one billion oc introjects

collectively they/it

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🌱 (seedling) - How did you discover you were plural?

ooh we might do a comic about this at some point actually.. but that will take one billion years so for now

essentially it was a combination of a few things, it happened in like mid october last year when we were struggling extremely with end of year stress at university, while at the same time discussing plurality in relation to one of our partner system's rp characters, and we had just made a new rp character that cherry got very attached to. umber was probably the main fronter at that time and he was Very in denial but cherry wrote some diary entries that were very hard to ignore and picked out a name for herself, and then our partner sys (who at the time didn't know they were also plural) kind of guessed what was going on from some things we'd said and prodded us to talk about it. umber was still very in denial about it but cherry and the others who surfaced early on (red and indigo) were very distinct and excited to not mask and to get their own names and stuff + we had amazing support from our partner sys so yeah :)

i think what made it hard for us to realise earlier (despite having multiple times in the past done research into plurality and considered if we could have it) was that while we do have some memory barriers between headmates, we don't have complete amnesia, and it feels somewhat like we all share a consciousness. so we had thought in the past that if we were plural we would surely notice having periods of blackout amnesia, but actually many systems don't get that at all. and also your brain lies to you and hides things. it's a defence mechanism, your brain doesn't want you to know that you're plural

💐 (bouquet) - What analogy would you use to describe your system to a curious stranger?

honestly not sure about this one... i don't know if we'd use an analogy at all, it feels like it would make more sense to just describe it how it is? i guess possession could work but i worry that that makes it seem like there is a host who is the true owner of the body and the headmates are intruding which is not our experience at all. wait actually i just remembered a comic we saw that described it as waking up one day and discovering you have a bunch of roommates. that's pretty good

🪴 (potted plant) - If you have a headspace, what is that like? If you don't have a headspace, where do system members normally hang out?