comparison, and another question

[pyoska.livejournal.com]

While we were in the shower, we came to a weird, yet oddly rational, realization.

Has anyone else here read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series?  Well, we were thinking that the way our system operates and swaps fronts is kinda like the way the Fates did it, only no physical body changes.  And that there's more than 3, and more keep creeping out. 

Which leads us into our question:  since embracing my multiplicity, we've noticed that Others have been slowly creeping forward and saying hi.  Well, Niko didn't really creep forward, he kinda bounded Out, but he's a wolf.  So we forgave him (ok, the rest of us did, but Shardae is still a little put out about it.)  Plus, Ceri, Niko, Maari, and Shardae have all been coaxing the Others to come forward, but they haven't.  At least, not enough for me to get more than a passing sense of them, enough to know they're there, but nothing else.  Has anyone else been like this?  Could it be that they're still frightened of what my (Heather's) reaction would have been before I realized I wasn't alone?  We're all pretty much in constant contact with each other, except when one of us goes In.

I know.  We're asking a lot of questions, but we're all new to this, and we want to know the best way to coax the rest out.

Comments

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that. It's been years and we're still meeting new people. I'm not sure if it's possible to meet everyone. Unless you're a small group of under 50 maybe. :)

[fairly.livejournal.com]

Just wait for people to come out on their own terms. We were similar; we came forward as we learnt about ourselves.

Kerry of Fen Group

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Yes! I read those books years ago and it does seem weirdly similar - almost a way of portraying a functional multiple without introducing all the baggage about being omg crazy axe murdering alters.

[phen0type.livejournal.com]

I've never read those books, but I'd like to.

Depending on your group's size, it may or may not be possible to meet everyone in your group.

Richard of Fen Group

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

we don't specifically remember their portrayal of the fates.. we remember the portrayal of the other offices.. specifically some of the darker ones.. like time,death.. and I forget if he called the office "evil" or satan or what..
To some degree yeah.. we can see how it would apply to households.. specially that the office didn't define everything about the person.. course that fits for non-households too.
-Liam

[teh-kerry.livejournal.com]

We've noticed that ever since everyone stopped being in denial (spending 6 years with someone who is hell-bent on convincing themself you're not real isn't fun), more people have come to the front. We've gone from being just me, Kerry, Andy and Sophy who fronted, to having maybe 30 or 35 of us who are confident enough to front frequently.

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a bit like the difference between a close door and an open one. Leave it open and people'll wander in.

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

Love the books and it would be WAY cool if we could switch the way we look more than we
do. Folks can sometimes tell us apart by the way we hold ourselves.

--- Miri