#ONLY NO HER NAME IS RAJANI BELLADONNA NOW AND YOU'LL HAVE TO LIKE IT

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For Antares, why is Blake's mom using a different name?

I finally have the time to answer this, so first of all, hope you're enjoying Antares, I'm currently in a writing haze for it to make up for lost time from my uni semester. There will be more!

And to answer your question, the easy answer is that I've changed Blake's mom to basically be a different character with a different allusion. Ghira Belladonna has graciously handed his 'Bagheera' allusion to his wife, and has now taken on the allusion of Tybalt, Prince of Cats, from the tales of Reynard the Fox (famously referenced as a moniker for Tybalt in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet).

Blake's mom in Antares, Mrs. Rajani Belladonna, fills a much different role to in the show, as Blake's storyline has changed in a few key ways as well.

The other answer, and what inspired the name change in, is because of an illuminating conversation with my friends where I found out that Kali, and similar words, while a Hindu goddess of destruction, is also a slur when referring to people, especially based on skin colour. And if you don't believe me, it's on wikipedia's list of slurs.

So, that's my reasoning for changing Blake's mom's name to Rajani, as it takes out the Actual Slur and also, since Rajani is an entirely different character pretty much compared to Show!Kali, I feel like it's a good differentation.