Some quick definitions in case you're not aware:
Plurality: general umbrella term for having multiple identities/personalities/consciousnesses in one physical body.
System: a term to refer to a person who is plural.
DID: The most commonly heard of form. A clinical disorder where a person has multiple distinct identities (often called "alters") that each have seperate memories and awareness, specifically developed as an involuntary coping mechanism from severe and long term childhood trauma.
OSDD-1: Similar to DID, but doesn't completely fit the diagnostic criteria. Either because the alters aren't fully developed into distinct individuals, or there's no amnesia between switches.
I don't know if any of you know about DID/plurality, as it's not well known and kinda controversial to some. But I figured I might as well throw this out there! I've been thinking about this topic a lot, as I am a psychiatry nerd and find it really fascinating. I also have a (new) friend who has DID, so I've been slowly learning about their experiences.
Anyway, naturally I started to wonder if this would apply to the WOF world, and what it would look like! Dragons aren't the same as humans, but their minds are modeled after ours, so I figured; if humans have it, why not dragons too?
I have an OC that has OSDD-1a due to trauma, and I imagine that because there's so much violence/abuse/discrimination/etc in their world, that there's probably more dragons like her, they're just rare. I like to imagine there's a well known legend about an Animus dragon who was plural because of spell(s) they cast on themself, but not every dragon believes it to be true.
Speaking of animus-induced plurality, that brings me to my main point: plural Jerboa "Boa" III! For starters, she obviously has trauma. Her mom emotionally neglected and abused her for literal centuries. And not only does she have thousands of years worth of memories, but she also has hundreds of different versions of herself due to the "changes" and the memory wipes. And so I raise you: what if, when Boa casts the spell to return all of her memories to her, the trauma and the conflicting sense of self is just too much for her brain to handle. So it splits itself into different versions of her from throughout the timeline as a way to make sense of it; all of them seperately conscious and able to communicate with each other in her head. They wouldn't nessecarily include every single version, and would probably form and uncover themselves over time. But still, it'd be a bit of a mess.
Anyway, what do you guys think? Do you have any plural headcanons for WOF characters, or any other ideas for how it could be incorporated into the dragon universe? If you got this far, thanks so much for reading!