A reference guide

Madoka Magica: you’re supposed to identify with the child characters

Paranoia Agent: you’re supposed to analyze the child characters and interpret their viewpoints and behavior

Yuki Yuna: you’re supposed to go “Holy shit these kids are so young someone protect them”

Making my own post for this

I've been reading about this "Project Monarch" conspiracy bullshit, where people claim the government is making people multiple so it can use them as assassins. It sounds like the final and most powerful form of my Aunt S's brand of gaslighting.

What S currently does is divide . . . herself? Themselves? I've never figured out if S is multiple or not. But however you slice it, there are S'es that are friendlier, and there are S'es that are more hostile. One S will remember everything she hates you for doing. Another S will have no memory of any of that. There can always be at least one S who loves you, and there can always be at least one S who screams at you over the phone. But if you act more like they want you to, you'll (usually) get friendlier S's to interact with, and if you act in ways they don't accept, you'll have the hostile S'es to deal with.

This Project Monarch stuff divides you instead. Everything about you that the conspiracy believer loves, that's you. Everything about you that the conspiracy believer hates, that's your evil alternate personality that was forced on you by the government. So if they pare away all of your behaviors they don't like, and force you only to act in ways they approve of, that's a selfless act because they're saving you from the conspiracy.