I stopped about a quarter of the way through this article, probably about at the same point as I did in the game, and I’d like to just make one point and move along.

I know people who have struggled with mental illnesses, and as such MPD in this way is as improbable to me as the twins theory. Because of how off the representation of mental illness is, it never even entered my mind as a possibility. After having heard the theory, it still doesn’t line up anywhere close to anything I’ve read on the subject of DID.

This could also be because I had recently watched the movie Black Mirror (oh, the theme returns!) featuring twins living as one person.

To me if you read it as MPD, the level of writing is equal to that of the twins story, because it doesn’t relate to real life directly, it is absolutely fictional fantasy.

I buy Emily Short’s interpretation, after all Southern Gothic exists as a variation of Gothic, and the stylistic elements of both seemed mundane in the eras they were created. I say we coin a new term for this one, call it Net Gothic.