And with that, the methylphenidate family is finally complete!

Ritalin’s younger twin brother (D-isomer), Focalin! Developed much later than Ritalin himself. Given Focalin is far more potent than Ritalin, I’d imagine it’s one of those “my younger sibling can beat me up now and that pisses me off” situations with them. He’s got a sleeper-build thing going on, tho his arms are larger than Ritalins. Ritalin may have gotten the tennis player body, but Focalin can overpower him pretty easily (everywhere except the tennis court, where Ritalin kicks his ass).

Personality wise, he’s more similar to Concerta, much to Ritalins chagrin. Ritalin got his hyperactive clone handed to him in the late 90s/2000s, and then his hyperactive twin the next year. Poor guy couldn’t catch a break. Focalin definitely mirrored some of Ritalins mannerisms tho, as he looked up to him greatly. He keeps his fur well-kept (as much as he can) and makes strong efforts to practice the same quieter maturity that Ritalin does, although it doesn’t seem to suit him as well as it does his brother.

Despite being a clone of his twin brother, Focalin considers Concerta his sister, just like Ritalin does. It’s like having another twin basically. They refer to themselves as triplets, even if Ritalin tends to harp on the specifics of “extended release formulation” and “enantiomers and isomers.”

Ritalin essentially raised these two extensions of himself. He was a fully matured adult when they came into his life, having spent the previous 60 or so years mostly alone. Ritalin was quiet and withdrawn, throwing himself into his work before anything else. He spent far more time in his own head than expressing his thoughts and emotions outwardly, so when these two came along, it was like looking in one of those weird circus mirrors. Two versions of yourself that are technically you, but not quite. I’d like to explore that more later.

Focalin is a ‘best of both worlds’ situation. Applying the same ideas from my previous post, with Ritalin’s personality being based off traits of inattentive ADHD and Concerta’s personality being based off traits of hyperactive ADHD, Focalin takes inspiration from both; combined type. I actually based his personality on my own experiences with ADHD, specifically how I am while on my meds vs off of them (I take Ritalin lol). With combined type ADHD myself, the Ritalin is calming. It quiets some of the noise, the yelling, the singing, the urge to move and keep moving, while also making it so that I can start and finish my tasks without getting distracted by anything and everything out the window or simply forgetting what I’m doing. Once the meds wear off, I get spacey, hyper, and impulsive. The noise that usually stays confined to my own head starts leaking out of my mouth. Anything I pick up and put down disappears. I get confused and frustrated at that point. I’d imagine Focalin gets a combination of these traits. He can lock in when necessary, but has a tendency to forget things and misplace stuff, much like Ritalin. If something excites him, he can do it for hours, with seemingly endless amounts of energy, enough that calming down can seem impossible, much like Concerta.

I guess I'm enjoying the wonders of modern medicine the first episode is so fucking good they show the whole planet they give a momentus mori the ultimate momentus mori!

Rick and Morty has also been very good one of the latest episodes was like yeah he went on adventures with evil Morty, who is just as smart as him. Yeah, you got us. I am the fan being served, yes!

never read anything with Rick and Morty, no I did but it was a long time ago maybe there will be better ones now because it's finally like he is like a vampire who got transformed as a kid and then kept growing up so he looks young but he's actually an adult it's not born pretty yesterday or whatever Awwww!

still a bit in a Jayvik fandom but slowly moving to Hucklrobby (the taint one was somthing else)

The original methylphenidate, Ritalin. Named for its creators wife, ‘Rita,’ she was the first to try the drug and took it hoping to help her low blood pressure. She relayed its effects to her husband, and continued using Ritalin to improve her tennis game (hence why Ritalins personification takes inspiration from common builds of tennis players).

He’s far older than many of his family members, and I wanted his personality to reflect that. Coincidentally, Concerta ended up with the hyperactive, always on-the-go, extroverted personality that mirrors that stereotypical hyperactive adhd subtype, and Ritalin ended up with a much ‘calmer on the outside’ type personality that feels more akin to the ‘inattentive’ adhd subtype. It’s less like they represent the subtypes themselves and more like they represent the kind of force someone with the opposite subtype might need. Obviously meds aren’t assigned based on what ADHD subtype a patient has, but I couldn’t pass up a chance to represent some of the disorders patterns in the meds themselves. Ritalin is calm, level-headed, and looks before he leaps, while Concerta is excitable, optimistic, and willing to take risks without fear. They compliment each other.

Much like someone with ADHD, Ritalin has worn many hats for lack of a better term over the years, jumping from specialty to specialty. I’ve talked about it before for an ask, but starting out as a simple drug being tested on your inventors wife to treating depression in the elderly and broken down housewife exhausted with their work, to then supporting people locked away in asylums, then suddenly being approved for hyperactivity and being sent to help children for a change is a hell of a list.