CUViper

I have twins that my parents know nothing about.

A while ago while googling my name (everyone does it), I learned that there’s a secondary character in Resident Evil 5 who is named Josh Stone.  I haven’t played the game, but I think it would be really weird to hear the dialogue using my name to refer to someone else.  Now just yesterday they announced an add-on in which he becomes a playable character.  I’m afraid if I ever play as my own eponym, the universe might explode.

I have a similar twin in the real world: my good friend Joy.  Okay, we don’t actually share names, but we do share our full initials, so it’s a very special bond.  She’s quite secretive about her middle name, but I do know that it starts with ‘I’ to match my Ian.  So now, anytime we discover a common trait, it’s declared to be a twin factor.  Differing traits are genes that we stole from each other.

I suppose we could all be called triplets, though the link between RE5-Josh and Joy is less certain — does he even have a middle name?  Anyway, here we are together, probably the most diverse triplets ever:

Of course there are others which could be added to this set, as my name is not terribly unique.  There’s a professional windsurfer in Maui who owns joshstone.com.  A few months back, a Josh Stone on Twitter starting following me and a bunch of others by our name.  Sun’s CEO is a JIS and an Ian.  Google is also quick to suggest that I meant Joss Stone when I search for my name.

So common name aside, I’ll just have to be me.