Talk:Ezra Fitz/@comment-5409042-20120814174505

As I have expounded at length in the history page, this character's name should be "Ezra Fitz" not "Ezra Fitzgerald". Her are a few of the many reasons:

1) From our perspective as viewers, the character has been known as "Ezra Fitz" for three seasons, has been called "Ezra Fitz" by everybody in the show, and even now that his birthname is known, he is still being called "Ezra Fitz".

2) From the perspective of the character, it has been explicitly and implicitly stated that he wants nothing to do with his family. At great personal cost (see all his money troubles), he has rejected his family's money, his inheritance (both past and future), and also his family's name. He does not talk about his family. He does not want to be associated to his family, hence the name change. Whether or not it is his legal name, "Fitz" is the name the character identifies as. At this point, insisting he be called "Fitzgerald" is as callous as referring to transgender individuals as their birth sex instead of the sex they identify as.

3) Finally, considering all the administrative formalities that require a legal identity (in other words, all the paper work on which you cannot use an alias), it seems all but certain that he made the legal name change to "Fitz" - since he stated that he [legally] disowned his family. Indeed, if his legal name were "Fitzgerald", then he would have had to apply as job, at Rosewood High and Hollis as "Ezra Fitzgerald", and the administrative staff would know him as such. Instead, everybody calls him "Mr. Fitz", including, for instance, M. Tamborelli, the principal.

There is no basis to name this page "Ezra Fitzgerald", and Tandrefan2.0's insistance that it be so, for no other reason than "it's his biological name" is ridiculous (wake up, people change their biological name all the time!).