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Date: 3/18/2015
Subject: Twin Conscience
Every year the number of twin births increases. Since the year 2000, the amount of live twin births has increased at a steady rate, thanks to more innovative medical practices, as well as healthier practices on the part of the expectant mother. In 2009, it was documented that twin births had risen from 18 to 33 twin births per 1000 live births.
Twins are considered a miracle of life; two infants born from the same gestation. People often express a desire to have twins, enthralled with the tight, sometimes seemingly supernatural bond the siblings seem to share.
(If one were to browse online, one would find a cornucopia of forums dedicated to the disgruntled spouses of twins, who often feel that their significant other holds far more affection for their twin than their spouse.)
As has been discussed copiously among the medical community, carrying to full term and giving birth to twins is not without its own unique risks. Vanishing twins, conjoined twins, and late term miscarriages are just some of the few problems that may arise during the gestation period of a twin birth.
Perhaps one of the worse of the afflictions to befall twins are "parasitic twins," an occurrence in the womb in which one twin fuses, but is not fully absorbed, into the other. This defunct twin may come to depend either partially, or solely, on its functioning twin for all biological support, becoming in effect a parasite to its sibling. These parasitic twins can become a dangerous burden to their surviving sibling, often times siphoning off important nutrients that the host body needs to survive. It is, truly, one of the very worse afflictions to befall a surviving twin.
Recently, however, we've uncovered something that may take "parasitic twin" to a whole other level.
In the past ten years we've been following the cases of seven children, all of whom were late miscarriage twin births. That is to say, their twin, as a fetus, died within the womb, but was too late in development to be reabsorbed back into the mother.
These seven surviving children have all displayed unique, if not, somewhat disturbing mental traits in childhood, some of which included the apparent propensity to carry on fully developed conversations with an extremely well developed imaginary friend. All seven of the children were noted to insist, in childhood, that this imaginary friend was real as opposed to created.
Stranger, perhaps, were the seemingly psychic attributes that each child possessed (and wielded to their benefit). All were noted to have apparently "psychically" lifted an object at least once in some point of their life. Particularly violent psychic occurrences were often accompanied by fits of anger or rage. More genial occurrences, such as helping a parent reach a pot or pan in a particularly high cupboard, were also noted to occur when the child was feeling neutral or pleasant.
Of course, no parent(s) can go without recognizing the problem in these situations. Every single child we are dealing with has been, at one point, subject to extensive medical examination directly before being reported to the government, at which point, we (the government run lab) took over the care and overseeing of the development of these children.
With the present technology we have, we don't have the capabilities to further delve into the brains of these children and discover what it is that is giving them these extraordinary abilities.
It seems, however, that being the surviving twin of a failed twin birth plays a role. Joke theories originally proposed by a few of our doctors suggested that the twins harbored two consciences, that of their own, and that of their deceased sibling, essentially serving as the body for two people.
Now, what started out as a joke, seems more than ever real. We can't prove it yet, but its not just a coincidence that these children are all surviving twins. Nor is it a coincidence that every single one of them has a well developed imaginary friend, equipped with its own personality and preferences, and very much individual from its creator, or as we've taken to calling them, host.
We've tried to theorize realistically. One suggestion is that the brain cells of the children fused, creating a hybrid brain with more than average functionality. However, not all of our patients express a particularly outstanding I.Q. (all of them, however, are NOT dim-witted; they're intelligent enough and rather crafty). Furthermore, each twin was documented being born alongside a failed, but well-developed, fetus, with no suggestions of brain cell degeneration on the part of the failed twin.
Uniquely, we've observed arguments breaking out between the host and what we've taken to calling the "parasitic conscience". The parasitic conscience, while seemingly incapable of taking full control of the host's body, is able to fight with the host over certain conditions and situations, causing what the host reports as a considerable amount of pain to both host and parasite. During these arguments, many of our hosts were observed experiencing massive headaches, nosebleeds, and blurred vision, as well as a decrease in the stability of their motor functions.
The biggest mystery that remains is: what is the "parasitic conscience"?
With a lack of helpful technology, all that's left to do is watch, observe, and experiment..
. I waited till the end to mention this because I know some people become dissuaded when they read something is based on something they've never heard of. But fear not; the plot of this rp, while sharing many similarities with
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