GWL: THE SCIENTIST
Name
Gwllian (Gwl)
Pronouns
She/her
PERSONALITY
Vibrantly excited about existence. Loves kids, loves teens, loves adults, loves animals, loves plants, loves fungi, loves protozoans, et cetera. Not great at social cues, but means well, she is just too busy thinking about the awe-inspiring beauty of animals with radial symmetry to consistently pay attention to other people's facial expressions. Extrovert. Perpetually buzzing about the wonder of the universe. Obsessively passionate about an endless array of topics. Loves everyone so much and wants to take you by the hand and show you how impossibly, wonderfully improbable it is that we even exist.
APPEARANCE
Has less of a solid internal appearance than other parts because she is far more focused on the external world and its wonders than she is self-focused. Freckled, muddy, and sunburnt, with dark chin-length hair pulled back in a messy ponytail. Wears huge round glasses. Has a fondness for patterned button-up shirts, cargo pants, and big jackets with lots of little pockets for storing snailshells and animal bones. Always fluttering her hands with excitement.
INTERESTS
Editing Wikipedia, theoretical biology, quantum physics, chemistry, math, mycology, microbiology, botany, agricultural science, sheep, making spreadsheets, Homestuck, paleoarchaeology in general and the neolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in particular, the Fibonacci sequence, speculative astrobiology, ants, science communication video essays, arguing about fish taxonomy
FAVORITE...
  • SUBJECT: Biology
  • SEASON: Summer
  • FOOD: Artichoke
  • MOVIES: Pacific Rim, The Meg
  • TV SHOW: The X-Files
  • BANDS: They Might Be Giants, Lemon Demon
  • PLACE: The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
  • HISTORICAL FIGURE: Alan Turing
  • ROLE MODEL: Miss Frizzle
MISCELLANEOUS
Stims much more openly than other alters. Identifies heavily with Aradia Megido from Homestuck. Wants to work in science communication and farm sheep. Has religious feelings about the golden spiral and turing patterns. In high school, she told everyone who would listen that she was in a passionate romantic relationship with her AP Biology textbook. Her daemon is a massive hagfish named Variable, who she wears slung loosely around her neck like a slimy scarf. She is one of the only alters who does not have trauma memories or interact with trauma at all.
DOMAIN
Academia, special interests, social life, general non-traumatic daily life
CENTRALITY
One of the host alters, and has been for probably our entire life; was noticeably present at age 2.
EXTERNAL AWARENESS
Always oriented to current time and place, recognizes and remembers friends and acquaintances, fully grounded in the present
INTERNAL AWARENESS
Has biographical memory only of her own experiences as a singular alter, does not have access to any trauma memories and is only aware of what she has been directly told. Cannot feel/sense the presence of other alters except for Turos, Chloe, and Helen, and can only sense them with intense concentration and difficulty. Cannot communicate in either direction with any alters other than Turos, Chloe, and Helen, and can only communicate with T C & H with difficulty, limited to direct verbal messages (as opposed to sharing emotions, memories, visuals, sensations, etc). Did not have any awareness of or communication with other alters whatsoever until it was intentionally cultivated in therapy over the last several years; it's very novel and exciting to her ("like telepathy in real life!!!!"). Knows about a few other alters through being told about them, but cannot directly interact with them; sometimes tries to pass messages to them through Turos or Chloe, but they get lost in the dissociative static before reaching the intended recipient.
THEME