What I really appreciate about the name drop use of David by Donut is that (at least how I’m interpreting it) Wash clearly lets the RedsnBlues use it to refer to him. When the Counselor tries, Wash shuts him down, ASAP. People who have used and hurt him, he shuts them down, they don’t get to use that name.
But with the RedsnBlues, it may not be the usual name they use, but it is still his name and they have the explicit trust and friendship with him to have its use.
(TLDR: imo Wash doesn’t hate his name. He just chooses very particularly who gets to use it, and the fact that’s it’s these bunch of morons and Carolina who have that right to use it warms my heart)
