I really enjoyed this -- interesting look at John's use of names for the people around him, and the way it's evolved over time. I particularly liked the note about John not wanting to call Ronon "Dex" because that's someone else to him. Nice!
(The only thing that niggled at me a little is that I'm pretty sure Rodney stopped calling Sheppard by his rank at the end of season 2. Yes, I'm actually THAT anal -- at one point I was going through S3 transcripts trying to figure out if he still called him Colonel and couldn't find a single instance where he'd referred to him as anything but Sheppard. It's interesting to speculate on ...)
EDIT: Wait, I didn't mean I was going through transcripts after reading your story -- even I'm not THAT anal! Or, for that matter, quite that rude. This was awhile back, for a story I was writing ...
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(The only thing that niggled at me a little is that I'm pretty sure Rodney stopped calling Sheppard by his rank at the end of season 2. Yes, I'm actually THAT anal -- at one point I was going through S3 transcripts trying to figure out if he still called him Colonel and couldn't find a single instance where he'd referred to him as anything but Sheppard. It's interesting to speculate on ...)
EDIT: Wait, I didn't mean I was going through transcripts after reading your story -- even I'm not THAT anal! Or, for that matter, quite that rude. This was awhile back, for a story I was writing ...