Factor into that the fact that your Bartleby is your primary character and my Bartleby is a side-running character companion. Your Bartleby is a renown noble cowardly trader trying to get in on some Red legion action, my Bartleby is an unscrupulous, dead, once-underworld-esque noble who put the future on his son's shoulders. He will be mostly referred to as "father". He is also a gnome soul in a human skeleton.

The idea that two very different people getting confused for each other could be a running gag.