Character design thoughts (long) (the basics) 

So, I was talking elsewhere to people about a character I've had for a very long time, one of my favorite character concepts yet one who I've not yet managed to really write out a world around.

Aditi, aka Aaron, is a two-bodied ferrets. He has two complete bodies, independent and not physically connected in any way. This led to some awkwardness growing up; until she was around four or five years old, her parents thought he was twins, and had been raising him as such. Multi-bodied individuals are not unheard of in this setting, but they're sufficiently uncommon that it just wasn't something Aditi's parents really considered a possibility at first.

Being raised as two people simultaneously had some effects on her mentality. For one, as he was raised simultaneously as a boy and as a girl (one of his bodies is afab, and the other amab), she manages to be genderqueer and nonbinary (bigender, specifically, both male and female at once, but emphatically not something in between or half-and-half) and yet also technically kind of cis at the same time.

This, incidentally, is why the pronouns are weird here. He uses both she/her and he/him semi-randomly intermixed. It's also why he has two names.

While she has one "male" body and one "female" body, she doesn't generally care that much about gendered presentation, and dresses both bodies from the same wardrobe. He does have an eye for fashion, making sure to look good, but she doesn't go out of his way to keep the masculine outfits on her masculine body--he can absolutely look fantastic in a dress whichever body wears it.

Aditi is technically still legally considered two people, mostly because she just can't be bothered to go through the whole process of getting that updated. It doesn't generally cause problems.

Character design thoughts (long) (Extra tidbits) 

Aditi owns and operates a bakery in the closest thing his small college town has to a downtown, and lives in an apartment above it.

She's very close with his older brother, a tauric transmasculine demiboy.

The best way to describe her mental situation is one consciousness spanning two minds. She can have two completely separate trains of thought at once, or devote his full attention to each of two different things at once. Another person(s) with exactly the same setup could well have developed into two distinct individuals with a very strong mental link; Aditi just didn't.

Though he has two names, and responds equally well to either, he prefers Aditi in general.

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re: Character design thoughts (long) (Extra tidbits) 

Still feeling proud of this and wanting to show it off. -w- Rosemary had some thoughts on Aditi's brother too, let me find and boost that too

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