#Dennis™️ is also a persona which we occasionally get a peek behind but like

[dennisboobs]

i don't know how everyone else feels about the way dennis' personas ~work~ but i like to treat them as extensions of his usual compartmentalization. it's another form of separation from his core self – something he wants to bury beneath a more competent, charming, respected personality – but also a way to deal with hardships by deploying the specialist who Should Know how to endure fix the problem. they're established characters, and that makes it easier for dennis to think about what Hugh or Brian or Johnny Would Say rather than how dennis actually feels about a specific development. that way he is potentially able to stay more detached than if he just approached it as himself.