Question 1: Introduce Yourselves
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Tell us about yourselves. What are your lived experiences with plurality? How do you understand yourselves?
If you're still figuring this all out (as we all are), then what do you know so far about your own experiences? What do you want to know?
Comments and posts responding to this prompt are both welcomed, though comments keep this question's answers easier to find (consider linking back to this post if you answer in your own post- it makes it easier to track!).
Tell us about yourselves. What are your lived experiences with plurality? How do you understand yourselves?
If you're still figuring this all out (as we all are), then what do you know so far about your own experiences? What do you want to know?
Comments and posts responding to this prompt are both welcomed, though comments keep this question's answers easier to find (consider linking back to this post if you answer in your own post- it makes it easier to track!).
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Date: 2026-02-03 08:13 am (UTC)We're a system populated entirely by fictives and factives, most of them coming from the Japanese franchise THE IDOLM@STER. There are so many of us, we might not be able to document 100% of our roster and the details of our system's functioning. But either way, if our members show up, there's a super-high chance that they're from Idolmaster.
We typically see each other as separate beings, people from different places who are thrown into a bizarre realm (headspace) connected to our vessel (shared body / meatsuit), which is why we see our headspace bodies as our true bodies. We're also comparable to crewmembers of a ship, but instead of a ship, we're piloting a mechsuit. Think Pacific Rim's Jaegers, for example, but biological, and the entire crew lives in it.
The vast majority of us are human, in addition to whatever other species some of us may identify as. Collectively, our system has been connected to the concept of shapeshifting for ages even before we discovered our plurality, and in turn, it affects how our headspace functions too.
Our headspace grants us superpowers very often, but it could also cause other changes to ourselves, some of them unwanted and distress-inducing. This headspace quirk has been a net positive, but its downsides can still add so much more problems to our already-full plate.
We live in secrecy offline, keeping the masquerade up and dealing with our own issues at the same time. But whatever we do, we're trying our best to persist despite everything.