Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-34326521-20140322133245/@comment-8505655-20140323144750

Blaziken rjcf wrote: Hope's name is "Hope". Why don't we name Ben Tennyson "Ben 10" and change the series' article to "Ben 10 (Series)"? Why not put Aloysius's article's name as "Dr. Animo"? Or Diagon's as "Diagon the Destroyer"? Or Azmuth's as "First Thinker Azmuth"?

All of which are mere aliases, which may be used interchangeably (most of which I might add, are not favored because they are rarely used, not because of any hard and fast rule. Almost no one in the show ever bothers to say the full titles. If they did, this would be another matter). Hope is her birth name, yes, but she doesn't use it lest her enemies gain power over her by knowing it. As such, Charmcaster is the name she has adopted, sort of like a name change, save that the old name cannot be merely forgotten. The only instances where Hope has been relevant are (A) when her father used it, who may not even have been aware of any alternative, and (B) when she gave it to Darkstar, more as a symbol of trust than to inform him of what to call her. Frankly, considering who does use it, calling her Hope would be like using some sort of pet name. The two names are not interchangeable, and Charmcaster is the more relevant of the two.