When a Fluther user experiences "Seazenal" changes to his/her user name, what goods carry forward with the change?

Losing the lurve makes a lot of psychological sense to me (and I love the double entendre of “Seazen”), but it appears that the topics of interest must be re-loaded from scratch while awards etc do seem to move with the user.

Is this done by hand? Are they rapidly re-earned? Do the Fluther Gods assist with moving the awards?