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lilia's last name (why no silver vanrouge)

started looking a lot of stuff up after thinking about reasons why silver doesnt have lilia's last name

and then its especially when we got told in the latest book 7 update (part 4) that its a courtesy name

so

im just. gonna copy paste here...

SPOILERS for the latest Book 7 update. (Part 4)

I think the reason Silver doesn't have Lilia's last name is because Lilia refers to 'Vanrouge' as a courtesy name. In some places it's a name given when of age. Alternatively, it's something that represents or describes the person [usually sorta connected in meaning to the first name?], as like a sign of adulthood and respect (but supposedly isn't like an actual family name, although maybe it could turn into one? I don't know), as another way of referring to them without being rude, since apparently it used to be that referring to someone by their given name who you aren't close to was seen as rude. (Then the family name is apparently what people closer to you use, but say, in a professional setting, would use the courtesy name.) (I really need to go back and see how they refer to him. If it's just 'Vanrouge' or Lilia, both in ENG and JP since I can't recall.)

Note that I only just found out that courtesy names even exist, so I might be way off the mark.

But like. For example, Lilia's name means night (which could be a reference to him being a nocturnal fae?). Rouge is red (closest to Vanrouge I can find is Vin rouge which is red wine, so dark red?). Which the red is represented in Lilia's General Armor, where he has red in his hair instead of magenta.

He's also 700 years old, and given he got an acceptance letter 500 years ago, it's likely that means it was around that time that he sort of grew 'of age'? Or maybe he already was of age but only got a courtesy name bestowed upon him in reference to his time as a general later after he proved his worth. (Since we know he got a letter while he was a general, or at least before he was one. And it's minors who get letters ofc, so it likely means Lilia wasn't technically of age, or was at least close to it around that time, and since then grew of age.)

I HAVE HIS AGE

IRL he's 700

He got his letter 500 years ago so thats 200

so then 100 years later so he's already grown at that point right? or at least-ish

..Or I might be looking way too into it, since a lot of names in this game are literal. Like Silver, Deuce, Trey, Ace, Cater, Ruggie, Rook HUNT, Jack HOWL, so I mean...