Spitfire has always been Spitfire though he's not always felt like he knew who Spitfire was. The memory that I gave him first is pretty poignant for a friend of his insisting that he was still Spitfire despite being injured and weak and that he could and should rely on the rest of his teammates to train with him. That Spitfire was someone he could almost relate to, and because of how the name was presented in the memory, he needed to keep it because he wasn't allowed to give it up in the memory.

Conversely, he didn't connect at all with the memory Kazu shared with him shortly after his arrival. His own memory was of him being incredibly weak and unable to do even the smallest tricks, and Kazu's memory was of being super impressed by Spitfire's skill.

So there was a bit of a cognizant dissonance for a while, which he's still trying to work through, but... he still feels more like the person he first remembered rather than someone a person should be awed by. In a way, it probably would have been easier if he had gotten an Aather name. As it is, he basically has to swallow everything whole when it comes to who Spitfire is.


If Sakura got placed on a different team, how do you think her development in Aather would have been different?