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Other considerations which I personally think are important: Does not start with S: A lot of people use S/A/M as an acronym and it would be quite problematic for the community to adapt to the new names having the same first letter as Shiny, or as each other (so Dawn/Dusk would fail this criterion; to make matters worse they share a starting letter with Delta). This is a hill I will die on. A real word, or very close to it: Easier for newbies to understand. Short, clear name: "Shiny" is both short and clear and ideally any new name would also be short, clear and intuitive to spell.

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I don't strongly feel that the names need to be changed. My opinion is that this is a fangame of a fantasy franchise, so the creators can call them whatever they want and I'd still suspend my disbelief. To me it's much more important that the specials look good, rather than what they are called.

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That being said, I'm surprised "Bright" hasn't been suggested for Albinos yet, maybe it's too close to Shiny but I think it sufficiently captures the meaning. And I quite like "Ebony" for Melans. I'd also like to echo others' sentiments against "X-blessed" names. Aside from the religious connotations, this name format is a bit too long for my taste. I'm willing to bet that if we adopted, say, "moon-blessed" as the new name, in less than a month everyone would have dropped the end and we'd just be calling them "moons".