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"So," says Juliet. "Nicknames. Many of you are nigh-indistinguishable - at least to those of us who aren't Sherlocks - and not having different names doesn't help."

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"It's the Sherlocks who seem to vary," says one of same. "Vampire, different vampire, human, different human, and then..." he waves a hand vaguely at Strat, "you. The attached Tonies are not so easily distinguished."

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Shell Bell clearly has a favorite Sherlock. There may be some leaning and gazing going on between moments when she's not addressing the group.

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"Whistles usually just get outright named by their attached Bells, but half of you don't have attached Bells," says Juliet. "Besides, I can't think of anything good."

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"Yes," says Sherlock, patting Bell fondly on the shoulder, "that is the trouble. No one can think of anything good."

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"Oh, I don't know," says another Sherlock. "'Plus and Minus' wasn't bad. But the rest of you can't describe yourselves easily by your formative soul status."

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"And three of the sets come from eerily similar worlds, so there's no playing on that theme. And I don't think my Sherlock and Tony want to pick up on any of the titles the media invented for them."

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"I'm beginning to see why Jarvis was so tempted to just outright number the eerily similar worlds."

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"Let's all take a moment to be thankful that we don't have to assign distinguishing nicknames to the Jarvises."

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"Unless at least two of them start being capable of showing up to parties and getting mixed up, yeah," says Juliet, "not a priority."

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"How did you settle on 'Strat'?" Shell Bell asks Strat.

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"A friend gave it to me, after the guitar." He snorts. "Yes, there's a plan: let's all give ourselves Downsider nicknames."

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Shell Bell shrugs minutely. "They do have a certain aesthetic to them. Although I think I would have kept Bell instead of Shell if it hadn't been for my special circumstances."

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"...Those being...?"

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"I knew - well, strongly suspected - that my Sherlock had resurrected me. So Shell decided that she was Shell and the live one was Bell. Now I'm both again, of course."

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"I see."

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"Maybe insofar as you don't have your own characteristics you could come up with a shared short list of things that you'd be able to put up with as nicknames, then pick them out of a hat. Except my Sherlock, who doesn't seem to want a new one."

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"Why are you singling him out? Plus and Strat also seem satisfied with theirs."

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"Mine mentioned it specifically on the way over," Juliet says. "I guess 'insofar as you lack distinguishing characteristics' is mostly for the quartet of non-Iron-Man Tonies anyway, although yours doesn't seem to have yielded a nickname."

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"We probably shouldn't just call you 'girl', should we," says Shell Bell to her Sherlock who is thusly distinguished. "I dunno. Victoria," she tosses out. "And our Tony could be Victor. Or is that as bad an idea as the Panem media's idea of cute things to call you would be?"

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"That is a terrible idea," she says fondly.

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"And don't call her 'girl', we have lots of distinguishing characteristics that aren't that one, we're the farthest pair from the middle here."

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"Not very namey characteristics, though. Or ones with particularly nice associations."

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"Does no one like my shortlist-and-a-hat idea?"

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The three least-distinguished Tonies exchange a glance.

"I honestly can't think of anything," says one.
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