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disasternoj 2018 年 9 月 10 日 下午 5:49
Fan Consensus on the Name of "Part of You"?
Personally, I've been referring to her as "Dark Madeline", since it seems to me to be the most accurate way to describe her. She is a Part of Madeline, after all, and "Dark" is her essence. Not bad, or evil, but certainly containing some of Madeline's darker impulses.

The only other name I've seen floating around is "Badeline" (most notably in [DEL]'s fantastic artwork), which I suppose *works*, but I feel like it's trivializing the character with a cutesy nickname.

Thoughts, anyone?

(I'm finishing up a Celeste fanfic at the moment, but her name is only referenced in the tags.)
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tavaszib03 2018 年 9 月 11 日 上午 6:10 
Most of the community refers to her as badeline from what I saw

I also prefer that name
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KAL! 2018 年 9 月 11 日 下午 6:43 
Nah "Badeline" is her official name, you can find it in the trading cards.
disasternoj 2018 年 9 月 11 日 下午 8:09 
So I see. I didn't notice that before. Thanks for pointing it out.

Badeline it is, then.
CHAOS_FANTAZY 2018 年 9 月 12 日 下午 9:59 
Permission to hijack the thread to rant a bit about this?

Badeline feels like she was named by a child who didn't understand what she represented. I would call her name one of the few blemishes on the near-perfect face of this game, but that'd be technically inaccurate as it's not in the game...but even so, I feel the image it paints of her is subpar at best, and I worry that (Should Madeline continue to cameo in more games—which I do hope for) she'll eventually lose all the significance she once had.

If it were up to me? I would have said that Madeline calls herself "Maddy" and her reflection takes the name "Eline." Has an air of mystique to it that's befitting of her supernatural origin, but moreso, she would represent the part of Madeline that she's rejected right down to her name.

Surely I can't be alone in this opinion, right?
disasternoj 2018 年 9 月 12 日 下午 10:08 
Permission granted.

I totally get you, though, Chaos. That's why I originally said I didn't like the name "Badeline", since it feels like it's trivializing her, and instead preferred "Dark Madeline", since that's what she is. I can also kinda get behind your Maddy and Eline idea- I like where you're going with the logic for it.
Tenebrais 2018 年 9 月 25 日 上午 10:44 
There's a reason "Badeline" is never used in the text. Okay, that's because you can name Madeline whatever you want, but more importantly, the dark side already has a name. It's Madeline. They were never separate people and, even with weird mountain magic, can't be treated that way.
disasternoj 2018 年 9 月 25 日 下午 8:02 
Eh. For the sake of narrative convenience, I totally can. And am.

(It's really hard to write about an entity if you constantly have to refer to it being part of yourself.)

Mostly, I headcanon that Madeline refers to the other Part of Her as simply "Her" in the literal sense. As in "Every time you make contact with her, she looks a little less demonic and a little more desperate", not "her" as in Madeline.

That's your preview line of my upcoming fic, btw.
Mumrah 2018 年 9 月 26 日 下午 12:43 
Badeline was also the name the devs used for her on the inside. They refrained from using her name this way so they don't spoil the character.

The name you give her doesn't show up in the conversations either so "The Part of You" makes sense with any name you give her.

Besides, Madeline and Badeline rhyme and fit the characters.
disasternoj 2018 年 9 月 26 日 下午 5:38 
I mean, I'm the kind of person who always goes with the default "real" name for nameable characters (when there is one) anyway. I always feel like doing otherwise is detrimental to my immersion.

To me, it's sufficiently off-putting to see names that aren't "Madeline" in other people's videos. I think it would definitely have been a bad idea to give Part of You a separate name within the canon of the game itself- it's a way of acknowledging the themes of the game. All the characters are aware that she's not really a separate entity, and to reference her as such within canon would be to degrade the significant of the story and what it says about mental health and so forth. I do agree with Tenebrais in that sense.

Of course, that's just my opinion. Devs could have been thinking something totally different.

"Badeline" *is* a lot more convenient to throw around during development, I'm sure. XD
Demon Flower 2018 年 10 月 9 日 上午 7:09 
I always just refer to her as "she" or "her" lol
disasternoj 2018 年 10 月 9 日 下午 6:49 
That's what I ended up doing for the fic, yeah. XD
(It's going through a super long beta phase bc my betas are v busy ppl, but it will be done eventually! :3 )
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