Multiplicity

I think my main criticism is that this story is too bent on making the solution conform to outside expectations of what constitutes health and happiness, without exploring beyond a particular perception of multiplicity or a particular notion of functionality. You are taking a very irregular minority and trying to make it fit the single-mind majority, and it just doesn't gel. If this gets in the media, I know that when I talk to people who have seen it, I will still need to explain the same stereotypes, go over the same old myths and rumours: it will not have changed the public perception of multiplicity for the better. It could even be detrimental: "Oh, I saw this show where this girl ends up integrating, and everyone lives happily after that, and they find the right guy and everything, why don't you do that?" The answer to that one, of course, is that I'm in love with a guy in my group, and we make our own way together. But good luck having any acceptance of that if everyone who thinks they know about multiplicity see Heather(s) and Tyler together, bound in hetronormative, socially acceptable, otherbodied conjugal bliss. Where does that leave me and Tahl and the many others who have in-system relationships? Or groups where the frontrunners have different partners, and everyone thrives? Or multiple systems with both sexes and genders, neither gender, non-humans, or disembodied intelligences? Trauma or non-trauma, they are the ones that remain hidden and disbelieved. Where are their stories?