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Shiyilang wrote:

why does persona have nothing to do with colors godammit CNR

SYUTK To The Rescue

Ever heard of the term Psyche? In modern psychology, it refers to the totality of the mind, conscious and unconscious. Originally in ancient Greece it meant "Life", and poetically life the sense of "Breath" ("Breath of Life", pretty much), with derived meanings including "Soul" and "Spirit", and ultimately "Self", as in the conscious personality.

In modern psychology, Psyche refers to the "forces in an individual" that influence Thought, Behaviour and Personality. Sigmund Freud himself often referred to the Psyche with the german word "Seele" - meaning both Psyche and Soul - and thought that it was divided in 3 components:

1> The Id, our instinctual, unconscious drives.

2> The Super-ego, our internalization of all the values, morals and social norms we have been taught throughout our lives.

3> The Ego, our conscious personality, combining the Id's drives with the Super-ego's prohibitions to make us who we are, or at least how we behave.

Then Jungian Psychology (on which the Persona franchise is most based on) rolled around. Carl Jung added additional terms related to the Psyche. Among them, Persona and Shadow.

>The Persona is a farse. Just a fake image of yourself that you use in public to give a certain impression of yourself. Not necesarily too different from your Ego, but in the end, you're still hiding some amount of yourself.

>The Shadow, is the unconscious side of one's personality, the "dark side" of one's true self that the Ego does not identify with itself, either because it's not aware of it, or because it outright rejects it.

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Now, what does this have to do with the CNR? Simple: A different Psyche. Even back in ancient Greece, Psyche - or better said, the word from which Psyche was derived from - was at times used to refer to Butterflies, though rarely.

So you could draw from Butterflies, or Moths.

........Of course, you could also just use some other CNR-abiding name that has nothing to do with butterflies or the mind.