let him live. This first meeting, incidentally, was a drunken post-battle one night stand. Faegi was one of many different women that Aghi knocked up. No, not a good man at all, but a strong one, with a storied life.

So, while the parents argued over which ancestor they were going to honour with their child's name, the nickname just sort of stuck.