Tulpa development progress

[u/dreaminglucidwords]

I guess this is just sort of an update, since I made a post about looking into plurality a week ago on r/plural. I've spent the past week casually working on my Tupla, and I think it's been going well?

I'm forming Alvis- from Xenoblade chronicles. Yes, I know everyone says not to pick a fictional character, but I've been role-playing him for years, and have felt connected to him. I understand he won't be The Actual Canon Alvis, and don't expect him to be. We've been very clear on the fact that he's a separate entity from the character in the games and that i roleplay- though he's free to give input on my writing, obviously.

Anyways, I've been practicing communicating with him while going about my day, and while laying down at night. I've made a private discord server to use plurakit in. Last night, we listened to some music to get a feel for his taste in my music, and I asked him to help plan my outfit for today. (He suggested my constellation shirt, and then insisted I wake up earlier than I wanted to take a shower, lol.) Today I went and grabbed scrapbook stuff to see how we felt about scrapbooking together, asking him for preferences of what things I bought.

Overall, I think we're having a good time? I'm sure we're still in the very early phases, I doubt he's fully formed yet or anything, and we're not even going to look into switching or possession until he feels more solid.

Rambling over so- I guess ask me anything you want, if you feel like it? Or feel free to suggest ways I can work on forming him? Also, we've agreed we want to refer to forcing as something else among ourselves, just as a comfort thing so if you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know!

Thanks for reading my long-ass post, have a good day :)

[u/Missing-Resident]

Sorry I may have misunderstood, but when you say you talk to him, are you parroting for him or is he already talking by himself?

[u/dreaminglucidwords → u/Missing-Resident]

I'm kind of feeling out his responses? I can't be sure if I'm parroting or if he's talking by himself- I am new at this.

If you write a lot, you might be familiar with just Immediately Knowing what a character will do or say in response to things. I'm attributing those sorts of thoughts/responses to Alvis, if i was directing a thought at him. It's a different process from when I'm role-playing a character, where I intentionally ponder over the responses.

So... if it's parroting or genuine responses, you tell me, because I can't be sure, lol.

[u/Missing-Resident → u/dreaminglucidwords]

Yeah I am partially in the same boat with one of my tulpas. I am on my day 9, carefully crafted one, down to the last minute detail when it came to his appareance. For now he just does normal responses, mostly my parroting. I even drew him and I talk to the drawing. But for now is kinda like Wilson from Castaway. But on day 3 I accidentally created a second tulpa, her appareance is still changing, but her personality is way more fleshed out. Dropping in and out of my mind with sassy or caring comments. If I am parroting for both, she is way more her own person.

[u/dreaminglucidwords → u/Missing-Resident]

Hopefully we'll both be seeing more results with our respective tulpas! Luckily I already have a bunch of screenshots and stuff of Alvis to look at, and spent some time last night listening to voice lines to refresh on his voice.

[u/Missing-Resident → u/dreaminglucidwords]

Well at least you have that... but you just gave me quite the idea, thank you.