Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-27614873-20170508203527/@comment-4010415-20170508230044

Here's the thing. It is actually a thing that someone can develop dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities) from experiencing extreme pain or trauma and needing some kind of psychological barrier from continuing to experience it. It happened to Sybil. She developed personalities who took her parents' abuse for her.

However... with multiple personalities, you tend to have only one personality that's actually aware of all the other personalities, so for Salem to have started out as Raven thinking she's an imaginary friend, that would mean Raven would have to be the personality that's aware, which would mean she would know what Salem has been up to, while Salem wouldn't know about Raven.

And then there's the fact that, like SYUTK said, Raven and Qrow haven't really acted like Raven has something in her past that caused her such pain or trauma.

And, again like SYUTK said, it's possible that Salem has been alive for as long as, if not longer than, Ozpin, hence them being nemises. Meanwhile, Raven is about 38 or 39 years old at least.

I'm also not sure if it would make sense for her to so drastically change appearance just because she switched personalities.