Dustin was not making decisions to do any of this stuff. Dustin was going along because he was in a deep state of confusion. Confusion is what happens to a guy who is duplicated into twenty-eight versions of himself. In Dustin's confused state, he became suggestible. That is, if anyone suggested that Dustin do a certain something, Dustin went along with it, not because he chose, but because he was in such a suggestible state of mind.
When Ty duplicated the original set of four Dustins (blue purple red and orange), each of the new Dustins became a different color until there were a total of twenty-eight Dustins, each Dustin was one of twenty-eight colors. Those colors were blue, purple, red, orange, gray, white, green, brown, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, silver, copper, gold, slate, pink, teal, dreamsickle, plum, crimson, midnight, tan, seafoam, turquoise, taupe, forest and mahogany.
Eventually Dustin would figure himself out and stop being confused. What he would come to realize is that Dustin had become one Dustin and twenty-eight different Dustins at the same time. That is why he was so confused. It is hard to grapple with the idea that one is one person and twenty-eight people at the same time. It took time for Dustin to understand who he was. He was one mind: the collective mind that all twenty-eight Dustins were a part of, and he was twenty-eight different minds all at the same time.
Each of the twenty-eight different Dustins began to differentiate from each other developing different interests and personalities from each other. For example, some of the Dustins became gay while other Dustins did not. The one Dustin became therefore polyamorous as some of him was attracted to men and some of him was attracted those who were not men.
The twenty-eight different Dustins did not telepathically communicate with one another. The twenty-eight different Dustins shared one mind instead. That is, whatever one Dustin experienced, all the Dustin's experienced but some of them enjoyed the experience more than others did. For example, Dustin Crimson loved being spanked. So while Dustin Midnight hung out in the shadows, the creepy places and ethereal places that Dustin Midnight loved, he would experience Dustin Crimson getting spanked as if Dustin Midnight was there in Dustin Crimson's place but while Dustin Crimson enjoyed it, Dustin Midnight did not and hated Dustin Crimson for forcing Dustin Midnight to experience getting spanked. The twenty-eight different Dustins shared experiences as if they were all one mind because they were all one mind but each of the twenty-eight different Dustins had his own interests and personality. It took time for Dustin to figure that out.
For example, when Dustin thought of one of the Dustins as the pink Dustin and another Dustin as the other pink Dustin, it was because Dustin didn't know what all the different colors were called. After he learned the different names of the different colors he began to use them to name his different selves. The one Dustin mind they all shared became Dustin One. The other Dustins became names like Dustin Mahogany, Dustin Magenta or Dustin Copper. The pink Dustin who was the first to become free became Dustin Pink. The other pink Dustin became Dustin Magenta because Dustin Pink was one hundred percent pure pink but Dustin Magenta was a flamboyant and glamorous purplish pink.
Dustin Pink became a supertwink and an exhibitionist who loved to be exposed and humiliated. Dustin Magenta loved fashion and the theatre. Dustin brown of course became a bear. Dustin Dreamsickle became a chubby. Dustin Gold is the one who got younger and wanted daddies. Dustin Black loved leather. Dustin Crimson loved spanking and acquired the nickname Spanky. Dustin Midnight loved the shadows and all things weird. Dustin White was the least popular out of all the Dustins. After several of the other Dustins became free, Dustin White still had a very long way to go before he would become free.
All of the Dustin's became normal looking with normal looking skin tones. Each of them was influenced though by their original color so that some of them got hair colors of copper or teal according to their original colors. Some of them got eye colors that matched their original colors. Dustin Black habitually wore black leather while Dustin Crimson habitually wore crimson vests or t-shirts and Dustin Midnight found a long coat colored midnight blue that went all the way to his ankles and he found a midnight blue hat.
Meanwhile Ty's anger had faded a little. He was still angry but he started to also become curious. He expected Dustin would have already gotten free by now but where was Dustin. Ty hadn't seen Dustin in so long that he wondered what happened to Dustin. He debated about whether to go back to that bar to check on Dustin or whether to go back to that bar to punish Dustin some more.