doughtier: “ Today on how RvB uses names to explore identity and loyalties: Agent Conneticut. When CT tells the Freelancers to stop referring to her as ‘Connie’, CT’s already working against the program and sending intel to the insurrectionists....

doughtier:

Today on how RvB uses names to explore identity and loyalties: Agent Conneticut.

When CT tells the Freelancers to stop referring to her as ‘Connie’, CT’s already working against the program and sending intel to the insurrectionists. She’s set her path, and now all that’s left for her to do is cut herself off from her team.

It’s implied throughout the flashbacks that the Freelancers were very close to each other, originally, and CT’s no exception. In her scenes with Wash she’s trying to steer him in (what she thinks is) the right direction, and she seems to be at least somewhat close to South.

And that’s why she’s doing this. By telling Wash - and the rest of the Freelancers by extension - to stop calling her Connie, she’s consciously creating a distance between them. Because, it’s implied (several times), she’s not as good a spy as she’d like to be, and she knows it.

She’s justifying the change by saying ‘makes me sound like a fucking kid’, referring to how the ‘ie’/’ey’ suffixes to shortened name forms are used tor kids - Anne, Annie. Mike, Mikey.

But CT is fine with the insurrectionist leader calling her Connie. It’s fine, because she wants to maintain her emotional connection with him. And then she refers to herself as Connie to Tex in an attempt to establish an emotional connection. Tex, whom CT expects (hopes, really) would be on her side once she learns everything CT has left her.

[More on the exploration of identity via names in RvB: Tex and Church]


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    I don’t entirely agree with all of this - there’s no evidence that CT was already sending intel to the insurrectionists...
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