I personally can't stand it, cause when I. See the name different it makes it really difficult to associate that character to that name, it also take three times as long to associate with it
Or another for me to put it would be it ruins my train of thought, being out of the story and back to reality,
It's like your riding a bike on a smooth road, and then there's suddenly a pothole that you didn't see coming, takes you off rhythm.
Well that's how I compare it, if this didn't make sense in sorry
Or it could be because I'm dyslexic and find it harder to grasp the context of stuff in reading, but that's just me
Choose a name for Gerald and stick to it
It's changed three times already