We were recently having dinner with our extended family. At one point, the conversation moved to mental disorders, and our cousin said “I think that, and no offense to you”, looking straight at us, “people shouldn’t make their disorder their entire personality”.
This greatly confused us, what the heck did she mean? We’re not just our social anxiety or ADHD, we talk to her like a normal person. We talk to her on Discord about general life stuff that usually has nothing to do with our disorders, besides the occasional comment that we can’t pick up a phone and call someone.
Then it hit us, we talk to her on Discord, where we tag all of our messages with who’s talking. She knows we’re plural, and in the beginning she said she was ok with everyone in the system talking to her. But we realized that by tagging our posts, we were in a sense shoving our plurality in her face pretty much every time we’ve spoken to her for the past 5 years, even though we almost never actually talked about our plurality.
Our brain then went back to a post we once saw about our general alterhuman Discord server: “it’s plurality-focused”. We were confused by that too, it’s a general server for everything alterhuman, it’s not focused on anything but that. But some systems being very active means PluralKit is shoved into people’s faces every other post, even if they’re talking about otherkin things or about a movie they’re watching. People see a system use a proxy bot and they think of system things because of it.
Tagging posts or using PluralKit (or any other proxy bot) isn’t intended to make people think we’re making everything about plurality. It’s just a way for other people to tell who they’re talking to, but above all else, it’s for the system to feel comfortable posting with their own name and icon. You can suggest changing the account name and icon depending on who’s in the front, but that doesn’t work for systems like us who co-front often and have people randomly show up for a few minutes to type and then leave. It also doesn’t help that we have memory issues that require us to backread things often, and we won’t be able to remember who said what 2 days ago. We need to tag in our DMs and use PluralKit in servers to be able to function properly.
That might seem silly to singlets, and I know that. I literally just watched an argument start up in a non-plural server because PluralKit was added for the server owner, us, and a few other systems that happened to be there. A singlet was very vocal about how the bot wasn’t needed and made things hard to understand and said the comment we’ve had thrown towards ourselves a few times about how using the bot to moderate makes no one take you seriously.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that we’re not meaning to make you think about plurality every time we post, and tagging/using a proxy bot is absolutely needed for our own comfort. We’re also not meaning to come across as our plurality being our entire personality, but to be fair, how we come across greatly differs depending on who you’re talking to, the friendly young kid is not going to act the same as the grumpy old persecutor. Just treat different proxies/headmates like they’re different people that are forced to share a single body and please respect our need to tag our posts and use proxy bots. I know that’s confusing for some people, but there’s really no other way to make a system feel respected and accommodated.
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💗 What helps you feel closer to your source (in a positive way)?
💞 What's the biggest similarity between you and your canon self?
🎙️ What's the biggest difference between you and your canon self?
(For anyone who wants to answer)
✅Honestly, really hard question to answer. There's so much they get wrong that I think the only thing they seem to get right is how I look. I guess some people get the threatening vibe right, but I wouldn't say that's the usual.
❌People seem to think Infinite has no backstory and throws a tantrum for no reason other than Shadow beating him up. I'll admit that the game didn't do a good job explaining, but taking a few minutes to read a prequel comic and then piecing things together makes Infinite's actions make sense. I consider myself to be pretty canon compliant with my pre-Phantom-Ruby history, so the fact people insult me (the character and me personally) over my trauma all the time is really annoying.
💗I listen to Infinite's theme song so much, it's probably my system's most listened to song in general.
💞A lot of our story is the same, everything before the war, and most of the things during the war.
🎙️Canon Infinite (according to some material) had a prototype Phantom Ruby, that Sonic destroys, and shortly after Eggman has the real one at the final boss. In my life, I had the real Phantom Ruby, was trapped inside it for it to recharge, and then Eggman used my Phantom Ruby to fight Sonic with me still in it.
