Ursula Leichenberg/DID

Dissociative Identity Disorder
It was revealed that Ursula Leichenberg's body suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), hosting multiple personalities. Any one particular personality can manifest itself at any given moment. The set of all of Ursula's alternate identities is sometimes referred to as the Ursula System, or just simply The System. To date, the following personalities have surfaced:
 * Ursula phone.pngUrsula: Snarky, hardworking, politically correct, and vice-driven, Ursula is the persona around most of the time in Los Santos and the alter most people recognize. At first, Ursula was not aware of the existence of any other alters beyond the "imaginary friends" she had in prior years, but gradually, she became aware of all of the other alters, although she is still only able to communicate with them through a phone journal. For months, Ursula was unaware that she has DID or the identities of any of the other alters, which was a secret protected from her by the other alters. She was, however, aware that she sometimes has memory loss and periods of missing time. Every now and then, she is confused by missing or misplaced items, or by strange texts or phone logs for which she cannot account. In recent months, she has noticed that she sometimes remembers memories of the others.


 * Gracie casino.pngGracie: Gracie claims to be and is apparently a protector of all of the other alters, especially Ursula. She is adamant that she is not some cliché movie archetype that will turn into a serial killer. She is friendly, smiling, and has an accent that is all over the place. Gracie usually appears when Ursula is overwhelmed and cannot deal with everything going on around her. She has said she was Ursula's imaginary friend growing up and was Ursula's only friend in high school, then named Mary. Gracie, when telling Thomas and Felix about herself, warned them not to tell Ursula of her existence lest Ursula may have a psychotic break. (Eventually, Ursula was told about the other personalities with Gracie's approval.) Gracie is completely aware of Ursula and of everything which transpires when Ursula is in control, but she is not generally aware of what happens when Pandora or Eris are in control. If Pandora and Eris are dormant, Gracie may take control of the body at will, and sometimes does so briefly without alerting Ursula so that Ursula will not become aware of certain minor facts. Gracie at first believed that she was the only other personality aside from Ursula, but gradually became aware of the presence of Pandora and Eris, and the possibility of others. Gracie is not consciously aware of these other personalities, having been informed of Pandora's existence first through people in the trust circle. Gracie does, however, have the ability to communicate with Ursula's "Hostages" (a Fourth Wall break), and thus far appears to be the only alter with this capability. Gracie and Eris are often at odds with each other due to several of Eris's lifestyle choices.


 * Pandora Profile.pngPandora: Pandora is an aggressive and predatory femme-fatale personality who speaks with a quiet, melodic voice. She is more reclusive than the other personalities and chooses her relatively few words carefully. Her name is shared by one of Ursula's supposed sisters which makes people wonder if the sister actually ever existed. Pandora has confirmed that she was responsible for Ursula falling off the pier into the ocean and nearly drowning, though the reason for this action is unclear. Like Gracie, Pandora has stated she takes care of threats and will not harm anyone who does not harm her or the rest of the Ursula System. She took over for the purpose of running over Mike Block after he became a threat, and also to exact revenge against Tomathy Steampipe for putting Eris in a box ("ice cream jail") at Burger Shot by forcing him at gunpoint to jump off the Dean World pier. She even woke up to have sex with Thomas Normandy, though the exact reason for this is not revealed. It appears that it may be possible to summon Pandora through the use of ocean water, although the details are not yet clear. Pandora is aware of both Ursula and Gracie and all of their experiences when they are in control. In addition, Pandora appears to be able to take control of the body from either of them at will, although she does not do so often and doesn't appear to enjoy doing it. (One possible exception to this may be when The System needs to feed on blood due to vampiric impulses; see related section below.) Despite her assurances that she only appears to defensively thwart physical threats, Pandora's motives to date seem hazy and mysterious. Unlike Ursula and Gracie, Pandora does not see the need to hide Ursula's DID condition from anyone.


 * Eris Profile.pngEris: After Pandora set Harlan Mulch and [Redacted] on fire outside of Wu Chang Records, several people in the LSBN staff suddenly learned of Ursula's DID condition. Pandora took over for a while, presumably to either do some kind of damage control or wreak more havoc, finally going to sleep in the murder room where she stated, "Little sister, it's time to wake up," and cackled maniacally. The following day, Ursula awoke with yet another massive spell of memory loss, forgetting most of her acquaintances except for her closest friends. The sarcastic monotone in her voice was gone, and she appeared to only remember a few basic facts about her life in Los Santos. She still claimed that her name was "Ursula". She seemed much more innocent and sweet, not very much like the original Ursula personality. Gracie, Rocky, and [Redacted]  met at the casino and after a long conversation about recent events decided to name this Ursula just "Little" for simplicity in referring to each personality. (A few days later, in the phone journal, the new personality identified herself as "Eris".) The day after Ursula's revelation, Eris took over the body for the entire day.  It turns out that Eris knows everything that all of the other personalities know and isn't innocent after all. She just likes to play games, and initially appearing to have additional memory loss about her friends and activities in Los Santos was just a prank. Eris has proven so much more fun-loving than Ursula that she has even shirked Ursula's news job to take temporary work at Burger Shot because it is more "fun". Happy-go-lucky Eris spent about a week occupying the body, gradually realizing that most of Ursula's usual friends and other confidants treated her differently once they became aware of her disorder, which started to depress Eris a little bit. When Felix told her that he had informed Ron Otterman that Ursula has DID, Ursula awoke again, confused and with a week's worth of memory loss. Since these events, Eris has come out regularly and has become very close allies with the Smileys, though she did break up with Rick Locke.


 * Hela?: The existence of another personality -- or separate person, or place, or idea -- was directly mentioned by Pandora to Rocky when she stated in a sinister voice, "You don't need to know about Hela!" Later, after [Redacted]'s pestering, Pandora snapped the same phrase at him. Thinking Hela might be a sister, [Redacted] asked Gracie to call Hela to check up on her. Gracie agreed, but Pandora took over and called [Redacted] back, impersonating Gracie and saying that she called Hela and she was just fine. During the revelation of all of the personalities to Ursula, Pandora confirmed that Eris (referred to then as Little) is not Hela, and that Hela is a "memory, long forgotten". Hela has been brought up many times as Ursula's sister, but she is aware she doesn't have a sister named Hela and also wonders who she is.
 * Hela.png October 9th, 2023, a redheaded woman named Dr. Hela Engel made an appearance in Los Santos. She presented an unrecognizable accent and her face was scarred. She was working as a mechanic at Harmony Repair body shop. Hela apparently wasn't aware of many acquaintances which Ursula would have otherwise recognized. For example, she stated that Chatterbox was a "dumb name". She was also apparently a trainee at the hospital. Not much more is presently known than this.
 * On October 14, 2023, while working a the hospital, Hela received an anonymous phone call. The person on the other line said "I know who you are, but who are you?". Hela seemed confused, but gave her name. The person replied, "Stay away from her." This odd exchange prompted a conversation between Hela and one of the resident physicians on staff during which Hela admitted that the only thing she could think of which the call may be about was her "damned sister", whom she claimed nearly killed her at a young age. Hela stated that she had been avoiding confrontation with her sister, but had to be in Los Santos now to learn about the excellent medical care. This revealed that Hela is aware that Ursula is in the city and is well-known. This was later confirmed in a discussion with another woman named Mercury during which Hela referred to Ursula as a "fucking psycho who should have been put away twelve years ago." As Hela was leaving the hospital, Pockets and an acquaintance bumped into her and seemed confused that she looked just like Ursula.

Trust circle
The people who know about Ursula's alters originally were all trusted by Ursula, but as time has rolled on and more people have become aware of the DID, Ursula has become less guarded with the secret. The first people who became aware, in order of reveal, were Thomas Normandy, Felix Volk, Rocky Topps, [Redacted], and Nancy Drew. Besides not revealing the disorder to others, the trust circle early on was entrusted with keeping Ursula herself from learning about her condition, lest she suffer a complete mental breakdown. However, the circle gradually came to the agreement that they should tell Ursula, and eventually got the approval of Gracie before revealing the condition to her.

Afterward, there were several other exposures. Delmon Homme, the Perfume Killer, learned at least about Pandora's as well as Eris's existence, and he strongly prefers to speak to the Ursula persona, since Eris is connected to his rivals, the Smileys. Pandora setting Harlan on fire resulted in several LSBN members being exposed to Ursula's condition, including Dillon Dubbs who precariously wasn't on the best terms with Ursula. Mick Jhonson met Eris when she was in control and on meth. Nancy Drew eventually ended up telling Dante Wolf (unbeknownst to Ursula) after Ursula's revelation because she was worried about Pandora being violent despite having no evidence of that conclusion. By July 28, 2021, most people in The Stable had gotten word of Ursula's DID to some degree, including Dick Chiclets and Lizzie Byrne. Pandora exposed her identity to two police officers, Jeffrey Bundy and Sexton Hardcastle, during a debrief on Eris's kidnapping by Paris and Heath Argo on behalf of three unknown others. Eris revealed the details of Ursula's DID to Thur Teen at the Bolingbroke visitation area. Eris also told Chatterbox about her several alters, but Chatterbox seemed weirded out by the information. Additional others in the know to some degree include Oswald Tinkerman, Kenneth Jesperson, Ari Preston, Steven Hayes, and Jessica Hilton.

More recently, the System has decided to risk informing more people at about Ursula's condition when it makes sense, making her DID less of a secret overall in Los Santos and more of a need-to-know sort of privilege.

The Revelation
On the early morning of July 24, 2021, Rocky Topps pulled Ursula (in her original personality) aside, driving her around seemingly to spend some friendly time with her. He took her to the vineyard property and calmly made small talk in the hopes of making Ursula feel comfortable. Eventually, he told Ursula that she has DID, and that no matter what, she'd have the support of many of her friends as well as the other personalities who all want her to survive. Rocky also mentioned the phone journal which the personalities had recently been using to communicate with each other. She seemed to take the reveal okay at first, but then perhaps out of curiosity Ursula finds the journal and begins reading it. The reading ends up being too much for her to handle, and the Ursula persona fades. Gracie emerges to talk to Rocky, saying that he likely did as best as could be expected, but that Ursula is just too fragile to know about her condition, similarly to when she had been institutionalized earlier in life. Gracie said she must go to comfort Ursula inside the mind. With Eris (referred to then as Little) being "too tired" to emerge for very long, only Pandora was left to take the body. Reluctantly, but complacently, Pandora took over, knowing that she may have to be in control for the foreseeable future. Rocky spoke to Pandora, reasoning with her not to do anything rash and just lay low for a while. Pandora brushed his suggestions off. She did, however, say that Rocky did the right thing in finally telling Ursula about all of the personalities. The following day, it was revealed that Eris had taken over the body after all, impersonating Ursula for the entire day.

Regression, Suppression, and Re-emergence of DID
By mid- to late-January, 2022, none of the alters besides Ursula had apparently surfaced for several weeks. When several of Ursula's friends asked her about Eris, Ursula responded with, "Who [the fuck] is Eris?", which clearly indicated that Ursula has no memory of Eris any longer, and likely none of the other alters, either. It is not yet clear whether or not this represents a healthy progression in Ursula's mental state, meaning that Ursula is no longer in need of support from her alters; or if the alters cannot emerge through some passive or active force (such as Ursula herself) working to suppress them; or if the alters are choosing not to emerge; or if the alters themselves have forced Ursula to forget them; or any combination of the above.

On February 12, 2022, while Ursula was spending time with Kenneth Jespersen and some of his cohorts, she appeared to momentarily remember her alters. Believing that she was unable to deal with them again, Ursula jumped into a nearby campfire. This had the apparent effect of suppressing the alters once more. Further, on March 7th, 2022, Eris awoke briefly after Ursula had been traumatized by a prior 24-hour kidnapping (by Jasper Saxon) as well as having been shot by the cops while riding in a car with Chatterbox. After her injuries were healed at Pillbox, Eris/Ursula walked out of the hospital, confused, and subsequently ran off an overhang, suffering a fall of perhaps a hundred feet. Ursula returned after her injuries were once again healed. It became clear at this point that some part of Ursula (or Ursula herself) was actively trying to suppress her alters, and that she was somehow able to do so by severely physically injuring herself. It is not clear how Ursula knew that physical injury would suppress her alters or if it was just a lucky guess.

On March 25, 2022, Ursula was under a bit of scrutiny from the Clowns for some unexplained blackout episodes which had interfered with a few of the Cartel's activities. Kirk Jerkems (aka Janky) pulled Ursula aside at Maldini's Pizzeria, where Ursula was employed, to discuss the matter. They went to a basement room location in the facility for more privacy, and Ursula locked the door behind her as she had been trained to do on the job to prevent customers from entering. They talked, with Pandora emerging to explain some of the gaps in Ursula's memory. Janky took this as a threat and asked to leave. Pandora kept talking, moving toward the door. Janky became more nervous and asked her to turn around. Pandora was suspicious as he was acting weird and said she believed he would attack her. He said he wouldn't and said she didn't trust him. He then bashed her on the head with a hammer. Later, Rocky Topps, one of Ursula's therapists, talked to Janky and a few other members of the Clowns, and Rocky agreed to talk to the Ursula System. When Rocky met Ursula, Pandora was still in control of the body. She explained that what happened was likely a misunderstanding, but that it didn't matter, and she would do whatever it takes to protect Ursula from threats. These events proved for the first time that Ursula's alters were still present and could still emerge, in spite of any effort on Ursula's part to suppress them, if indeed she had tried to do so. Ursula quit the Clown Cartel and donated $100,000 to them as a parting gift.Following several phone calls for help from Mick Jhonson and Nancy Drew's twat of "STABLE ASSEMBLE", all of the original Stable OGs including Lizzie reunited on April 27, 2022 to search for their beloved ex-leader Mick. Ursula, Mick's long-time fiance Jessie Jugg, and Nancy's BBMC friend Collin McKinley were also part of the search. In a hedge maze at the Kortz Center, the search party found pages from Gracie's diary. Gracie explained that she had nursed Mick to health after Melbert Rickenbacker had left him for dead there, and that Mick had kept talking about the Billabong. On a nearby rooftop, "The Highwayman" fired off shots and left a note on the roof revealing he was the one who had Mick. The Stable and Collin eventually converged on The Highwayman at the Los Santos International Airport, exchanged gunfire with him, and managed to rescue a starving Mick from one of the hallways. The police chased Collin, Dick, and Nancy from the airport, recovered a comatose Mick from their trunk, and admitted him into the ICU.