Super dark Donald Duck nephews realization

[azurelunatic]

My sister has been texting the nuclear group chat a series of pictures of a goose family that she encounters on her foot commutes.

There were originally four goslings.

Donald's nephews have matching, rhyming names. That kind of shit is real-world cute for five minutes, and then kids start developing personalities and differentiating themselves and the matching names are a problem.

There is now one gosling.

What if that particular clutch had been named in anticipation that the names aren't going to be a problem later in life?

I know I can't be the first to come to this conclusion. Ducks are omnivores, but low enough on the food chain to go for large groups of offspring.

Goose parents definitely care about each gosling, even each egg. Wild duck mothers get frantic if a duckling is in distress. But a sentient duck family might realize that the odds are bad and use batched names.

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[wibbble]

kids start developing personalities and differentiating themselves and the matching names are a problem.

My father-in-law gave all his kids the same initials - the same as his own initials. At least that's subtle enough to not be super obvious, if a bit egotistic.

[krait]

I wonder just how common this sort of thing is! My father and his brothers all have the same middle initial, which is the same as their father's. (The names differ, at least! They didn't all get stuck with Eugene, which I'm sure the three who didn't get it are glad about.)

[alexseanchai]

I am perpetually entertained by Biloxi potter George Ohr. He signed himself Geo. E. Ohr, and he named all his kids on the same theme, so like, Flo L. Ohr.

[azurelunatic]

Having heard a few things about the man, I shall cheerfully direct him into the Hell of his own beliefs and making.

My sibling and I escaped having the exact same initials as my dad by having completely different middle names, though our first names were coincidentally the same letter.

[krait]

Now that you mention it, sets of names could make a lot of sense for any kind of r-selected species where most of the litter aren't expected to survive. Do Mickey & Minnie mouse have offspring with rhyming names? Or perhaps mice go by initial letters rather than rhymes.

On the other hand, there are also systems like Chinese generational names, where each generation of a family might have the same character at the start of the name, intended as an artistic element or numeric indicator. Perhaps Huey, Dewey, & Louie are a duckish take on this concept! (If so, does this mean that Donald might have had a brother named Ronald at one point?)

[azurelunatic]

I could see a Ronald Duck!

[krait]

Brothers Donald & Ronald Duck definitely seems like something that someone must have pitched, somwhere in the long history of Disney characters!