[ So LILITH most likely made the same decision for all of them, and Malkuth has tried to find a way to circumvent it. "Ellie" is different enough without erasing Elijah, different enough to let Malkuth maintain her perspective. ]

I can't say that I especially welcome the notion of being addressed as Gabriel, either.

[ That is, these names no longer really theirs provide labels to affix to the past, and there are things that he would prefer to keep ordered according to the corresponding categories. Are there alternatives, however? ]

We may remember our first lives now, but we are not who we were then.

[ Which is for the best, knowing what became of their past selves, and it's disconcerting to lose one means of drawing their own distinction between each set of memories. Yesod shakes his head. ]

In your case, it seems to me that you're living your own life while honoring Elijah's memory.