#I'm not sure if it's relevant but we're a m.ixed origin DID system

[orange-orchard-system]

Depending on which sidesystem and headmate you ask, we've had a couple different syscoveries, but I'll talk about the biggest one that eventually led to us exploring system spaces as a system (as opposed to a system that presented and acted as a singlet).

So, there's two sides to this story – Side A, and Side B. Side A leads into Side B, so I'll start there.

So for a long time, we masked our switching and pretended to be one person with one consistent personality. Jay started to notice that the way we acted sometimes wasn't exactly like how he acted – rather, it was like someone else was imitating him. Through investigating (not sure how, he always leaves it vague), he discovered CJay, the one who was imitating him, and then a few others over time. We already knew about systems at the time, so they came to the conclusion that we were one, and set about working on an innerworld and improving communication.

Enter Side B, which focuses on our former host, Nicky. Now, the exact sequence of events is a little jumbled, but what we know definitely happened first is this: Jay popped into the front one day and started talking to Nicky about... fruit snacks, of all things. Nicky didn't notice anything was off, at first, but once the topic of conversation was over and they noticed "that voice" was very distinct from them, they panicked.

We don't remember the order of what happened next. Our best guess is this:

Nicky went into denial, and CJay tried to break that denial by forcing a switch. This did not work and only resulted in an anxiety attack when Nicky found themself suddenly not in control of their body.

We reached out to another system we knew, who did their best to teach us some methods of communication. It helped a lot, but Nicky was still swinging wildly between denial and belief in the system.

The swinging continued for a few months until a trip where Nicky woke up with someone else fronting, and the two had a conversation about everything. We chose our Syscovery Day (the day we celebrate discovering we're a system) based on this trip.

Nicky worked on their denial (although they still had periods of it for months afterwards) and we improved our understanding of and communication throughout our system.

If you go back to the very beginning of this blog, you can see some of our posts from when we were just beginning to understand our system. Though, I don't expect you to do that just for a fanfiction, of course! This is the basic story, and there's really not much else (at least, that we remember or want to share).

Hope this helps you, OP! I'd be interested in reading your work once you've published it!

How did you find out that you were plural? We're writing a story on Wattpad which has several plural characters and want to include many ways. Stories welcome from all origins and it doesn't matter if you're disordered or Nondisordered

~~This post is safe for all origins~~