When we were summoned to Crystallis, not all of us made it there. Some of our personalities, the things and we are but deny either to ourselves or others, were left behind inside the Calamity itself. Their Shadow, or ID as Freud put it.
Remember how I mentioned Jungian philosophy? That's why.
[He doesn't even wait to be asked. Instead, he adds the information he shared with Futaba. Information he wrote down and shared with another Cid as a part of his and three others' research.]
It's incredibly archaic, but in Jungian's philosophy on psychology and the collective unconscious, the person and their personality are divided into four separately distinct parts: the Ego, the Shadow, the Persona, and the Anima or Animus depending on the person's gender.
The ego is what is aware, and controls the persona - the masks one wears to face different aspects of reality. The shadow is everything one unknowingly denies of themselves or hide from others. The anima or animus, how they view the members of the opposite gender.
Ordinarily, most would go through life only facing their shadows when the ego or an external force makes them look inward to their own unconscious, but those who were summoned to Crystallis... well.
Because of the tie we had to the Calamity, sometimes the planet itself deemed us as a threat and put us in something called Crystal Stasis. Many Heroes from other versions of my home and others succumbed to it. Even me, but I was lucky and woke up. Before everything hit the fan, those who were aware had to face ours in order to become immune to the Calamity's effects on the world. Anyone who wasn't immediately crystallized.
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Remember how I mentioned Jungian philosophy? That's why.
[He doesn't even wait to be asked. Instead, he adds the information he shared with Futaba. Information he wrote down and shared with another Cid as a part of his and three others' research.]
It's incredibly archaic, but in Jungian's philosophy on psychology and the collective unconscious, the person and their personality are divided into four separately distinct parts: the Ego, the Shadow, the Persona, and the Anima or Animus depending on the person's gender.
The ego is what is aware, and controls the persona - the masks one wears to face different aspects of reality. The shadow is everything one unknowingly denies of themselves or hide from others. The anima or animus, how they view the members of the opposite gender.
Ordinarily, most would go through life only facing their shadows when the ego or an external force makes them look inward to their own unconscious, but those who were summoned to Crystallis... well.
Because of the tie we had to the Calamity, sometimes the planet itself deemed us as a threat and put us in something called Crystal Stasis. Many Heroes from other versions of my home and others succumbed to it. Even me, but I was lucky and woke up. Before everything hit the fan, those who were aware had to face ours in order to become immune to the Calamity's effects on the world. Anyone who wasn't immediately crystallized.