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We like plurality depictions (and plural-adjacent characters) in Warframe not because they're very realistic or accurate, but for how varied are the dynamics in each case, showing how varied can be the needs for different systems to achieve cooperation/functionality and how varied can be the presentation. We got Flare & Lizzie, who benefit most from co-fronting (and a romantic bond, which is a pretty rare thing in mainstream plurality depictions), but we also got Operator & Drifter who literally are unable to co-front most of the time or Lotus, Natah & Margulis that had to pick a host to function. We have whimsical and cute Otak & Necraloid, but we also got The Zuud with Chatter being a depiction of more blurred lines between selves (like, how many sisters are there?). And there's Ordis and Ordan... Well, we still wait for this story to develop further.

We also got less literal depictions. Like Duviri, I mean, "distressed and traumatized kid manifested a living and thinking people to deal with their emotions" is kinda relatable to our DID ass, ngl.

We theoretically could go further with the mindspace that the Necralisk part of Entrati family has, especially with how there are parallels drawn between them and Xaku, which also are kind of designed to feel plural-adjacent.

None of these are flawless (like Flare and Lizzie being described as "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" once by Reb was a bit icky), most of these on its own are just okay, but grouping together all this into one universe is what makes it way better.

Because for each system plurality will feel different. Each system will work a bit differently. What dynamic is good for you, may be completely inaccessible for another.

And also it was a good idea to let each depiction have a different tone. We got deep and emotional stories (literally one of Zuud's voicelines during the Exploiter fight almost made us cry the first time), but we also got Otak being Otak (best mission control in the entire game) or Lizzie's pizza topping choices (which actually weren't that bad, just the matter of cocoa% in the chocolate).

Like, whatever someone tries to represent in media, it gets instantly a bit better if there's a bit of variety inside said media in how this thing is presented.

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Another fantasy trope story:

A story where a prominent prophesy very clearly states that this specific important thing Must Be Done by the firstborn of one specific guy. So three young heroes head out to fix this: This Guy's official firstborn heir, his bastard he didn't even know about before getting married, and his unofficially adopted orphan kid who just started living with him at some point, who is the oldest of the three so technically speaking is still the one who was born first. And all three must go because while the meaning of the prophesy itself is very clear, it's an utter mystery to everyone which one of them counts as their father's firstborn.

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When it was discovered that Zalim (ironically meaning, cruel) was in the company of two very young cubs, those at Ranthambore feared the worst: that, as an adult male, he would kill them. Instead, he surprised naturalists with his “motherly” behavior when he took in his twin daughters following the death of their mother.

At this time, science stated that tigers were only as social as mothers and cubs could go and that tiger fathers rarely interacted with their offspring. Zalim changed that when he was witnessed, month after month, caring for his daughters and teaching them how to hunt. Their relationship eventually ceased when the two girls were shifted to Sariska Tiger Reserve and Zalim went on to father another litter with the then-dominant tigress Sundari, the so-called Lady of the Lakes. When she too mysteriously disappeared, Zalim unsurprisingly took care of their cubs as well.

Ranthambore National Park, India Photograph taken via camera trap

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my humor might be broken cause I find this trend actually funny

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biting someone

STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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I don't get the difference between "physical" and "biological" nonhumanity. especially in the "you can say you're physically nonhuman but if you say you're biologically one then it's delusion". because like. Isn't this. Like. The same? I tried to think what could be the difference and... I don't know where it would be? Whatever I think of specifically biological trait I immediately remember it's, well, physical too. Like, call me stupid or whatever, I just don't understand.

-Dusk

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I am sofucking scared right noow the doll is chasin g me and it keeps yelling YOURE A PREP YOURE A PREP and sticking its middle fingner up at me . i hate the emo commumpity fucking leave me along

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ORAXIA CAN SPAWN BUGS, I REPEAT, ORAXIA CAN SPAWN BUGS.

Oh my god I love summoner abilities, even if summons are usually even less competent than your average sortie defense target. I just want a bajillion of funny creatures running around.

And you know what that means? Summoner's wrath + arcane camisado + dessication curse w/ augment on your subsume slot + volt specter/friend. And maybe even a hound with a duplex bond and a precept for three more clones. Just like the "bs slot" on our Atlas, Nekros and Caliban.

Gameplay: spawn minions, wait for Volt's buff, observe the chaos.

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Making builds in Warframe is like: hmmm... I'm not sure if I just failed at math or the game failed at math.

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bathroom

[ID: Four panel comic with crudely drawn stick people

Panel 1: A green person is washing their hand in a sink under a mirror. A grayscale person is approaching from behind them.

Grayscale: "Um, what are you doing in here?"

Green: "Washing my hands. You know. The thing we do in here."

Panel 2: The green person is shown from behind with the grayscale in the foreground. A mirror shows a toilet and a toilet paper dispenser.

Grayscale: "You should go in a different bathroom!"

Green: "Why?"

Grayscale: "You're green!"

Panel 3: Turn around to show that they are in a single-occupancy bathroom.

Green: "That's hardly relevant to bathroom usage."

Grayscale: "Well I'm uncomfortable with you being here!"

Panel 4: Zoom on green, grayscale next to them.

Green: "I mean. I did lock the door. How did you even get in here?"

Grayscale: "Stop disrespecting my privacy!"

End ID.]

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(Image description in alt text.) This is a comic that I found in a decades old issue of a magazine about multiples and DID systems, Many Voices: Words of Hope for People Recovering from Trauma and Dissociation, Vol XI, No.4, August 1999, ISSN 1042-2277. Illustrations and comics in this magazine are usually credited only by an artist's signature, which may be unclear or absent. This one doesn't have an artist credit, so Noah might be the signature, a name that doesn't appear elsewhere in the issue.

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yes i believe im perfect

yes i believe i need to change everything about myself

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the singular unfortunate effect of getting really into discworld at a young age is that i formed a Certain Impression about the purpose of footnotes, and now i am entering academia and it is still my true and firm belief that the footnotes are for being funny in and NOTHING else

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no one does it like him