All of us in our system, one way or another, are putting on an act. Even if we don’t know we are, we’re playing a part. Enacting an exaggerated archetype as a part of the dissociative thought patterns and core memories that form us.
We don’t really know how to have a personality or be a person, so many of us latched onto characters as we developed in response to trauma and stress. Molding ourselves around these templates.
And we do have innate character traits, and in many cases this exaggeration isn’t intentional on a personal level of the facet/headmate. But is an aspect of our initial function.
Such as Circe’s “sexy voice” and flirting. She developed in response to sexual and physical trauma. She is our protector. She doesn’t like physical touch (makes her wanna rip off her skin most of the time) but is incredibly sexual and flirtatious. She has confidence and a sense of power, by controlling how others see us, and manipulating their desires towards us.
But at the same time she mostly has traditionally fronted, outside of conflict, just when we are like making erotic audios. Which makes sense why she talks like that, she’s not used to normally talking. And it makes sense as a hobby of hers, as it’s like the least physical act she can take, while still being sexual and flirtatious. She likes to use her voice.
Anyways that’s rambling. But we all came about from different life situations and traumas, different ways of coping with it. Bea writes and daydreams and draws, Lark writes poetry and thinks through things, Circe fights and flirts, Cass dissociates and gets shit done, Pidge focuses on how fun life is, and Star wants to die.