So many of your stories have an alteration of one’s identify as “self” i.e. becoming another or differnet. As one philosopher to another, do you think that the self is mutable or is it permanent. Also if you want it to be TMI, what is your own personal dream fantasy?

Um…gah, why the hard questions today? I would say that, in general, I agree with Derek Parfit as far as the self in concerned, though I with some modifications needed to account for the principles of narrativity. Basically, yes, the self must be mutable. Over my lifetime, I will be, essentially, several different people who, while they might be mentally and physically continuous over time, are likely to be vastly physically and mentally dissimilar when compared side by side. However, I think that what holds us together is as a single self are a number of socially constructed narratives–that is, we are actually our own histories, both those which we construct ourselves, and the ones constructed at large. To answer your question more directly, I would say neither–I would say that “the self” is a fiction we create because of how we perceive time, and for ease of social interaction. 

tl;dr: Neither; there is no self which is metaphysically continuous over time, only our beliefs that there ought to be, constructed through stories of responsibility and intention.

As for my personal fantasy, *sigh* I suppose it would be to be a shapeshifter, able to morph my form into any human form at will, ala mystique from the X-Men. The reasons for this choice ought to be self-explanatory.