#can'tstopthinkingaboutthis

[jeffthebull-blog]

Been getting obsessed with this oc idea I have lately. It's a very abstract idea cause I don't even have a setting for it and I have so many different ideas for directions it could be taken. But it's a "person" who is perceived differently by every single person who observes them. They have no concrete physical body. They are perceived as whoever the person viewing them "misses" the most. A physical manifestation of grief. They look different, have a different tone of voice, walk differently, wear different clothes, etc. Even when they look in the mirror or down at their hands they just see the person they themselves miss the most. They can't even say their name, it just comes out as the name of the person the listener is receiving. I wouldn't even want to give them a name ooc, I'd just call them "It" and let everyone make up a name for them themselves. But I wonder how, logically, it could even be roleplayed out. How far would the "impersonation" go? If someone asked about their life, would they just talk about the life of the person they're being perceived as? How could I even roleplay that out? What would be most interesting to roleplay? Maybe they have some level of control over how much they are perceived independently of the viewer's perception. They can choose to default to the response that would fit the person they're being viewed as, or they can allow them to hear their own words. But even then, who are they? They view themselves as the person they miss the most, so would their 'self' just be that person? Is there even anything underneath? Maybe they were a normal person a long time ago, thousands and millions of years ago, before being turned into...this, but it's been so long that they simply don't remember any of it. They can't remember who they were, maybe they were never anything. There's nothing left except what other people perceive. There's nothing left.