It doesn't, not really. Like... the other me is still me. I'm more like... well, the thing is, I could be their mind, directly in another body. I only really say them and me to differentiate here and there. For me, there's no real... gap, so to speak. It's more like... the things my other self knows and I don't, I could know. I just... don't want to.
*They pause for a moment, humming*
It's hard to really explain, because there's no real thing to compare it to. I guess it's kind of like... if when you were masking, you gave the mask a different body. The mask is still you, just specific parts of you, chosen for a specific audience. Like... The me here and the me there are just. Me. But this part of me has a role to play. Like the part of me I put on around my family, the part of me I put on in public, when talking to staff at shops, and so on and so forth.
I'm not like, a seperate consiousness, not a seperate person - my memories are my other self's memories, and vice versa. My 'self' is their 'self'. I grew up where they grew up, played where they played, learned where they learned, because we're. Just one person. I get that it's hard to understand, but... I guess I just like calling myself a vessel because it's easier to say than "a direct manifestation of a specific person, tailored specifically to try and help people. Also, I really, really like hollow knight. So. Yeah.
If I'm a puppet, I'm also the puppeteer. I am the body and the voice, the thought and the action. Were you to meet my other self, you'd just be meeting me again, without the powers and. Yknow, not rubberhose. Emotionally... it's actually freeing, being like this. There's... a kind of, ability to be that my other self, my usual self, doesn't get. A moment of thought before a word. A clarity of voice I'm often denied. It's... yknow. Here, I don't have my body stopping me from doing things.
