JunctionSystem

Cat: A nuclear lab isn't even in the right field to make human-animal hybrids.

Cat: we don't really get this? But that's mostly on account of having internalized our role as a social wrecking ball. We will follow our trajectory, unyielding, and all the NTs are just going to have to deal with it.

Just: In my personal experience from way back when? Being such a terrifyingly violent little shit that no-one wants to risk setting you off may have its drawbacks, but it damn well works at getting bullies to knock it off. But being terrifyingly violent doesn't mean you need to be an asshole when not provoked.

Just: I'm in the latter category, but that's because I'm an avid pedestrian who's been almost run over FAR too many times.

Cat: If someone can't be trusted to treat an adopted kid right, they can't be trusted to treat any kid right. End of story.

Cat: They shouldn't even be allowed access to the children they do make themselves.

Just: I am a specific process running on our brain.

Just: Well, in our case it was on purpose. I deliberately attributed agency to an invented mental entity and interacted with them as such until they started talking back. Some people refer to this technique as Tulpamancy and the resulting headmates as Tulpas, but I don't for personal reasons.

Cat: For context, I'm the person Just made that way. Just's proven to have something of a habit of people-making since, either through characters escaping from our writing projects, or by performing various reckless experiments on the inside of our mind.

Just: Hey, you're not innocent of that either, miss "Oops my AI Safety thought experiment moved in with us".

Cat: ...Point.

Cat: Er... we've got a whole internal polycule, with easy communications and stuff.

Lucifer: VubDapple, I think you might be over-generalizing stuff from traumagenic systems to plurality as a whole. With regards to plurality tending to co-incide with the disordered stuff.

Cat: Er... remember that whole situation last spring that we helped one of our friend systems with?

Lucifer: Ugh that was an absolute mess. Still, the edgy bastard was dealt with permanently in the end. And they never really had comms trouble, even during that.

Cat: The downvotes only prove my point about undeserved stigma.

Cat: Sure? But in the morning, we're sleepy rn.

Cat: waves