Originally Posted by
ilhanna
Interesting! He did tell me he had a name once. Then one moonlit night while hanging by the ship side dizzy with seasickness he heard a beautiful song. It was a mermaid singing a haunting song he didn't understand, to a group of dolphins lazily swimming around her. The man, in true sailor fashion, called out to her and asked her for a kiss. The mermaid said she doesn't kiss men she doesn't know. So he gave her his name. The mermaid gave him a kiss. After that the man couldn't recall his own name. Noone in the ship knew either. Even in the ship ledger where the captain noted down his pay, he was written as "Man with no name". He told me he still kept the mermaid's kiss. He showed it to me. It was an empty conch shell, beautiful, but hard with sharp spikes. I asked if he regretted giving his name to the mermaid, he said he would do it again in a heartbeat, except he still couldn't decide what new name to take for himself.
But hey, this is the guy who can't tell a seagull from a landfall, so I wouldn't give that much credit to his (varying) stories.
Anyway, awesome take on the mystery man, Gru!