#mod cepheus

If it's a good idea, maybe the Universe will give me a sign....

To freeze in time the people I loved, just because I was lonely...

Mirabelle, Bonnie, Cetus, Isabeau, Odile...

I hope they don't hate me for becoming the King

I'm...glad, that the Siffrin that faced me snapped me out of it.

We had an epiphany recently, and a few of us were doing some introspection and sorting things out based on that epiphany. Then we had another epiphany. Realized the first one was partially wrong! This one is way more accurate to how we operate and function.

First of all, we uh, didn't want to think about it for a while. But. We have a lot of fragments. Which makes sense! A lot of guys really only front for one purpose in our system.

Second, we realized a lot of guys in our system we thought were just regular headmates are actually soulbonds. We knew we had one, named Loop, for quite a while. Then we realized Orcus, who we thought was an octive in our system, is actually a soulbond. Then we went, okay how many guys that we thought were regular headmates in our system are soulbonds? And how many are fragments?

So we've been trying to organize that all out, and Yuamu this morning finalized a fairly definitive but subject to change spreadsheet showing who is a fragment, who is a soulbond, who is a fully realized headmate, and who in those categories are currently active.

By our count, we have

29 fully realized active alters (three of whom are subsystems)

19 active fragments

14 active soulbonds

Which sounds like a lot and is a lot but feels a lot more manageable and less headache inducing than just, we got over 100 headmates. It feels really good to have this organization under our belt.

Hope you enjoyed this plurality update! Hopefully this makes us feel more grounded and helps us keep ourselves organized better

not that we don't present female. but i forgot that this body is afab? i forgot people perceive me that way?

cetus is the name they were born with. cepheus is the name i was born with.

cetus remembered their name after the universe took them out of their time loops. i remembered my name by the time i turned back time to freeze vaugarde in time when i was happiest, in its perfection. the vaugardian word for my name was king, which is why i went by the title of king.

what is a king but someone who acts against the will of the people?

cetus was originally supposed to be the one to defeat me. they accidentally put themself in a time loop to do so. when they failed at every attempt, with every strategy, and finally accepted their victory was impossible... they wished for help from the universe.

the universe destroyed them.

the euphrasie that existed afterwards blessed mirabelle. perhaps that was the help the universe sent. mirabelle came with a party of saviors, including siffrin. to defeat me.

siffrin accidentally put himself in a time loop as well. cetus, from the favor tree, did what they could to help siffrin; they didn't know much about the time loops, but they knew how to traverse the house. together, the two managed to help the party defeat me.

after i was defeated, siffrin's party adventured together a little longer, but soon went their separate ways. but siffrin didn't know how to be alone again. how to be happy alone again. eventually, they reached their lowest point, and made a purposeful wish to the universe to be with their family forever. the family they remembered.

the universe gifted power over timecraft and took them back in time. but this time, they weren't one of the saviors. this time, they were the king.

me.

every once in a while we'll get this experience where we feel asleep and floaty, but at least part of us is awake and piloting the body. it only happens with extreme exhaustion. today, it felt like i fronted so the rest of the system could rest and sleep. i'm not sure it's always me when we experience this, but today, it was me.

we think he and cetus might share a canon

getting a lot of info about cetus and (a) siffrin getting cepheus to stop freezing vaugarde in time and cepheus stopping fighting like, actually working. after cetus and (that) siffrin learning that cepheus is. also siffrin. they were able to appeal to him.