Heh, yeah, it's just that people normally pick up on any mention of a character even remotely related to canon on an instant radar level of awareness. *shrugs* It was mostly just names, but still...

And yeah, the other quarter is me being diabolical, at least, though the genius part is very much up for debate. In my original work novels I'm writing, it's split more evenly down the middle. The angsty half is me either fucking with my characters or fucking with the readers of the characters, but the diabolical half has hidden little messages in everything! ^_^