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something that doesn't make a lot of sense to me is how this character can be played in a game at all when he's technically a psychological delusion/off-shoot personality of the main character of the book. this isn't a complaint, i just don't understand how this works. and does this mean you can app in any split personality you choose from any character in any medium? i mean, he doesn't have a body of his own and isn't a 'real' person.

I've actually wondered this too

could you then app one of the personalities from the United States of Tara as a separate person, for example?

yeah exactly. because if you can app tyler durden surely you can app any split personality as a whole person, and no offence meant to the player in this case, but to me this really makes very little sense. though an explanation/clarification might change my mind.

I don't know if this is how the current one is doing it, but I know the original Tyler Durden we had had him as The Narrator, but Tyler Durden was the primary personality that surfaced in Atia because he fit the setting better and could cope better, so the Narrator didn't make as much of an appearance. At least that's how I vaguely remember it.

I'm not sure how they're working it this time but if it's literally just Tyler and not the Narrator with Tyler as the main surfaced personality, that's... really weird because they've denied characters for being figment versions in a persons head before and it would be hypocritical to let a split personality in when someone's imaginary friend isn't, I'd think.

Second Hand info here but as I understand it. That's what the mun WANTED. I guess the mods won't let them bring in The Narrator unless it's a powers event? I know when they posted something from the Narrators POV they were asked to take it down.

WELL THEN - that is bullshit. The mods should know that psychological disorders don't exactly count as a power. If they did, I'd be fucking Superman.

Replying as a mod - We are fine with Tyler displaying The Narrator's personality. He apped in with both on the application, but chose to have Tyler be the dominant one and with with that, his appearance. We asked him to take down the post or edit it so that it was Tyler's body being shown because he used the physical appearance of The Narrator, for which he does need to have a powers event to have as changing physical shape/appearance is a power on the island, not just a state of mind. He chose to take it down.

But how are they even given the option to choose? I mean, The Narrator is the body. That's the person that actually exists. Tyler Durden doesn't and is a figment of his imagination. By that logic, I could app in any character with multiple personalities and have whatever personality I like be both dominant and the physical body, replacing the primary one?

Pretty much, yeah.

Tyler has a canon physical appearance associated with that personality - he might be a 'figment of imagination' but he's still a character with a canon appearance. The player asked that due to Tyler being easier to adjust to the setting, that Tyler be the dominant one. With that came the canon appearance for that personality because if Atia can give talking ponies a human body, why shouldn't she give Tyler the appearance his creator associates with him?

And yeah, you could app in a character with multiple personalities and have one of them be the dominant one - assuming there's enough canon material to app it as the dominant one. If they had a separate physical body image associated with them that falls within the humanization rule they could have that be their permanent appearance on the island. Barring power events to allow the physical appearance switch. That means if one of the other personalities comes out, they'd find themselves in a body they weren't familiar with if they had a separate appearance associated with them as well.

da, but

'canon appearance' is only what The Narrator perceives Tyler to be, not what anyone else sees. the only reason no one calls him on his double personality shit when Tyler does something The Narrator doesn't know about is because he's convinced everyone it's part of his plan, not because when Tyler is around they see a completely different person. there's no appearance to choose from, because ICly everyone is seeing the same thing EXCEPT The Narrator.

Get the fuck over it, you anal dingus.

It's still a 'canon appearance' because that is what The Narrator perceives Tyler as looking like. Atia has given him that body since it's so strongly associated with that personality.

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