Another thing I need to keep in mind when writing my story is names. You can feel completely close to someone you only know by their game name. Even when you know the person’s real name, it’s sometimes more comfortable to call them by their game name. My friends in the game call me Despair all the time. Very few of them call me Lonnie, and if they feel that Despair is too weird for them, they shorten it to Des.
It always takes a bit of adjustment when someone creates a new character, as I’ve done recently. She’s a doe eyed tauren shaman named Appleblossum. (The mispelling is correct, there is already an AppleBlossom on our server.) When I am playing her, it’s funny to hear people stutter between Appleblossom, or Apple, and Despair when addressing me trough the voice chat software.
