#i also think it would be more impactful if morty had a completely different birth name and then chose morty

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

Writing my trans Morty fic and I don’t want to have his birth name be Morti because I feel like we don’t get a lot of representation for trans people who completely changed their names but I also don’t want to come up with a random name so maybe I should just replace every instance of Morty’s birth name with [redacted]

#rick and morty #rnm #morty smith #trans morty smith #trans morty #the reason can be that rick created some sort of way of erasing morty’s birth name from existence just for him #i also think it would be more impactful if morty had a completely different birth name and then chose morty #since i’m writing this dimension’s rick to be overprotective and shielding morty from a lot of stuff #like at the point i’m writing rick is just barely starting to take morty out on (very safe) ‘adventures’ #and i kind of want to have it so that this morty isn’t really aware of the whole rick and morty dynamic thing before choosing his name #since he wants to go on more adventures but this rick is hesitant #so i think it could be kind of a nice moment if morty chose the name morty completely of his own accord #without knowing anything about the citadel or anything like that #and that could be sort of a trigger event for rick bringing morty along on adventures #idk maybe that’s just me #i’m currently just using morti for the sake of writing stuff but i’m really not a fan #i think i’m funny making my little [redacted] joke but that would be so clunky in a fic #the other possibility i was playing around with was having morty’s name always be spelt as ‘morty’ since it’s shortened anyway #but i’m still not sure how i feel about that #it would be much easier to write in first person but i’m not really a fan and i don’t know if i could pull it off #i only tend to use first person in very brief moments of like characters’ thoughts or whatever #also this should go without saying but i know i have a tendency to not be clear so just want to explicitly say #there’s nothing wrong with masculinising/feminising your birth name as a trans person #or keeping your original name #but i feel like it’s very common in media made by cis people to have trans people masculinise/feminise their birth names #like disproportionate to the rate of trans people who actually do that #also when i was at school there was apparently a rumour that i was a trans guy (which was obviously true lol) #and i panicked when my friend told me thinking it was legit #until they revealed that people were saying i was going by a masculinised version of my birth name #so i knew it was fake but i think that’s part of the reason i’m not personally a fan of that in fiction