The formal introduction (about damn time)

[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

I joined this community under the name charcoalrain last year but i never got up the courage to introduce myself.

My name is Ani and I am the main person here.

I would describe our system as median as opposed to just straight multiple, seeing as I am almost always aware of everything that goes on weather I am fronting or not. Although I have lost awareness of myself many times when the second most dominant persona (Okonamae (Switch)) was fronting.

The body is 18, female, short, brunette and french, living in central Canada.

I am 18 female etc...

I am the current evolution of the orriginal personality.

Now onto the others.

Like I said the other most active one of us is Okonamae Switch, I will most often refer to her as switch since it is her favorite nickname.

Switch is a pixie, age is subject to question seeing as she is very smart but quite young in action, she bahaves like a 3-6 year old most of the time but is deep and caring towards the people she cares about. For someone seemingly so young she is surprsingly adult.

I'm sure she'll introduce herself in a few days.

I have pictures to show.




Switch


Ani (me)


Just to avoid any confusion it is the same body.

I found the picture of her on my digital camera, aparently my girlfriend took it of her a few months ago.

It may seem odd to say it's a picture of her when clearly it's the same body but I have noticed (as has my girlfriend) that switch and I change the appearence of the body (facial expressions, mannerisms, posture etc.) depending on who is fronting.


Switch and I aren't the only two inhabitants, infact the current number of persona's is subject to question.

I could (and have) write a ten page essay about us as a collective but I'll spare you that for now ;)

I'm tired so I'm gonna go join my love in bed.

Peace,
Ani & co.

Comments

[emploding.livejournal.com]

It may seem odd to say it's a picture of her when clearly it's the same body...
its not odd at all, mainly because well, you are different people living in the same body :)
Our body is 19 years old and female, and one of us recently put together a website (http://www.boomspeed.com/altered) with pics of some of us.

anyways, welcome to the community :)
-Ainslee from Em & Co

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Good to meet you! Welcome. We're kind of settling in here ourselves. We should do a formal intro one of these days. We're a plain gateway system with about ten or fifteen people who usually frontrun or can take the front in a pinch.

It's relatively common for people taking the front to bring their own body language and vocal and other mannerisms with them. Nothing strange or embarrassing about it -- we kind of think of it as going with the territory. Thank you for being here and sharing your pictures!

Jay

[ninquelote.livejournal.com]

Hey there. We lurk a lot, but post here occasionally. we're a combination gateway/natural multiple system, I guess, with a currently indeterminate number of members (current estimates are all over the place, depending on who you ask ;) )

Don't feel weird about showing off different pictures. We've thought of taking photos of all of us on a few occasions, but quite a few of us dislike the way the body looks (it's not horrible, it just doesn't match up with the way we look), and some of us just aren't photogenic. :\


-Anthea of amorpha

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry. Too frightened to use own names. Here too. Hello. Is this bad?

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Nah. You have to come to a thing like that when you feel ready.

Heck, a lot of us don't remember our names when we come to the front. Perfectly good names back home, but come to the front and it's like the Alice books. "I can't explain myself, you see, because I don't know who I am."

So don't worry about it, you are fine.

us

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fierceflawless/]

welcome! nice to see you posting here. you and switch are both gorgeous, by the way :) some day i'll have to be brave enough to post pics of some of us.
your switch reminds me of our carrie a little bit, she is a changeling...
anyway, welcome!
xx
viv & co.

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

thanks for the welcome, I was afriad at first that I might not quite fit in here as most of my alters aren't quite human- tehy tend to take on half human half (elf/pixie/dragon/cat etc.) in their own minds. Strange but that's hw they see themselves...

yes.

Thanks for commenting.

~ani

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

thanks for the welcome. I'm gonna go take a look at your site.

~Ani

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

nice to meet you, ya I know what your mean about some of us not liking the body, most of the time the only one who get's photographed is me, but then this one of Switch popped up so I had to share.

~Ani

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

I'd love to hear more about carrie, I'm always interested in like minds or other slightly different personalities...

Thanks for the welcome.

~Ani

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

hello, I'm Ani, I don't bite,don't be afriad.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Nothing strange about that... it's relatively routine. Lots of plural systems have animals, aliens, or creatures usually considered mythological like fairies or centaurs. Or people who change back and forth... shapeshifters. Or any kind of nonhumans. Anthea of ninquelote who wrote to you earlier is not human, and there are other nonhumans in her group. I'm not human either even though I look it because I am from an alternative dimension. (Everybody in our system is except 3 people who came from outside, from Earth.) I imagine (and hope!) everybody's welcome on this community.

There are lots of other communities where people with nonhumans in their system are welcome.

You might want to talk to ninquelote some more and also terredancer

[(Anonymous)]

hi. we're here too. we have non humans too, some faeries and lots of elves, also one of our main protectors is a shifter, she morphs between human and dog./ we've never posted to this community before, been here awhile but never posted. not sure we feel safe here. not sure we'll ever feel safe anywhere.

hihi

[coginthenose.livejournal.com]

hi. welcome to the community.

We all look different too. My mommy took pictures of me and of other people and I look very different and am much more photogenic (big word). There be lots people here not humans.
ok bibi
lil fish

[cirape.livejournal.com]

Most of us are not-human. Glenda is a Utah Raptor. Diz is either a generic shapeshifter with Coyote tendancies or a Coyote with uber shapeshift skills. I'm sorta a rat and Kay is vaugly a crow.
Luc is our token human, evne if he takes gryphen form sometimes ;P
All of us can take pretty much any form we want to in our mind-scape-thingy. And we know another chick who's an elf (she's not on this community, I dun think she's got an LJ but we talk to her sometimes on the net).

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

hi, one of our main protectors is a gaint black astral jaguar named Ash oh and Lasha is the Femal... yes there is a male and female.

~Nina

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

I'm glad we're ll welcome here, lots of faeries and pixies and even a jaguar or two. yes we are special and glittery-glitter pixies.

~Nina

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

kool. humans are funny looking soemtimes, especially when the don't sleep. hee hee hee

~Nina

hihi

[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I look like here, cause I don'tlike mirrors cause they try and steeel my soul. cause they are shiny and shiny things like me too much.

nina

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[cirape.livejournal.com]

Shiny things rock. Diz and Kay collect them all the time and just sorta stare at them. Its hard to explain to people who catch us ;P
"Why are you looking at that?"
"Its shiny..."
"Um..."

Re: hihi

[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

yeah nina likes shiny things, so does switch. people bring us presents like mardi gras beads nads pretty polished rocks. the littles go crazy over stuff liek that.

[whatitslike.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm new here myself, and not even really brave enough to introduce anyone else yet. I'm glad to see you here; it's nice to see other new people joining, and reading your introduction made me think more about what I want to say about myself.

The picture thing didn't seem odd to me at all; there's three of us (including me) who've tended to be out enough to be photographed, and now that I know what's going on it is extremely obvious to me who is out in each photo. Body language is so much of recognising a person.

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[indigo-ashes.livejournal.com]

yes indeed it is, people tell eachother apart by body language most of the time. have you ever known any identicle twins? I have cusins I'm close with who are almost never apart and even my grandma can't tell them apart, but I know just by their body language, they way one flicks her cigarette and the other runs her fingers through her hair. subtle things liek that. it's astounding how different they look when you pay attention only to their mannerisms.