'Namesake'

[Shauna]

Is it just me or wouldn't it be brilliant to give your child your own name just so you could blithely call them 'namesake'?

[Khrystahl]

well idk it would be very tough

[Carrie]

For me "Namesake" seemed more of a term of endearment. If I was called namesake I would be happy because I would know that I would be the only one he would call that name. Where as there are more than one Daniel, or Carrie. I think it would be a great nickname.

[Aestas Book Blog]

ya I think that 'namesake' only works in cases where a highly unusual name gets passed down - usually from tradition...

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Highly unusual... yep u could say that spartan daemon is an unusual name;) but I think it all depends on who ur talking about I mean I would hate to be called junior ( can u imagine daemon being called junior?) but namesake is fine for me

[Jeni]

Well, I've known women that name their daughters with their name and call them Junior, which has a tradition of being a male reference. I'm not a fan.

Other traditions I know of are passing firstborn's middle name to the firstborn's firstborn (say that five times fast!), or middle names that combine both grandmother's or grandfather's first names. Those names come out unusual, but with special meanings.

I don't think I'd care to be referenced as "Namesake" except on rare occasions when the conversation is fun and lighthearted. I like being me.

My two cents :)

[[deleted user]]

Yep something's only work out on paper but they fit there!

[Whitney]

Namesake? That's like calling someone Child, Husband, Wife, Sibling... It just sounds kind of ignorant. I don't know. I would much prefer a cute nickname.

[Scott]

The names and affectations in this book drove me absolutely nuts.

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nah i liked it they sort (in my head) made the chracter real-er than if she had used different descriptions each time

[Amanda]

Whitney wrote: "Namesake? That's like calling someone Child, Husband, Wife, Sibling... It just sounds kind of ignorant. I don't know. I would much prefer a cute nickname."

The father of one of my friends would do this, frequently calling her "Daughter", and his wife, "Wife". He was heavily involved in a medieval re-enactment society, and I can see that type of phrasing fitting for those events. In an everyday, modern context, I thought it just sounded incredibly awkward, formal, and/or pretentious.

I think "Namesake" generally works in the Black Jewels Trilogy because the society is more formal and Saetan and Daemon relationship with each other is still new and developing, so a slightly formal nickname seems to fit. Additionally, Saetan himself is ~50,000 years old, so his use of "Namesake", could be a relic of his own antiquity.