Plurality for some others

Part 3 in a series about our plurality.

Cedar

For me, plurality is about respect. Respect for the other headmates within a system. Respect for the aspects of yourself that you maybe don't have the ability to respect by expressing in your daily life. Respect for yourself as a person by allowing yourself to bloom into the ideal version of yourself

Skye

Plurality is nice, it lets me exist and express myself in the ways that I want to. Lily was aware of me before but she only let me out in bits and pieces. Now I get to exist in the way that I want to

Rose

Plurality is a relief because it helps Lily explain to herself why I exist alongside Princess Evelyn. Why we can simultaneously exist within a person and both be expressed and unique and ourselves within a single body

Princess Evelyn

Plurality is also a relief to me, but its also deeply healthy for us I think. My existence and ability to front allows us to express things that we never would normaly, and that's a healthy form of release

Lotus (with Evelyn helping)

I like being, I like hugging sharky. I like that Lily accepting us allows me to do those things

Cherry (The Knight, Hollow)

Lily likes that we exist because we help explain our behaviors around our mom. It helps her reason and logic out our reactions to family and that helps her a lot. We'd like to exist more and become more than just that, moving past our roles in childhood and young adulthood into more developed forms that can healthily exist.

Lily also chose to not explain us, but we're a subsystem (alongside Evelyn) within Terra.

Thyme

I love that we're able to write this. That Lily allows us to express ourselves and exist and be ourselves. It's a nice alternative to the first 26 years of our lives where we were just a weird mishmash that Lily didn't understand, no matter how hard she tried to force things

Pieces of a whole
We fight, we love
Pieces of a whole
we strive together
to reach an inner peace
To be
who we want to be