Multiplicity

I am a single, and before joining this community, I had very little knowledge of multiplicity at all.

Being a prone-to-writing-fiction single, I had an idea for a story with a certain character--or certain group of characters, I should say. It excited me very much, and I began working on it right away. This group of characters shares the same body, but none of them are aware of it. They are all aware of each other, but they are not aware they are in the same body.

But then I pursued research on the concept of multiplicity, and came across this community, and found that my fictional system didn't seem typical at all.

It bothered me a little, because I'd hate to give people an incorrect idea of what multiplicity is really like, and that seems to be a concern especially of many of the people in this community.

But I don't go into it thinking it's standard, and I also, knowing next to nothing of psychology, believe (hope) that there is some variation as far as this sort of thing goes.

I don't think I portray multiplicity negatively, though the system is rather dysfunctional. I like all of the characters very much.

I was thinking maybe I could call it something else, but throughout the book, I don't call it anything. I don't refer to it at all: the reader is supposed to guess they all share the same body by descriptions of circumstances, and the only people who remark on it are bystanders who don't know anything.

So I thought maybe I'd put a disclaimer or something in the beginning, you know, "By the way, this isn't really MPD or DID, just so you know," but then they'd figure out from the disclaimer, and there wouldn't be any point in avoiding mentioning that they all have the same body.


Hopefully I will manage something to that in the end, however, after everything has already come out. I haven't developed the end much; I've only written one draft of it, and don't like it much.


Any opinions?