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| [[File:InternetDreamLounge.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Artist's impression of the virtual interview (from left to right: Easy-K, Chris and Merryweather).]]
| | One's '''personality''' is a set of mental, emotional, and behavioral qualities that make up an individual's character. Studying personality is a key aspect of psychology, allowing experts to know what makes people the way they are. There are many methods for testing one's personality, with some backed by decades of scientific research, and others created by random people on [[Facebook]] to show ads. |
| '''Internet Dream Lounge''' (stylized as '''Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ Ｄｒｅａｍ Ｌｏｕｎｇｅ''') was a short-lived [[YouTube]] podcast series hosted by Merryweather (aka Merryweathery), a Danish web artist, and Easy-K, an EDM music artist.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6q7ndms_7GIAELHGLqq72w/about YouTube page]</ref> The premise of the podcast was to interview people with a [[Weens|sizable following]] over the [[Chris and the Internet|internet]]. On 4 [[October 2017]] Chris appeared as the guest star of their fourth podcast.
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| As of [[August 2020]], the channel remains inactive, with all videos privatized.
| | Chris's personality is quite eclectic. It is what draws countless people around the globe to study and follow his antics. He has spoken quite a bit on his own idea of his personality, but his own insight doesn't always jive with [[reality]]. |
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| ==Background==
| | His personality has undergone quite the change since Bob's death, with some traits undergoing a full 180. |
| On 4 [[September 2017]], Chris retweeted Merryweathery, who [[September 2017 tweets#The Internet Dream Lounge Podcast|announced]] that Chris would be the next guest star for the podcast. Despite the announcement's broadcast date set for the following week, days before the expected release, Merryweathery went on to [[September 2017 tweets#Internet Dream Lounge podcast delayed|announce the delay]] of the video; however, he was accepting additional questions for the interview. The first interview was alluded to have been recorded on 4 September.<ref name=bob></ref> According to Merryweather, a re-recording was carried out on 4 October, for a 9th of October release.<ref>https://kiwifarms.net/threads/08-10-cwc-podcast-interview.35059</ref>
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| Chris stated that he accepted the interview for the following reasons:<ref>[[September 2017 Patreon posts#Music request]]</ref>
| | ==Disclaimer== |
| *He was not pressed on sensitive issues.
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| *He was [[Financhu Crisis|paid]].
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| *Merryweathery agreed to help [[Tapas|Chris's Sonichu business]] as a "social media manager."
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| On 5 September, Merryweathery showed up on the [[Kiwi Farms]] in defense of the interview, upon receiving criticism from users that he was not going to get any new information out of Chris. He revealed to an extent the contents of the interview, notably an "interesting answer" from Chris with regards to the identity of the [[Magical Man]].<ref>https://kiwifarms.net/threads/9-4-planned-podcast-interview.33946/</ref>
| | [[File:Myers-Briggs type indicator.jpg|thumb|The Myers-Briggs type indicator is a popular personality test system.]] |
| | Personality testing is a controversial field, with few tests used universally within the scientific community. Even the famous Myers-Briggs test, while useful for rough workplace assessments, is somewhat vague. It misses key areas like creativity and openness, and people who take the test often get different results over time. The closest thing to a gold standard is the Big Five, or OCEAN test. |
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| Merryweathery maintained good relations with Chris after the interview. In December, he tweeted a gift to @WeWuzMetokur of a drawing of him by Chris, saying that Chris had done it as a favor.<ref>https://twitter.com/Merryweatherey/status/940976409601826817</ref>. Chris later drew an art piece for Merryweathery for his birthday.
| | This article discusses various aspects of Chris's personality, but is not to be taken as a substitute for an actual psych-eval. |
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| | ==Introversion vs extraversion== |
| File:Mister Kurmeto by Chris Chan.jpg|Mister Kurmeto
| | Chris has shown traits of both introversion (reservedness, solitude) and extraversion (people-seeking, sociability) over the years. It should be be noted that no person is a true introvert or a true extrovert, rather it is more akin to a [[Autism|spectrum]] which people fall on, and people can behave differently in different contexts. |
| File:Art for Merryweathery birthday.jpg|Art for Merryweathery
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| | At [[Manchester High School|high school]], Chris appears to have been fairly introverted, though with a drive to be extroverted. A [[Manchester_High_Leaks#Getting_Acquainted|leaked icebreaker worksheet]] shows that Chris only talked to 7 of his class-mates. They were all [[Noviophobia|female]]. Despite trying to later hold a high school reunion, in the [[Song of Christian]], a 16-year old Chris describes having few friends and how his "loneliness is off the scale”. Even with the social prestige of being a water-boy to the school [[Bionic the Hedgehog|basketball team]] and his [[Gal-pals]], Chris took his [[Barbara Chandler|mom]] to the school prom. Nearly 10 years after the prom, Chris talked about feeling like an outcast at the prom, however his highlight of the evening was when one of his [[Tiffany Gowen|gal-pals]] felt sorry for him and "pulled [him] onto the dance floor". This dance "felt like hours" to Chris.<ref>[[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile#The Seinor Prom]]</ref> |
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| ==Interview==
| | Around the time of discovery by [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]], Chris was mainly an introvert. He kept to himself and barely spoke to anyone but his sweetheart. He joined most public chats in both [[IRC|text]] and [[Mumble|voice]] forms only after being goaded by his current sweetheart<ref>[[BlueSpike Skype Logs 5#February 10]]</ref> or a troll. And even in these chats, he didn't converse a lot, and only answered questions directed towards him. Even while playing video games, he mostly stuck to playing single player games such as God of War, Pokemon, Sonic and Animal Crossing. Any multiplayer game he did play was mostly with his sweetheart like LittleBigPlanet and Burnout Paradise. Before his discovery, when he frequented the THe GAMe PLAce, he mostly kept to himself (and Megan), and rarely interacted with other people except during card games.<Ref>[[Lucas and Mimms Q&A#Chris's behavior]]</ref> |
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| | Classic Chris, therefore would clearly fall on the introvert side of the spectrum but he isn't a full on introvert as he did visit an [[Anime Mid-Atlantic|anime expo in 2004 and 2005]]. New Chris however would easily fall on he extrovert side since 2017 as he started publicly responding to people, started playing multiplayer and co-op games such as Tetris 99 and PayDay 2, visited multiple conventions like [[Bronycon]], [[Omegacon]], [[BABScon]] and the [[TooManyGames]] expo. He has also started streaming videos, and answering questions his fans have. He has also joined public and private discord groups, though his interaction with other humans in them is limited. On [[Twitter]], he has started interacting (although poorly) to a ton of people ranging from artists to [[enablers]]. |
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Kindness vs resentment== |
| [[File:InternetDreamLoungeAvatar2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Chris's ''Internet Dream Lounge'' avatars.]]
| | :''Main article: [[Kindness]]'' |
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| | While Chris may strive to be kind, his efforts often fall flat and instead come across as annoying, overwhelming or creepy. Chris at least shows he makes an effort to look like a kind person, and he has referred to himself as the "kind and compassionate Christine Chandler".<ref>[[A New, Fun Trick]]</ref> But saying you're kind and actually being kind are two different things. |
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| ===Intro===
| | Many of Chris's attempts at being kind, from calling complete strangers "[[darling]]" to [[TooManyGames|kissing]] guys he just met, are a clear violation of other's boundaries and easily make people feel uncomfortable. Ironically, his attempts can be quite unkind. |
| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Great. Great. U- Yeah, Uh, I'll go ahead and count us down, um, 3, 2, 1. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Internet Dream Lounge. I'm your host, R. Merryweather, and with me, as always, my co-host, Easy-K.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> What's up, guys?
| | ==Empathy vs antipathy== |
| | :''Main articles: [[Remorse]] and [[Anger]]'' |
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> And on this week's show, we have the honor of presenting to our dear viewers: The Eternal Hero of Love, The Defender of Autism, and the God-Emperor of Cwcville: The Creator of Sonichu: Christine Weston Chandler!
| | Anger, or ''tard rage'' as trolls call it, is a defining feature of Chris's personality. Also notable is his lack of empathy, beyond the point where it can be autism-related. |
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey! What's up everyone?
| | Chris uses apologies as a performative tool for making amends and not as a genuine expression of guilt. |
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Thank you for joining us, Chris. How are you today?
| | ==Openness vs obstinacy== |
| | In psychology, openness is a person's receptivity to new or unfamiliar experiences and ideas, including changes. |
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> I'm doing good, how are you?
| | It is to be noted that no person is completely open to change and no person is completely against it. People tend to be open regarding views to things that don't matter to them and like to remain closed about topics that is close to them. Chris is no exception. |
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> I'm co- ba- fine! Thank you! Uh, so uh, Easy, uh, has actually been quite a big fan of [[Sonichu]], for, for some years.
| | Chris is not very open to thoughts that differ from his, he rejects opinions and actual scientific facts if they do not match his beliefs. When he used to hate the LGBT community, he would reject anyone trying to convince him otherwise how much ever sense they made. He had also gone to the point where he rejected the fact that Asperger's syndrome is a form of autism just because he didn't like it. |
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> I love Sonichu, I- I really do.
| | His hatred for the xbox too was due to him being closed on the subject, how many ever great games and features people showed him on the xbox, he would reject it and fixate on minor flaws the system had. |
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| | However, after he came out as a transgender, he became much more open to the LGBT and accepted people as equals, but his obstinacy has merely shifted topics, for example he completely believes in the Dimensional merge and anyone telling him otherwise is rejected as a troll. He openly rejects proof that the merge isn't happening and cherry picks minor incidents that seem to support his agenda. |
| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Support me on [[Patreon]], and I can send you copies of the books.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Dude.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> (laughs)
| | ==Chris and personality tests== |
| | [[File:Personality quiz.jpeg|thumb|Chris chose the blue option]] |
| | [[File:Miscpersonalitytestthing.jpg|thumb|Anudder one]] |
| | [[File:This is Christine.png|thumb|another]] |
| | Being a [[Twitter|social]] [[Facebook|media]] addict who also likes [[magical thinking]], it's no surprise that Chris is a fan of personality tests. He has taken many over the years, here are a few of them: |
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Dude, uh, for how- how- what's your, what's your base amount for Patreon?
| | *'''A Magic: The Gathering quiz''' to find out that he is most like the white color typing, as each color associated with certain personality traits, the white type is associated with law and order, being the good guy beating up the bad guy.<ref>[[August_2019_social_media_posts#Chris_takes_a_M:TG_quiz|Post in question]]</ref> This seems to indicate that Chris held to his idealistic views of good and evil, and wasn't being very true and honest in the test, since he is very anti-law when it stops him from doing what he wants.<ref>[[Chris_and_the_law#Legal_troubles]]</ref> |
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hm. Well basically, minimim- just so I can make sure that I make can money- money the books are uh, varying, because, uh with my publisher minimum has to be 48 pages, and the more pages there are the more, the more expensive it is for me and then I have to pay shipping of course.
| | ==Dissociative identity disorder== |
| | Due to Chris's more recent behaviours, such as a belief in [[spirit possession]] and the manifestations of cartoon characters, Chris may indeed now have a mild trauma-induced strain of [[Wikipedia:Dissociative_identity_disorder|Dissociative identity disorder]], a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.<ref>https://archive.is/cAquC Archived article on DID, Chris shows many of the indicators listed here</ref> This is most likely connected to manipulation from the [[Idea Guys]] and other traumas in his youth due to the mistreatment of those with ASD in a clinical and social environment. It is unknown how real the characters are to Chris, but he seems very adamant that they are real and manifest physically. |
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Right.
| | The main indicators of '''DID''' that Chris displays are: |
| | *'''Daydreaming''' - Chris often mentions daydreaming as a form of meditation, during which Chris can "visit Cwcville", Chris's [[cwcville|imaginary city]] where he is the overlord. |
| | *'''Imaginary friends''' - Chris has a belief that all comic book characters are real people, as autonomous as any human, and that these characters exist in the real world and speak to him in his head.<ref>[[Magi-Chan]]</ref> |
| | *'''Reality/Fantasy overlap''' - Chris not only believes that the fantasy world of cartoons is real, but that one day it will merge with reality, and that already characters like [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]], [[Mewtwo]], and [[Magi-chan]] have manifested themselves physically. |
| | *'''Transitional Objects as Self''' - Chris has often emotionally attached himself to objects, resulting in [[Tour_of_Chris%27s_House_III|hoarding]], but the place in which this behaviour is most prevalent is with his character Sonichu. Chris identifies as Mother (previously Father) of Sonichu, and indeed all Sonichus, which results in him being protective of them, causing making things like putting them in danger in the comics seem [[Chris and writing|immoral]] to him. |
| | *'''Time Loss''' - Due to Chris's reportedly long daydreaming sessions, and poor memory associated with them, and his frequent and aggressive habit of lying it can be suspected that this is a result of DID. |
| | *'''Ability to Cut Off from Pain and an Awareness of Danger''' - Chris's peculiar approach to emotional pain, namely that he'll randomly cut off from it totally, can be ascribed partially to ASD, but there is also a chance it is also a symptom from some form of '''DID'''. Chris will produce very random responses, trolls efforts to destroy things that are close to him<ref>[[Medallions#Mark_1_.28and_decoy.29|Like his first medallion]]</ref> or kill those close to him<ref>Such as several gal-pals, examples of whom are: [[PandaHalo]], [[Sarah May]] and [[Ivy]].</ref> sometimes result in Chris showing little to no signs of caring in the slightest. |
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Of course.
| | With this evidence, particularly noting the trauma that Chris must have received from the Idea Guy's manipulations, and Chris's current beliefs about the existence of imaginary places and people, and their ability to possess him, one may conclude that Chris having a mild form of '''DID''' is likely. |
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, between from getting there, from getting from there to me and then, from me to the customer, urgh, so it compli- so I'm just the autographing, between, until I can find, like, a publisher or something that can, sell my books without the, uh, needing the middle person, [<font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Right.] and uh, and not, and not be sabotaged.
| | ==="Christian" vs "Christopher"=== |
| | For two days in [[August 2009]] Chris tried to convince [[Kacey]] and the rest of his fans that he had [[Wikipedia:Dissociative_identity_disorder|Dissociative identity disorder]], a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. One of these "personalities" was named "Christopher" and the other named "Christian", as demonstrated in a [[30_August_2009|video]] from the time. |
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Right.
| | The video's original subject was quickly derailed by "Christopher", Chris's more "repressed" personality, by interrupting "Christian" mid-sentence, and having a free-flowing sentence with "Christian", something which is almost impossible for somebody with '''DID''' to do, due to usually not sharing memories, or surfacing at the same time. Chris did not end up managing to fool anyone into believing he had the disorder, and Kacey reprimanded him for pretending to have '''DID''' and lying to her. Chris apologised and said he made it up to "fuel" the trolls, which still leaves one to wonder why he tried to convince Kacey it was true. |
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Wonderful, but the so- so-
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> But in the meantime- but in the meantime, we have this- the Patreon.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Well, are those the, so those are just, prints?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hm. Yeah they're, uh, they're printed of my original, hand drawn pages.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Do you still have the originals?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh yeah I still have the original p- hand drawn pages.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Chris, uh, let's say, I want, uh, issue 1 of Sonichu, how much money would it probably cost me? Let's say I live in America. Let's forget I live in Europe.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Ok. Well, first book is 0 by the way, but to get you book, but to get you book 1, uh, considering it's definitely closer to uh, 50 pages, um, I would add like, I mean, if it was from illus- from, directly I would add, two- I mean minus the sh- not counting the shipping, yeah, that would be like, about 5 bucks.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Alright wonderful. Um, I actually want to ask you, because, uh-as, everyone wants to know, as you are, uh, famous on the internet for, uh, Chris, is the creation of the Electric Hedgehog Pokemon character, Sonichu, your personal character. Would you like to tell us a bit about how, er you, created this character.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Mkay, uh, well back in uh, 2000, when I was ilvantin- still attending [[Manchester High School]], I was taking a computer graph- computer graphics, course, and uh, and they desi- we had to design our own custom CD insert, uh, front and back, and I wanted to, and I did want to include, Sonic and Pikachu, but um, they did not like copyright- well leuschy- my teacher didn't want copyright characters, so, I ended up merging the two and made Sonichu. But I did not, uh, it's Son- uh, I wanted to seperate, uh, seperate, my prime sonichu personality-wise, from, sonic and a wild Pikachu, of course. So, so I left the ears roll by and I- and I let him do the talking for me. we have kind of like a psychic connection, my characters and I.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Of course.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Interesting.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Uh, Chris, uh I, of course, us as the creator of the character but you first started drawing the comic, many years later, during your college years, is that right?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, yes, during my early, college years, I s- started writing the comic book pages, I had drawn a few, little short strips which are actually in Book 0, as well. But I felt like ey let's, uh, suol- start doing co- my own comic book series now. I just felt like it, because, y'know, I had started with Sonichu then I- added Rosechu, and then I eventually added [[Blake]]- Black Sonichu, and uh, that was a good start for me and then, uh, I ended up making up [[Naitsirhc]], who was, adopted son of [[Giovanni]].
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Yes, which is your, your, of course your dark opposite. In the- in the comic's lore.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Or eventually to be cursed to become more my dark opposite.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Oh, alright, so he didn't- he didn't start out that way, this character?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, bu- yeah he was just essentially like a, Pokemon trainer, to rival against, Rosechu's trainer Kel, Which, uh, you find out- you find out more about their relationship in book 12, which, uh, I'm still, working on very much, I've finished up the, pride festival episode.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Oh! Wonderful! So, so you are actually still drawing the ca- the, uh, the comic.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yes.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> So, in Sonichu,
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> And I suppose you, sorry, go ahead, Merry.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Go ahead, Easy.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Oh yeah, well in Sonichu, I noticed that there's, a lot of, y'know, commentary, on, y'know what's going on in the <i>world</i>, and like, things that matter to you, and the issues of like, like what's going on in the world, what kind of comments on the human condition were you trying to make, in the Sonichu series? And what are you try- what comments are you trying to make now, with these, uh, new issues?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hm, well, I pretty much just, commentary with, what's relatable to me and how I feel about, uh this and that. Although, pretty much going onto shwamean- in retrospect, we're still in this phase, where I had just come back from the future of 2015, and uh, and so it's still 2009, the books, but I can, actually input, pages, that, are actually more, up to today's date.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Right.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Ok.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> But- but to still to catch up we've still got [[Graduon]]'s introduction, about who he was, and all that, and, his coming back to earth in book 14.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, but anyway, um, is there any specific, um, comments, from amongst my books that you can recall? In particular?
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Well, um, I did notice, that there, was um, a lot of it was things that were happening in your life? But then a lot of it was, um, s- I would almost go so far as to say as political. Um, like, with how you've felt about...
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> There is, um, of course, the...
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> H- how you felt about drugs? How you've felt about, um, homosexuality, and just people, in general who you, uh, [<font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> The, the...] for lack of a better word, look down upon.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hm.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> There is, of course, the matter, uh, indeed, as Easy mentioned, that the comic, was a lot about, uh, your, real life, and the challenges, that you've faced, in- in your life.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Both past and present, Uh, a lot of it, uh, so for example, the, uh, manager, characters, the [[Slaweel]] character, which we'll- which was based on, uh, at least formally based on a person in your real life, who caused you trouble.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yes.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Um, I'm not sure if we can say that name, uh, just in case.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Uuum, yeah, probably best not to.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Of course, um, s- d- w-wha at what moment did the comic stop being m-mainly about Sonichu, and more about your troubles, and the things that happen to you, specifically?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Um, I feel like it was kind of a miss, actually initially, because um, earlier in the books I was, pretty much very [[naive]], trying to feel it out, see what genres best suited my pages and whatnot, and, lk- also ended up, taking in the, random criticisms, which uh, realising I shouldn't. And to, talk about, uh, my past [coughs] excuse me, uh, that wasn't fun, that was something in my throat, but anyway, um, to talk about the, homosexuals, I was naive, and, there was all those mislabelings that was thrown, on me as, y'know before I c- actually came out as a lesbian trans-woman.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> That I was, uh, gay for men, but uh, [<font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Of course.] of course that was never the case, just the, the trolls throw that mislabel on me, and, and also between that and a combination of where I was on my [[Love Quest|sweetheart search]] and, uh, I just had this, uh, frustrated, feeling about, and feeling against just, men in general, because I was like, they take all the women and leave me with none to choose from, but clearly, I eventually, realised that was, not the case especially when you consider the percentage of them being, taking each other, away from the equation. Anyway, I use that term lightly, usually though, I never ever actually had, anything against the homosexual males, my, uh, feelings were more, just, were more aimed at, uh, against, males in general that I used to have, and more- and more over the uh, mislabelings the trolls have thrown upon me. But, uh, I'm, fortunately I had, I have come out, and over the years I have become more, heartfelt and open, towards, uh, male, uh, towards men in general, but definitely I'm more attracted, to [[women|Magi-chan]] and that still remained the same as always regardless of sexual orientation, and gender and whatnot. But, anyway, um, Ah! Lost my train of thought, got- gotta get back on track!
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> That's fine. We can, uh, I can ask you a follow-up question, if you'd like?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Mhm.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Uh, when did you start realising you were, transexual?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hm, yeah hm, transgender in this case, I mean look at what you ghe- there's a difference between transvestites and transgender, but I'm, trans- gender, transwoman...
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Oh of course! Sorry, I didn't know the difference.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> But anyway, I, uh, I also went to the, short, two page coming-out story in the, uh, that I have just uploaded in the up to my Patreon, I, uh, did a lot of soul searching and self-realisation throughout my lifetime, I- I get quite deep in thought, into myself, and explore myself from within, and, and- eventually I, uh, flicked- I put two together when I, saw an image of my head of me in my past life, as a woman, in my later years where beforehand I had gone to [[Wikipedia:Woodstock|Woodstock]], but i-w- that which the, uh, image that I saw I had drawn right on the second page of this little two page coming out write up, draw up, anyway, that's pretty much how, how it was, like y'know somewhere in the late- in the late seventies there was this grey-haired woman with the braids, wearing a rainbow tie dye dress, looking at- lay- me- sitting against a tree with her beaded bag, just, uh watching the sun set. And uh, anyway I saw that, and, just put it all together with, everything in my mind, in my memories, and of course, uh, in my younger years, I, actually exhibited, feminine, more feminine habits than masculine. And, so I put- so anyway, all the realisation, and, pru- and, real- and, yeah, came out as a lesbian transwoman.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Alright.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> How, um, how'd, how's your- and I don't know if this is too personal, if it is, we can cut it out, how does your [[mother]] feel about all that?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, initially my mother was, quite put off by it, but, a little bit at a time as I dressed more fede- more feminine, and acted more feminine she got used to it, though she still calls me by my old name "Christian", and still refers to me as her son, and I'm just gonna leave that only for her to, do that y'know because she's like in her- in her mid 70s right now,
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Absolutely.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> I- I- It's just difficult to get all- to get used to the change, the name change, also, and the gender change, even though I had passed the psyc- psychological evaluation, and had my name legally changed, and changed both of those on my driver's licence.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Ok.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Nice.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> And the- and then I got on the, [[Wikipedia: Hormone_replacement_therapy|HRT]].
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Chris, uh, ok, uh Chris, I wanted to get into something that we, uh, agreed to talk about before, that's been going on on your [[Twitter]] right now.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yes.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> But first, uh, because you mentioned Barbara, uh, which is your mother, Barbara Chandler? Is that right? That the correct name?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Ok, I just want to ask you, because, I believe it was about a week or two ago, uh, you uploaded a, [[YouTube]] video, uh, which was, uh, your mother, Barbara, asking for [[Chris and money|donations]], uh, for food, uh, i-i-is she quite alright? Because a lot of people were a bit concerned about that video.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Hm, yes that was about a month or two ago, um, second half of the month, so I mean we're on fixed income, so, like, y'know, between like, the 15th to the 30th or the 31st, it, tends to get more difficult for us financially, we have to, buckle down, we eat- mostly stay at home- we [[McDonalds|try]] mostly to eat at home anyway, aside, from y'know the beginning of the month where we can [[Autism|splurge]] a little bit.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> [Bewildered] Right.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> [Not paying attention] Right.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, and, bu- but anyway, health-wise, my mother is doing ok, physically- she's physically able, she, tends to stay in bed, alo- a lot, because, uh, she, kinda tends to get, bored? But she- she's been on meal replacement shakes, and she has been, enuh- she has been able to do, more physically, she, went outside trimmed the [[china|bushes]] on her own accord and decision, and it was like, she trimmed that bush so far down! And it was like oh my God, mom, don't kill the bush.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Of course.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> And I told her about what else that [[Chris and work|she could do]], like, um, she wants to do something for the, uh, cluttered, junk that's on our back porch, [Both: right] a- a lot of it's a sore, anyway, so take it out, put it on the curb for the trash people.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Right.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Ok. Uh, Chris, I want to ask you, also a thing, this is not a critique, uh, at all, [<font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> [getting defences up] alright] and we can skip it if you like, however, uh, a lot of people have been wondering about, like, uh, in the video where you ask for food, your mother is actually wearing a pearl necklace, and a gold, necklace, uh, chain. Have you considered, uh, selling these?
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Um, yeah, she ha- y'know like, months ago she sold her original gold, Cleopatra style necklace, for, like a few hundred bucks, uh, but then I was- but then I was like, uh- my mo- ah I've always wanted the necklace, she never took that necklace off, that was her favourite, necklace. So- uh, much later on, uh, I did come across a, few other dollars, I forge- I forget where, exactly? I think it was, uh, I think it was a generous donation or a really big sale, oh wait- now I remember it was the sale of the [[Sonic totem]] pole
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Hah. That's nice of you, that's very kind of you, Christine.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Um, you know, speaking, toward your, family, and- and things like that, um, could you tell us about your [[Bob Chandler|father]]? I mean he seems like a really stand up, y'know respectable guy.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yes, he was, he was a very smart person, he uh, he served in the- he served in the uh US army, he was stationed in, uh, Seoul Korea in the Signal Corps.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Wow.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> And he uh, he went to uh, coll- and he made friends with lots of the- with the, Koereans, and start- and y'know, Seoul, Korea, uh, and did he meet some from the north? I'm not sure, but anyway that was a long time ago with him, anyway he uh, was also in the scouts and he earned his share of badges, and, uh, he was also like, uh, a scout master type figure for, uh- some of the scouts, they made him the wall[?] that he's always carried around. And he was- and he was stapled for that but anyway, um, he designed the controls for the. plastic moulding machines and steel mills, saw mills when he was at- when he was working for [[Wikipedia:General_Electric|General Electric]], and this is nice to go onto this little bit of commentary, because today is his birthday- Hw would have been...
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Oh! Wow! Happy Birthday!
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, he would've been, like uh, shoot- 84? Huh! I guess he would have been, uh, 90, 91 this year.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Wow.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Well, um, actually, well, yeah 90, because uh, he was born in '27, and this is '17. That works, yeah that's right. 90, nine-zero, but anyway, um, he was very smart, and, well, elle- and, well, [[Wikipedia: Irony|eloquent]], um, and, and he was a strong and able fella, he had a workshop, he, did his own woodwork, here and there also, where y'know, he, made- y'know just put things together for himself, whatever, um, and, w- anyway he was quite t-more, enable, and he taught- he raised me on, the music of the uh, like the uh, 20s, 30s, 40s, including the- and the musicals, featuring [[Wikipedia:Gene_Kelly|Gene Kelly]].
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Ooh.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, so goes way back, yeah- I like all kinds of music, uh, just not the, [[Brutal_Legend|heavy metal]] where, this- where the, singer is quite, incoherent.
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Right.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> It's just, it's just really [[Stress|stressful]] from, [[Wikipedia: Baby_boomers|do they call that music?]]
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> I believe they do. I'm pretty sure
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| [Chris laughs, regressively]
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, but I mean not to criticise, everybody who enjoys that type of music, and, aha, like, I thought, y'kn to even to, just bring in [[Chloe]] I just started playing the new [[Life is Strange]] video game wherein her, where, we're playing as Chloe, and it's here before [[Max]] came back, it's pretty good so far. Anyway
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Anyhoo,
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| <font color="#AB2554">'''Easy-K:'''</font> Yeah, I saw that game, it looked pretty interesting.
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| <font color="#0033FF">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, hm, and I did enjoy the, uh, first game all throughout.
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| <font color="#BE32B2">'''Merryweathery:'''</font> Chris, I just want to ask you, have you seen some of the internet tributes, that were made in honor of your father? During- uh, after his death?
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| These people who have never read our glorious wiki ask Chris about his comic. First they ask how to get it and how much it costs, and are immediately met with Chris' greed and ego, causing Merryweather to laugh at how Chris told Easy-K to donate to his Patreon. After revealing that he thought that Sonichu started with issue 1, Merry asked Chris how much it would cost, and Chris estimated $5 before shipping. Chris hints at the plot of [[Issue 12]] in which Naitsirch is revealed to have been trained by Giovanni as an opposition to [[Kel]], Rosechu's trainer. Easy asks Chris about the message he's trying to convey in his issues, Chris just says they're about what's on his mind at the time, which is very observable in the comics. He also talks about the [[Graduon]] back-story he needs to do as a paid obligation. Chris then owns the interviewers by asking them if they recall any commentary from the books, Easy of course avoids the question and talks about more general knowledge.
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| *[[DStecks]]
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| *[https://filebin.net/zehkr52mjg9oq4vt/InternetDreamLoungeCWC-original.mp3?t=7uinovnn This Unused original interview]
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| *[https://soundcloud.com/user-834122669/internet-dream-lounge-4-chris-chan Interview] via [https://soundcloud.com SoundCloud] published one.
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One's personality is a set of mental, emotional, and behavioral qualities that make up an individual's character. Studying personality is a key aspect of psychology, allowing experts to know what makes people the way they are. There are many methods for testing one's personality, with some backed by decades of scientific research, and others created by random people on Facebook to show ads.
Chris's personality is quite eclectic. It is what draws countless people around the globe to study and follow his antics. He has spoken quite a bit on his own idea of his personality, but his own insight doesn't always jive with reality.
His personality has undergone quite the change since Bob's death, with some traits undergoing a full 180.
Disclaimer
The Myers-Briggs type indicator is a popular personality test system.
Personality testing is a controversial field, with few tests used universally within the scientific community. Even the famous Myers-Briggs test, while useful for rough workplace assessments, is somewhat vague. It misses key areas like creativity and openness, and people who take the test often get different results over time. The closest thing to a gold standard is the Big Five, or OCEAN test.
This article discusses various aspects of Chris's personality, but is not to be taken as a substitute for an actual psych-eval.
Chris has shown traits of both introversion (reservedness, solitude) and extraversion (people-seeking, sociability) over the years. It should be be noted that no person is a true introvert or a true extrovert, rather it is more akin to a spectrum which people fall on, and people can behave differently in different contexts.
At high school, Chris appears to have been fairly introverted, though with a drive to be extroverted. A leaked icebreaker worksheet shows that Chris only talked to 7 of his class-mates. They were all female. Despite trying to later hold a high school reunion, in the Song of Christian, a 16-year old Chris describes having few friends and how his "loneliness is off the scale”. Even with the social prestige of being a water-boy to the school basketball team and his Gal-pals, Chris took his mom to the school prom. Nearly 10 years after the prom, Chris talked about feeling like an outcast at the prom, however his highlight of the evening was when one of his gal-pals felt sorry for him and "pulled [him] onto the dance floor". This dance "felt like hours" to Chris.[1]
Around the time of discovery by Encyclopedia Dramatica, Chris was mainly an introvert. He kept to himself and barely spoke to anyone but his sweetheart. He joined most public chats in both text and voice forms only after being goaded by his current sweetheart[2] or a troll. And even in these chats, he didn't converse a lot, and only answered questions directed towards him. Even while playing video games, he mostly stuck to playing single player games such as God of War, Pokemon, Sonic and Animal Crossing. Any multiplayer game he did play was mostly with his sweetheart like LittleBigPlanet and Burnout Paradise. Before his discovery, when he frequented the THe GAMe PLAce, he mostly kept to himself (and Megan), and rarely interacted with other people except during card games.[3]
Classic Chris, therefore would clearly fall on the introvert side of the spectrum but he isn't a full on introvert as he did visit an anime expo in 2004 and 2005. New Chris however would easily fall on he extrovert side since 2017 as he started publicly responding to people, started playing multiplayer and co-op games such as Tetris 99 and PayDay 2, visited multiple conventions like Bronycon, Omegacon, BABScon and the TooManyGames expo. He has also started streaming videos, and answering questions his fans have. He has also joined public and private discord groups, though his interaction with other humans in them is limited. On Twitter, he has started interacting (although poorly) to a ton of people ranging from artists to enablers.
Kindness vs resentment
- Main article: Kindness
While Chris may strive to be kind, his efforts often fall flat and instead come across as annoying, overwhelming or creepy. Chris at least shows he makes an effort to look like a kind person, and he has referred to himself as the "kind and compassionate Christine Chandler".[4] But saying you're kind and actually being kind are two different things.
Many of Chris's attempts at being kind, from calling complete strangers "darling" to kissing guys he just met, are a clear violation of other's boundaries and easily make people feel uncomfortable. Ironically, his attempts can be quite unkind.
Empathy vs antipathy
- Main articles: Remorse and Anger
Anger, or tard rage as trolls call it, is a defining feature of Chris's personality. Also notable is his lack of empathy, beyond the point where it can be autism-related.
Chris uses apologies as a performative tool for making amends and not as a genuine expression of guilt.
Openness vs obstinacy
In psychology, openness is a person's receptivity to new or unfamiliar experiences and ideas, including changes.
It is to be noted that no person is completely open to change and no person is completely against it. People tend to be open regarding views to things that don't matter to them and like to remain closed about topics that is close to them. Chris is no exception.
Chris is not very open to thoughts that differ from his, he rejects opinions and actual scientific facts if they do not match his beliefs. When he used to hate the LGBT community, he would reject anyone trying to convince him otherwise how much ever sense they made. He had also gone to the point where he rejected the fact that Asperger's syndrome is a form of autism just because he didn't like it.
His hatred for the xbox too was due to him being closed on the subject, how many ever great games and features people showed him on the xbox, he would reject it and fixate on minor flaws the system had.
However, after he came out as a transgender, he became much more open to the LGBT and accepted people as equals, but his obstinacy has merely shifted topics, for example he completely believes in the Dimensional merge and anyone telling him otherwise is rejected as a troll. He openly rejects proof that the merge isn't happening and cherry picks minor incidents that seem to support his agenda.
A lot of his close mindedness can be blamed on his autism, as autistics are generally scared of change.
Chris and personality tests
Chris chose the blue option
Being a social media addict who also likes magical thinking, it's no surprise that Chris is a fan of personality tests. He has taken many over the years, here are a few of them:
- A Magic: The Gathering quiz to find out that he is most like the white color typing, as each color associated with certain personality traits, the white type is associated with law and order, being the good guy beating up the bad guy.[5] This seems to indicate that Chris held to his idealistic views of good and evil, and wasn't being very true and honest in the test, since he is very anti-law when it stops him from doing what he wants.[6]
Dissociative identity disorder
Due to Chris's more recent behaviours, such as a belief in spirit possession and the manifestations of cartoon characters, Chris may indeed now have a mild trauma-induced strain of Dissociative identity disorder, a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.[7] This is most likely connected to manipulation from the Idea Guys and other traumas in his youth due to the mistreatment of those with ASD in a clinical and social environment. It is unknown how real the characters are to Chris, but he seems very adamant that they are real and manifest physically.
The main indicators of DID that Chris displays are:
- Daydreaming - Chris often mentions daydreaming as a form of meditation, during which Chris can "visit Cwcville", Chris's imaginary city where he is the overlord.
- Imaginary friends - Chris has a belief that all comic book characters are real people, as autonomous as any human, and that these characters exist in the real world and speak to him in his head.[8]
- Reality/Fantasy overlap - Chris not only believes that the fantasy world of cartoons is real, but that one day it will merge with reality, and that already characters like Sonichu, Mewtwo, and Magi-chan have manifested themselves physically.
- Transitional Objects as Self - Chris has often emotionally attached himself to objects, resulting in hoarding, but the place in which this behaviour is most prevalent is with his character Sonichu. Chris identifies as Mother (previously Father) of Sonichu, and indeed all Sonichus, which results in him being protective of them, causing making things like putting them in danger in the comics seem immoral to him.
- Time Loss - Due to Chris's reportedly long daydreaming sessions, and poor memory associated with them, and his frequent and aggressive habit of lying it can be suspected that this is a result of DID.
- Ability to Cut Off from Pain and an Awareness of Danger - Chris's peculiar approach to emotional pain, namely that he'll randomly cut off from it totally, can be ascribed partially to ASD, but there is also a chance it is also a symptom from some form of DID. Chris will produce very random responses, trolls efforts to destroy things that are close to him[9] or kill those close to him[10] sometimes result in Chris showing little to no signs of caring in the slightest.
With this evidence, particularly noting the trauma that Chris must have received from the Idea Guy's manipulations, and Chris's current beliefs about the existence of imaginary places and people, and their ability to possess him, one may conclude that Chris having a mild form of DID is likely.
"Christian" vs "Christopher"
For two days in August 2009 Chris tried to convince Kacey and the rest of his fans that he had Dissociative identity disorder, a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. One of these "personalities" was named "Christopher" and the other named "Christian", as demonstrated in a video from the time.
The video's original subject was quickly derailed by "Christopher", Chris's more "repressed" personality, by interrupting "Christian" mid-sentence, and having a free-flowing sentence with "Christian", something which is almost impossible for somebody with DID to do, due to usually not sharing memories, or surfacing at the same time. Chris did not end up managing to fool anyone into believing he had the disorder, and Kacey reprimanded him for pretending to have DID and lying to her. Chris apologised and said he made it up to "fuel" the trolls, which still leaves one to wonder why he tried to convince Kacey it was true.
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