Jan. 13th, 2019

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Sometimes I think about how multiplicity would work in the Persona setting. I mean, there’s no reason to assume an entire system would have only one persona. So the active persona would most likely depend on who’s fronting. But Persona already has canonical characters who switch personas: wild cards, who’re “empty” inside and switch their behaviors depending on who they’re talking to. So from an outside perspective, wild cards and multiples would easily be mistaken from each other, despite a very different interior life. 

I almost said that multiples would be well-suited to fighting the otherwise overpowered wild cards, but of course the solution to fighting one person is to send more than one person.

(But judging from the incredibly stereotypical multiple assassin in P5, I have zero faith in Persona’s ability to portray multiplicity well any time soon.)
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I don’t think you’re ever morally obligated to be friends with someone.

When I was younger, I thought my brother T was a jerk. He was well aware of his incredible intelligence, and he looked down on people when he thought they were “acting stupid.” If they showed too much emotion, or showed emotion about what he considered the wrong things, he would make fun of them. He didn’t seem to care if he hurt people’s feelings.

He went off to college, and apparently, he grew up. He’s not as hurtful as he used to be, and it’s easier to hold a conversation with him. He gets along better with my mother, and she says he wants to get along with me, too.

It’s not that I hold any particular grudge against T. I could interact with him if I felt I had to. But I don’t care enough about T to miss him or want him back in my life. To put it simply, I’m not interested in him anymore.

I believe that friendship, like love, is an act that requires the consent of both parties, and I don’t think you necessarily need a “valid reason” to dissolve it. It can be as simple as saying “I don’t want to do this anymore.”

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