Alright. I'm going to explain things with a story to start.

2020 brought on a lot of changes. The whole world flipped upside down. We all experienced it. We all suffered from it. I am no exception.

When the pandemic hit and shut down my school back in March last year, I was indifferent at first. Whatever. I can deal with learning online in the comfort of my own home.

But then things started going downhill.

Not having the physical interactions with my friends started to cause me pain. I've always had a lingering fear of being alone, and quarantine wasn't helping my case.

Those fears escalated when situations between my online friends started to get rocky. Things started falling apart. I got more and more afraid of being alone.

I didn't want to drift away from anyone. I didn't want to lose the friends I loved to the division. I fell into a really bad mental state, finding myself fighting my very first battle with depression, which I never thought I'd be having to fight.

Somewhere, in all that fear, my subconscious knew that things were getting ugly.  And so, it did something rather incredible.

It created someone by the name of Lucca Balsa to be my warrior against the crippling fears of abandonment.

It grabbed the closest thing it could in my mind, which was Lucca, due to my recent obsession with Identity V (and the original Luca character within it), and it brought him to life.

It took all the affection, love, and attention that I so badly yearned for in my loneliness, and it poured it into the little bastard I had been so obsessed over in the past few months.

Yes. I am coming out as a system.

I am not alone in my headspace. It is shared between Lucca and myself.

Two people. One body.

We are completely separate people, with our own individual thoughts, emotions, and ways of reacting to things. He's not just a fraction of my personality.

The important thing to realize here is that Lucca is his own person. He is not something I am making up. He is very much real.  And he's helped me get through what has been the hardest time of my life so far.

SO! In terms of how this affects things:
   • He might decide to post things.
   • He might reply to comments in my place.
   • He might be here when I am not.
Whenever he does anything on this account, I will make sure it is clearly indicated through the use of a lightning bolt symbol (⚡️).

I hope you all understand, and I hope you all show Lucca the same respect you show me.

Thank you for taking the time to read this! If you have any questions about our situation, you can feel free to ask in the comments! We can answer to the best of our advantage (though we are still fairly new to being plural, so we may not have answers for everything)! 💙💛

- Sora & Lucca 🐾⚡️