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I don’t think Avid and Pyro have to be much older than her, but I think it just Fits if Apo is youngest.

I think she’s like. Freshly 21.

(Actually because I’m evil I kinda like the idea that at one point Apo lied about her age to get her architecture job, and then got picked up by the military while still being underage, likely because of how good at it she was. (And maybe because the only person who’d miss her was Cherri…) Also I think the Fernsfield massacre happened on her birthday. Either her 21st and the massacre is Super Duper Recent, or on her 20th/19th and has haunted her ever since. But anyway)

Apo’s age is very important to the horror and tragedy of their story. It’s the fact that the people who treated them to worst were all significantly older than them—Scott, Cleo, even Sausage.

It’s the fact that Apo tries to take on positions of protection and responsibility usually afforded to people much much older than they are out of care for the people of the townsfolk, and tries their best (and succeeds! Apo actually did not an admirable amount considering their circumstances) and yet it’s never enough.

Not to mention, Apo being so young again adds depth to their dynamic with Scott. It’s the detached abusive patronizing paternalism of it all. As if Apo were a misbehaving child.

Honestly this is only just now occurring to me but. Despite Apo being A Whole Adult, if a very young one who’s still understandably figuring shit out, she very much gets The Bad Kid™️ treatment. Nobody believes her. Nobody hears her out. They’ve all decided she’s Ontologically Evil, even when she doesn’t have the power to do like at least half of the Horrible Evils people think her guilty of.

Also, it also adds further depth to her parallels with Legs—despite being so much younger, Apo has seen the same horrors. Legs caused a massacre. Apo lived one.

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As I'm currently being a massive shit disturber, I'm not going to post your name, but that's actually a great question!

The claim is:

True!

Yes, that's goddamn crazy, isn't it??

The term is psychosomatic, and it is insane what the brain can do, or trick itself into believing. Think of the placebo effect, but animal style.

"Psychosomatic" refers to the connection between the mind (psyche) and body (soma). This can range from things like chronic fatigue, GI issues, chronic tension, to sudden blindness or allergies to sudden accents, seizures, tics, lumps, bumps, stigmata (yeah, seriously), losing the ability to speak, loss of motor skills, paralysis, and false pregnancy-- and that's all in singlets.

Psychosomatic is that bitch.

Research is confusing, so I'm just going to point to the ISSTD Treatment Guidelines.

That other bitch.

Physiological differences among alternate identities.

Case reports and studies using small groups of DID patients and controls who simulate different “alternate identities” have found significant physiologic differences in DID patients compared to controls that manifest in a variety of behavioral ways. These include differences in visual acuity, medication responses, allergies, plasma glucose levels in diabetic patients, heart rate, blood pressure readings, galvanic skin response, muscle tension, laterality, immune function, electroencephalography and evoked potential patterns, functional magnetic resonance imaging activation, and brain activation and regional blood flow using single photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography among others (Loewenstein & Putnam, 2004; Putnam, 1984, 1991b; Reinders et al., 2006; ¸Sar, Ünal, Kiziltan, Kundakci, & Öztürk, 2001; Vermetten, Schmal, Lindner, Loewenstein, & Bremner, 2006).

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we're what killed the dinosaurs

we're the asteroid that's overdue

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