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[3libras.livejournal.com]

Bellona and Rosetta are gone. I don't know how, I don't know why.

I don't think I can handle this. I always bitched about Bellona, but... I felt through her. I had fun through her. Whenever we remembered painful memories, she'd be the one to say "It's not that bad, why are you freaking out?" (not particularly nicely, but it helped.) And, when presented with a sexual situation, Rosetta and I have a hard time dealing, so Bellona always took over.
Rosetta was the voice of reason, and it seemed like she was the only one who truly cared about me. She was always looking out for me.

I don't know what I'm gonna do. ._.

Comments

[bizamoogie.livejournal.com]

Oh! so it IS normal for them to change their names? All the doctors who ever..doctered.. me, told me that was one of the reasons they knew I was "faking", b/c Fi and Lori changed their names. (I purposely never did research on MPD so I know nothing about the technical stuff, only what happens w/ me)

[khlara.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's normal for all systems, but yeah, they do change their names, or some can. Almost anything is possible I'm learning. Within our system Wendy used to be known as 6 and before that she was Samantha.
So yeah, name changing, age sliding (1 person is 5 one day, then 8 the next or 60 in two weeks), and just about anything else is pretty normal I would say.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Absolutely people in systems change their name just like anybody else. I have changed my personal name in the earth world (not the legal name, but my name) three times, and I have two names at present -- Bluejay for the earthworld, Kairu for back home. It's no different for a person in a system to change their name than for a singlet in the earth world to do a legal or deed poll name change. Same with everything -- people in multiple systems are born, die, marry each other, have kids (ask the qilora about this), do various types of work...

This idea of one name and one name only is a western, European convention. In some native American traditional cultures (especially High Plains people), you never go through your whole life with the same name. Seven or eight names is not at all unusual.

And just like you'd expect, U.S. government officials couldn't stand the idea that Indians did this. One report said something like it was "meaningless and primitive" and showed that we lacked a sense of individual identity. What they really meant was that they couldn't keep track of us if we did that.