User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151101035254/@comment-24894325-20151115230746

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151101035254/@comment-24894325-20151115230746 Perhaps, a slightly alternative view in support of the 4-page solution. The post The-Zygon-Inversion-state of Osgood is not really a person. It's a job, a function if you like. While only one human could/can perform this function, any Zygon can. At different times there have been one or two Human-Zygon-peacekeepers. Nothing prevents there being more in the future (originally there was a human/zygon symmetry, but it has been broken by the death of one of them and it might still be broken now). The condition of performing this function is abandoning one's personality in favor of the original human Osgood's one.

So one page for the function, three pages for persons who are known to have performed this function. Potentially, more pages can lead into the function page if new Zygons take the role. Potentially, if the peace treaty does fail in the future and the Zygons go their own way, the personal pages pick up from there. Potential problem would be if it would not be stated which Zygon abandons the role of Osgood. But this can be resolved by simply creating a separate page (temporarily or otherwise) with the rationale that the Osgood experience changes the personality.

As for merging all pages together, there are counterexamples. For instance, Tayden's connection to Ares is even stronger than that of Bonnie to the Osgood Inc: 1) Tayden was originally a clone of Ares bred for the purpose of transferring Ares's consciousness into him; 2) Tayden and Ares were voiced by the same actor, despite the presumed age difference; 3) the transfer was irreversible: Tayden's personality was not retrievable, whereas, say, Bonnie can walk away any moment. Despite this strong connection, Tayden's page is not merged into Ares's. Instead, Tayden's page ends in the transfer from Ares to his body. The next action of this body is recorded on Ares's page.