I liked Nathanial in the beginning. I liked the thought of someone actually protecting him and encouraging him to respect himself and take time to figure out who he was without catering to what status he had wherever (pard/were community)

And then came NiC and...

As for all the rest? It's hit me just reading this why some of my characters respond the way they do. I have Fibro. I deal with pain on a daily basis. It makes sense I'd have at least a couple of alters who have strange relationships with pain and control of pain. It's been thought out in my unconscious and when I wrote it out to try and see what I was thinking it made sense for me. I'm just glad it made sense for them when I was first hit with it.

But that all involves a level of self examination I don't think happens with LKH.