It's all in a name

by DivinesTheWater

A Duck thinks about how he and his friend lost the one thing that identifies each person from the other. There names. Um, I was tired when I wrote this, be nice.

I don't own the Ducks, big surprise there.

I don't know exactly when I stopped being Adam. I can't pinpoint the day I became Cake-Eater, then Banks, or lastly Banksie. I hate those names, but I don't say anything. Why ruin the mildly insulting base of the friendships I share with the Ducks? They think changing someone's name makes them more part of the team, I can't say I agree.

Fulton has it equally as bad, his last name seems to have disappeared. Maybe it went to the same land of no return as my first. Fulton Fulton and Banks Banks. I wonder if in another place and time he'd be Reed and I'd be Adam. Poor Fulton, doesn't eve have his last name on the back of his jersey like the rest of us. I wonder how that makes his family feel.

Averman pretty bad as well though, I think even most of the staff at Eden doesn't know his name is actually Lester. A lot of the time teachers either refer to him as Mr. Averman, or redheaded boy in the back. The latter still confuses me though because he never shuts up in class, you'd assume everyone that's every been in the same room as him would know his name.

Dwayne unfortunately has it the worst of all of us. While have still maintained at least part of our names, he's been renamed 'Cowboy'. The poor kid has been labeled solely as what he does for a living. So his parents own a ranch, that doesn't mean all there is to him is a ten gallon hat and leather boots.

Lastly we have Connie and Guy, Guy and Connie. They're unlucky in the fact their names have become one word. It's at the point now that you simply run the names together like a contraction. I know that bothers them, especially on the occasion once every two months when they break up for a week. They're not the same person, they need their own identity.

It angers me sometimes that Julie gets to have a nickname and maintain her own name. No-one just calls her 'The Cat'. Why? Because they respect her. That and because Julie, wouldn't stand for it the way we do. She demands to be known and treated with dignity.

I want to be Adam again. I miss it. I want the respect and the definition having your own name gives you. I want my identity back. It's not fair that I should have to give that up, just to fit in with the team. You know they say a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, I just don't agree.