I would have a tough time doing that, like I honestly do consider my dead name a gift and that's why I first chose something pronounced the very way that my family shortened it
but also I'm intending on just switching the spelling to Jaycie
@chimerror first I named a character “Makishi” under the belief that was a word for “werehyena” (it isn’t!). Then I decided it was short for “Makhona kaImpisi,” which is a vaguely plausible Zulu name for a hyena character.
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@Leucrotta I actually had to come up with a retcon for what the Quoll version of Chimmy named her character so yeah, that happens!