Kōji

Nausicaä is the name of a Phaeacian princess who appears in the Odyssey. I first learned of her from Bernard Evslin’s book Gods, Demigods & Demons: An Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology (published as part of Shakai Shisōsha’s Modern Educational Pocketbooks series and translated by Minoru Kobayashi), and I was instantly attracted to her. After that

Kira. The name rang like a struck bell. She wrapped herself in it, using it as armor to defend her core, using it as a way to give her/him/it some sense of internal consistency.

“It’s not…” He thought about her name. “It’s not ‘dignified’ enough for you?” She smiled at him. “My name is the ‘yan’ that means color, not dignity.”

She’s all, “You like my hair, don’t you?” Her head rolls to swing her hair like a spaghetti cape, and she goes, “This is the longest my hair’s ever been.”