Dev/art/fic of that one Paper II AU we keep referencing

 Self explanatory title, a dedicated thread to our AU where we go over how Paper from Inanimate Insanity is written and add onto it to mend the issue of the S1 writing fitting into horribly demonizing DID stereotypes. The first thread post will be updated with the most important information as development for the AU continues.

 We have autism, so our writing may be hard to understand, weirdly or incorrectly worded or have typos at times. Please ask for clarifications if you don't understand something or notify for need of corrections if there's any mistake made!

 Hi, we are a DID system and Paper is one of our favorite object media characters! Initially, we really hated him for the stereotyped writing, but as our object show special interest grew stronger (and still is going strong, even if the top spinterest spot has been secured by something else by now) he really grew on us. And as that and improvements of our own life went on, we began realizing it's actually really worth to give a "fix-it" AU a go, as the issue with Paper & his headmate's portrayal is not that "Evil Paper" exists in the first place! Persecutors and otherwise really angry and even violent headmates are not uncommon within the systems, after all. The issue is that E.P. is presented in an extremely one-dimensional way that doesn't go much into why such an alter exists in the first place, and how they may feel and think beyond the showcased anger and violent tendencies. Parts of it can sooooort of be inferred, like E.P formed after traumatizing circumstances and presumably after Paper himself experienced the same emotions E.P would, and him voting OJ on the contestant voting elimination in S1EP13 shortly after he gave E.P. the "Evil" nickname suggesting, although very unintentionally, that he haaaates being referred to as such, but that is only from a lens of someone(s) who *is* a system and has enough knowledge and experience to understand persecutors well! The before-mentioned nickname and the entire arc ending up in headspace violence and how it's discussed afterwards doesn't help at all.

 Although Paper rarely shows up post-s1 and his s1 arc was an absolute mess for a large portion of it, we still see a lot of potential in him and his headmate, and we do find Paper an genuinely interesting character! To fix the issues, there doesn't even need much to be changed in our opinion, our approach is simply exploring the events of canon from E.P.'s direct perspective, elaborating more on Paper's perspective *and* keeping the arc going past the point where it seemingly ends in canon towards a storyline about Paper learning to properly accept and learn about his systemhood and co-living with his headmate(s) more peacefully and functionally by helping E.P. We are not going to take out what OJ did either, as while it *is* shitty, we think it *could* work as a genuine plotpoint about OJ hurting E.P & Paper despite well intentions towards Paper that he has to grow from once made aware of it.

 A lot of this AU is based upon *our own* personal experiences with DID and are not to be taken as a definite way to view both DIDsystems or any system in general, as systemhood is extremely diverse, even in context of just DID. It is also not a definite way an AU exploring Paper's systemhood further and fixing the flaws of canon can go, so anyone else is free to make their own try at it!

 As the AU goes in-depth with the specifics of DID, it *will* explore trauma, dissociation/depersonalization, violent/destructive/self depreciating/self harming thoughts and behavior, headspace conflict and violence, mental spirals & ableism. More warnings may be added as we develop the story further.

 To be added, eventually ;P