I have been Bysthedragon everywhere online for over a decade that's how people know me online, some of my friends don't call me by my first name, they call my "Bys" because that's what the username says and that's how they think of me, and whenever I am trying to reign in my train of thought and focus on something, in my head I repeat the phrase "Bys, Bys, Bys" etc... The Main character of the Novel I have been working on is a little Dragon named Bys, and I have identified with this character, but my younger brother is getting uncomfortable with me using the username "Bysthedragon" especially as I am moving towards making a business from my art, because he is the original Bys (B.Y.S are the initials of his name).

Let me take you back to how it started. Back when we were kids my mother bought my brother a computer game for his birthday, and his username on it was "Bys". He stopped playing it after a while and I began playing it very frequently but I couldn't change the username so people in the game started to know me as Bys, and then one of my friends came up with the initial version of Bys the Dragon as a character for me that stuck. At this point I don't know who I would be if I wasn't Bys anymore and it's hard to imagine being anybody else now, and my initials don't work quite as well as a name
AMS
Ams the Dragon? No doesn't sound as good.
And could I even change the name of my main character at this point?...They have always been Bys, their name was never meant to be my brother's initials, it's just Bys.

I tried experimenting with an alternate version of Bys once called Starry Knight in a sort of playful reference to the famous Van Gogh painting, but it didn't stick with me quite as well as the original. I thought the design was fine and everything, I still like them but they can't replace Bys for me.