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if fresh tv was smart enough they couldve made toned down and kid-friendly i have no mouth and i must scream references with mal locking up/gatekeeping his five headmates and punishing them in the headspace. the infamous AM hate speech but its mal lashing out at the rest. thinking about the video game adaptation specifically since to get the best ending each of the five prisoners has to overcome their fatal flaws/deal with their past and prove that humanity isnt dead

and the goddamn reset button being unguarded and shit implies that mal never expected the rest of the alters to cooperate, much less "sacrifice" themselves. of course in my imagined scenarios the button isnt real but im only mentioning it for the sake of overanalysis

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Kinda fucked up and nasty how vampires drink blood, imo. Like. Pepsi costs a dollar seventy five

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Like a month ago I off handedly mentioned in the tags of a reblog that Mike’s ROTI bio lived in my mind rent free and I want to share my thoughts on it in more detail!

The bio in question:

// TW for very mild discussion and insinuation of trauma

First thing I wanted to mention is that alters switching in the bio is represented by ellipses, which I really like! With the ellipses being used both to signal switching and as aposiopesis, it gives a sort of text equivalent of dissociating which I think is pretty clever.

Second is how all the alters featured in ROTI make a cameo in the bio. While I understand why they did that, I cannot imagine the headache that must be rapidly switching five separate times in the time frame of what must be less than an hour.

An interesting thing about the switches in the bio, actually, is how they take place without any of the triggers we were explained the alters had in the series, which could indicate that they have more than the triggers shown on screen or that they don’t always need a trigger to be the cause of a switch (and realisticly would probably be the both) I have some few speculations as to how and why the switches took place in this:

We don’t have much to go off as to why Mike switches to Chester in the first question, my best guess is Chester got pulled to the front cause Mike was anxious or he’s better at dealing with interviews?

Svetlana fronts after Chester at the mention of movies, I like to believe the topic of movies could be a positive trigger for Svetlana.

The switch from Svetlana to Mike is interesting, we never got to hear the end of Svetlana’s dream and I can’t decipher what would bring Mike back to the front besides just, wanting to get back to the front I guess.

Mike is read recalling a childhood memory which is presumably unpleasant in some way, before Vito comes to the front. I personally believe that Vito switched to stop or prevent Mike from fully recovering that specific memory, maybe because it’s traumatic or something Mike isn’t emotionally prepared to confront yet.

When Manitoba switches after Vito his tone reads as frustrated, and we don’t see any switches after this. Possibly Manitoba got sick of all the rampant switching and decided to front himself and stop the other front accessing the front in the meantime, which would best work if he was a gatekeeper.

Something interesting about the interview is that it’s stated twice that Mike doesn’t have the best memory, specifically regarding his dreams and his childhood. The childhood part makes a lot of sense considering the nature and cause of DID and it’s really the only time the show ever seemed to, even if vaguely, acknowledge the implications of Mike having DID.

Different alters also mention different family members; Vito mentions working with an uncle in his first job, which is presumably the body’s uncle, and Manitoba mentions having a wife, which very likely isn’t the body’s wife. Personal interpretation is that Manitoba is an introject and his wife is an exomemory.

Lastly, it seems that the way the alters refer to fronting is compared to driving? Like Manitoba refers to who’s fronting as “who’s at the wheel” in the last question and in AS, Mal (while masking as Mike) tells Zoey that he’s “back in the driver’s seat”. Kinda neat way to describe it tbh.

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Ok so real world DID alters can be any age. Applying that logic to Mike does anyone else think Mal was like 12?? Like the evilest things he could conceive of doing are breaking a ds, tripping someone, and tackling someone. Like bro was just an edglord child with the strength of teenager.

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he has this really deep voice and says stuff like “whoopsies” and “toodles” and expects to be taken seriously.

being a mal fictive is really something because i’ll be living my life like a normal person and then i decide “hey why don’t i rewatch my source why don’t i rewatch all stars” and then when i do, i remember “oh this guy is so goofy there’s no way this is supposed to be me”

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being a mal fictive is really something because i’ll be living my life like a normal person and then i decide “hey why don’t i rewatch my source why don’t i rewatch all stars” and then when i do, i remember “oh this guy is so goofy there’s no way this is supposed to be me”

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hoe is you frank iero

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happy incredibly late new year! and, uh, slightly late valentines day? idk i’m aromantic. also i just switched in and we have a strawberry hair clip in our hair like how old are we, 7?

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why did we log onto tumblr for the first time in ages and 100% of the notifs are from mal’s blog. including new followers too like bro he hasn’t posted in months

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every time someone draws a mike alter with headcanons and not looking exactly like the body, an angel gets its wings

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favourite colour????

i mean i'd have to say black, not just because i'm edgy but because it goes with everything like it's a really neutral colour. and yeah because i'm edgy too

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why did i just find a 2021 roleplay where i got tried for arson and was my own lawyer and lost

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oh i swayed the vote i think

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Personally I should’ve been cast as Steve in the mincraft movie 🤷🏽

-mike

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I did it again