“ Hey, if you are still looking for system asks, 19? “ from @yallshouldsleepmoremydudes1803 since you both asked for 19
11. Name something that you like/enjoy but that one (or more) of your alters doesn’t
*laughs maniacally* There are honestly a number of things one member of the system likes that the others don’t because a lot of us have a tendency to be kinda hyper particular in interests.
Pretty much most non-instrumental music with Lucille since - while respectful about it - he quite literally only listens to classical music with the exception to two songs - one of which is Erlkonig (which hardly counts) and another that is personal.
Also call me weird, but I really like working and doing a lot of things most would consider boring like.... Filling out my budget sheets or like... reading research papers or like.... I dunno doing homework and going to work. Its a bit of a meme that I have a skewed sense of fun towards “boring” and “hardworking” and “tiresome” and I know Aderis and Ray’s definition of fun tends to be more on the lazier / lax end of things.
Oh and I really like long hair. That is actually really a kind of common thing in our system, but Ray I swear would chop it all off if he had the chance.
And relevant to the last post, but Lucille hates the taste of soda where as Aderis and I drink too much of it. Those are just some off the top of my head.
I actually don’t know what everyone’s taste in food is now that I think about it so Im clueless there XD
19. Got any fun system stories to tell?
Hmmm... So lately we’ve been learning the violin, and to give context, Lucille is a huge classical music and just music nerd overall. I am a large fan of music of all forms and would consider myself a music nerd as well, but not to his level, plus I have the tendency to forget how to play if I have any uncertainty about my ability when playing in front of someone. As a result, it’s been a bit amusing going to our lessons to show what progress we’ve made and to get new lessons to work on and return with since the main two learning the violin are me and him.
Why is it interesting? Well for the first lesson and the first half of the second lesson I was the one there, and it was driving me insane cause I dissociate if I am not 100% confident in my playing ability and my playing ability - like a self fufilling prophecy - falls. Its distressing but I’ve played trumpet for 7 or 8 years so I kind of am used to it, and for that second lesson I wasn’t supposed to be out cause the plan was to have that be his responsibility cause I don’t like that discomfort. Anyways, I was out and the teacher was like making a lot of comments on issues and things I knew but was unable to display cause I was *dissociating and dying* and so he noticed our violin bow needed adjusting so he went off to fix it and in that time we managed to switch and it was absolutely HILARIOUS how clearly the playing ability changed XD
Cause the thing is Lucille is somehow like 2x better than me at the violin despite me being the one who practices the most - but he is also 2x better than me at the trumpet and the piano (which we started to pick up) - and he also does not suffer from “I am vulnerable to anxiety-dissociative spirals that remove my ability to perform” so when the teacher came back and Lucille was out, apparently he was like “WOW THATS MORE LIKE IT YOU REALLY SOUND GOOD. YOU GOT THIS DOWN” and spent the whole rest of the lesson being extremely shook on how we suddenly took all his notes and applied it
Then it gets better cause literally everytime I’m out its a normal lesson and its chill, but whenever Lucille is out the teacher has to at least once go “WOW DID YOU PRACTICE MORE BECAUSE YOUR IMPROVEMENT IS REMARKABLE” or something similar XD
Like it would bother me more I feel if I didn’t already go through an insecure panic in highschool over my mental health issues making it so that when people were watching I might randomly loose my ability to play so I learned then that it is just my mental health and if I try to panic too much about it, then it often gets worse so I’ve learned to accept that it isn’t a reflection of my skill and more of just my mind not being the nicest. Then there is also the fact that Lucille is literally better at any obvious skill than me and it is kind of his job as what we call “academic protector” so it is expected and normal for Lucille to make me look bad XD
But I’ve been laughing my ass off over how our violin instructor seems to unknowingly notice and call our our switches every time despite the fact that Lucille is - as a primary protector - very good at pretending to be me if he wants to. So I’ve just been joking around with my fiance that if he ever REALLY questions if it is me or Lucille doing a good job pretending to be me, all he has to do is hand us a violin XD
Thats one of the recent amusing DID stories. Oh also once I checked my phone to see someone searched up “British Cream” and was very confused why that was there and why someone was looking up British Cream.
And one of the things that is talked about around the system that I’ve heard is apparently when Ray came out of a multi-year dormancy (having not formally met pretty much anyone in the system), one of his first interactions in the inner world with Lucille was going into his library and pulling a chair from underneath him. Cause Ray can be extra like that I guess.
Speaking of Ray being extra, one time I went to bed with two braids (I do it since my hair is hell and will destroy me if I sleep with it unbraided) and woke up with one really really bad braid and half of my hair loose. I was very confused and left a note asking who the heck woke up to unbraid my hair, and then do it again with one bad braid for the system.
Apparently the next night I pissed Ray off and to get back at me, after I had planned to sleep and braided my hair into two even braids, he undid them and made one small braid and one really large one just to annoy me because he knew I’d probably be the one to wake up and that it would irritate me.
But yeah those are probably the few off the top of my head that are kinda amusing to tell XD (I’ve also randomly found myself in a hot bath tub when I swore I was doing homework thanks to Aderis, but thats a rather common short story)
