after talking some stuff with a friend over skype about why Pitch could have way more names than Sandy on fics (kosmotis, pitchiner, kozmo, etc) and Sandy was just always SANDY, I have come to the conclusion that at least half the sandies from 8000 blacksand AUs probably are not named Sanderson (or Sander and Alexander variants), that probably most of them have different SAND-something name, or that probably many of them don’t even have names that sound like that at all, but THEY ALL are nicknamed Sandy, why? they don’t know, they just know that sandy is like the perfect nickname for them