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akitsukino
Jul '19

Story is going somewhere and I'm not sure exactly where. What I have now is a rumor about a group of sisters in a secret house. They care for a library in the forest that holds all kinds of information. The hero gets there and meets the sisters, but then it turns out that the sisters are actually one woman who splits herself into multiple parts, but keeps the one conscience. She can snap her fingers and all the other sister./parts will disappear and become part of her again. But why?

I'm still trying to figure out why the character would do something like this. The only real reason I have is because of whimsy , This takes place in a forest and the lady is secretly the ruler of this land. I think I was going for something supernatural where she's spreading herself thin so she can be more connected. The hero is self centered so maybe this is a big thing for them to witness.

Why would an elemental forest lady want multiple versions of herself?

Or why would anyone want multiple versions of themselves?

Got ideas? Let me know below!

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SleepingPoppy
Jul '19

Sometimes the obvious answer is the best one: She has too many things that need her attention, and there's not enough of her to go around, so she makes it so there's "more" of her!

I can at least imagine a library being very busy in going in a million directions, and it makes even more sense to me that a ruler of the land would be busy.

*not literally saying this is the "best" idea, it's just a classic =)

DiegoPalacios
Jul '19

if they all share the same conscience it can be really practical to perform multiple tasks and be in different places at the same time.

Personally, i would love to have that power.

And in the case of the ruler, it makes many administrative tasks and meetings way easier.

mariusthered
Jul '19

let me think....

housework...all done at once.
shop lifting , steal and distract the guards at the same time.
baby sitting more than one kid , never out of site.

i think i could list quite a number.

HomeBrewComics
Jul '19

Yeah, I mean if she is in a library, she could pretty much absorb all that knowledge from the books in a pretty quick amount of time if she can clone herself and retain all that knowledge. So I guess that she does it so she can collect more knowledge, both in the library and outside it?

And if these clones die, does it affect the "real" forest lady? Cause if not, you could use them to patrol around the library (or any area really) at no risk to the actual person. Someone intrudes where you don't want them? Just throw a could of clones there way and learn the way they fight and work out a better way to dispatch them while they are constantly being attacked.
Again, this is another way of building knowledge while being in a different place.

skicoak
Jul '19

Okay, you say they all share one conscience but is it possible one of the "sisters" could carry all of the others emotional stress. Leaving the others sisters mentally free to concentrate on other things.

This could be played for comical effect or something deeper psychologically.

And if you wanted to go a little darker, same sister could be the bank for physical pain as well.

OttoGruenwald
Jul '19

Spare parts, a twisted philosophical desire for self mastery by mastering the "self" as a slave, a desire to achieve a greater understanding of ones self by literally talking to themselves, an attempt to raise the clone "right" so that the progenitor can vicariously live the life they always thought they deserved through the clone .