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The characters Sollux is closest to are the ones to whom he can most easily apply a doubled-letter nickname: aa, ff, kk.

Except Terezi, who gets an exception because she is also blue-and-red themed.

Conversation with a nun today.

Her: *ends phone conversation with her adult son* He has this whole drama going on, he borrowed some money from the monastery, and he keeps calling me.

Me: Uh-oh.

Her: Yeah. But the good thing is, I took my final vows? So I gave up all my worldly possessions - not that I had many! - so now I can't lend him any money, obviously. It's like it's not my job to be the mom anymore! I get to just send him to the prioress.

Me: You have found a way to retire from mom-ery. You hacked the system.

Her: Yeah! It's pretty great.

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( Cut for dietary fretting. )

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There are three nuns with the same first name embedded in the local Irascible Poverty Activists community. They've solved the problem by being Sister Name, Sister Shortened-Name, and Sister Initials.

Sister Initials is the one I was talking to today; she commented to me that, because both she and Sister Name were extremely combative personalities (they are), she'd decided to step away from certain projects that they were both involved in, in order to minimize "danger to by-standers."

I can't now help but imagine her ducking out of some kind of awkward Appellation Confrontation before it got ugly, allowing Sister Name to become the dominant nun in this arena.