Quite literally an ego death, given how Parson seems to struggle with distinguishing Gavin from his own thoughts. [...] I wonder what it feels like, for him.

Absolutely. But it's difficult to get registration records from IRIS. I had to explain to them what sort of research I needed this for, then it had to go through bureaucratic red tape, and now I have to be careful about who I share this information with so IRIS doesn't think I'm just doing this for my own amusement.