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𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 they don't use your name. The girl is not the worst thing you've been called –no, that honor went to unnamed Marleyan guards– but your name is one of the few things you have left from your home.
Your name, your face, your old clothes. Your name and your face are always with you. The first is always implicit, a faucet and a pillar of your identity, a reminder of who gave you the title. The latter is a statement of who came before you, and even if they were nonexistent in this universe, you still bear the likeness of their figures.
On the other hand, your clothes are the only thing that you can be physically separated from. The risk from bringing strange garments to the island far outweighed the small comfort they would bring you, and so you were outvoted in your request to bring them with you. Zeke kept them, somewhere under the floorboards, or wrapped in darkness at the end of an old closet, or in between the house's foundations.
Eventually moths would eat away at them, your face would change into something your family has never seen. But your name would remain constant, a brilliant flare for those that knew you in the before.
So yes, being called the girl miffs you a little bit.
"I'm afraid we can't do that," Yelena says, keeping up the pretense that being separated from you is detrimental to the volunteers.
"No, no, we insist!" Hange says with a smile, and you're not the only one that notices a slight edge to their voice. "I can only imagine her merit, given it was you who insisted on waiting for her at the beach."
