[Discussion] Random Idea: Angie As A Plural System

[abyssal_sylph]

So, I wanna create this AU where it's a "V3 is class 79 in a non-despair HPA" but with the twist of "whoops! they're all plural systems!". I do have a couple thoughts/ideas floating around for this AU, but the one I arguebly have the best vision of outside of Korekiyo but we're not talking about him! is Angie being a 2 person system (at least, that I know of rn);

Basically the idea behind this is that Atua/Angie's god is actually her headmate. IIRC Angie mentioned, or at least heavily implied to have become the prophet of her community at a very young age. I don't think its ever stated when or how. But I imagine it must've been a very stressful thing for her, even if she seems to have accepted this fact about her life. My thought is that at some point after becoming prophet, her brain develped a 2nd identity to be the God that people are looking for in her. This wouldn't change too much about canon IMO, because Angie already describes her doing art as her essentially getting possessed by her God. I'm not saying this to say her headmate has the actual skills, but perhaps Angie struggles with creativity & her headmate gives her the ideas / visions of what could be.

Would this headmate (who'll I'll refer to as Autumn) be aware they're not God? Originally I had thought not. That they're aware of it & is hidding this fact from Angie. But now I wonder if they have deluded themselves into believing they're God, or at least the actual prophet? I'm getting intriged by this idea, so for now I'll go this route. Besides it's not impossible for that to happen if everyone around them is convined that they are (including their headmate).

My thought for a story/arc around them is that Autumn eiter admits to, or now realizes, that they're not God, at least not in the way Angie & her community thought so. And basically they and Angie have to deal not only with a falling out between them, but also the fear of what their community would think. If family would be another stressor depends on what the OCs I create to be like. But either way both these guys would have an identity crisis.

---Shuichi Saihara (he/him)

Comments

[usononikki]

Ooh, that's a very interesting take tbh! I can definitely see something like that happening considering the all the pressure she was under from her village. The potential is very intriguing! That'd be a pretty rough revelation to have in such a dangerous cult environment, for both Autumn and Angie herself.

I'm honestly really intrigued by your plural AU, as a plural Ouma myself!

[abyssal_sylph]

Oh! in our current draft of the plural au (or general, because we've adopted this for general AUs lmao); Angie's mom moved to Japan because she realized too little too late that their community was a cult. So she moved herself & Angie to her boyfriend's country, but never properly explained to Angie why this happened. So Angie is for the most part safe from the cult, but once Autumn has the relevation the relationship with the mom worsens to hell & back.

I'm not really sure how to develp all the headmates, cause I want there to be varied headmate count amongst the class. But there can be a lot of headmates in a system as you may know. Ehhh, there is no deadline.

The next post is gonna be about either Kaito or Shuichi, but feel free to request specific characters!

[usononikki]

Ah, I see! That makes sense, it's probably a whole tumultuous thing for her.

I'd be super interested in passing ideas back and forth with you! Especially with Ouma since that's my own personal investment, but the rest of the class as well. I'm going through my inbox right now, so I'm gonna get to your posts about Momota and Saihara next.

And boy do I know how massive systems can be www! I also like the idea of playing around with origins and mixed origin scenarios. My flavor of Ouma is typically OSDD-1aish in presentation, with less defined alters and more vague "flavors" of himself, with very heavy memory barriers, especially with emotional dissociative amnesia. However, I feel like if he knew about systemhood, he'd be the type to willogenically make headmates for companionship. Man, imagine an Ouma system where the original members of DICE were all willogenic headmates. Not technically a lie the it exists, but most people would probably get the wrong idea about it...!