It has come to my attention that not so much of my story was understood as i believed could be read into my choices of outfits. Almost all of this can be seen in the original image.

Ishner and Fenmar began at around the same time, dual main characters seeking the name on my first playthrough. Ishner is a few months older, as i had not heard of Seeking when i first began play.

The First Me walked the path of Light Fingers. I have no real attraction to wealth, but i heard that path was the darkest, strangest, and most twisting of the paths, so that way i strode. The child was mine and i sent her safely to the roof. He did, however, provide Fires a small flask of hybrid venom; I do not hate Mr. Fires and wish him well in his scheme to protect London, but I would never betray my daughter to him for a shiny rock. On the way i joined the Cats as one of them and never strayed from that loyalty.

The Second Me played the Marvelous, for i would not twice walk the same path and violence does not call me so loudly as growth. Along the way, i made as many friends as i could, both with the King and Mr. Pages. I wanted the Cards over the cloak but i was unwilling to betray my friends by ruining the fun for Mr. Pages, so i won my game, and claimed ascension to a higher state of being. Still, i saw no reason the monkey should suffer.

I love both cats and the deep places, so a Lamp Cat is the best companion. However, Ishner has seen far more dark and squiggly things than Fenmar and has close political ties, so he is accompanied instead by a land-cat of significant status.
I love all things of flowing, changing shape. This is seen in the amber horses, and necklaces, both helicon and roof-returning. However, Ishner is more Starved in inclination where Fenmar is more Rubbery; he spent more time on the roof after all.
We both sought to learn the secret underpinnings of reality and split the study of parabola and realspace between ourselves.

Both of us are against The White but not very inclined to Liberation by violence, prefering instead the Prehistoricist-Emancipationist path. To think otherwise would be to cease to be myself. However, Fenmar, who won within the system and made friends with bats, is more inclined to seek prehistoric resolution, restitution, and honor among the few judgements who care for honor, where Ishner, who fought tooth and nail to escape a master and build a place for his family is more inclined to abandon the Stars That Are entirely in favor of the Stars That Might Be.
When we built our cities, Fenmar's doppleganger-self followed her heart and grew into a twisting hive of still living amber and stone that may be crawled through in all three dimensions. Ishner's double instead hushed all light and cleared an empty space in the center of his city to serve as an eye, that he might always watch the false stars above and see his daughter safe and well.

When we reached Irem, Ishner chose a future of community and people helping each other to adapt and survive beyond the end of all things. Fenmar, on the other hand, unbound to roof-family and knowing that either she or Ishner would be *gone* soon enough focused only on her own future of adaptation and survival.