Blank_User said:
Did the artist ever refer to this character as Kouhai-chan, like as a placeholder name before finalizing Ame-chan? Is it a well-known nickname of the character? If either of those are true, this should be an alias so users can use the old name to find this character.
And is there a reason these characters have the -chan suffix and not just called Ichigo and Ame?
Actually, you’re right about Kouhai-chan being used previously in the Japanese commentary of older posts. And I think aliasing them instead of renaming would make a lot of sense. She could indeed just be aliased as Ame then!
This was my first bur, so information like that is good to look for in the future, thank you!