Ideas Are Easy

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by RyanW

I was just thinking of a group of independent bodies that identifies as a single individual and insists on she/her pronouns to refer to the entire collective, becoming annoyed if treated plurally (or if any one body is treated as the "real" individual).

I had considered this at first as a duplication superpower that the super simply left on all the time, but it could also be a cybernetic or psychic gestalt, an AI running instances on multiple frames, a true hive-mind alien, or completely normal people aside from her extreme dedication to the commune.

In Cyberpunk 2077, one of the early missions you get is a series of bare-knuckle fights, and in fact I believe the earliest one you can do (most of the city is blocked off at the start of the game) is against a pair of twin brothers who have used cybernetics to completely link themselves together, wirelessly. They think of themselves as a single person, and get angry with you if you refer to them as separate individuals. It's an... interesting experience. For having two bodies to work with, they sure do stink at boxing, though. The webcomic Schlock Mercenary also had a species where each individual had two bodies, which communicated via natural radio (with technological assistance, they could stay synched up over long distances; the one who was in Tagon's Toughs piloted two grav-tanks at once).