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Q&A

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I have a question about characters with multiple personalities! For example, Echo here has 36 (and counting) personalities that she explicitly states aren't her. She has a separate personality and persona (as it were) that's just Echo, instead of Elanor Penn, Taffy, any of the other "chorus girls." A caveat is that she uses the skills these other personalities have in order to get by (e.g. Spanish from Eleanor Penn, medical knowledge from Rebecca Mynor, how to break into and out of places from Taffy. etc).

Would Echo come in with all 36 of those personalities still in her? Or would it be just Echo?

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As a bottom line, I'm not going to ask anybody to chop their character's MPD. Even if an additional personality were magical or something (which it obviously isn't in Echo's case, but just for the sake of posterity), I think it's pretty drastic to completely alter something so integral to one's characterization just for the sake of a power cap. (Of course, if playing as just Echo were something you wanted to experiment with, that could be arranged at some point in-game).

I do think she'll lose some of her physical functionality, since muscle memory would be nonexistent in fresh clones. As for her mental abilities, there's some wiggle room in there, ICly caused by signal interference/data transfer errors/what have you.

In general, I would recommend that you and anybody else who is apping a character with a seemingly limitless set of abilities tone them down somewhat, if only for your own ease of play (may as well just nip that whole "ack my character is smarter than me" problem right in the bud). Unless it becomes a problem, however, I'd prefer to leave the hard details to player discretion.

[fellasleep]

Excellent! That answers my question perfectly. I wasn't asking so much for the power cap as to how does multiple personalities into clone, but that was likely to be my next question! Thank you very much, especially with yeah we're not sure what all she has in her armory of skills and I'm uncomfortable pulling x skill out of my ass because she could possibly have it despite not seeing it in canon.

Again, thank you very much!

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I figured those two things sort of went hand-in-hand, so I just went right for it, haha. I'm glad it helps, though!

You're very welcome!