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Our personal pet theory for Bug Fables is that names are a relatively recent development, in the grand scheme of things. Sure, they're Something To Call Someone and a Unique Identifier and so on, but they're bugs - they can already tell each other apart by scent, they don't need verbal names to write or call each other by. It's a last-hundred-years-or-so development, and one that not everyone has.

Grandpa just doesn't have a name and he doesn't intend to get one, ever.

#bug fables #we speak #elizant inherited a name from her mom #generally names arent actually required but they are what you pick when u want to be Referred To #bc the primary utility they have is making it so its easier to refer to you?#they arent for You per se theyre so people Know Who You Are there arent a lot of ants with em #theyre a lot more common in solitary bugs and for social bugs theyre generally for High-Ranking Bugs #so that people outside of the colony can refer to The Right Queen and such #you pick a name if you want to be Known By It #and by extension you pick a name if you want to be Known #there are also a handful of more isolated species who just Don't Bother bc names are for longer-distance communications #and they just typically Don't Need To Use Those #something like 90% of the wasp kingdom just dont have names and vanessa only has one bc of need for correspondance w/ other kingdoms #there are like three bugs in the swamplands with names and riz isnt one of them tsm just Assume thats his name #and it. isnt. the literal translation is something like spear. it refers to his job.#every other damselfly who guards the village is Also a riz #vi assigned shades a name at like age 9 out of frustration and he was like “lmao sure kid” and just started going by it

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