character who accidentally gets cloned, but instead of the Evil Twin trope or arguing over who is “real” or trying to murder each other (why???) they just…get on with their lives. they acknowledge that they are two virtually identical people with the equal right to exist, and decide to share their social group & living space. eventually their parents & friends get used to the idea of having unusually identical twins around
#after awhile no one even brings it up. so whenever someone new join the friend group, they naturally & reasonably assume they have befriended identical twins. until months later when someone randomly mentions the Cloning Incident during movie night
…How do they get to decide who gets to keep the original name? Rock Paper Scissors?
They’re both so excited about choosing a new name that they spend a bunch of time arguing over who gets to, before they realize there’s nothing stopping them from both choosing new names
#it is later discovered they’re both trans #in hindsight neither of them is much surprised
You're describing Elliot and Ellen from the webcomic El Goonish Shive.
