[ Daniel takes a long drag of his cigarette, momentarily at a loss for words in the face of something so bemusing and painfully normal in this place bursting to the rafters with things trying their best to be so.

He scrunches up his nose in a laugh, unable to help himself, and then it gets loud like his body has only just remembered what laughing feels like, and that it's good. ]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely!! [ He wags his free hand at Daniel, leaping off his idea easily. ] It's people who think you're a fucking idiot, or people who think you're wasting their time. Every. Single. Goddamn time I've had my name shortened, it's never been someone I like doing it. Even my mom never called me anything but Daniel. That's my name, y'know?

[ This guy gets it. ]