In Series Nickname / Fan Works

• Abraxas: In Canon, Ghidorah’s heads were named Ichi, Ni and San by the production crew and were never called such In-Universe. In this fic, it’s revealed in Chapter 2 that Vivienne Graham gave the heads those names while she was monitoring Outpost 32. Only San answers to his nickname, while Ichi and Ni are primarily referred to as Eldest Brother and Elder Brother respectively. San and Vivienne as Monster X have collectively and individually gained a couple other nicknames in the story.
• The Accidental Warlord And His Pack:
  • Jaskier seems to collect nicknames. Not only is "Jaskier" itself not his proper name he's also called "lark", "songbird", "flower" and "catmint".
  • Liliana of Daevon prefers to be called Mouse when not at court functions.
  • Aleksander prefers to be called Sasha by those close to him.
  • Tarasque prefers to be called Tara.
• Asuka and Shinji both refer to Rei as "our Rei" in Advice and Trust, which basically hangs a lampshade on the Threesome Subtext between them.
• Bait and Switch:
  • Capt. Kanril Eleya calls her first officer, Cdr. Tesjha Phohl, "Tess". Her science officer, Cdr. Birail Riyannis, is "Biri". For her part, Tess once calls Eleya "El" when she's in BFF mode instead of Number One mode.
  • In "The Universe Doesn't Cheat" it turns out that Tesjha Phohl is itself a shortened form of "Siritesjha sh'Phohlhi", and apparently the instructors at Starfleet Academy called Eleya "Scarface" behind her back. (Because she has a really big scar on her left cheek from when she was in the Bajoran Militia.)
• Becoming a True Invader: Zim calls Kor "Tinkerer" due to her mechanic skills.
• The Bridge gives us the grown up Godzilla Junior and Mothra Lea, who call each other Lele and Goji respectively
• Lydia, in the Contractually Obligated Chaos series, is identified as "Your Ladyship" by the members of Prince Vince's court, even before he gives her the courtesy title of "Princess of Beetles", while her husband just sometimes calls her "Wifey-Babes." The Fairy Godfather is occasionally called "F.G." for short, and Hugo frequently shortens Lady Delphine's name to "Lady."
• Crowns of the Kingdom has the Fab Five for Mickey's group, as well as the Sensational Six when Daisy joins them.
• In the Elemental Chess Trilogy, Roy Mustang's wife is variously known as Ladyhawk, the Queen, or Lady Mustang, depending on who's talking. Her personal bodyguards are known as "the queen's men."
• Tom calls Eva "Visser Mom" in Eleutherophobia, but not to her face.
• In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, Duncan McSmurf is given the nickname Gutsy by Hefty, mostly to annoy Duncan. Eventually it becomes an Insult of Endearment.
• In Eternity, Enterprise was sold to Japanese in the 50s and renamed as Yonaga, the Long Night. For her long service in JMSDF (retiring in the 2000s), the Japanese gave her the titular nickname "Eien".
• Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy: Gabriella usually goes by Gabby, and her full first name is rarely used.
• Fate of the Clans: The characters were only referred to by these nicknames once.
  • Maiden of Orleans and Ms. Prim 'N Proper Judge Servant for Jeanne.
  • Ghost of Tosa for Okada.
  • Fox Priestess of Peerless Beauty for Tamamo.
  • Yatagarasu for Misaki.
  • Irish Heracles and Ulster's monster for Cú Chulainn.
  • Monkey for Saruhiko.
  • Third King for Mikoto.
  • King of Protection for Tenkei.
  • Old King for Daikaku.
• In Forewarned is Forearmed, Lavenza continually refers to Akira as "Trickster", alluding to his future role as a guest of the Velvet Room and the leader of the Phantom Thieves of Heart. He's confused by this at first, but soon grows to like the nickname and embraces it. After coming clean to Yu, he also starts calling Akira by his title on occasion.
• Harmony Theory: "Blaze" for Trail Blazer.
• In Hellsister Trilogy, Kara calls her boyfriend Dev-Em "Devian".
• Hours 'Verse:
  • Futaba often calls Akira "Kira".
  • On the Other Side, Ren's friends and family often call him "Renren".
• In Kara of Rokyn, Kal calls his cousin Kara "Karaish".
• Morgaiah t'Thavrau of Legacy of ch'Rihan and related stories is frequently referred to as "Morgan". This is finally explained in "Flaihhsam s'Spahkh" as a childhood nickname given to her by a human friend (the daughter of a Federation embassy officer).
• Chloe Cerise in Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail has multiple names: her father calls her "little blossom", her classmates call her either "Klutzy Chloe" or "Monster Lover" and Atticus names her "Chloe of the Vermillion".
• Ma Fille: Starting in middle school, Katrina is often called Trina by her peers.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom Western Animation, TV Series, and Comic Books.): Referencing the original dub of Sailor Moon, Makoto goes by the nickname of "Lita", which Danny uses.
• Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race has "Nomad" for the female Robot Master and "Headless Joe" for the headless Sniper Joe.
• In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Michael calls Luna "Moon-butt".
• In One Foot – Another Multiverse SI this trope becomes important because its never been used. Poe says all of his friends call him by his nickname Ars. Everyone in the story calls him Poe.
• In the Turning Red fanfic The Panda Chronicles, Robaire is called Rob by his bandmates.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: The sequel Picking up the Pieces names the lieutenant of the Magi-of-Stars Guard as Lunar Light, and his in-universe nickname, used mainly by his captain, is "Weird Beard". The Luna Guard's Captain Sweet Surprise finds it both accurate and amusing.
• In A Prize for Three Empires, Gladiator's pet name for his lover Carol Danvers is "Ca-Rol".
• In Reflections in a Cloudy Sky, the baby triplets refer to Camilo as "Timilo", a portmanteau of "Tío Camilo".
• In the WWE story, The Return-Remixed, the Diva Army's Drill Sergeant Nasty, Jazz, constantly addresses Kelly Kelly as "Blondie", largely out of contempt for Kelly's lack of ring skill when they begin.
• In Say It Thrice, Betelgeuse calls his Morality Pet "Lyds" and "Babes." He also calls Danny "Danny boy," and sometimes calls Juno "June-bug."
• These are all over the place in Skyhold Academy Yearbook, mostly courtesy of Varric. In addition to the nicknames which transferred from the canon, he calls the President of Ferelden "President Kingy" and his wife "the Queen Mother." Staff newcomer Evvy Trevelyan is "Siren," while Michel de Chevin is "Champion" and Evvy's old friend Mahanon is "Lockpick." Meanwhile, courtesy of Cole, Evvy is also "the rainbow."
  • The three original character students who appear most frequently call themselves "the Partners in Crime," a nickname which is also adopted by their teachers. Individually, Varric dubs them "Sonnet," "Bishop," and "Lyric" (because one writes poetry, one plays chess, and one sings in the choir).
• Sleeper Hit AU: The former Class 1-A is collectively known as the 'Hell Class' of U.A. due to the various horrors and hardships they endured throughout their time there.
• In The Smeet Series, Zim and GIR refer to Ilk as "Ilk-Smeet" and "Ilkie", respectfully. Also, Red occasionally calls her "sweetie".
• Sode no Shirayuki in The Snow Has Stopped The Rain is usually called "Shirayuki" by both the text and other characters, presumably because her full name is kind of a mouthful. Zangetsu takes it a step further and usually calls her "Shira".
• There are several in the Hunger Games fic Some Semblance of Meaning: Kit is called "Kitty" and occasionally "Kitty Cat" or "Kitty Kitty" by Vale and Lavinia, while Kit refers to Obsidian Citrine as "Citrus." Vale's sister Laurel is the first to refer to Obsidian as "Sid"; Vale eventually begins to do it as well (instead of referring to him as "He-Who-Is-Ridiculously-Named"). Also, Vale is occasionally referred to by Sid as "sparkle girl," and Damon refers to her as "the girl who wore stars on her heart," which she likes.
• In Star Wars: The Sith, Zero, Lyira shortens Louise's name down to Lou. However, only Lyira can call Louise Lou.
• In Strong and Steady, Roughraff sometimes refers to Maddie as "Madzilla".
• Sunsplit Saga: From Sunshipped, Sunset Shimmer addresses Starlight Glimmer as "Glimglim", as shown in the story description:
  "Hey, Glimglim—can I call you Glimglim? I've got a serious important question for you. Why aren't you snogging Sunburst yet?".
• Tales of the Undiscovered Swords has several for its OCs:
  • Himetsuru Ichimonji: Himecchi by Kenshin.
  • Nikkō Ichimonji: Nikoniko by Tsurumaru, seemingly referencing the fact he has a drop-dead gorgeous smile.
  • Kiriha Sadamune: Kirippa by Ishida^note in a twist of irony, "rippa" means "great", the exact opposite of how Ishida views Kiriha, though the nickname doesn't seem to have any other purpose than ease of pronunciation, Kiri-nī by Monoyoshi.
  • Ishida Sadamune: Ishi-nī by Monoyoshi.
  • Hatsuzakura: Saku-chan by his brother Shokudaikiri, Hatsu-bō by Tsurumaru, Hatchan by Taikogane.
  • Sasanoyuki: Saburō-san by Horikawa^note Izuminokami calls him Katagiri, but this is just plain I Have Many Names and therefore does not count.
• Fan stories set in Tolkien's Legendarium:
  • The Awkward Adventures of Meghan Whimblesby begins with ordinary Meghan. Her friends were fans and gave her the Elvish name "Melethriel". When Meghan falls into Middle-earth and becomes an elf, she switches her names, so Melethriel is her name and "Meghan" is her nickname. Almost everyone calls her Meghan, but Gandalf calls her Melethriel.
  • In The Games of the Gods, Rachel and Kari fall into Middle-earth, become elves, and take Elvish names. Rachel becomes Elenlómë and Kari becomes Alkarisil. In the cover story, "Rachel" and "Kari" are nicknames. The truth is that "Rachel" and "Kari" are their names from Australia, and Rachel invented the Elvish names. Rachel prefers to be "Rachel", but "Kari" becomes Alkarisil to all but a few friends.
  • In Lothíriel by JunoMagic, the hobbits shorten Lothíriel to "Lothy", and Lothíriel herself shortens Míriel to "Míri" and Meluir to "Mel".
  • In Time Will Tell, the elves sometimes give Elvish names to humans. Jorryn becomes Mistadiel "straying daughter". Denuwyn, a girl of Rohan, becomes Merilnan "flower of the valley".
• In the Twice Upon an Age series, Varric is still The Nicknamer, dubbing the Inquisitors "Hunter" and "Eyebrows". He also, in his role as the story's editor, dubs the author "Scholar" - a nickname which has actually been made canon by Mary Kirby, Varric's real-life writer.
• In A Voice Among the Strangers, Jessica earns three of these before she manages to communicate her real name to the Equestrians: Ebony dubs her "Legend", in reference to some legends of creatures that gave emotions (their food) freely to Changelings, just as Jessica had done to her. Meanwhile, Rarity dubs her "Mystery" and later "Luna's Melody" in an attempt to dissuade ponies from calling her "Foal-Hunter."
• In Weasley Girl, Harry Potter and his friends get the collective nickname "Potter's Gang." It's coined by Snape, who means it as an insult, but it's picked up by the students, the narrative and eventually the gang themselves (though Hermione initially protests that they're not Harry's gang, thank you very much). Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle get the collective nickname "The Trolls," which is admittedly mostly used by Potter's Gang.
• In What About Witch Queen?, Weselton and Arendelle soldiers call each other "Weasels" and "merchies" respectively.
• What Might Have Been:
  • Everyone calls Jasper "Buffy."
  • A while after more and more pearls joined the Crystal Gems, Pearl earns the nickname "Renegade" to properly distinguish her from them. Pearly (Rose's first Pearl) calls her "White", implying that she was White Diamond's original pearl.
  • Rose's first pearl is referred to as "Pearly."
• In Where the Truth Lies (Animorphs), the Animorphs have come to be known as the Shape Shifters, and civilians call Yeerks "brain slugs".
• In The Witch of the Everfree, Pinkie starts calling Sunset "the Pony of Shadows" after her Big Entrance to Applejack's birthday party. Sunset eventually rejects the name after her Vision Quest.
• In Your Human And You, the Coming Dawn guard refers to Max as "The Anomaly".
• Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy:
  • Two separate nicknames are noted in the opening of Chapter 7, during a news broadcast discussing the societal impact of Mastermind's Villain career:
    • The deaths of All Might and Endeavor and the defection of Hawks, all due to Mastermind, lead to the title of #1 Hero being nicknamed the Cursed Throne.
    • Near the end, Mastermind himself is referred to as the Symbol of Freedom, a nod to him referring to himself as such at the end of Mastermind: Strategist for Hire.
  • Amongst the growing wave of vigilantes, one particularly violent vigilante is referred to as "King", mainly for the sake of having something to call them.
• Hamato Clan Kunoichi: Much like her husband, Tang Shen goes by her own nickname, her's being "Sliver."

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