The "I only identify as the younger, not-evil me!" doubles of mine make me especially uncomfortable. I'm still uncertain how I feel about doubles at all yet.
Okay. Well I identify as all of me, I just tend to shift between my corrupt and noncorrupt version. Because I'm me, all of me. There's just a line between myself and myself.
I experience guilt about a lot of the things I went on to do, but I'm getting to be mature about it. I was under the influence of a highly corrupting force. Some people will say thats not true, and that I was essentially the apple version of 'posessed' by some human murderer guy, but I was still very aware of who I am, I was different but the same. The same, but not in the same way. It's more identity discontinuation than genuinely different person. Sure, I was 'posessed' in a way, but only by an extra layer of me I gained from that incident that clung to my bones, there's a separation, but they're inherently connected whether I like it or not.
Right now, 'me' as I consider myself under all the mess, I understand that that was acting as an extension of me. Mostly, I'm aware not just of the before, but if suffocating in myself for 500 years onwards after.
Other times, 'me' as the mess itself, I am cumulatively aware of myself, the corrupt and the prior self I wanted to protect.
I imagine the CDD the this-life brain has, has a tiny bit if something to do with it, but it's still a matter of 'I am me the way I am no matter what', which isn't something fully pure.
But I'm happy for you that you're the do-no-wrong of me- what a saint you are. Having to clarify. (Because I'm just so terrible in full, yes?)
I protect myself for once, I face immense concequences for it, I end up in a different shell in this realm with people who also consider themselves me, but the 'good' version. Alright. If I was ever that good, I would have handled those freaks making a manipulated idol labourer of my brother, wouldn't I? I wouldn't have interacted but certainly I should have pushed more than 'I don't think it's right how much they used you'.
I was a child at the time, I was flawed. If you were that pre-incident me only, 'you' were not perfect.
Maybe I just feel as uncomfortable as I do with it because I'm not alright with doubles, I'm uncertain. I'd like to be, if not for the sake of getting along with more folken, then for the sake of not feeling this heavy sick discomfort when I see one. I shouldn't want to police them just because they're wrong.