#apologies to any MLs and Hegelians cringing at my butchering of dialectics

[ewingstan]

I want to know your philosophy-ask-game opinion on Evette Lambsbridge. (Headmate Evette, probably, since that's the only one we see in any depth.)

SEND ME A WILDBOW CHARACTER YOU LOVE. I WILL TELL YOU WHICH PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT EXPERIMENT YOU SHOULD GET REALLY OPINIONATED ABOUT (SLASH DEVELOP A PSYCHOSEXUAL FIXATION ON)

The obvious move here would be to focus on all the personal identity-related thought experiments that can be applied directly to headmates. For instance, I could say Evette fans want to fuck the too-many-thinkers problem—though that'd be too cute, as well as somewhat misleading. More importantly, I want this to be something that applies to Evette fans, not just fans of the concept of headmates—even if "young man gets possessed by the mind of a young woman" is already easy to fit as a psychosexual fixation. Out of respect for Evette as a character, we wont take the easy route.

The truth can't be denied. Fans of Evette want to fuck Hegel's concept of antithesis.

(or alternatively, wants to fuck the dialectical/negatively rational moment insofar as it opposes the moment of fixity).

My evidence:

Evette exists as a reaction to the concept of Sylvester

This is both in the sense that Sy's self-concept collapsed in such a way that a new concept had to emerge (not out of nothing, but rather guided by and in response to the previous concept),

and in the sense that she is the personification of the struggles Sy has endured within his typical mode/concept ("I am Sy's pain").

She is seemingly defined by having an oppositional attitude towards everything: the Academy, Mauer for some reason, the rest of the lamb headmates, Sy's relationship with Jessie, etc.

This extends even to her fashion, which is noted to be mod and eccentric. This is best read as a statement/reaction against hegemonic aesthetic norms.

She got naked and covered herself in soap to make herself hard to grab (the concept of antithesis is slippery).

She's a necessary part of the causal chain that resulted in Sylvester's eventual Sy-nthesis (boo) and post arc-14 character growth, dubious as that growth may be.

Relatedly, she prefigures the synthesis of Lord Simon from Sy and the Infante headmate.

This would normally be the part where I write a short blurb sexualizing the relevant concept in the character's voice, but if you can't already sexualize this—

—then you're beyond help