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I guess I just feel like if you're going to go with a "less direct" nickname is has to come out naturally from the bestower, not from a 2nd or 3rd party. I can see how Ozzie may be casual enough to use like "Buddy" but I'm just having a really hard time seeing how Ash and Vin correlate at all- especially is they are supposedly pulled from the same part of the name, because they have absolutely no sounds in common to my ear. That said I think Rin / Ren could work beautifully.

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