One thing that makes us a little unusual among plural folks is that we often think in terms of "I was so-and-so earlier, but now I'm someone else"

Like there's this continuous narrative of "I" being whoever's in charge of the main thought stream at any given moment

And switching feels a little more like "becoming someone else" than "trading places with someone else" I guess?

But it doesn't mean we see ourselves as aspects or versions of the same person at all

We are separate and distinct. The only thing that's not very separate is our memories.

I am fascinated with potential explanations for the way we function, the way we experience consciousness

There are a lot of possibilities, but for now we don't have enough data to favour any theory over another.

I do think I may have fused with Nele tho

Ever since I gained self-awareness, I did have this odd sense of … holding something very essential to who we are as a whole, in a way I absolutely cannot explain

Which would make me an ideal candidate for fusing with them, for sure

It's like I embody something that unites us all. And I really can't describe it because any attempt to even look at it more closely will make *someone* feel uncomfortable. Mostly Dominik and Kiera, I think? Those two have some traits one might call outliers in the system

There really isn't much that we all have in common, but in a very broad sense, we tend to be "dreamers" in some way. Artists, idealists, fans of sci-fi and fantasy. Except for Dominik and Kiera, who are more down-to-earth.

But even they have something uniquely "us"

I just don't know what that is, exactly. Or why I feel like it has something to do with who I am.

Whatever nebulous trait or group of traits we all share, maybe I got the … purest manifestation of it or something

Either way, I appear to have take on a management role now and almost certainly fused with Nele. Which, for those of you who don't know what Nele was like, does *not* mean I'm a whole new person because they were such a blank slate; I've basically just gained some abilities.

And maybe a bit of … increased interest in the inner workings of our system, stuff like that

Nele was/is great. "Blank slate" sounds unfairly boring, I just don't know how else to express why I'm still mostly the same.

I am now the one with the best overview of our system, the one with the broadest perspective … and yet I still have no idea what's going on for the most part.