i'm going to take this ask as a chance to give my thoughts on it. in my mind, things have definitely changed within their system, but i don't think it's quite the same as a fusion or mutsumi and mortis no longer existing. to me, it's more that they're no longer fronting constantly. mutsumi and mortis have both had a problem throughout this show that i like to call "host syndrome" which is where the primary fronters of a system overextend significantly and end up causing problems for both themselves and the rest of the system. i think they still both exist, but they're not around constantly.

in general, mutsumi and mortis' system is very polyfragmented to me. polyfragmented systems have a lot of alters (and a lot of fragments, which are less defined alters), and that's the way i read the various "roles" they talk about in the show. mutsumi and mortis were previously hosting the system constantly, but they're not doing that anymore, so i think their system is a lot more of the various fragments and a...