Doesn't that run the risk of potentially annoying Siani though, unlike Alectai's write-in?
Not really. Or at least, not anymore than he is annoyed with everyone's usage of the Court names, not just his own.
And really, if Senior Sister Xiong Eryu thinks it's fine to call the Eighth Court the Caretakers, then Zhi should be fine doing the same.
I think it is most important that Zhi doesn't share the name of the Court. But sharing that everyone in the Court appears to be some form of crazy would be entertaining and accurate.
Guys, there is
nothing taboo about the name Caretakers.
You are all taking Siani's words out of context in some mistaken belief that not calling the Eighth Court is proper name would curry favor with him ... That's not what it is.
Siani's objection to the name Caretaker is the objection he has to
every Court's name. The only name he does like is Tantoi's Administration because it's a simple descriptor rather than some fancy name assigned to the Court by the Elders and the Disciples. Hell, if Siani had his way, I imagine that the Delving Heart wouldn't be named at all -- it'd just be called "The Sect In the Caves of So-and-so Mountain". Because his distaste for names is that the Court Names aren't great descriptions of what the Courts actually
do, which is a sentiment for all Courts besides the Administration -- the names don't actually describe what the Court does, and so Siani finds them distasteful.
Not calling the Caretakers the Caretakers is silly and ridiculous pandering to a guy whose not actually around to comment on it, under the mistaken idea that the name is somehow taboo because Siani isn't a fan of fancy names in general. After all, Senior Sister Xiong Eryu told us the Court was called the Caretakers, and that that was the Court's name. Siani's distaste for the name is immaterial compared to that simple fact. So let's just follow our esteemed Senior Sister's example and call the Eighth Court the name it has been given -- the Caretakers.
Because if we had any intention of pandering to Siani's distaste and beliefs about names, we oughtn't have named our demon-conjuring-box
Dance at the Midnight Crossroads, we'd have called it "Spirit-Warrior Conjuring Box Charm"... And would name all our future charms similarly utilitarian names rather than artistic ones because Elder Siani has a distaste for names that aren't simplistic descriptions of functionality. But no. That's ridiculous -- just as refusing to call the Eighth Court the Caretakers is.