Prompt #557
The interrogation was meant to be simple, System A knew that.
After finally being caught and taken in, they'd be interrogated by someone with the ability – a superpower, really – to always know whether someone was lying or telling the truth. A ruthlessly effective way to conduct interrogations, in System A's opinion. It was almost an honor that they brought Person B in for their case.
Unfortunately for Person B, however, you could easily get around such an ability by co-fronting with someone who had equally true yet completely different answers to you.
Which is why it had been fifteen minutes since they'd been brought in, Person B looked thoroughly ready to begin banging their head on the table, and no one had been able to get past the very first question of "What is your real name?"
System A grinned as innocently as they could. They knew they probably looked like the Cheshire Cat, though.
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Hello :) I have cptsd and recently learned about plurality, and sort of felt like I could relate, in a weirdly specific creepy kinda way. I’m wondering what it “feels”/sounds like for you, when you’re co-con/co-fronting (?) or just generally when you have a thought, that comes from a different person than yourself? For me, it feels like it all comes from within my “brain”, but I can’t really tell if it’s maybe just me thinking something or if it’s someone else speaking. I hope this makes sense, would love to hear your thoughts on the subject!
Hi! So for starters, we have this other ask we answered a few months ago discussing the differences between our own thoughts, feelings, and memories, and the thoughts, feelings, and memories of other alters in our system. It might be able to help answer your questions!
And now, we cannot speak for every system when it comes to cofronting or being coconscious. However, we can describe what these experiences are like in our system, for us, personally!
As we understand it, there’s a difference between cofronting and coconscious. Here’s how we’d define and experience each!
Cofronting: two or more members are fronting at the same time. In our system, we either act as copilots, working together to speak, act, and control the body, or we temporarily fuse or blend, functioning as one entity for a period of time. Right now, both Margo and Cecil are fronting, and we’re functioning as one person. Our thoughts feel blurred and we can’t fully distinguish whose thoughts and ideas come from who. Our memories function like a shared bank when cofronting, so Margo has access to Cecil’s memories and Cecil has access to Margo’s! When we’re cofronting without blending, we generally can work together to live our life without sharing memories, and it’s much easier for us to tell whose thoughts are coming from who.
Coconscious: this is a term we use for alters who aren’t exactly fronting, but are able to sense what’s happening in the world. This is how our host, Parker, generally lives his life. He’s able to see the world and hear the world, but isn’t able to interact with anything and is not in control of the body. Usually it comes with varying levels of dissociation. Sometimes when we’re coconscious we can see and hear the outside world quite clearly! Other times, the world seems hazy, foggy, or fuzzy, and things sound muffled and distorted. When coconscious, we might have trouble remembering things later, and we’re more likely to experience amnesia to some extent (usually emotional amnesia). The events that we witness when coconscious usually don’t feel like they’re happening to us!
Sorry if this response is confusing or doesn’t make much sense! This is how we’d describe these aspects of plurality that we regularly experience, though we’re not sure if our explanations are actually beneficial or even if other systems experience cofronting or coconsciousness in a similar way!
Best of luck to you in figuring this out though! So sorry we couldn’t be of more help!
🌸 Margo and 🖋 Cecil
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Co-fronting for the first time with Kyra and Sam!! We’re fucking awesome! New besties for life xoxo
-Piper
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Prompt #1,002
All the members of System A have mundane superpowers – little things that might make life easier, but aren't exactly useful for changing the world or even fighting in self-defense.
Or so people thought, because they looked at each power individually, as though System A were a bunch of separate people who just happened to share a body, or were incapable of cooperation. Putting their powers together, however...
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So like 👑 is the one that spends the most time in front/in the body.
Lately there has been a very very strong urge to tell the irl outsiders “👑 isn’t here right now,” whenever one of us is close enough to front, but also we’re afraid that might make things awkward and there are some of us who’re convinced those people would never want anything to do with us anyway so that’s not fun…
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