@ANONYMOUS

[appeale]

hey. what's your shadow like?

trust me i get why nobody wants to talk about this whole thing. neither do i. but it kinda seems like we ought to compare notes and we can do it anonymous. or you can just use this to vent about how your shadow's an asshole idc

mostly i just keep seeing people say stupid shit and claim it was their shadow and i can't tell if this is just a case of your_experiences_are_not_universal.jpeg (sorry. obviously i don't have the meme on me) or if i'm going crazy. bcuz mine is so quiet i can't even tell it's there usually. so what's the deal???

(before you say i must be a good person who doesn't have much of a dark side: lol. but i'm not some evil psychopath who already acts on their worst impulses either)

and has anyone had any luck getting theirs to fuck off?

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@mikey

[invinciblemikey]

it wasn't me it was my cat

@anonymous

[appeale]

lmao yeah it's so easy to lie about it
you could do literally anything and say it was your shadow
it's the local "can't help being a gemini"

@anonymous

[rumination]

[ some of those phrases are nonsense but the core question is an intriguing one, and with the safety of anonymity, it's easy to answer. ]

Quieter, hollow, easily moved by petty emotions, quicker to lash out in anger. Similar enough to my personality that only a few people could tell it was not me.

Finding a soulmate has helped quiet the shadow. It's still there, though. Not completely gone.

@anonymous

[appeale]

yeah see that's what i was interested in hearing about, how differently they can act from person to person. thank you for your honesty. does yours talk to you directly or does it just influence your feelings?

@mikey said the same thing so i guess that's confirmed. but i don't know if i think it's worth swapping the shadow for having someone else in my head

@vv

[lapses]

Talks too much. I just ignore it.

@anonymous

[appeale]

oh my god the fact that everyone is saying their shadow talks a lot is making me really worried about what the hell is wrong with me.

you just ignore it??? is it that easy?? nobody else seems to think so

@kuruko bc she hasn't figured out how to use anonymous yet sob

[telepathy]

asshole is right
everything is my fault

@anonymous OH NO MAVIS......

[appeale]

like it blames you for things???
that sucks rip
i guess it makes sense if the whole point is to make us give up and despair or whatever

[redsoil]

— sutekh

The blue substance I found near the explorer's bodies made my shadow cringe away. So, I had some.

[ jesus cannot die for this guy's sins, he predates jesus ]

It made my own 'shadow' silent for a while, is what matters.

@anonymous

[appeale]

YOU ATE MYSTERIOUS BLUE POWDER OFF A CORPSE?????

un: zagreus

[dodgeouttahell]

It's called a 'shadow'?

What I hear assumes other people's voices. Voices of those who aren't here. Also, I haven't really been feeling like myself sometimes, more than making me act oddly.

[appeale]

yeah i guess jung* came through here when he died lol (*doctor who came up with the idea of the shadow in psychology, the manifestation of people's repressed desires and weakness. sorry i realised while i was typing the joke i probably needed to explain it)

i've heard voices of people i know too but i assumed that was just my trauma, didn't consider it might have been my shadow. what do you mean "not feeling like yourself" tho??

@bmadrigal

[fallingsand]

Mine never really tells me anything new. It just reminds me of what I already know about myself, I guess?
Nothing good, generally.
I don't think it's made me do anything weird yet, though.

@anonymous

[appeale]

yeah well, if it's a part of you i guess it's only going to be able to either say stuff you already know or just talk to you like a high school bully. "ooooh nobody likes you" ok alejandra i get it can i eat my lunch in peace now

mine barely does anything and it still took over my body once, so watch yourself even if nothing has happened yet. it might actually try to fuck you over.

@anonymous

[unalign]

Noisy, likes to giggle and laugh, nags a lot, has a penchant for violence. Reminds me of someone I know.
Tried to take over a couple of times, almost killed my friend a couple of times.

To be fair, the friend it almost killed also tried to kill me before, so.

@anonymous

[appeale]

so they do have distinct personalities beyond just "you, but mean" then... that's one of the things i was wondering about. even if they all have the same goal (ruining our lives) the way they behave isn't universal. that fucking sucks.

if it TRIED to take over, does that mean you resisted it?

@baji

[koutsuanzen]

no luck gettin it to fuk off.

gets worse, honestly, the more people you're with. but gets better the more people ur wit, 2.

fuckin' hypocritical like everything else.

@anonymous

[appeale]

k cool i'm calling this another point in the "not worth it" column for soulmates

the only thing it had going for it was making the shadow fuck off and it can't even do that right

text; un: fushiguro

[shadowier]

Forgive me if this sounds rude, but you may just be better at avoidance or suppression. Honestly, in this case, it's not really a bad thing...

Have you ever thought of the worst version of yourself? It feels like that, but it thinks it's the best. Sometimes it feels hard to argue.

@anonymous

[appeale]

it sounds like they behave in a bunch of different ways?? a few people have said theirs just plain bully them

tbh maybe my shadow just sounds so much like my normal thoughts that i can't tell it's the shadow lol

[killtohero]

ehhh mostly it says the same shit I already know about myself? but it amplifies things that im trying to work on, so that regression is pretty shitty.

and it definitely gets louder everyday.

[appeale]

wait like it's getting worse the longer you're here??

@mellifa

[somatosensory]

It sounds like my mother.

( well mentor, but it more or less comes to the same thing. who better to give voice to all of his doubt? )

I ignore it, mostly.

@anonymous

[appeale]

another tally in the "using other voices" column i guess

you can really just ignore it???

@anonymous

[exilire]

Have you or anyone else had experiences where your shadow took advantage of a particular situation?

Manipulated someone? Overstepped a boundary, with someone?

@anonymous

[appeale]

other people definitely have, that's kind of the biggest thing shadows do

i haven't tho?? like i said mine barely does anything, mostly it just warns me to be careful