When you read BICP for the first time, do you remember if you clocked “Miranda already knows to call him Patrick” as odd?
I never settled on specific details about Patrick’s life directly before Cohen — not who his Master was, not what he was called. As of the current point in the story, that was only a few decades ago when he would’ve had another name…but he was so weak and run-down when Cohen picked him up, he probably had an unusually-high level of memory degradation.
Miranda: And what about the name? Did Sparrow choose that too? Or were you just, somehow, not able to change it?
Bianca: . . . You always call him “Patrick”.
When he said he was nameless, I tried to get him to pick a name of his own . . . Told him that, if making one up was too hard, he should pick a favorite from names he’d had before.
You really liked the name your last Master gave you best?
Patrick: Technically, yes . . .
. . . it was the only one I could remember.
(WHAP)
Bianca: Listen, Miranda, I didn’t grow up around Beings, and neither did my roommmate. I haven’t been making strategic decisions, here. Everything to do with Patrick has been basically random . . .
Well, at least, it’s all been inadvertent.
Patrick: It would be less random if you would give more orders!
I’m getting a broken image here. Multiple browsers, multiple devices.
Might be a broken cache somewhere between us, but maybe there’s actually an issue on your end.
Which image?
Everything’s loading for me, also checking a couple different browsers and devices (including ones where I haven’t been logged-in as an admin recently).
The comic. It loads today, though; must have been a server between you and me with the issue. (I’m not in the US.) Sorry to put you through all that trouble!
Got it! Good to know it all worked out, at least =)