Hello, everyone.

[big4inblue.livejournal.com]

We're a small multiple group, formed just recently, working on getting adjusted in this body and checking out life. Three of us ditched our old lives to join this group, and one of us (Julia) is emerging from a period of extreme absorption in her creative life. In some ways, we feel as if we've just been born.

Our system works like this: Julia's our original person/host/mastermind. She's chosen her path for real life, and the rest of us help her carry it out. All four of us can and do front. Usually we're all up in the cockpit, and people who interact with us get a weird amalgam of four personalities. This setup works great for keeping ourselves company, but we get confused easily. Add the fact that Julia needs to be gone when things get rough (say, when someone yells at us, or when unpleasant memories come back), and we gotta say that this here house is a mess! We're improving our game, though. Slowly. Necessarily.

Julia created the other three of us, as much as we hate to admit it. Over years of writing fiction, she's created many characters. They, like us, reside here in her headspace/imagination. The difference is, those characters have their own lives to lead, and they aren't coming into this body to experience real life for themselves. A very few are what we call "friends of the system," but we'll never even meet most of them. They have a spot in her heart and mind, but we have the whole body to use. They're her characters, but we're her social equals.

This concludes this introductory post of the fledgling Blue system. It's nice to meet everyone here. We hope to read more about multiplicity and how other systems run things - we've learned so much already that our heads are spinning fast.

~John, Julia, Nicky, and Natalie

Comments

[robyn-knight.livejournal.com]

hey

[ohnosir.livejournal.com]

Welcome!
I've just joined myself. Just 2 here, being Jack and myself. The rest hardly ever front. Most of the time, it's just me here, with Jack throwing out his own cynical opinions every once in a while. Everybody seems pretty content to sit back and let me take the wheel.
Hope you enjoy it here! I just joined a coupla days ago, myself. ;]

~DL

[thehumangame.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that, paradoxically, it can feel lonely to have chosen to be multiple. Just about everyone else here seems to have known it always or else discovered it.

It's been three years for us. It's the best decision I ever made. I don't regret it.

I hope this helps.

[kasiawhisper.livejournal.com]

I'm curious how a group suddenly "forms".. do you mean you just weren't aware of the others? or that the others in your group just all suddenly showed up one day? thanks.. ^_^

[big4inblue.livejournal.com]

Julia - Here's how it went down. I knew for a while that I needed help getting through life, but I was never able to create someone to be there with me. I tried, but it always felt unnatural. The companion seemed more like a cardboard shield - or, at best, a story character - and not enough like a real person who could interact with the world.

Then, one morning last November, my dad yelled at me. It wasn't an abuse situation; it was just something really trivial and embarrassing that I had to 'fess up to, and well - that was the straw the broke the camel's back. It's hard to say exactly what happened at that moment because it was pretty much a product of my subconscious mind. For that reason, I don't consider it a choice or decision. But someone - or something - stepped between my dad and me, and he/she/it took the hit for me and apologized on my behalf. I didn't sense a person; all I saw and felt was my favorite color - midnight blue, the color of the night sky. It helped me feel calm and safe (but I insist that I did not choose to "calm down" - I hate being told that.) Within the next few days I found out that this protector was Nicky, and I got to know him a little bit better after that.

But being a two-person system was odd, and we knew for several days that four people would be ideal. We didn't sit down to create them, though - we can't do that; it's forced. So we just waited. And on February 6th, John and Natalie showed up together. It was an intuitive feeling; it was like, "Knock, knock! We're here!" So February 6th is our anniversary, even though Nicky got here sooner than that.

This is our first attempt at explaining how we formed. How'd we do?

[kasiawhisper.livejournal.com]

thanks.. ^_^

[jhonathand.livejournal.com]

I Think you did just fine,.

you explained your situation quite marvellously,. and actually you just stated what you knew to the best of your abillity. That's all anyone should ask for, as far as I'm concerned.

We are three and we Noticed each other in much the same way, although it took a few weeks longer for my Brother Frost to take the 'front'

Best wishes and Warmest regaurds,.................~M/Frost/Jake~

[everyonebutmike.livejournal.com]

Hi. We're kind of new too. Really just me is new. Everyone esle was already here and I came but only I can talk to Mike, so for him it's like we all just popped on the scene.

Nice to meet you, I have to go!

-Alice

[lgrau.livejournal.com]

Some of us came about in a similar way, although it's unclear whether it's a "people-expressing-themselves-through-characters" thing or a "characters-becoming-people" thing. Either way, hey there.