Thread:OH&S/@comment-51.9.160.227-20170328112448/@comment-5275759-20170516130145

Sorry, I should have checked whether you knew (I thought I'd gone over this before).

The Primary Singular Narrative Reference (PSNR) is a term constructed due to lack of a better term to describe the subject in question. It is primarily used with regards to characters.

Characters might have only one part of their name revealed or they might have their full name revealed. For the latter, they might be referred to by their full name at times in the narrative of the novels but fairly often they are usually referred to by one part of their full name/one of their names in the narrative, either their family name (e.g. Kamijou Touma as Kamijou, Kanzaki Kaori as Kanzaki, Tsuchimikado Motoharu as Tsuchimikado, Saten Ruiko as Saten, Uiharu Kazari as Uiharu, Leivinia Birdway as Birdway, Kamisato Kakeru as Kamisato etc) or their given name (e.g. Misaka Mikoto as Mikoto, Tsuchimikado Maika as Maika, Karasuma Fran as Fran, Stiyl Magnus as Stiyl, Patricia Birdway as Patricia etc), depending on the circumstances surrounding them.

The name which is used the most often (usually by an overwhelming degree) is the primary reference which the narrative uses when referring to that character by a single name, in other words, the Primary Singular Narrative Reference to the character.