A soon-to-be dad has said his mum wants nothing to do with his baby after he chose to name his child after a video game character.
The man explained that he and his partner met through playing video games together online, and the pair "couldn't be happier" to be expecting a little boy later in the year.
The 27-year-old said their future son will be first grandchild on both sides of the family - and all his loved ones are excited to meet the little one.
When discussing baby names, the man said he and his wife were "greatly moved" by the story of a character named Arthur Morgan in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2.
The pair consider him to be "one of the best fictional characters of all time", The Mirror reports.
However, his mum is not happy about the choice and is furious he has not named the child after his late uncle.
He revealed: "It was my wife who suggested that we use Arthur Morgan as the first and middle names for our son.
"Not only would we be paying tribute to our favourite character, but there's nothing wrong or 'weird' about the names, other than Arthur is a little old-fashioned now. But it isn't as if we're naming him Sonic the Hedgehog or Donkey Kong."
But he says his mum had been "pressuring" the couple to name him after her late brother, who died when the soon-to-be dad was about a year old.
His brother let slip that he was planning to name his son after a video game character instead, and he says his mum "completely flipped out" at the news.
"She actually drove 30 minutes to our house so she could bang on our door and berate us in person for honouring someone who doesn't actually exist over her flesh-and-blood sibling," he wrote on Reddit.
"I understand that she still misses my uncle, but while this is may be her grandchild, he is still first and foremost our son and we already think of him as Arthur.
"When we tried gently (and then firmly) to advise her that we respected her position but that we weren't going to budge on ours, she walked out and told us that she would have nothing to do with our son and would never acknowledge him as family."
He added: "I've actually always had a really good relationship with her and it would hurt badly not to have her in my life or my son's life."
After asking for advice as to whether he should change the name he plans on giving his son to placate his mum, people unanimously told him to hold firm.
One said: "Your child, you decide. Children are people, not memorials."
And a second wrote: "You are choosing a perfectly normal name that has ties to how you and your wife met. It's sweet. My daughter is named for the city my husband and I honeymooned in (it's a normal girls name, don't worry).
"This is your child - she got to name her kids, you get to name yours. She is overstepping."
