abalone, apache tears, quartz?
abalone: what kind of situations compromise my muse emotionally
Situations that remind him he isn’t human.
Most people treat Psyche as though he’s a real human being, which makes things even worse. He’s used to being taken as a human, so he’s a little hurt whenever he’s treated like an object. He has to accept that though, because he is an object. He also realizes he’s an object and that what he feels isn’t really feelings, but a simulation of them. This realization, however, only makes things worse, because he knows that he’ll never get to feel like humans, that he’ll always be nothing more than an imitation of a human that exists for humans to use and entertain themselves with, yet he wises to be human himself.
apache tears: a sadness headcanon
Psyche is programmed to emotinally function like a real person. And real people are way more likely to remember sad experiences than happy ones. That’s why extremely traumatizing or saddening experiences are automatically moved to the permanent storage of Psyche’s brain and are brought up whenever he’s (charging) sleeping. He cannot turn off this function
quartz: how my muse thinks other people see them
Psyche doesn’t think, he asks.
As discussed here, he measures his own selfworth by how much he’s woth to others, so he constantly needs to know the oppinions of the people around him. His ideal goal is for everybody to love him, going as far as to adjusting his eprsonality to the people around him. For example, he hides his murderous tendancies from nice and sweet people, but shows them off to those who can appreciate them.









