Username:
Alcidesune
Name(s):
Egoegeo (used to refer to the being as a whole) - from the Latin terms; "ego" for "I" or the concept of a self, and "egeo" for "need". Can be interpreted as "I need" or, alternatively, in need of a concept for 'self'.
Ollie (used to refer to the center head) - chosen due to Oliver being both a popular name among young boys and Olive being a tree sacred to both the Greeks and the Romans.
Captimor (used to refer to the head wit heterochromia ) - from the Latin terms; "capti" for "trapped" and "timor" for "fear", roughly making the name "trapped by fear".
Phlegethon (used to refer to the head drooling boiling sap) - refers to the river Phlegethon, described in Greek mythology as a boiling river of fire. Used either literally as a boiling river or used metaphorically to represent danger, anger, and torture.
Gender:
Male
Personality:
Ollie: Of three individuals inhabiting this body, Ollie is, in his mannerisms, the youngest of them. This doesn't mean, however, that he fits into the stereotype of a loud, adorable, and sometimes annoying young child. No, like any child, he is driven by his wants and desires, so much so that his every waking moment is driven by fulfilling simple little goals. Maybe one day he wants to see what's inside the local haunted building, the next he might be trying to win a little game of his own creation. He may be lacking the experience and knowledge of the other personalities - even when considering none of them remember the formative stage of their life - but every waking moment his little mind works away at the problem of the day. In particular, Ollie is good with patterns, especially those related to people's behavior. When he recognizes a pattern it's hard for him to shake it off - it's led to some confusion on the part of his new caretakers after Ollie became stressed over seemingly harmless things when he himself couldn't remember why they stressed him out. Stress in Ollie manifests as him coping through daydreaming, though he gets easily enough that it's concerning for his caretakers, with Ollie spending more time daydreaming than he does ""lucid"". Ollie doesn't care too much for gender: toys from both sections are equally interesting to him, but he has preference for coloring books, play-dough, slime, and other hands on things he can interact with.
Captimor: Chronologically, Captimor is the oldest of the individuals inhabiting this body. While he can't remember their earlier years any more than the others, he does know one thing - they weren't born as split beings. Each of them is a 'piece' of one original Yaeko's identity, split apart by... something. Something none of them can remember in detail, but still has distinct marks on how they behave. For Captimor, this manifested as 'fear', as an all encompassing sense of anxiety, that if he does something wrong he'll suffer for it. Everything he does and says is heavily filtered and picked apart before he even considers actually doing it, running through a million ways it can go wrong. More often than not, the heavy weight and fear of ways things can go wrong results in him not doing anything at all - accounting for everything and being afraid of everything is just too much of a drain on him on most days. Like Ollie, simple things can frighten him deeply, though for different reasons. While Ollie recognizes a set pattern in behaviors and assumes this meaning is universal, Captimor sees a behavior and interprets it in every way he possibly can before assuming the worst of them. Even something as simple as silently doing a chore comes across to him as passive aggression and sets him on edge, and even if constantly assured he's fine and not a bother he will still assume that it's a lie meant to make him feel better. More often than not he is the one who controls their body, as control is normally swapped between the three of them rather than simultaneously shared. While his fear makes him miserable and no longer helps, it has kept the three of them safe for a majority of their life, so he resists the attempts of his caretaker to help them heal, worried that it'll either vastly change who he is or expose them to danger once again.
Phlegethon: For his entire existence, Phlegethon has held a lot of negative emotions. Frustration, anger, self hatred... as well as all of the bad messages taught to the group by their unfortunate circumstances growing up. He was never taught a healthy way to vent these feelings, and so he lashes out, both at Ollie and Captimor as well as people 'outside' of their group. Lashing out, aside from venting anger and frustration, serves additional purposes that seem perfectly logical to him. For the latter, others make him feel unsafe and cornered, like he's not in control of the situation, so he lashes out at them to regain that sense of safety and control. It's better to lash out and drive people away than it is to be the one getting hurt, in his opinion. When it comes to Ollie and Captimor, he has a misguided notion that his behavior is acceptable because it will 'teach' them and keep them ready, that way when they eventually meet someone worse than him they'll know how to behave and won't get hurt by misbehaving. Though he lashes out at others out of fear of being hurt first, Phlegethon craves attention and intimacy to the same extent he fears it. Once someone stays and shows him that they care for him, he will typically throw his all into this person - his sense of self worth, his interests, everything becomes catered to this one person, and he fears their abandonment just as much as Captimor fears aggression. Things are black and white to him: if he sees a sign of hurt or abandonment, even one fake and imagined on his part, he will go straight back to lashing out, creating a vicious cycle of hurt and pain on both ends. He knows he's wrong in both his actions and his way of thing, but it doesn't help in the slightest aside from making him sink further into various coping mechanisms to deal with his perceived failure at even existing. All in all, Phlegethon is severely misguided and needs help just as much as the other two, which his new caretaker is helping him with, though, like Captimor, he secretly fears that his doesn't have an identity outside of his issues.
How did he lose his ear?
For all three, this memory is one of the ones that sticks out the most. It sits in a liminal space, a border between two states of being for them. See, the three individuals had yet to fully 'detach' from the original. They existed, but they still existed as 'pieces' of the original, like a water droplet just on the verge of separating from a larger droplet. As such, it is one of the first memories they actually possess as individuals, one of the few from that time not altogether repressed, and, arguably... One of the few memories they could consider "positive" in any way shape or form, despite widely being regarded as a tragedy. For you see..
That was the day they were 'freed' from their original owner.
Not a caretaker, not a friend, nor any of the terms most Yaeki would prefer to refer to their human by. An owner, through and through. How or why they came into his care is something among the leagues of lost memories, but in the end it hardly mattered to any of them. All that mattered was that on this day, in that horrible wreck, they were finally free from his influence.
The day had been one plagued by a strong snowstorm, and the night fared no better. Like a monster from fiction past, the full moon rising above seemed to give supernatural strength to the raging force of nature. Sight was limited to a good 50 feet ahead of them with high beams on, and practically non existent without them. Those possessing either a superstitious nature or any kind of common sense would have stayed within their homes, bundled up, and waited for the flurry to pass before heading anywhere. However... Bereft of common sense are those grasped in the clutches of greed and entitlement. This man in particular was a strong example of such. Christmas was just around the corner. Parents of all stretches of wealth and fortune went to various lengths to secure presents for their children. Some people saw this as a time of giving and celebration. Others? A chance to make quick cash off of the former. As one would assume, this man was of the latter group of people. Plenty of posts had circled through social media about a three headed Yaeko and the man had practically begun preening himself underneath the attention it had brought him. Even better, however, were the offers to purchase it that had flooded in. Most the man had turned down, preferring the fame such a pet had brought him. However, as Christmas drew close, the offers from the old money in the area became... Tempting. Six digits at the minimum for a 'mutant' without a pedigree? Such a man wouldn't turn down an offer like that even if he had to walk barefoot through the snow himself to deliver the mutt.
It was a mistake on his part. An uncharacteristically warm period had predated this awful storm, bringing about minor snow melt which had, in turn, frozen once more upon the roads, leaving a sheen of deadly, near invisible ice over its surface. A classic tale, really: a car slides on the ice, the driver over corrects, and the car skids out of control, flipping onto the side of the road and rolling several times. The man wasn't enough a fool to disregard seat-belts for either him or the crate containing his precious sale, and it proved to be both of their saving graces. Phlegethon, at the time referred to by a name none of them can remember, suffered damage to the left side of his face, situated to the left side of the vehicle as their crate had been. A torn ear and a broken jaw, to be precise. Their owner suffered from a broken arm, several cracked ribs, and a shattered femur. It wouldn't be until morning that an ambulance would arrive for their owner, now suffering from frostbite and hypothermia in addition to his other wounds, and when it did Egoegeo, then going by a name similarly forgotten, was handed off to animal control to take care of. Between his own hospital bills and car repair bills, the owner could no longer afford to pay for the extensive bill of his own pet's surgery (nor was it likely he still had any interest in the 'animal', damaged now as it was and suffering from facial paralysis and drooling on the left head) so the Yaeko now known as Egoegeo was surrendered to the local pet hospital and shelter, where they would soon meet their future caretaker.