Deces

The "character" is the persona you play online in the celebrated game World of Warcraft, alongside a few million other players.

12/17 09:44:30.265 LIGIA: Just so you know, I'm in a fog.
12/17 09:44:42.265 DECES whispers: What do you mean — the name?
12/17 09:45:00.546 LIGIA whispers: Yes, Deces[^deces]. Why did you pick this name? It throws me off completely.
12/17 09:45:19.14 DECES whispers: Because it's stupid and cynical. I like how stupid it is. If it doesn't suit you, you can change it.
12/17 09:47:32.828 LIGIA whispers: You know what doesn't suit me? It's so blunt that — fair enough — it comes off as ridiculous.
12/17 09:47:47.375 DECES whispers: All the better. The anagrammists will be pleased too. They won't have to make any effort.
12/17 09:49:25.51 LIGIA whispers: The disorienting thing — the terrible thing, really — is that almost everything that has happened to me had, for its keystone, symbols already decoded and absurd. I lived under their oppression.
12/17 09:49:48.656 DECES whispers: That's just how it looks to you. A symbol doesn't exist unless you absolutely insist that it does. You create it. Here's what we'll do. While you go on criticizing my name, I'll go have a cigarette.
12/17 09:50:51.937 LIGIA whispers: Wow! The effort it takes me not to swear at you!
12/17 09:52:59.843 DECES whispers: Why? Swear at me!
12/17 09:53:23.750 LIGIA whispers: I already did.
12/17 09:53:32.156 DECES whispers: Doesn't count.

[^deces]: Deces is the Romanian word for "death" ("decease"). The handle is left untranslated as a World-of-Warcraft name; the whole exchange turns on how baldly it names death — so transparent a symbol that, as he says, "the anagrammists will be pleased" and need make no effort.