I dusted off a few of the old Post-Self stories, going alllll the way back to the very first of them, "Assignment". It's...kinda rough, but I wanted to at least get it posted, both here and on the site under the "extras" section. Enjoy!
Ioan Bălan --- 2273
The sensation of an instance merging state back with em would never not make Ioan Bălan#tracker uneasy. It wasn't the differences in experiences, those were to be anticipated, so much as the tiny changes in identity that resulted. Having to internalize a slightly different version of yourself was too close to experiencing a doppelgänger, something so alike and yet with subtle shifts in worldview.
Or perhaps hanging with a sib, fresh home from a semester abroad.
Ioan#tracker had never been abroad, had no siblings. Just new memories.
And yet there was the merge request, waiting. Ey set aside eir work --- a simple bit of nothing for a news organization that really didn't matter but nonetheless offered some reputation --- and sat back to deal with the squirming, greasy feeling of the merger.
