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something that is actually difficult with both large population and frequent switches , and still sometimes struggle to figure out : personal needs , boundaries , and tolerances as individuals .

is this courtier afraid of humans , or just end up front during already high stress ?
is this courtier more sensitive to light than others , or just feel after-effects of migraine ?
is this courtier more clumsy than others , or was today just clumsy day all around ?

for all of things that figure out and record over years , points like these continue to be struggle in some cases . if someone spend on average 1 to 3 hours in front , and front 2-3 times per week at most , that is not much time to figure out .

and that is just for 1 courtier to figure out - obviously , there will be many more in time between , who might also want to figure out similar personal questions . that is so much to try and juggle , even if make attempts to journal out .

on one hand , not entirely necessary to record individual struggles like this , so long as know how to recognise when struggles hit , and then have ways to either step back or accomodate .

on other hand , do like to do courtesies for each other , and part of that is to not throw directly into struggles when switch - like if courtier who hate human food want to switch in , will finish up meal first .

hard to help each other avoid personal struggles in that way if can not even identify struggles ...

really , another reason for anonymity relate to culture around names .

some courtiers do line up with characters seen in fictional works . while not every one of these works is massively popular , information is still in public eye , and that include names .

courtiers may use these home names with one another , particularly when close , but even those who did not originally belong to some form of faerie culture would be put off by use of home name . even if home name is technically known due to fictional association , general culture is to refrain from use unless given permission .

sans tend to be fallback example for illustration , so : this is to say that if sans was here , no one else would actually call sans except for homemates ( fellow courtiers from undertale ) , or other courtiers given permission . during front , sans would go by front alias - and anyone in front , even if given permission to use home name , would also refer to this front alias for anonymity .

out of few courtiers who reveal home names in external settings , this is either because that name was never true to begin with , or powerful enough to feel knowledge could not threaten .