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Kiwi Farms
Meet Kevin Batman, a man who claims to be a "tulpamancer" and "plural" with over 100 headmates and fictives in his "system," he would have been safely locked away in an insane asylum in days gone by but is instead out and about and employed with Google.
Birth name: Kevin Toshiaki Batman
1/12/1990
Educated at UCSD with a Computer Sciences degree, interned at Google during college and later was hired as a software engineer.
He is a manlet and stands 5'2" tall.
Kevin changed his first name to Lucia in December 2014 and kept his masculine middle name of Toshiaki because it was "part of [his] cultural heritage." (He is supposed to be half Japanese) The name he changed to, Lucia, is from a video game series called Lunar. He considered the name Erica but didn't go with it because it was the name of a Pokémon character. As farfetched as it may seem, Batman appears to be his actual family name as his parents have it as well.
Pre-transition
Kevin made his Twitter account in September 2012 and deleted the first year of tweets at some point. The three earliest remaining tweets (from December 2013) give us some leads about Kevin.
So how did he go from a perverted brony to a batshit "tulpamancer"? Let's find out.
Starting back at 2014, we find additional confirmation that Kevin was indeed a brony and into Rarity. Kevin claims that My Little Pony porn, or "clopclop" as he calls it, was "off limits" for him, but he was into other porn such as Homestuck. He also knew what "Futashy" was, so his claims to not be into "clopclop" sound a little hollow.
We learn he went to an "informed consent" clinic so he could troon out, and said if that wasn't an option he would have had to do "DIY" trooning, because his health insurance was "gatekeepering" and "really pissed [him] off" by wanting him to have spent a year living as a woman before letting him fuck himself up with HRT. Kevin also mentioned voice training (and it appears he was hanging out with other bronies online at this time based on what he replied to) and later asked for resources about retraining his "male voice." He also thought he might be "genderqueer" but said he feels "most comfortable as female" when he's "feeling vulnerable." To no surprise, he is an autogynephile. and, of course, has talked about his "girlcock."
Later in 2014 he created a "list of therapist requirements" after deciding he needed a "plural-friendly" one who wouldn't throw him in the loony bin, would let him do drugs, let him call himself "it," not treat his "scalpelplay" as self-harm, and not "push integration."
Kevin was trying to get an autism diagnosis and asked for help to create a list of reasons why he thinks he is autistic. (It looks like he gave up after deciding it was too much effort to doctor shop until he found someone to believe/enable him)
Kevin paid to get his medical records and was triggered when multiple specialists referred to him as a "he." He apparently was doctor shopping in 2011 to try to get HRT, the first said he was "somewhat immature" and had an "atypical history of GID" and had told him he needed a year of lived experience before HRT, the other concurred and said that Kevin needed approval from a mental health professional and more "real-life experiences as a member of the opposite sex" before they'd sign off on HRT. Kevin had a cow crossover with Luke Lockhart and Kevin said the troon subreddits are what told him about the "informed consent" clinics he eventually had to go to in order to troon out since doctors wanted him to actually take steps to transition.
Kevin decided he was a "spoonie" after reading about it. Kevin's mom and sister thought he was a drug addict at one point and told him he wouldn't be allowed to move in with them if he got fired, after he texted asking what mental illnesses ran in the family. Kevin ended up dreaming up "contingency plans" for if he got sent to the loony bin as a result of that incident.
Kevin expressed interest in tulpas and by April he had started creating a "headmate" and wondered if becoming "plural" would be a good thing. Kevin decided to name the headmate "Lilith." He suddenly began using "we" instead of "I" on Twitter and said he had induced plurality. (He later says he started using "we" at work and no one cared) Even this derangement was not safe from his other fetishes and he wanted to wear a diaper in his "innerworld." In June, Kevin claims a "primordial demon" took over his body and became his "system's protector" after fighting with "Lain." (The diaper fetish brony friend that got sent to the loony bin earlier in the year is also now a "system" as of June.)
By August, Kevin was claiming to have multiple headmates that he needed to name. He then claimed that "Lucia" had "broke" and that a headmate would have to be "fronting." (What a surprise, he has more online friends pretending to be "systems" (seemingly found on tulpa-related sites/chats) and was part of a "trans poly plural community") Kevin admitted he had 'induced plurality' earlier in the year after learning about tulpas, in August he tried to claim he was "plural" back in elementary school and that a "new being" was formed after he first got on the Internet and it took over when he was 15. He decided that the "original" mind or whatever is "long gone." He also lied and said it was "trauma induced" plurality, when he clearly looked up tulpas and started roleplaying. He also has a fetish for wings and most of these early headmates have them.
Okay, that explains a lot, and bear in mind almost all of that was sourced from a single year (when he said he put his entire life online, he apparently was not exaggerating.) So, we have a profile built up of someone who either had, or decided he had, a lousy childhood due to an "abusive" mother and likely mental illnesses and other disorders, as such he retreated into the Internet which served as a gateway into a laundry list of fetishes including autogynephilia/"futa"/diapers/BDSM/blood/scalpels, his only friends seem to be other people he met while pursuing these fetishes and they led him down the path of not only trooning out without approval of medical professionals but also creating a "tulpa" and becoming "plural," he knows he's fucked up in the head and is scared of being forced into an institution, he's stressed out from being overworked and LARPing seems to be his escape, and he knows how to game the system and doctor shop and lie in order to get the diagnosis or outcome he wants.
Kevin got the idea to get an orchi in 2014, he was contemplating checking himself into a psych ward or committing suicide in 2015 after 13 weeks of trying to get a doctor to approve it. One doctor triggered him by saying that if Kevin truly had dozens of headmates (as he claimed at the time), then he was "not of one mind" and it wouldn't be right for Kevin to get his balls removed, and even Kevin admitted some of the supposed headmates were "unhappy with surgery." He also sperged out about insurance companies requiring him to enter a "binary gender." Ultimately, Kevin did get what he wanted and declared that his balls had been "chopped off."
Ten months after making his "tulpa" and he began roleplaying as having headmates, Kevin claims a therapist did diagnose him with DID. Since "inducing plurality," Kevin's headmate creations have piled up and by 2016 there was over 100. His About page:
He has a spreadsheet of his claimed headmates along with information on them. Glancing over the list shows that this 'plural' nonsense is a lot of bunk, as if it wasn't clear from the get go. Not content with making up fantasy RPG headmates like liches, mermaids, elves, fairies, dragons, and angels, Kevin also claims to have many "fictives" including Arya Stark from Game of Thrones, Rarity and Princess Luna from My Little Pony, Koh from Avatar, JaspRose, Vriska, and Roxy from Homestuck, and Echo from Dollhouse. He claims that some of them came from "system hops" from his friends' "systems." Some are even inanimate objects such as jewels, and some are "plush" versions of an existing headmate. Interestingly, he has one that is supposed to be Kevin, although the "system" is too triggered to use the name Kevin.
He has written a lot about his "tulpamancy" and other aspects of his life.
As aforementioned in the spoilered section above, he credits the tulpa community for him becoming "plural": http://archive.md/iuzvT
He once spent over 10 hours thinking about if an anime character relates to him: http://archive.md/f7ANx
He talks about having "stress splits" at work: http://archive.md/DBqgl
He fully embraces "spoonie"ism: http://archive.md/OMCiA
Dealing with "problematic headmates": http://archive.md/P70nD
How he identifies "fronters" (he claims he rarely goes over his spreadsheet and asks himself if he is that headmate): http://archive.md/Fw8ZY
How to be a "healthy multiple": http://archive.md/xsOvG
How therapists should deal with troons: http://archive.md/5GC8K
He tries to explain what "polyfragmented" is: http://archive.md/30r48
Shilling queitiapine: http://archive.md/d1Vei
Here he describes being a tulpamancer: http://archive.md/tdUHb
Going back to how this person even came to light, the most bizarre aspect of all of this is probably the fact that his employer not only tolerates Kevin and other employees acting like this at work, they have also enabled it, with Kevin making the "plural" mailing list, giving talks at company conferences (and, presumably, some other employee that "sexually identifies" as a dragonkin and a building gave the "Living as a Plural Being" speech), and he has even talked about sitting idle in an "otherkin" IRC room at work to see who else would join.
With thanks to @Jaimas for reading the lawsuit and finding the section regarding this guy, @zedkissed60 for going beyond that and actually finding who the guy was and other info on him, and @CatParty and @Ride for hoofing through some of his content and laughing with us.