>>Some people suspect that Yui is Gīta's mental model, in the
>>style of those City of Heroes characters where the shoulder
>>kitten was the actual character, not the schoolgirl.
>The running gag was that Splat was actually the Supreme Mentalist of
>the Planet Earth (we didn't have a Sorcerer Supreme, but we did have
>Dr. Braintrust, M.D., Ph.D., SMPE), and Thrud was the special effect
>of his telekinesis.

I did something similar in one of the multigenre GURPS tournaments I wrote and ran in the 90s for Double Exposure here in NJ. One of the player characters was a teenaged girl who thought she was a witch, with a cat as a "familiar". But when the player got the character sheet, they were taken aside and told that the cat was the player character (with psychic powers), and that the teenaged girl was its incompetent dependent character.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.