This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/figsap on 2023-06-23 21:31:58+00:00.
My sister and I have both been huge fans of the Pokémon games and anime since we were little. When Sun and Moon came out, she pretty much immediately fell in love with one of the Pokémon released that year, Rowlet.
She’s obsessed with this creature—she has two shelves full of Rowlet plushies and figurines. I even bought her one of those Rowlet-themed armchairs as a gag gift for her birthday. In all honesty I thought it was a funny little obsession. When she found out she was pregnant, she got a bunch of Pokémon themed posters and plushies, even somehow managed to get a Rowlet-themed baby blanket shipped in from Japan.
She’s due in 4 weeks, and told me yesterday that she intends for the kid’s middle name to be.. Rowlet. I honestly thought it was a joke at first and laughed but she was being entirely serious. She says a middle name’s not a big deal, that it’s not like people will call him that in school or at work, and most people wouldn’t even know what Rowlet is, since it’s not as well known as something like Pikachu. I tried to dissuade her saying it’s ridiculous to name a baby after a cartoon owl, that Pokémon isn’t exactly obscure media, and that eventually someone would find out. She’s adamant that it won’t affect him, since she says nobody will even call him that and she wants to name the baby after something she loves. I told her she was being an idiot and was potentially ruining the baby’s life and left. She seemed very annoyed with me and told me it was her baby and her decision. When I tried calling her today, she wouldn’t answer.
I don’t know if I’m being too harsh, she is right that people aren’t often known by their middle names so it may not affect the kid at all. I just can’t shake off how absolutely ridiculous it is. So AITA for telling her not to name her kid Rowlet?