"Well, what were you called before that?" NiGHTS chuckled, looking playfully thoughtful. "You don't have to be called by those names if you don't want to." He floated a bit higher, drifting back to cross his arms and legs. "I never go by what other people call me."

Well, that wasn't entirely true; it was Wizeman who had named NiGHTS, and the creature had kept the name throughout the... decades? Centuries? He didn't know, or care, how old he was.

"And besides, I've heard worse." Puffy, for instance, though it had certainly fit th Nightmaren it had belonged to, was a pretty stupid name in his opinion.