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@c0bra-sys
so uh it looks like our intro post got eaten so heres a new one
c0bra system, formerly stardust, main blog is @random-knowone. OSDD-1b system of 200+
pro-endo, anti-syscourse (we may rb/talk about syscourse topics a little but think overall it's a cesspool of pointless fighting and harrassment)
our pronouns.cc, mutuals can ask for discord/sp :>
fuck off radqueers, radfems, racists, and terfs
individual intro posts under #cobra intros, alter tags/blogs under the cut:
Six made me this to summarize my disposition about the Season Five finale. I'm sure other fictives in plural communities, or fiction folk, can relate to this as well.
I feel like the system community treats "how similar are your system members/how much do you share with your system members" as one clean, whole thing when like. It'd probably be easier to talk about if you broke it down into different categories.
Maybe your skill sharing is high, like 80%. Meanwhile, your speech patterns vary wildly, so you say they're only about 30% shared. Maybe your episodic memory sharing is at 65%, your semantic memory sharing is at 95%, and your procedural memory sharing is at 75%. Maybe your values are 85% shared, maybe your life goals are 20% shared, maybe your identity is 90% shared. There's a lot of different variables and things you can share, you know? I could go on.
Trying to turn all of that into one average of "how alike are all of you" doesn't seem very helpful, but for some reason, we expect it of so many systems. So, if you struggle with answering "How similar are you all?", maybe try this out and see if it's a more useful framework for you.
Managing my complex web of online identities, careers, and alt accounts is getting complicated. I think I was markiplier for like a year there
@funnier-as-a-system?
🐖EMPATHYPIG LIKED YOUR POST♥️
>I don't see the point in living anymore
🐖EMPATHYPIG REPLIED TO YOUR POST 💬
>I know things are difficult right now, but you need to hold on. I care about you.
i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person
Many forget that Nipton was never about Vulpes acting for his own sake. At the Fort, when you ask Caesar what the Frumentarii do, he tells you: "Infiltration, assassination, dramatic atrocities to break the spirit of the enemy..." Thats exactly what Nipton was: a dramatic atrocity, a letter that reads: "We are here. We have arrived."
It was never meant to be a lesson. The NCR does not care about morality, neither does the Legion. Nipton was a town that was destined to be destroyed not because it was a wicked place (Vulpes was lying through his teeth about the whole thing -the dead legionnaires are evidence- like thats what he does, that is literally his job!) but because it was small enough to burn without consequence, close enough for the message to be heard. Nipton wasn't a lesson. It was a spectacle, meant to be seen by the eyes of the Republic. Thats why the Courier is tasked to spread the news, they're a mailman delivering a letter.
And Vulpes? Can't say he's explicitly sadistic. A bad person? Absolutely. But not playful with his cruelty. He is just as cruel as every other legionary. The only difference is he is smarter about it, more intense.
Nipton isn’t a part of him. Nothing is. Nothing but the Legion. He does not carry the weight of that town. He does not look back to the ruins he has left behind. Nipton is no pang of remorse, no pleasure, no sin. It is merely a step forward. Proof that the Legion has entered the Bear's den, proof that its will is being done.
And we never see Vupes as he truly is. He is not a person, at least not anymore.
He wears a mask, a new face with every new encounter. In Nipton he is wearing the mask of a vexillarius, in the strip the mask of a gambler. And at the fort, he is just another legionary: red-clad and quiet, a little fox curled at the foot of his emperor's throne. He has 0 indicators of individuality, he is not a person. He's only a name, a shadow streching across the Mojave.
I do believe the only time we get a glimpse of who Vulpes truly is, is when Caesar tells his backstory. His cunning, his wit—but also his insubordination, a hint of rebellious youth. That is who I think he really is: a rebel boy, not in opposition to the Legion, but in relentless devotion to it. Someone who is willing to tear down every pillar, disobey every order just to see the flag rise higher.
Vulpes will slaughter, torture, and betray and engage in "profligate scum" activities for the benefit of his side. He is ready to serve even if it angers the Son of Mars. He doesn't ask for permission. Doesn't beg for forgiveness. He does what he must, then kneels before the blade waiting for the punishment that has never managed to come since his first trial as a decanus. And there is passion in that, a desire. To paint the desert with his nation's red, to whisper his lord's name to every ear, to tame the untamable: the idea, the dream.
At the Fort, we see him as nothing more than a docile soldier but we know that he is different, remarkable; Caesar had said it himself. Rebel boy: always ready to mangle and burn the world and himself along with it just to serve what he believes is providence.
He is "a rather intense young man," whose entire existence is a disguise. A spy so devoted to his duty that he has stripped himself of everything else. A spy, in the fine suit of a gentleman or under the hide of a coyote, tearing down his own tower of humanity as the gods he belives in look down and smile.
He is not a person. He hasn't been a person for a long time.
He is a name, a shadow, a hollowed out man. He is an animal kept at arms length, dog on a leash who does not want to be set free, a weapon, a tool. Pale hand of the Legion reaching west.
With every step through the desert, Vulpes Inculta has left a piece of himself behind, until he is left with nothing but blind faith and bloodied palms. And when you lose everything you ever had in a big bad wasteland you tend to cling onto the first bright colour you see:
Crimson—so inviting, so cruel. Like home.
Does your system have any things/parts/areas of headspace that are sourced? For example we have ancient Greece, the Harry Potter WIzarding World and a Minecraft dark oak mansion
Yes, the entire headspace
Yes, most of headspace
Yes, multiple layers/areas
Yes, multiple buildings
Yes, one building [or other structure like a statue]
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Does your system have any things/parts/areas of headspace that are sourced?
Yes, the entire headspace
Yes, most of headspace
Yes, multiple layers/areas
Yes, multiple buildings
Yes, one building or other structure
No
No headspace
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(It's a mug that says "There is no 'I' in 'team'... but there are 6 'I's in 'Dissociative Identity Disorder'.)
we’re gonna grow old for all the queer, trans, plural, and alterhuman kids who don’t know if it’s possible
Mafia boss smoking a cigar: Why’d you gotta squeal, Squealin’ Stephen? I trusted you. Now I gotta send my best goons to show you what happens when you cross the Big Boss…
Guy tied up in chair: uh…theres just one guy over there.
Mafia boss: Yeah. That’s Lil’ Tony. He’s got one of dem conditions where he’s got multiple mooks n’ his head. But when Big Tony fronts you’re gonna be in big trouble.
Lil’ Tony: We actually all agree we’re gonna kick your ass.
when the author describes someone dying and you can just tell they’ve never actually died by the way it’s written
is there anything as good as lying in a sunbeam
telling the truth in a sunbeam #honesty
Idk about anyone else, but when I was convinced I couldn't be a system because I hadn't experienced all of the most horrific violent traumas possible in childhood, I didn't need someone to tell me "Well DID works by making you forget trauma so maybe you did and don't remember!" I didn't even need someone to tell me "Dissociative trauma disorders don't have to be caused by stereotypical ideas of extreme violence, sometimes children dissociate to cope with something as simple and commonplace as bullying." I actually needed someone to tell me "If you're trying to understand who you are and communicate that to the world, does the lens of plurality complicate that or simplify it?"
Infinity Train?
… have headmates sourced from The Infinity Train?
Yes
No
Nuance
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Oh and amphibia as well if we're allowed to submit 2 things :3!
… have headmates sourced from Amphibia?
Yes
No
Nuance
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