Consider it a longterm project for if/when he learns enough of Daniil's backstory, then! The skeleton isn't one to shy from occasionally alarming or threatening people, if it suits some purpose or goal of his, after all. A moment of levity-in-retrospect by subjecting people to their fears could be justified as helpful to them, what with the whole letting go of memories and identities theme going on with their journey here...
For the moment, he's not privy to the man's backstory or train of thought, and is left watching the contemplation with curiosity. When it actually results in a possibility, he beams.
"'Watson', huh?" he muses aloud, scratching at his chin and trying to remember what he knows of the name. Doctor, which is funny with the alliterative doctor suggesting it, connected to a detective in some written works - the narrator, he believes. "As in... a partner in a certain investigative duo?"
One of the others had suggested that he could look to stories for notions of names, come to think of it. He hadn't immediately gone scouring his memory for ideas to pull from, still busy with getting oriented to everything, but had agreed it seemed a sound notion - surely he could make any such name drawn from fiction his own in time, and in the meantime?
"I've never considered biographer as a past-time... But there is a certain appeal to celebrating someone's accomplishments in so organized and published a manner! If, uh, I can find paper for publishing."
I've been dithering over whether he knows the reference, erring on 'yes, but not well'
For the moment, he's not privy to the man's backstory or train of thought, and is left watching the contemplation with curiosity. When it actually results in a possibility, he beams.
"'Watson', huh?" he muses aloud, scratching at his chin and trying to remember what he knows of the name. Doctor, which is funny with the alliterative doctor suggesting it, connected to a detective in some written works - the narrator, he believes. "As in... a partner in a certain investigative duo?"
One of the others had suggested that he could look to stories for notions of names, come to think of it. He hadn't immediately gone scouring his memory for ideas to pull from, still busy with getting oriented to everything, but had agreed it seemed a sound notion - surely he could make any such name drawn from fiction his own in time, and in the meantime?
"I've never considered biographer as a past-time... But there is a certain appeal to celebrating someone's accomplishments in so organized and published a manner! If, uh, I can find paper for publishing."