Sophie
- Name origin
- A friend's cat
- Aliases
- Soma
- Pronouns
- she/it
- Type
- Probably ANP but unclear
- Role
- Trauma holder (physical pain)
- Response type
- Yelling "ow"
- Reexperiencing type
- Emergence of common-sense avoidance instincts; for example, remembering a thing is painful to touch and deciding not to touch it
- Communication style
- Sensation
- Coping mechanisms
- Video games, YouTube
- Traits presented when cofronting
- Physical pain, irritability
During a time when we were in intense physical pain, Sophie emerged. She is a trauma holder, of a sort, but what she holds is physical pain, a sort of ordinary everyday trauma that everyone in the world has had to endure repeatedly and is intimately familiar with. Because what she holds is something so common, something everyone has to cope with, it had simply never occurred to us to notice her existence, but there was a brief moment when a particular source of pain became so severe that she had no choice but to make herself known.
Sophie identifies most closely with our body out of any of us, to the point that she considers herself, in a sense, the "mind of our body," as distinct from our actual mind.
Sophie dislikes being called to front, e.g. being spoken to or discussed. She would like us all to leave her alone and let her do her very important job.
Relations
No one is very well aware of Sophie. She prefers things that way and wants to be left alone.
She is closely related to Lucy. They were likely a binary subsystem within Singer I assume, anyway, that Sophie, like the rest of us, was originally a part of Singer, but I don't know when she split off nor what event caused her to do so. Maybe it was a cumulative, gradual process, effected by the sum total of many small physical injuries throughout our life. Maybe the intense source of pain that made her introduce herself to us was the same one that completed the splitting process.