Names

Jan. 6th, 2007 11:15 pm
[identity profile] rabbitsystem.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] multiplicity_archives
A random question born of our notoriously insatiable curiousity:

Does your system have someone who answers to the body-name?

Edit: I appear to have inadvertantly confused people by my somewhat archaic English. When I said 'answers to' I meant something along the lines of 'considers their own' or 'answers to when inside'. Sorry.

Date: 2007-01-06 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymer-713.livejournal.com
Yes. But it's odd. We were all born in the body but this individual answers to the body name.
The Individual In Question
LOL

Date: 2007-01-07 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhymer-713.livejournal.com
I know. Heehee!

Date: 2007-01-06 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linnai.livejournal.com
Since we believe that we were multiple a long time before we could comprehend it, we have someone who sort of fashioned the body and consequently our life around her. Body name is Angela, her name is Anja (every called her Angel).

Date: 2007-01-06 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-maenad.livejournal.com
Three, as a matter of fact, which can sometimes lead to a certain amount of internal rivalry over whose it 'really' is...

Date: 2007-01-06 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kassidy-07.livejournal.com
we all kind of do. Just because we are still in hiding. and John, the original, gets mad when we introduce ourselves with our names. so we started going by Jay

Date: 2007-01-06 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lion-azure.livejournal.com
Yup, since our system has an "original inhabitor" who's still running the show most of the time. ...or did you mean, does your system have more than one person who answers to the body name?
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Date: 2007-01-07 12:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] our-menagerie.livejournal.com
The bodys name is Beth and belongs to me as far as we know, but I also answer to sj or sweetjourney (or satchel but thats another story!). Also, its the same for us as what child_recalled said, whoever is out will answer to the bodys name but nobody else shares that name.

Date: 2007-01-07 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weirdiguess.livejournal.com
Not really. We have somebody who'll generally front for anybody who's using the body name ('cause if they're using it, then they don't know about us), but it can take a couple tries for her to realise you're talking to her, and it's not really her name.

She's the original though, just isn't her name.

Date: 2007-01-07 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakshownia.livejournal.com
No one here considers the body's name to be their own.

Date: 2007-01-07 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyouketsusha.livejournal.com
I carry the birth-name of the body as my own, but I've never considered it my "real" name. ;) I still answer to it, mainly because I'd feel strange to just start telling my family to call me by one of the names I have chosen for myself.

It's not difficult to figure all this out though, because I was me long before we became we. :)

Date: 2007-01-07 05:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liliana-warsaw.livejournal.com
I'm the original and I do. But I answer to other names as well. Mostly the others in here call me by the body name. It all depends on the mood of everyone involved, though, because I'll answer to Lily as well.

Date: 2007-01-07 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eridanusus.livejournal.com
The body name is Chris (short for Christina), we have a Chris, a Christopher, Christy, Chrissie and.. we used to have some others. The latter two don't front and we rarely see them.

Date: 2007-01-07 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com
Yeah, my name is the body name. It's only reasonable, since I was the only fronter for so long.

Rob

Date: 2007-01-07 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gryphons.livejournal.com
no one here uses or has ever used the body's birth name.. we all have agreed to go by a use name.. but no one answers to the body's name.. or considers it their own.
-Amira

Date: 2007-01-07 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fireincarnation.livejournal.com
We have the Pams, who all identify with the body's original name.

Date: 2007-01-07 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tej-agni.livejournal.com
Only when it's used, someone here will respond to it. Responding to the body's name is different than actually having the name as their own name. None of our current fronters' names are the same as the body's name. Except for Kalli; her name is a variation of the body's center name.

Date: 2007-01-07 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] timothymcdonald.livejournal.com
Ray only answers to Ray when he's 'inside'.For instance if he's not 'fronting' and David wants to ask him something, he calls him Ray. When he's 'fronting' he answers to Tim. Alway been the same. *Shrugs*

Date: 2007-01-07 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phen0type.livejournal.com
Yes, and no. No-one in the body ever answers to his given name, but we all answer to the primary fronter's chosen name, as he is a bit of a spokesperson for the group, and for those who think we are singletons, the communication is funnelled through him.

Date: 2007-01-08 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] terendel.livejournal.com
Yes, I carry and answer to the body name. Richard only started fronting with any kind of regularity last year, so it works for us.

Juli

Date: 2007-01-08 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ricktboy.livejournal.com
The body name's mine. So obviously I answer to it. I don't come out alot though, and pretty much keep to myself inside.

All the packmates answer to it outside though. they have to.

Rachel
Pack Collective

Date: 2007-01-08 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tahaton.livejournal.com
We don't have anybody who considers the body name their own. Nobody really feels "native" to it.

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