There’s a very large difference between “could not” and “chooses not to.” If she just walked into the quad with a big “open for business” sign she’d get swamped in half a second.
His face is pretty good, but I’ve seen him in his undies and he was looking a little noodlie. He’s very much a guy with good genetics who is coasting on that. I’m not saying he needs more mass, but a bit more definition couldn’t hurt. Guys like Jacob and Joe, and even Ethan exist. If we ever find out he has abs I might change my mind, but until then “pure sex” is an exaggeration.
Leorale
Different people like different things! I tend to prefer short slim fellows, and think washboard abs just make you look like you swallowed a turtle. One of my best lady-pals prefers bearlike dudes with more to love. It’s all good!
Leorale
Anyway Asher is a hottie for me, but then the smoking totally ruins it because I imagine how that smells. Your mileage may vary.
Reltzik
Smoking definitely ruins it.
…. I mean I’m a straight guy, so there’s not much of an it for me to have ruined, but on principle. At least, that’s how I feel about Sal.
Sam
This is literally a feel my partner has. Person can be completely hot. Smokes though? Attraction is dead in the water instantly. Likely would be for me too, but I’m also pretty adverse to people drinking a lot too because I dislike being around drunk people. Too unpredictable.
Needfuldoer
Same. Oddly enough I don’t mind the stale, musty smell smoking leaves behind (not the actual smoke cloud), but the act of smoking itself is repulsive.
Clif
Let’s go back to what’s important. When did Sirksome see Asher in his undies?
I could see it being like Amber’s memories of the first kidnapping/car chase, which she described at a distance (‘it wasn’t me in control, it was Amazi-Girl’) but in a way that clearly implied she was conscious during the event (because Amber was terrified, but AG was the one in control and she wouldn’t let herself retreat.) We know the convenience store is the point they consider AG’s origin, so it could be she was the one in control during the aftermath when she stabbed Sal (and AG’s been repressing that fact ever since and pinning it on Amber as the bad one, to keep herself as the Golden Alter). They also were cooperating and operating in relative sync until Family Weekend and the Sal stuff started making the lines more distinct, and then only stopped sharing memories entirely after the Ryan stabbing. (Asher happened between that and the second kidnapping, when AmbG started sharing memories again. So there was no chance AG was conscious at the time the same way.)
But complicating things is that AmbG weren’t originally envisioned as a system, just a standard Batman situation where AG was Amber’s outlet for her violent impulses/form of compartmentalization. Even once they started reading like they could be, Willis was worried about playing into the Scary Dangerous DID Person trope, so he didn’t make it deliberate and clear for a while (until some plural fans said that even with AG as a vigilante with anger issues, she still rang a lot truer to their experiences than most and valued her storyline as representation.) As a result, a lot of early stuff doesn’t read like they’re different people, since at the time they weren’t, and their backstory doesn’t map to how DID develops in the real world – 12-13 is REALLY late. (My no-prize is that they’ve been plural since early childhood but the convenience store was the first time they really realized that was what was going on.) So we don’t know for sure what was up memory-wise at that point, because it’s one of the places where the retcon doesn’t quite fit with what had already been established.
An alternative reading is that it was neither Amber nor AmaziGirl who stabbed Sal at the convenience store, but rather the rarely seen third, RageAmber (or if not a third, at least Amber’s unwanted rage). Following stabbin Sal, AmaziGirl was birthed so that Amber could give a controlled outlet to the pain and anger her father forced her to experience, but in a more safely controlled fashion, because none of them really want to see people hurt, but RageAmber knows she can’t control herself, so she doesn’t take the light unless they’re in danger. Certainly it wasn’t AmaziGirl who … corrected Ryan outside their dorm. “Unfortunately for you, I’m not AmaziGirl.”
Regalli
Disclaimer here: in no way an expert, mostly building off what plural commenters have said in the past. Not gonna say Willis would never write that, because who knows, but I do think it’d go against the themes of their arc. Amber has serious rage issues that’ve manifested violently, yes, but crucially, so does Amazi-Girl. They’re not a ‘one’s the Batman, one’s the Joker’ story, and while Amber was definitely the one to stab Ryan (with, apparently, murderous intent,) we’ve also seen AG try to downplay her less-than-noble impulses and paint Amber as the ‘bad’ one, which Amber’s internalized as well. (See also, stalking and picking fights with Sal ‘wasn’t her,’ AG says after being confronted with the fact that she was assuming Sal had done something wrong for the crime of existing even when she objectively hadn’t, and that there was a nasty element of racist subtext there that bystanders were playing into. But we the readers know that the stalking was all AG, the picking fights was all AG, and looking for people to fight after the Danny breakup to have cathartic-yet-‘justified’ violence was all AG.)
If it’s Amber who was in control the whole night of the convenience store, it’s the same anger and violence issues she’s been uncomfortable with through the comic, the same ones that led her to punch Blaine in the dorm and flip a table at Ethan. If it’s AG, it’s the issues that led to her becoming a campus superhero. But neither of them is truly unable to control those impulses. They’re not destined to become Blaine. They need some better coping mechanisms and weren’t given anything but violence in the wake of the convenience store (self-defense classes, thanks Blaine,) but they’re both capable of being something else. There being an alter who’s only violence would be dangerously close to the Scary Dangerous DID person, IMO, and would imply they are in some ways destined for violence. I say fuck that.
I bet Blaine’s abuse was the catalyst that started (or worsened) Amber’s dissociation. Maybe she fantasized about kicking his ass and freeing herself and her mother from his abuse, but could never act that out herself, so Amazi-Girl formed out of those fantasies. As time went on, and she heard nothing but how meek and worthless “Amber” was, she put any positivity she internalized into Amazi-Girl instead.
The convenience store robbery was a wedge that further drove the split, but we haven’t seen Amazi-Girl assert herself in any blue flashbacks yet AFAIK, so she may have only had the opportunity once they had the freedom of on-campus college life.
It must be the weirdest goddamn feeling to ride shotgun in your own body though.
(Obligatory disclaimer: I’m not a mental health expert, nor do I have DID. I’m just a dummy writing words under a comic strip on the Internet. This is just my take, however wrong it is.)
So, I am not an expert, but had a friend a while back who shared a brain with multiple identities. The way it was described, they would take turns “driving” the body, and would discuss stuff with each other internally, and sometimes I’d ask a question of a specific identity and they’d take a moment to do the asking. At the same time, they do seem to all be able to “listen” together, if the identities are interested in listening (one was very “not interested” most of the time).
So, Regalli’s description of the meta-narrative history aside (I don’t know), AG probably doesn’t necessarily remember it herself, but may have a memory of Amber telling her, or vice versa. So it’s “sharing memories” in the more common sense of talking about photos with your mom or whatever, if they’re not both “listening” for the relevant events.
Disclaimer that I’m basically summarizing hearsay-at-best, here. Other people with more direct experience have also made comments to similar effect in the past, though.
While it’s typically the original function of DID to separate out memories so the host (person handling day to day life stuff) isn’t overwhelmed by them, if the host develops good relationships and communication with their alters, they can often choose to share memories with each other when they are ready. It’s different for different systems of course. We don’t have much amnesia anymore (had more as a kid) but we do have a thing called emotional amnesia, which is where you remember what happened but it feels like it didn’t happen to *you* or it feels farther away somehow. This is how our day to day information is stored, and then occasionally when it becomes relevant to our processing, someone will share a piece of a trauma memory and it will enter this sort of shared memory.
I recently discovered that two sisters I chat to on line actually share a body. I’ve found it fascinating how they can hold a quick fire chat with each other, on separate accounts, with each person’s writing being distinctly different. One such conversation revolved around how one sister was in pain while the other was saying she was happily pain free. I have no idea how that works. But this rapid shifting in who is in control at any given time does take a lot of energy apparently and recently, after having a covid jab, they opted to leave one of them in control because they were feeling really bad from the side effects.
Then there was the curious case of the older sister having a series of bad nightmares and she ran away for the better part of a week. The younger sister, who we’ve teased about being only seven years old as opposed to her older sibling who is 23, was suddenly left entirely alone to run everything and had no idea where her sister had gone. Again, how that is possible I do not know. But she was left to figure out things like making breakfast, going to bed and then not sleeping for 14 hours like she was used to.
I understand that each system tends to be unique and in this one both girls regret the lose of the other two they once shared with but, with amnesia leading to loss of such things as their own birthday, it was a choice that had to be made. Regretfully I never got to know them but it has been wonderful seeing Hiki’s personality blossom as she becomes more confident and accepts that yes, we love her too.
I am slightly confused by what you mean in the entire last paragraph, I feel it lacks some context (is Hiki the result of the integration of two other alters that were previously unmentioned???) But I can explain a couple of things.
The pain difference is caused by different parts of the brain actually being used by alters. What this results in is that the way the body functions actually changes depending on who is in control so one alter’s control has the brain sending out pain signals while the other’s doesn’t. This can affect how muscles are used as well, hence different vision for instance as eye muscles move differently and the immune system as allergies can differ between alters as well.
The ‘running away’ part doesn’t make sense in a physical world when sharing a body obviously, but what it likely means is that the brain made it up for backstory to explain a dormancy, it happened in an Inner World (a mental space people with DID and OSDD can have or create which may be small like a room or massive like an actual running world) or the older sister ‘ran away’ in the sense of being too ‘mentally distant’ to be heard. All of these would result in the older sister being unreachable and her location unknown to the younger sister.
Like, I suppose a way to visualise that it is like if you had a friend Mack sitting right next to you that was staring out the window. His mind is a million miles away. He doesn’t snap to attention when you poke or prod him or call to him. His mind is literally somewhere else, you don’t know where. Then a week later, he walks down the stairs to greet you in the kitchen and you’re like ‘Where were you!?’ You knew physically where he was the whole time. But his mind was somewhere else and unreachable and you don’t know where it was, just that it was neither here nor near for a time.
Demoted Oblivious
I think they meant there were originally four sisters, but two left because they were causing Hiki and her other sister to lose too much time/information. It sounds like the elder sister still here usually takes care of things and Hiki only recently had to start growing up a little bit when big sister ran away (was unavailable) for a week.
ktbear
Yes, thank you that is indeed what I meant. And thank you Sam for the explanation, it makes a lot more sense now. 🙂
memories in a system are kinda tricky, and also kinda depend on what type you have (DID, OSDD-1A, OSDD-1B) they can be passed around, role changes can bring you “closer” to a certain memory, some are shared, some aren’t. it’s really complicated and mostly intuitive and also every system is different
mob membership is an opt in, you have to confirm it every month or they will let you e-mails like “we miss you, when do you come back?”, “special offer for old customers: two crooked policemen for the price of a loyal henchperson” or “we inform you that your membership has been resiliated and you cannot benefit from any of you past mob advantage, please note that the mob card is the mob property and would you fail to return it -with port- the mob would feel free to take illegal action for the prejudice”
I wonder if DID people get different turn ones depending on the personality? Who knows, maybe what rustles Amber’s jimmies may not work for Amazi-Girl.
In that same breath, wasn’t AG repulsed when Walky told her about hooking up with Amber?
Sunny
I think she was more repulsed at Amber hooking up with the twin brother of the criminal who took Ethan hostage. Walky’s looks and physique probably didn’t play into it.
thejeff
I’m not actually sure if she knew about that at the time.
Since she didn’t share Amber’s memories, she apparently didn’t know that Walky and Dorothy had broken up, which might be part of the reason AG called it a garbage fire.
She didn’t actually seem repulsed by Walky or even mad at him though.
Admittedly not an expert by any stretch, but I believe alters who are part of the same system can and do sometimes have different gender identities, so different sexual orientations wouldn’t surprise me.
I’ve been told by people with that condition that they had alters with whole different sexual orientations, so a mere difference in tastes is certainly possible.
Yeah. My boyfriend at one point was friends with a girl with DID who’s alter had a crush on him, but the main identity had a boyfriend and wasn’t interested. They, with the boyfriend, ended up offering if he wanted to date the alter (before we started dating) but the situation felt too messy for him.
That puts you in mischievous scamp territory — technically a crime, but a cute harmless one.
To complete the program, you have to leverage that into a child star status, where you are typecast as a little kid always getting into trouble and given a stern but loving talking-to from your sitcom parents, and you pout a bit and nod in understanding because you really are such an innocent kid and you only did a bad thing because you didn’t understand it was bad.
When you hit your late teens, that’s when you turn into 100% sex.
Funny, I remember my 5th grade teacher telling my class she did exactly that when she was a child!
Also, great to see you Lua Milu! Mind if I call you that?
Also, why do you think it sounds better in French? Are you French or something?
Wagstaff
Sorry I just checked last strip!
Lua is both Portuguese for moon and a programming language. Thought it was cool, but okay.
milu
no big, i don’t mind it really, but it doesn’t feel organic
One song i’m slightly obsessed with these days is called “Lua” =)
milu
also your 5th grade teacher did exactly what?!
Wagstaff
Steal candy from a convenience store when she was 5 or something. Just to be fair, she thought she was paying for it with a marble. And she actually told that to my whole class.
milu
aw come on, that’s just the cutest story though XD
milu
also how do you keep answering so fast, do you have some sort of smart browser add-on or are you just constantly refreshing.
Wagstaff
I just use the “find in page” feature common to nearly any web browser.
“By all accounts”, hmm. I forget, do we know yet if Amber and Amazi-Girl are straight or bi/pan? Kind of interpreting that as her talking about Sal’s hotness on a “it is known” level, rather than her own interest, so, straight presumably.
Of course, being bi or pan doesn’t mean automatically having everyone be your type. Dating would get a whole lot simpler if it worked like that.
we’ve only ever seen evidence of straightness, but being straight doesn’t blind anyone to what’s considered conventionally attractive in their own gender. if it did, i could have avoided a lot of emotional issues growing up.
Being 0 on the Kinsey scale really does blind people like that. It’s a rare condition, though; most people who consider themselves straight don’t seem to know it exists.
166 thoughts on “Run-in”
Ana Chronistic
“so if you’re pure sex now, how come you couldn’t get any other than that
T.A.bartender”Ana Chronistic
alt: “nah, he’s at LEAST a pure EIGHT”
Yotomoe
There’s a very large difference between “could not” and “chooses not to.” If she just walked into the quad with a big “open for business” sign she’d get swamped in half a second.
Demoted Oblivious
But what would such an entrance look like Yotomoe? I am curious for … research purposes.
Sirksome
I can say Asher might be sex but “pure sex” nah. He’s a solid 8 out of 10…He’s a 10 out of 10 on the “I don’t trust him” meter though.
DailyBrad
I dunno, he does look like he’s a Go Nagai protagonist, and that’s really hot.
Sirksome
His face is pretty good, but I’ve seen him in his undies and he was looking a little noodlie. He’s very much a guy with good genetics who is coasting on that. I’m not saying he needs more mass, but a bit more definition couldn’t hurt. Guys like Jacob and Joe, and even Ethan exist. If we ever find out he has abs I might change my mind, but until then “pure sex” is an exaggeration.
Leorale
Different people like different things! I tend to prefer short slim fellows, and think washboard abs just make you look like you swallowed a turtle. One of my best lady-pals prefers bearlike dudes with more to love. It’s all good!
Leorale
Anyway Asher is a hottie for me, but then the smoking totally ruins it because I imagine how that smells. Your mileage may vary.
Reltzik
Smoking definitely ruins it.
…. I mean I’m a straight guy, so there’s not much of an it for me to have ruined, but on principle. At least, that’s how I feel about Sal.
Sam
This is literally a feel my partner has. Person can be completely hot. Smokes though? Attraction is dead in the water instantly. Likely would be for me too, but I’m also pretty adverse to people drinking a lot too because I dislike being around drunk people. Too unpredictable.
Needfuldoer
Same. Oddly enough I don’t mind the stale, musty smell smoking leaves behind (not the actual smoke cloud), but the act of smoking itself is repulsive.
Clif
Let’s go back to what’s important. When did Sirksome see Asher in his undies?
Concolor44
Yes. This. All day.
RassilonTDavros
So do both Amber and AG remember that night as their own memory?
DailyBrad
I think that the two can share information, but that it doesn’t mean it’s remembered first-hand.
Regalli
I could see it being like Amber’s memories of the first kidnapping/car chase, which she described at a distance (‘it wasn’t me in control, it was Amazi-Girl’) but in a way that clearly implied she was conscious during the event (because Amber was terrified, but AG was the one in control and she wouldn’t let herself retreat.) We know the convenience store is the point they consider AG’s origin, so it could be she was the one in control during the aftermath when she stabbed Sal (and AG’s been repressing that fact ever since and pinning it on Amber as the bad one, to keep herself as the Golden Alter). They also were cooperating and operating in relative sync until Family Weekend and the Sal stuff started making the lines more distinct, and then only stopped sharing memories entirely after the Ryan stabbing. (Asher happened between that and the second kidnapping, when AmbG started sharing memories again. So there was no chance AG was conscious at the time the same way.)
But complicating things is that AmbG weren’t originally envisioned as a system, just a standard Batman situation where AG was Amber’s outlet for her violent impulses/form of compartmentalization. Even once they started reading like they could be, Willis was worried about playing into the Scary Dangerous DID Person trope, so he didn’t make it deliberate and clear for a while (until some plural fans said that even with AG as a vigilante with anger issues, she still rang a lot truer to their experiences than most and valued her storyline as representation.) As a result, a lot of early stuff doesn’t read like they’re different people, since at the time they weren’t, and their backstory doesn’t map to how DID develops in the real world – 12-13 is REALLY late. (My no-prize is that they’ve been plural since early childhood but the convenience store was the first time they really realized that was what was going on.) So we don’t know for sure what was up memory-wise at that point, because it’s one of the places where the retcon doesn’t quite fit with what had already been established.
Demoted Oblivious
An alternative reading is that it was neither Amber nor AmaziGirl who stabbed Sal at the convenience store, but rather the rarely seen third, RageAmber (or if not a third, at least Amber’s unwanted rage). Following stabbin Sal, AmaziGirl was birthed so that Amber could give a controlled outlet to the pain and anger her father forced her to experience, but in a more safely controlled fashion, because none of them really want to see people hurt, but RageAmber knows she can’t control herself, so she doesn’t take the light unless they’re in danger. Certainly it wasn’t AmaziGirl who … corrected Ryan outside their dorm. “Unfortunately for you, I’m not AmaziGirl.”
Regalli
Disclaimer here: in no way an expert, mostly building off what plural commenters have said in the past. Not gonna say Willis would never write that, because who knows, but I do think it’d go against the themes of their arc. Amber has serious rage issues that’ve manifested violently, yes, but crucially, so does Amazi-Girl. They’re not a ‘one’s the Batman, one’s the Joker’ story, and while Amber was definitely the one to stab Ryan (with, apparently, murderous intent,) we’ve also seen AG try to downplay her less-than-noble impulses and paint Amber as the ‘bad’ one, which Amber’s internalized as well. (See also, stalking and picking fights with Sal ‘wasn’t her,’ AG says after being confronted with the fact that she was assuming Sal had done something wrong for the crime of existing even when she objectively hadn’t, and that there was a nasty element of racist subtext there that bystanders were playing into. But we the readers know that the stalking was all AG, the picking fights was all AG, and looking for people to fight after the Danny breakup to have cathartic-yet-‘justified’ violence was all AG.)
If it’s Amber who was in control the whole night of the convenience store, it’s the same anger and violence issues she’s been uncomfortable with through the comic, the same ones that led her to punch Blaine in the dorm and flip a table at Ethan. If it’s AG, it’s the issues that led to her becoming a campus superhero. But neither of them is truly unable to control those impulses. They’re not destined to become Blaine. They need some better coping mechanisms and weren’t given anything but violence in the wake of the convenience store (self-defense classes, thanks Blaine,) but they’re both capable of being something else. There being an alter who’s only violence would be dangerously close to the Scary Dangerous DID person, IMO, and would imply they are in some ways destined for violence. I say fuck that.
Needfuldoer
I bet Blaine’s abuse was the catalyst that started (or worsened) Amber’s dissociation. Maybe she fantasized about kicking his ass and freeing herself and her mother from his abuse, but could never act that out herself, so Amazi-Girl formed out of those fantasies. As time went on, and she heard nothing but how meek and worthless “Amber” was, she put any positivity she internalized into Amazi-Girl instead.
The convenience store robbery was a wedge that further drove the split, but we haven’t seen Amazi-Girl assert herself in any blue flashbacks yet AFAIK, so she may have only had the opportunity once they had the freedom of on-campus college life.
It must be the weirdest goddamn feeling to ride shotgun in your own body though.
(Obligatory disclaimer: I’m not a mental health expert, nor do I have DID. I’m just a dummy writing words under a comic strip on the Internet. This is just my take, however wrong it is.)
Jamie
So, I am not an expert, but had a friend a while back who shared a brain with multiple identities. The way it was described, they would take turns “driving” the body, and would discuss stuff with each other internally, and sometimes I’d ask a question of a specific identity and they’d take a moment to do the asking. At the same time, they do seem to all be able to “listen” together, if the identities are interested in listening (one was very “not interested” most of the time).
So, Regalli’s description of the meta-narrative history aside (I don’t know), AG probably doesn’t necessarily remember it herself, but may have a memory of Amber telling her, or vice versa. So it’s “sharing memories” in the more common sense of talking about photos with your mom or whatever, if they’re not both “listening” for the relevant events.
Disclaimer that I’m basically summarizing hearsay-at-best, here. Other people with more direct experience have also made comments to similar effect in the past, though.
thejeff
We actually saw Amber get a rush of AG’s memories during the kidnapping.
Kella
DID system here!
While it’s typically the original function of DID to separate out memories so the host (person handling day to day life stuff) isn’t overwhelmed by them, if the host develops good relationships and communication with their alters, they can often choose to share memories with each other when they are ready. It’s different for different systems of course. We don’t have much amnesia anymore (had more as a kid) but we do have a thing called emotional amnesia, which is where you remember what happened but it feels like it didn’t happen to *you* or it feels farther away somehow. This is how our day to day information is stored, and then occasionally when it becomes relevant to our processing, someone will share a piece of a trauma memory and it will enter this sort of shared memory.
ktbear
I recently discovered that two sisters I chat to on line actually share a body. I’ve found it fascinating how they can hold a quick fire chat with each other, on separate accounts, with each person’s writing being distinctly different. One such conversation revolved around how one sister was in pain while the other was saying she was happily pain free. I have no idea how that works. But this rapid shifting in who is in control at any given time does take a lot of energy apparently and recently, after having a covid jab, they opted to leave one of them in control because they were feeling really bad from the side effects.
Then there was the curious case of the older sister having a series of bad nightmares and she ran away for the better part of a week. The younger sister, who we’ve teased about being only seven years old as opposed to her older sibling who is 23, was suddenly left entirely alone to run everything and had no idea where her sister had gone. Again, how that is possible I do not know. But she was left to figure out things like making breakfast, going to bed and then not sleeping for 14 hours like she was used to.
I understand that each system tends to be unique and in this one both girls regret the lose of the other two they once shared with but, with amnesia leading to loss of such things as their own birthday, it was a choice that had to be made. Regretfully I never got to know them but it has been wonderful seeing Hiki’s personality blossom as she becomes more confident and accepts that yes, we love her too.
Sam
I am slightly confused by what you mean in the entire last paragraph, I feel it lacks some context (is Hiki the result of the integration of two other alters that were previously unmentioned???) But I can explain a couple of things.
The pain difference is caused by different parts of the brain actually being used by alters. What this results in is that the way the body functions actually changes depending on who is in control so one alter’s control has the brain sending out pain signals while the other’s doesn’t. This can affect how muscles are used as well, hence different vision for instance as eye muscles move differently and the immune system as allergies can differ between alters as well.
The ‘running away’ part doesn’t make sense in a physical world when sharing a body obviously, but what it likely means is that the brain made it up for backstory to explain a dormancy, it happened in an Inner World (a mental space people with DID and OSDD can have or create which may be small like a room or massive like an actual running world) or the older sister ‘ran away’ in the sense of being too ‘mentally distant’ to be heard. All of these would result in the older sister being unreachable and her location unknown to the younger sister.
Like, I suppose a way to visualise that it is like if you had a friend Mack sitting right next to you that was staring out the window. His mind is a million miles away. He doesn’t snap to attention when you poke or prod him or call to him. His mind is literally somewhere else, you don’t know where. Then a week later, he walks down the stairs to greet you in the kitchen and you’re like ‘Where were you!?’ You knew physically where he was the whole time. But his mind was somewhere else and unreachable and you don’t know where it was, just that it was neither here nor near for a time.
Demoted Oblivious
I think they meant there were originally four sisters, but two left because they were causing Hiki and her other sister to lose too much time/information. It sounds like the elder sister still here usually takes care of things and Hiki only recently had to start growing up a little bit when big sister ran away (was unavailable) for a week.
ktbear
Yes, thank you that is indeed what I meant. And thank you Sam for the explanation, it makes a lot more sense now. 🙂
flower system
memories in a system are kinda tricky, and also kinda depend on what type you have (DID, OSDD-1A, OSDD-1B) they can be passed around, role changes can bring you “closer” to a certain memory, some are shared, some aren’t. it’s really complicated and mostly intuitive and also every system is different
Wagstaff
Mob membership officially confirmed.
King Daniel
Asher’s mob connections were confirmed literally years ago, but sure, “officially confirmed” for the Nth time 😛
khn0
mob membership is an opt in, you have to confirm it every month or they will let you e-mails like “we miss you, when do you come back?”, “special offer for old customers: two crooked policemen for the price of a loyal henchperson” or “we inform you that your membership has been resiliated and you cannot benefit from any of you past mob advantage, please note that the mob card is the mob property and would you fail to return it -with port- the mob would feel free to take illegal action for the prejudice”
Nono
I wonder if DID people get different turn ones depending on the personality? Who knows, maybe what rustles Amber’s jimmies may not work for Amazi-Girl.
DailyBrad
Both of them found/find Danny hot and Mike, but yeah, hard to say.
GeekyWarrior
In that same breath, wasn’t AG repulsed when Walky told her about hooking up with Amber?
Sunny
I think she was more repulsed at Amber hooking up with the twin brother of the criminal who took Ethan hostage. Walky’s looks and physique probably didn’t play into it.
thejeff
I’m not actually sure if she knew about that at the time.
Since she didn’t share Amber’s memories, she apparently didn’t know that Walky and Dorothy had broken up, which might be part of the reason AG called it a garbage fire.
She didn’t actually seem repulsed by Walky or even mad at him though.
RassilonTDavros
Admittedly not an expert by any stretch, but I believe alters who are part of the same system can and do sometimes have different gender identities, so different sexual orientations wouldn’t surprise me.
ktbear
My two friends are different genders, one is bi and one is enby. Fortunately, they both agree they are trans and female.
Whirlwitch
I’ve been told by people with that condition that they had alters with whole different sexual orientations, so a mere difference in tastes is certainly possible.
Kella
Yup! Different sexual orientations and different genders are very common within DID systems.
zee
Yeah. My boyfriend at one point was friends with a girl with DID who’s alter had a crush on him, but the main identity had a boyfriend and wasn’t interested. They, with the boyfriend, ended up offering if he wanted to date the alter (before we started dating) but the situation felt too messy for him.
flower system
we all have different sexualities in here, and preferences and stuff
Doctor_Who
So the lesson is to do crimes when you’re young, it will automatically add at least a 2 to your sexiness rating when you grow up.
NotThatDrew
How much do I get for swiping some candy from a gas station when I was 5?
Ray Radlein
Anyone get stabbed?
Doctor_Who
With a rap sheet like that, I assume you’re either a Chippendale or a Playboy Centerfold, depending on your gender. Maybe both?
NotThatDrew
Not nearly androgynous enough to have a shot at both, unfortunately
Reltzik
That puts you in mischievous scamp territory — technically a crime, but a cute harmless one.
To complete the program, you have to leverage that into a child star status, where you are typecast as a little kid always getting into trouble and given a stern but loving talking-to from your sitcom parents, and you pout a bit and nod in understanding because you really are such an innocent kid and you only did a bad thing because you didn’t understand it was bad.
When you hit your late teens, that’s when you turn into 100% sex.
milu
~chiiiild staaaar~
Wagstaff
Funny, I remember my 5th grade teacher telling my class she did exactly that when she was a child!
Also, great to see you Lua Milu! Mind if I call you that?
Also, why do you think it sounds better in French? Are you French or something?
Wagstaff
Sorry I just checked last strip!
Lua is both Portuguese for moon and a programming language. Thought it was cool, but okay.
milu
no big, i don’t mind it really, but it doesn’t feel organic
One song i’m slightly obsessed with these days is called “Lua” =)
milu
also your 5th grade teacher did exactly what?!
Wagstaff
Steal candy from a convenience store when she was 5 or something. Just to be fair, she thought she was paying for it with a marble. And she actually told that to my whole class.
milu
aw come on, that’s just the cutest story though XD
milu
also how do you keep answering so fast, do you have some sort of smart browser add-on or are you just constantly refreshing.
Wagstaff
I just use the “find in page” feature common to nearly any web browser.
Keulen
All I got for crimes so far is a few speeding tickets years ago.
Stephen Bierce
*somewhere a radio is playing “Smooth Criminal”*
Crimsonstorm
on the hacked muzak, obviously
Wagstaff
What happened to your Muzak?
Clif
It was hacked.
Stephen Bierce
1) This isn’t campus.
2) They’re out of doors.
3) I’m flexible when it comes to soudtrack delivery systems.
Stephen Bierce
*soundtrack*
DailyBrad
“By all accounts”, hmm. I forget, do we know yet if Amber and Amazi-Girl are straight or bi/pan? Kind of interpreting that as her talking about Sal’s hotness on a “it is known” level, rather than her own interest, so, straight presumably.
Of course, being bi or pan doesn’t mean automatically having everyone be your type. Dating would get a whole lot simpler if it worked like that.
NotThatDrew
Christ, I know that all too well
BBCC
I’m pretty sure Amber is straight, not sure about AG.
brute
we’ve only ever seen evidence of straightness, but being straight doesn’t blind anyone to what’s considered conventionally attractive in their own gender. if it did, i could have avoided a lot of emotional issues growing up.
eh, whatever
Being 0 on the Kinsey scale really does blind people like that. It’s a rare condition, though; most people who consider themselves straight don’t seem to know it exists.
BBCC
I’m wondering if Sal suspects what happened with Asher regarding Blaine.
Sirksome