Mutant names

Mutant names, true names, soul names, street names. It’s all the same, names we choose for ourselves. Usually descriptive and often arrogant, we want them to inspire fear and respect. After all, that’s the only currency we have out here. Some of our ancestors believed that names held power, that if you knew someone’s real name you could control them. I don’t know about then, but these days a real name can tell you anything. A persons family and medical history. Where they went to school, what their grades were and their bank account. It will cost you of course, but you hate someone enough you’ll pay to hit them where it hurts. That’s reason enough to take new names I suppose. Mutants are mostly kids still so we don’t care about most of that. Mostly it’s about power. A spook yells ‘Halt! Toby Guiness’, I might be inclined to listen. I might hesitate. They tell Riot to stop, well, they’re gonna wish I hadn’t.