How do you conceptualize and recognize fellow jellies? Is it their identifying markings? Their distinctive calls? What role does scent marking play?

So a good lot of us have hung around here long enough to feel like we know each other, at least a bit. But for the most part we’ve never seen each other. We probably don’t know what each other look like, and it can be pretty catch as catch can as to if we even know each other’s gender or approximate age. So how does this work mentally?

When you recognize a jelly, what is it that you recognize? Their name? Their avatar, their overwhelming “themness”? To recognize anything at all you need an internal concept of the thing recognized. So how do you conceptualize a person you’ve never seen, but about whom you’ve accumulated a nebulous cloud of information? Is it consistent or does it vary according to the person in question? Has your internal concept of other users ever been altered significantly by unexpected information?