User blog comment:Jiskran/Gideon and other trans-temporal anomalies/@comment-25059925-20150429024717

I was actually thinking the same thing! I'd like to know more about what exactly Gideon knows, since, for the most part, even the most sophisticated AI tech is only as good as the person programming it. I've been having a difficult time deciding what to call Eobard-as-Wells, too, because like you said, he's been living under Wells' identity for so long and has done so much in his name that it seems weird to address him by Eobard now, especially since he no longer has Eobard's face. But, at the same time, there is also a real Wells who actually existed prior to Eobard co-opting his identity, so it seems a little unfair to take away his own name and in favor of giving it to someone who essentially killed his wife, stole his DNA/identity, and killed him. I've found myself running into this issue of how to refer to characters a lot in tv shows/books/movies when it's revealed that one character is using the identity of another or a new one altogether, and it's always tricky to decide how to navigate talking about it.

That said, I don't really have any suggestions as to how to mediate this specific problem, but I am very interested in seeing what others have to contribute, so consider this my extremely-wordy way of bookmarking this discussion.