For whoever's reading this without some familiarity with me as a person: I'm plural, also known as being a system. My brain is a bizarre stew of different identities, personalities, and beings, and this affects my daily life and the way I consume media. Much as I might say "I" and "me" for simplicity's sake... it's messy in here. And when you're plural, you really start to notice the fascination much of the media landscape has with the idea of plurality – without ever actually interrogating its implications, oftentimes not even realizing that that's what it's depicting.
When I see plural characters in media, intentionally-written or not, I tend to latch onto them. They always have good and bad in near-equal spades; there is always some element holding them back, either because they didn't consider that their writing could be interpreted as representation, or because of their ingrained biases about systems. Still, it's so rare to see people in fiction whose brains work even roughly like I do that I tend to take what I can get, applying a critical lens while letting myself get a little emotionally attached anyway. Here are some of the plural characters I've encountered and resonated with across fiction, and my honest thoughts and feelings on each of them.
