Everybody secretly loves plurality
Dec. 19th, 2018 09:26 pmHere's a fun fact about me: I'm multiple, meaning my brain has a lot of people hanging around in it. It's not anything I hid on tumblr (in fact, the main navelgazed blog was originally a blog I would only use to talk about our multiplicity and it grew into our main blog. Since I never was particularly coy about it there I don't feel like I should be here, although this is my (Artemis) journal, and if you want to hear more about day-to-day life for us or from the other people here you can go follow ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starfallhaven .
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I tend to notice that there's like, a cultural Thing in media where people really like stories that are, ostensibly, about plurality. Yeah, you've got the obvious Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hide type stuff and its derivatives. I consider the Hulk and Bruce Banner to be multiple, as well as Sora and the many different people who've taken up residence in his 'heart', and other examples of people who have independent alter-egos or other selves. I chug those stories like water because I relate to them as the host of a multiple system, but since it's a reoccurring trope it has to have some other value to singlets (non-plurals).
Maybe I'm just coming at it from a more extreme vantagepoint, and people are relating to the idea of inner conflict being personified in that way. Or maybe they find plural narratives compelling when they're fictional, I don't know. I do know that generally people don't tend to find real life narratives quite as entertaining, probably because it's mostly people complaining about having to go to work or someone putting down their glasses and not remembering where they went. (I said I was sorry, for the record. -R)
Real life is often a lot more boring than in fiction, and of the angst that usually fuels this sort of story, that sort of stuff is probably left private for the most part. Plus, treating real people like characters is creepy. That's probably the main reason, honestly.
starfallhaven . Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I tend to notice that there's like, a cultural Thing in media where people really like stories that are, ostensibly, about plurality. Yeah, you've got the obvious Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hide type stuff and its derivatives. I consider the Hulk and Bruce Banner to be multiple, as well as Sora and the many different people who've taken up residence in his 'heart', and other examples of people who have independent alter-egos or other selves. I chug those stories like water because I relate to them as the host of a multiple system, but since it's a reoccurring trope it has to have some other value to singlets (non-plurals).
Maybe I'm just coming at it from a more extreme vantagepoint, and people are relating to the idea of inner conflict being personified in that way. Or maybe they find plural narratives compelling when they're fictional, I don't know. I do know that generally people don't tend to find real life narratives quite as entertaining, probably because it's mostly people complaining about having to go to work or someone putting down their glasses and not remembering where they went. (I said I was sorry, for the record. -R)
Real life is often a lot more boring than in fiction, and of the angst that usually fuels this sort of story, that sort of stuff is probably left private for the most part. Plus, treating real people like characters is creepy. That's probably the main reason, honestly.
