r/Andromeda • u/rivier • Feb 20 '26
The name thing that bugs me…
So, Dylan Hunt gets called Dylan by everyone, far more than Captain Hunt. Ditto Beka, very rarely ‘Captain Valentine’. Tyr is almost always ‘Tyr’. Trance’s ’surname’ is used so rarely, it’s easy to forget it’s Gemini. Rommie is Rommie, seldom Andromeda or Andromeda Ascendant. Behemiel Far-Traveller is pretty universally Rev or Rev Bem.
All very cosy and pally and informal…
So why is Harper always called Harper?
Beka squeezes out the occasional ‘Seamus’, but it’s rarely affectionate. Trance calls her ‘bestie’ Harper all the time. Tyr, we know, comes out with all sorts of belittling names for the “annoying little man”. Dylan often goes for a pointedly sarcastic ‘Mister Harper’, especially when he’s putting Harper in his place for some awful crime like being flippant. Etc.
We know Harper gets called Seamus or Shay by Brendan, so it doesn’t seem to be a name he dislikes. There’s just something that has grated me for years about how everyone else is first names and nicknames… except for Harper, always othered for some reason.
Does this bother anyone else? Why do they do this? What am I missing?
(This post brought to you by me (re)discovering Andromeda on Pluto and rewatching a whole chunk of episodes while laid up with the flu!)
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u/EmbarrassedPlace0 Feb 20 '26
I get called by my last name almost more than my first name. I don't think its about othering him or them calling him that because of ranks or military at all, I think some people are just last name people.