More First Things
Introductions are hard, ordinarily, but in our case they can be even trickier. For the most part blogs and things like that are usually done by the core of our system, or a few of the more outspoken individuals. There are certain people who don’t really write at all, or will just dictate occasionally.
The System Core:
Overall we’re a late twenty-something female. We emigrated to the US in 1995 and have lived here ever since. We graduated in the top dozen of our high school class and went to college, graduating there with a 3.0 from liberal arts school focusing on English and Communications. We did some grad school, but life and family situations meant that went bye-bye, which really was a good thing. We have a certification in clinical hypnosis and past life regression, know a good smattering of computer coding, enough to put sites together and help other people do the same.
The majority of our system holds to pagan beliefs, worshiping both Goddess and God, lighting candles, doing rituals, reading tarot and prefers herbal and gemstones for healing but will try conventional medicine first and use the others as a boost, or instead of, only with doctor approval.
We’re married. Our spouse is both a singleton and a Catholic, a staunch provider and supporter of whatever we need to do to get back our balance and be happy.
We have a child, who is only young, born in 2006, and is the reason that we’re trying all we can to regain balance. We want to be healthy for him, for our family and for ourselves.
System Members:
We’re just going to go alphabetical order here, because it’s easier.
- Abby: Abby sees herself as college age or thereabouts. She’s a great cook, and very crafty and artsy. She loves to make beaded jewelry, dye hair funky colors, get piercings and plan tattoos. She’s apt to raid Goodwill for clothing and try and make old clothing shiny and new by coming up with t-shirt transfers. She’s pretty easy going, semi-computer savvy but has a killer temper. Hubbie says that Abby is more like the “me” he recognizes as “me” as the default, and we have been seeing that Abby is more what would be considered the core personality when it’s not speaking as “we” and “collective”.
- Ami: Ami is painfully, painfully shy and has obsessive compulsive tendencies. She pronounces her name “Ah-me” after the Mercury character on “Sailor Moon”. She’s a consummate geek, loves computers, and coding and web design and was in her element when we worked at a library. She loves books and reading. She was the one who made sure we got straight A’s throughout most of school, but really had little idea about social interaction. It’s still really hard for her to understand the opposite sex, and she’s constantly worried that she annoys people and that they’re not going to like her, or are just using her for something. She sees herself as about 15 and Asian, but that may have something to do with identifying with the latching on to the anime character factor.
- Crazy Girl: We don’t know much about crazy girl, who is some times called “Crazy Abby” but has no relation to Abby mentioned above. She seems to be a young girl because she likes plushies and carrying a blanket around, but she doesn’t make much sense conversationally, and the system never really remembers anything clearly when she’s more “up front”.
- Debbi: Also identifies as around college age, but is a bit more laid back overall than everyone else. She isn’t around much. I think she and Abby are also pretty close together, the main difference is that she likes to put circles over her “i, j” when she writes. She’s less hair dye oriented/goth type though.
- Echo: How we refer to the system core/gatekeeper. When we’re trying to speak collectively that’s the way we operate. There’s really not much else to say with that.
- Jared: Identifies as a straight male, also around college age. He’s fairly smart, but a bit cocky/lazy. The sort that would bail on classes and go back and ace the tests. He also appears to be intuitive/psychic and is the one who partners with Abby doing a lot of the clairvoyant work that we do, and the tarot readings. He and Max bicker good naturedly back and forth quite a bit.
- Max: There’s a joke that everybody loves Max. Max is the “inner gay boy” it’s hard to pin down how old he is. He’s very hyper and we sometimes wonder if he’s not bipolar. He loves vodka, and is pretty hyper-sexual also. He doesn’t write very well, although he’s definitely late teens at the earliest age wise, and considers himself a ditz. He loves shoes, but not other practical things like cooking and cleaning, which some find surprising. It seems to be more of a concentration thing, he gets bored easily and doesn’t like to be quiet for too long. He’s very social butterfly and loves music and clubs and having fun with nifty people.
- Terri: She doesn’t come out much any more because she’s very angry. She’s one of the last few that’s “bad child influence” who still comes around from time to time. She identifies as an older woman, military type, commander, in control, but very angry and lacking in patience. Her temper flares over the slightest thing, but despite everything it’s hard for her to be motivated to do things.
- Yana: Yana fluxes between stand-offish and sexually aggressive. She considers herself around 19 and thinks English is stupid. I wrote her into a story I have as a hybrid alien who kept people at arm’s length as much as possible so they wouldn’t see how much she cared. She was a medical student, but didn’t like social situations where she might get attached to people. It was okay to be caring towards someone as long as you weren’t going to see them again. When she does get close she’s very possessive and *mine* *my toy*. My husband calls her “the cat girl”.
I think that’s enough for now.
~Echo