Hope vs Despair

Because I need to work on this au more, and vary the systems more.

Now out of Tsubaki & Murphy (both are the host(s) I guess? They both identify as Tsumugi), Tsubaki def if the nicer of the two, but Murphy fronts enough that ppl get whiplash when Tsumugi is suddenly a lot meaner and/or says something out of line (though Tsubaki also says some real weird shit here and there).

They've got a couple other headmates, a lot of them being willowgenically created by Tsubaki and/or Murphy and/or the whole system (some fictives were done on accident though, not that they're upset about it). The headspace too is likely willowgenically created, or at least heavily shaped (personally I imagine it as a large house where every room is bigger on the inside).

The Tsumugis are the usual fronters, but sometimes some of the fictives use the fact they're good at cosplaying to make their canon* clothing (taste) & go around fronting in them. This has caused Tsumugi to gain a reputation for roleplaying at odd times, and find her oddly hypocritical for how she views other cosplayers.

As for the system itself, I imagine its several overlapping clusters which can communicate just fine unless they're fronting (with exception of Tsubaki & Murphy, who always can hear eachother to some degree).

--- (unrelated to this) Tsumugi Shirogane (she/her)

Screw it! 2 possts in the same day! this time we've got Shuichi and his messy relationship with Miyako.

Basically; Miyako is the core while Shuichi is the current host. Baiscally Miyako is who originally had the body, but after living with the uncle & aunt, Shuichi started forming till he started transitioning to male, which caused Miyako to fully go dormant.

Now, for years Shuichi thought he was the only one in the body. That changed around a week before he went to HPA, which had Miyako woke up again, still around 10, and very upset how much had changed since she last was consious. Shuichi isn't the most comfortable around Miyako because she gives him dysphoria, but doesn't try to upset her further because she didn' ask for this either. Usually he tries to placate her by letting her have (monitered) access to the internet to be the fangirl she is (has an AO3 account, has a tumblr. Even if Shuichi has to repeat the ground rules he set with her). Shuichi usually tries to get Miyako to sleep during class, because he doesn't want her getting exposed to much to sexual content & such (thanks Miu -_-)

Shuichi is very cagey with letting Miyako front, because he doesn't feel like HPA is a safe place for her.

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)