On MoonKnight, Marc and Steven have a lot to teach us about living with ourselves — no matter how many selves there are.
Editor's note: The below article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Moon Knight.The season finale of Moon Knight gave us just about everything we wanted. Action, adventure, plot twists, and revelations were all there, but this new Marvel show is already one of the most important works of the MCU — not because of the adventure itself, or the implications it has for the shared universe its main character exists in.
Marc and Steven are the personalities we get to see most of in the season, and, initially, they have trouble sharing the body they inhabit. When one of them takes over, the other one tries to wrest control back, they resist each other to the point of attempting sabotage, and so on. Things start to get better for them, ironically, in one of their most desperate hours.
This leads us to another very important thing about living with a mental illness: opening up. It's not readily done, and not everybody feels comfortable enough to do so, but having a trusting circle of people who are aware of your condition is definitely helpful.
While most of us would rather have what is considered to be a "normal" mind, there are ways of helping ourselves to coexist with our mental conditions. The key to that is threefold: accepting that we have said condition, whatever it may be; embracing what it brings to our lives, both the good and the bad; and, finally, learning to live with it.