Meet The System — Rowan

Name: Rowan
Gender/Pronouns: Trans guy, he/him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 21
Origin: Lucas overcompartmentalized. A lot.
Role: Co-host, Gatekeeper, Protector, ex-persecutor, Caregiver
Time present: About 6 years
Fronting frequency: Fairly regular? Definitely the most besides Lucas.

So I cropped up when Lucas forcefully dissociated from parts of himself he didn’t like. At first, I was a concentration of all his anger issues and hypersexuality, so I wasn’t a very nice person. However, over the past six years, I’ve chilled out a lot and settled into being a more rounded person than just a ball of sex and anger. Over the past year or so in particular, me and Lucas have actually gotten really close and worked in harmony most of the time, rather than being constantly at each other’s throats like we used to. Well actually it was more me being at his throat most of the time. Like I said, I wasn’t very nice.

Lucas considers me to be a co-host, apparently, which is kinda nice, but my main role is to deal with anxiety and paranoia. If anyone is feeling threatened or overwhelmed by anxiety, I step in because I’m generally more confident and able to deal with it than the others (except Elijah). I’m also in charge of defending the system in physical altercations (not that we’ve had to yet) because I’m less bothered by being violent than the others. In the internal world, I’m in charge of keeping Godric at bay as much as possible. He’s new and not very trustworthy (so he won’t be writing his introduction post, that’ll be my job because I know him best). I’m not allowed to make decisions regarding alcohol, because I have a bit of a problem lmao. I’m also… ‘involved’ with Kit to some extent, but I’ll let her explain that more.