Order and Chaos

> Gaaaaaaaaryyyyy~

semi-important celebrity with vague name recognition!

"Gary?" Mary asked, a little unsure of her memory.

"No," said Herman Cain, President of the United States. "It's Herman Cain, President of the United States. You shot me in the hall a while ago."

"Oh, right," Mary said. "Well, go ahead and make me Queen now."

"I will not," said Video Kojima, genius board game designer. "For my entire plan has been to put your half-brother on the throne. And I am not about to see my plans fail now."

"Weren't you someone else a moment ago?" Mary asked.

"You dare defy Richard Doomcall, scourge of the land, soon to be the true successor to Malcolm Vindictus?"

"I've never heard of you," said Mary.

At this point, I was thoroughly confused, because it was quite apparent to me that Sir Nose had been standing there the whole time. But Mary seemed to think otherwise.

"Wait a minute," Mary said, either having an ingenious realization or finally losing her last shreds of sanity. "You're Nothing, aren't you. That's why you keep changing your form."

"Don't be ridiculous," said Chwoka. "Nothing was crushed under a cosmic dumpster in your dreams, that's what caused this whole mess in the first place. I'm Chwoka and always have been, just ask anyone in this room."

"All right then," Mary said, turning (of course) to me. "Commun, has he always been Chwoka, whoever that is?"

And so I was faced with a choice. Did I go with what my eyes and memories told me, that this man had a consistent identity? Or did I back up Mary's absurd explanation, so she would not lose face and possibly the crown?