• FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It’s explained as a true symbiosis that goes both ways. The symbiont’s mind changes just as much, and the host has a bevy of “past lives” to draw on the memories and skills of.

    It’s considered a great honor to host a symbiont, to the point that they have to lie about how compatible they are because the symbionts themselves reproduce very slowly and are picky about their hosts. There’s not enough for every Trill to have one.

    • daisy@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I loved the character of Ezri. In an odd way, she’s very relatable. Not the symbiont thing, but the “suddenly thrown into a situation out of her depth and trying to cope” thing. We’ve all been there at some point.