My headcanon of Jon developing DID (specifically OSDD-1a) from disassociating in the volcano.
Before we start, let me run you through a short explaination of what DID/OSDD-1a is:
-DID or disassociated identity disorder (formally known as Multiple personality disorder) is a trauma-based disassociative disorder that is characterized by two or more distinct personality states.
-While OSDD-1a is a subtype that describes individuals who have dissociative parts that are not sufficiently differentiated to qualify as alters, more like different versions of the same person, though still experiencing dissociative amnesia.
So, Jonathan Kent has OSDD-1a, but why?
1. The differences in his pre and post-age up’s personalities
-While I was discussing about Jon’s personality with another user on here, they pointed out the difference trauma responses that the two has, and that even if the same person has changed a lot, their trauma responses would stay the same. That plus the fact that many people have said that they’re pretty much 2 separate characters at this point. And that’s the basis of how I came up with this headcanon, literally treating them like 2 separate people!
-In my headcanon, Jon, who was stuck in the volcano for 6 years would obviously disassociates a lot since he has nothing else to do. In that time in the volcano, he started day-dreaming and gradually developed an identity of himself being out of the Volcano, and the perfect kid/Superboy that his parents had wished for him.
-But this other “Jon” remains vague and dormant until he later escaped the volcano, the increase in activity slowly easing him into becoming the Host.
2. Jon seemingly being fine despite all the trauma that had happened to him
-I often hear a lot of people complain about Jon seemingly just not remembering his past trauma (DC’s faults really). But, what if he really DOESN’T remember??
-Host alters is the alter that most commonly uses the body, other wise known as alters who frequently “front” by taking control of the body and front/conscious part of the mind. And in my head, host!Jon is the current Jon we see post-aged up.
-Jon has almost none or only blurry memories of his time in the volcano; seemingly unaffected by it, leading life as if he’s been there the whole time, unaware that he’s a system. While the original/core!Jon stays inside as the trauma holder now that he’s no longer in active danger.
-But that doesn’t feel like enough for Jon in my mind, so I made it so that he has a 3rd alter. Which is kid!Jon! Often called “littles” aka kid alters that holds the childhood innocence. In my mind he’s more of a fragment with the specific job of being an emotional protector/conscience to core!Jon.
3. The actual brainrots that I want to use this concept for (Supersons heavy)
-Most of my headcanons for Jon essentially boils down to wanting for him to heal and kinda cross the bridge between his kid and adult selves. So in my mind, host!Jon has NO CLUE that he’s a system (a lot of system usually keep their existence away from the host until they get diagnosed). There are subtle irregularities with him compared to kid!Jon that people might notice, but chalk it up to Jon just being grown up and changing.
-Until one day, after losing control of his powers in a high stress situation, Jon crashes tf out and lost consciousness for a few moments. When Damian saw Jon standing in the middle of dust and rubble a few moments later, Jon takes notice of him and just stares at him with wide eyes then he looks down covering his face with his own hands while heavily (unsteadily) breathing, like trying to control something. When Damian pushed through all the concrete and got to him however, Jon blinked and opened his eyes slowly as if he had just woken up and looked at Damian with a confused gaze. Tears and snot evident on his face, but it was as if Jon hadn’t remembered crying at all. And at that moment, Damian thought to himself “Ok, that’s definitely not normal.”
-After that event, Damian starts noting down some of the irregularities that Jon started the exhibit. The slight change in behavior and reactions between his 10 and current self, the subtle change in his hobbies and interests, the insignificant “Oh sorry! I just space out like that sometimes. What were you saying?”. Hell! Even their first encounter when Jon came back 3 weeks later being 6 years older than Damian! It was different- and wrong… but it didn’t feel like anyone else, had Jon really changed just like that? How his best friend was ever so slightly more of a different person not just physically anymore…
-Eventually Damian & Jon finds out that he has Osdd-1a (however they might’ve done it, Jon being stubborn over him being fine regardless).
-And that night, Jon had a dream, despite not having one for a very long time now. In that dream, he stood in the volcano again, opposite of him was a younger version of himself doubled over, shaking uncontrollably, in the same tattered clothes the wore when he was imprisoned. Then he looks at him, full of anger as lasers starts shooting out of his eyes without direction, like he just wanted it to stop. For a moment, Jon felt like he was falling, losing grasp of himself — then he woke up. The burn mark on the walls of his room stared back at him. (This being their first encounter as 2 alters in a system)
(my art for reference!)
-He and Damian talks about it, and after a lot of convincing and getting to know core!Jon through kid!Jon essentially being the meditator between them in their dreams, host!Jon convinces core!Jon to see Damian. When core!Jon finally accepted, first thing he did was to brace himself — as the rare times he fronted was for protecting the body physically. But when he opened his eyes, it was Damian staring at him instead of a supervillain; and maybe that would’ve been better because the moment he met the heavy green eyes his own started filling up with tears and he started full on sobbing, not daring to look up again. Damian tensed up at the sight of his friend but went and comfort him the only way he know how at his current state: a hug. After Jon had come down, still holding his best friend tightly, when have I grown so big, had Damian always been this small? Oh god… How much time had I lost… Jon feels the tears building up again then Damian pulled back to look at him in the face
“Jon. Do you know how old you are now?”
“Uhm…14? ish? Sorry, that’s probably not helpful- I stopped counting around then.”
-At that moment, Damian has never felt more of a surge for revenge. Jon’s stupid grandfather Jor-El for bringing him to space, he’ll hatch up a plan and go into space just to give that old man what he deserved himself! Not to mention how STUPID it was that Superman would allow Jon, his 10 yearold son to go on a space trip with practically a stranger! Have all of the adults lost their minds!?
-The truth is. Jon had been somewhat aware that he’s back on earth in his dormant stay inside their system. He could come out and meet his parents, friends & loved ones again. But how could he? When he’s like — this! He was overly burdened by what he experienced in the volcano, feeling less himself than ever, he wanted for the fire to burn itself out first before coming back, but the more he waited, the more things changed, the more he stayed the same. The world was moving on, and Jon “Superboy” Kent was not needed anymore… He kept himself away, no longer looking forward to the days he’s needed for fronting. Now, arms in arms with his best friend in the whole world, he can’t help but feel the guilt and sadness that he’s tried to tuck deep inside himself for long; but with it, relief, happiness, he was so tired of “living” in fear and misery. For now he indulges, to the feeling of cold air on his skin, the firm hold that was daring him to let go, the sound of the on going traffic from outside his windows.
4. What happens next?
-Over time, core!Jon lets himself be more present and open with the internal and external activities of the brain while host!Jon works through his own issues with his identity and actually talking to his parents about it, what’s going on with him and how he doesn’t want to stick to what his parents thinks is best for him. Core!Jon goes from fronting only in distressing times to letting himself be in peaceful moments and working through the trauma too.
(Now, I’ve heard that some systems can heal from alters gradually merging together until they’re the same person again so if this is wrong lmk!!)
-I like to imagine at one point, no matter how long it takes in their healing journey, they became similar and safe enough that he becomes just Jon again, a good mix of the both of them.
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I hate how misunderstood osdd-1a is. I made a post a while ago talking about systemhood with a lack of amnesia barriers like osdd-1b and alters like osdd-1a, and so many ppl were like "so you mean a singlet" no that's actually not what I fucking said. Osdd-1a does not mean "doesnt have alters" it means theyre less elaborated or differentiated, like theyre all fragments or just different "versions" of the same identity, or maybe they all appear the same in headspace but use different labels and names. The best analogy I have for it is all those 2016 sans undertale AU ensembles and comics people would draw, theyre all the same person just different "versions". It doesn't matter if alters aren't that different from one another, if you still hear them in ur head and they still front then they are not just "mood states" like bpd or cptsd.
Osdd-1a systems are still SYSTEMS. They're still PLURAL. If they didn't have alters but still had amnesia barriers then thats not what a fucking system is, that would be diagnosed as dissociative amnesia (which yes, is a separate dx despite being a symptom of osddid!)
explanation: my justification is that she literally has hundreds of versions of herself that while could be considered "different people" are all still her at their core. Different expressions sharing the same appearance/body. That's extremely osdd-1a to me
Hearing voices and I'm not sure if it's headmates or schizophrenia so that's fun. I suppose it doesn't matter. Nothing alarming or bad, at least we're all in agreement
You don’t need a system name, you don’t need a system aesthetic, you don’t need a collective identity. You don’t need to put your whole system– or any aspect of it– online in order to be a system.
You can just exist, you don’t need to make every aspect of your system public. You’re still a system even without a system name or collective pronouns or a system blog.
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So uh. I think I might be a system? That explains a lot. To kind of describe my experience so far, I never know what the hell is happening. I have a lot of memory gaps and find myself on autopilot for most of the day. Sometimes I blink and I'm in a new place without knowing how I got there or how much time has passed. I used to think that if I had alters I'd know about it, right? But it just kinda occurred to me that well. It's part of the whole disorder that you don't remember stuff. So it'd make sense if I didn't remember the other people I share a body with. It makes so much sense in retrospect. People always tell me I change so drastically it's like I'm a whole new person sometimes. Maybe I am? It explains why my whole identity is so fluid. One day I'm obsessed with like a song or something, and then later I find out I removed the song from spotify and I don't remember doing it. Once I flunked a test I studied ages for because I couldn't remember studying for it. Maybe it wasn't me who was taking the test then? The only problem is that I'm so new to all this that it's all super confusing. If these switches in myself are all alters, then that means I know about some, and I don't know about others (the ones that did stuff in those memory gaps of mine). That means that for the ones I know about, I've thought I was just having mood swings and indecisive opinions, but I was probably just switching. And for the ones I don't know about, how many are there? How many MEs are there that I don't even have access to? And one big thing is I barely remember any of my childhood from before the age of 6. Does that mean I'm not the original? I've always thought of myself as, well, the person I've been since I was born. But I only remember being around since I (I?) was 6, so have I only existed since then?? If so, where's the first me?? Are they still here, and I just don't know about it? Are they gone for good? Maybe what I thought was age regression was actually younger alters? That would also explain this like? Opposite regression thing I get? Where i feel older. Could that be alters that are older than my body? I don't know what to do. I'm so confused. My psychologist has said I likely have osdd-1a, but it doesn't seem like we're going with the diagnosis route? I don't really know what to do. Longer than usual rant sorry, but does anyone have some advice?
I am still learning about systems, plurality, DID and OSDD but here goes a silly intro haha! You’ll never see the others front, only me mostly (I hope/think??)
Welly/Well
Normally who fronts and that’s always talking, he/it and afab. nonbinary/agender and lithoaroace + lotusromantic. Always the ‘normal’ one, no heavy feelings or emotions, the studious and sweet type
Sharky/Mako/Aqua
he/him, ki/kit/kits & shark/sea pronouns. Girlflux + sharkgender, Aegoaroace and the cause of our problems. ki’s the reason why I cannot focus in class and often get bad grades. Might be the cause of our anxiety
Talks like this
Kitty/Bubblez/Saw
It is the happiest one out of all of us. She/it/kin/cat/kitty, genderfluid transmasc + cat/kittygender and bellusromantic. Might be the cause of our adhd
Talks like this!
Blitz/Pixel/Chomper
The alien… 👽 genderflux + alien/spacegender, Orchidaroace and it/ze/bit/alien/space pronouns. The oddest of them all, antisocial and hates to socialize. Prefers to stay at home and do nothing. Might be the cause of our antisocial problems.
Talkz like diz
Blank/Void
This guy just… exists. Especially whenever I’m overly zoning out or at night specifically. Blank is nothing, no pronounce and gendervoid. I don’t like Void because void is the reason why I lost most of my friends. Might be the cause of our depression.
