#alter elaboration

[masquerade-flags]

Elaboration flags. Mostly just made these because we like visual aids for organization and such. The design is supposed to like like a crystal.

Shard (transparent and non-transparent)

Fragment (transparent and non-transparent)

Low Elaboration Alter (transparent and non-transparent)

Middle Elaboration Alter

High Elaboration Alter

[headmate-ideas]

Hey can we request a pack for a headmate that formed due to us seeking a relationship and now does all the flirting/romantic talk? He speaks in a very eloquent fashion and has a british accent for some reason?? All traits up to you.

💌 HEADMATE TEMPLATE 🐶

✦ Name(s): Elliot, Cupid, Alexander ✦ Pronouns: he/him, they/them, it/its (specifically in the way that love is "it"), e/em/eir/eirs/emself, love/loves/loveself ✦ Species: human ✦ Age: same as body ✦ Role(s): love manager, love holder, academic/work headmate (optional) ✦ Labels: pangender, pansexual, lovegender ✦ Xenos: love, books, glitter ✦ Interests/likes: libraries, pets, dating sims ✦ Dislikes: minimalism ✦ Music taste: indie pop, folk rock ✦ Aesthetic(s): lovecore, light academia ✦ Kins: dogs, roses, lovebirds ✦ Emoji proxy: 💌🐶 ✦ Details:

Elliot values romance very highly and handles romantic interactions for the rest of the system. He speaks with a British accent and in a very eloquent and articulate style. He enjoys romantic poetry and music and will quote literature and lyrics when appropriate. Elliot's interest in romantic poetry extends to an interest in literature and reading in general. If the system are involved in academia or a job that involves reading, he enjoys these responsibilities more than other members of the system do. He is also very fond of animals, especially pets, and will take it upon himself to care for any pets the system have.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[ruporas]

post ep 11

[vellichorom]

uh oh. I can't imagine mixing a virus with a wayward executable can lead to anything good..... what do you mean it just gave him the flu,

FINALLY, at LONG LONG LAST; Thierry's OFFICIAL Lovebug AU rendition! in which the man quite literally gets bugged. with love! & with sick nasty

truly a lesson to all to watch what you download from your emails!

( the lovebug AU concept belongs to @things1do ~ )

[tora-the-cat]

How would you have preferred Inner Sakura as a concept to have resolved? Honestly, I think no matter what the idea, it would've been so much more impactful than just having her quietly drop off like she did in canon!

I always kinda assumed that, canonically, Sakura came to grips with her inner self the same way Naruto did in the "Waterfall of Truth", except it took place off-screen in her brain somewhere. Though the DID/Ino Mind-Transfer Shenanigans is waaaaayyyyyy more interesting a thought, in my humble opinion. Maybe Ino even helping Inner Sakura and Outer Sakura compromise and live together in one body? The possibilities...

Speaking of Inner Selves, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Kabuto also had one too given his hefty identity issues? Maybe for his sake it's better if he didn't, because his brain would be like a bumpin' nightclub lmao😅

(Also, please feel free to speak on this matter as much as you'd like! I love reading through your posts while I'm drinking my coffee! :>)

Okay. Okay. So. There are like....several answers to these questions lmao.

CANNONICALLY, Inner was resolved in the most annoying way possible. Sakura never referances having an 'inner self' in shippuden (to my memory), but she does say that training with Tsunade helped her work through her 'emotional issues'. I've always taken this as implying that the INTENDED reading is that Inner was just an inner diolouge Sakura had with herself of all the thoughts and emotions she repressed due to social pressure, and Inner is gone post time-skip because Sakura doesn't repress those anymore, she punches mountains in half. No longer having Inner is supposed to symbolize character growth.

But this, of course, would ALMOST make sense, were it not for. Ino Yamanaka. Who, after doing the mind transfer jutsu in the premils, confirms something that most viewers weren't even really considering until that point; Inner is NOT a personified inner diolouge in Sakura. She's a seperate mind. She is another soul INSIDE Sakura's body that operates even without Sakura's input.

And girls have to be strong to survive.

SO. That said. My read on cannon is that Sakura realized Inner wasn't normal and basically locked her in a mental box in the back of her brain for the rest of her life and refuses to think about her, because she's worried that Tsunade wouldn't see her as a worthy student if she was Crazy (because she thinks. she's Crazy). I don't think she had a waterfall of truth moment, cause that would require Sakura THINKING about Inner, which she. does not want to do.

As far as how I would have PREFERRED Inner Sakura being handled?

Kishimoto could, tomorrow, wake up and write a chapter of Boruto with my propisition that Inner is in a box and, once let free, would kind of just chill while Sakura lost her shit, and have a little side arc where Sakura works through that and DOES reconcile with Inner and stuff. He never WILL do that, but, yeah, I think that would work fine enough for finally tying off the 20 year old loose thread of Inner's disappearance. They've resolved stupider shit for less in Boruto.

This may be a surprising take from me but, honestly, I don't hate 'sakura realizes inner is real and immediately banishes her to the darkest corner of her mind so she never has to actually confront her existance'. I think that's ETREMELY in character for miss 'will DIE if she takes responsibility for ANY action EVER', especially at 14 years old. If I could rewrite naruto JUST to sneak Inner more neatly into it, I think I would still have Sakura box her away during the timeskip, with the caveat that we would like....actually get a vauge flashback scene of her actually repressing Inner just after she starts her training with Tsunade, and occasionally Sakura would say and/or think something a little weird that just gently reminds you that Inner is a thing, every once in a while- kinda like what little we see of Gaara before he looses shukaku but after him and naruto become friends. We would only get the Inner release/full reveal of what's going on with Sakura after she's hit an emotional breaking point and needs to let Inner out to help her regulate her emotions- I'm thinking around the time she does the whole fake confession scene with Naruto, but if we wanna give the plot point some breathing room it could just be an emotional spike as sharp and sudden of her hearing one too many people talk shit about Sasuke WITHOUT getting hit, or Ino daring to ask 'hey. what happened to the second soul in your body? how's she doing?' and Sakura trying desprately to change the subject because she has been NOT THINKING ABOUT IT for like 3 years thank you VERY much.

Honestly, I'd settle for Inner just continuing to be a running joke. Sakura fighting with her internally now that she has the confidence to ALSO be loud and angry, Inner having more emotional intelligence and transparency and Sakura never listening to her cause she's still in denial about Inner being a Person with anything worth listening to. Sakura thinking she's SO normal even though she's been muttering to herself about how she does NOT want to kick Ino's ass (Inner does. a lot) on and off for like 3 hours. Things of this nature. I think a lot of this is repeating what I've said about already so I'll stop here but like....I love you forever inner sakura they can NEVER make me hate you inner sakura <3

As far as what I think Inner 'is': it being a training mishap where Ino accidently split Sakura's soul in half as kids is SO much fun and especially has some steller InoSaku potential, but I personally just....Like the idea of sakura just. being like that lmao. I usually write it as Sakura being born a twin and Inner being her stillborn twin sister who's soul went into Sakura cause it had no where else to go (it's a LITTLE more complicated then that cause I think about her. a lot. but basically). Sakura WAS just born this way!!!! NORMALEST GIRL EVER!!!

On a similar note; I don't really EVER write Inner as a DID alter, because DID is like....real. DID manifests (to my understanding, I'm obviously not a doctor or anything) when a child is in such traumatizing circumstances during their developmental years that they dissociate frequently enough to fracture their psyche into different conciousness, so they can compartmentalize their trauma and remain a mostly-functioning person. You almost always have more then one alter, and often (without therapy) can't clearly draw the lines between 'you' and your alters cause. well. the point is that you're so chronically disocciated that you have trouble being 'all there' in the first place. LOTS of people have DID and don't recognize that's what it is for a long ass while, cause they think it's as simple as, like, that one stupid shamalan movie.

Canon Sakura almost CERTAINLY does not have DID, unless she went through some SHIT that was never even mentioned in cannon- which, to be fair, WOULD map on to DID because. she would NOT remember it lmao that's probably what Inner is FOR. But, for the story that Naruto is and the character that Sakura is, it doesn't really read. Sakura's supposed to be an insanely driven girl who drags herself from the mediocrity of her civilian upbringing to be the second coming of Tsunade, so, for all that you can read into and joke about Inner's existance and Sakura's low empathy generally and how Sakura seems concerningly releived that her parents are dead in RTN (all of which I LOVE doing), in order for her to work as a character she can't have too much of a tragic backstory in canon. Outside of canon is another matter of course, but idk. you can write an interesting plurality dynamic without calling it DID, especially in a world of ninja magic bullshit.

ON THAT NOTE THOUGH. Yeah. Kabuto has DID <3 <3 <3 LOOK AT HIM. LISTEN TO HIM TALK. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. YOU ARE RIGHT. HIS BRAIN IS BUMPING LIKE A NIGHTCLUB. AND HE IS NOT INVITED TO THE PARTY!!!!!

[maalidoesart]

do u ever read something (a fanfic) that is so life changing that it completely raises ur expectations to what a fanfic could be like?!?

[thefigureresource]

Remilia Scarlet [Touhou Project] 1/8 scale from Alter coming June 2024.

[system-of-a-feather]

New Recovery Goal Just Dropped

Not Functional Multiplicity

Not Final Fusion

Not Thriving Multiplicity

But a secret FOURTH thing

Wishiwashi

[minorfamilysupremacy]

disabled vegas is the most important vegas to me.

[dennisboobs]

i don't know how everyone else feels about the way dennis' personas ~work~ but i like to treat them as extensions of his usual compartmentalization. it's another form of separation from his core self – something he wants to bury beneath a more competent, charming, respected personality – but also a way to deal with hardships by deploying the specialist who Should Know how to endure fix the problem. they're established characters, and that makes it easier for dennis to think about what Hugh or Brian or Johnny Would Say rather than how dennis actually feels about a specific development. that way he is potentially able to stay more detached than if he just approached it as himself.

[the-tortured-fangirl-department]

I‘m convinced Ryan Gosling is Apollo doing side quests.

[web-created-packs]

❃ Name 🕸️ Acropolis Pythe

❃ Nicknames 🕸️ Acro, Curses, Croplis

❃ Proxy Tags 🕸 Acro:text, text- acro, 🕸 text- curses

❃ Pronouns 🕸️ web/web/webs/webs/webself, spin/spin/spins/spins/spinself, he/him/his/his/himself, sin/sin/sins/sins/sinself ve/vem/ver/vers/vemself, silk/silk/silks/silks/silkself

❃ Gender 🕸️ intersex* transmasc

❃ Sexuality 🕸️ arosexual

❃ Species 🕸️ spider goddess / deity

❃ Aesthetic Images 🕸️

❃ Faceclaims 🕸️

*Remove this part if your body is not intersex

[headmate-ideas]

Hey, so I'm kinda thinking I have to admit that I'm new.. I was hoping to get some inspiration for some identity stuff from here? Looking for name, interests, stuff like that specifically.

I don't need pronouns as I already know those, and don't need any attraction labels, objectum or otherwise.

Basically what I know about myself is that I feel masculine and seem to be highly asocial (possibly in a schizoid symptom holder way??)

Anything you can come up with is good. Just kinda need a "here's a place to start" I guess

Thanks /genuine

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✦ Name(s): Cassius, Quasar, Adrick, Buzz, Abstract ✦ Role(s): symptom holder, social protector (optional) ✦ Symptoms experienced: asociality/schizoid personality disorder ✦ Labels: proxvir, mxn/bxy, genderfaun, manflux/boyflux, annulian, genderhawk ✦ Xenos: void, dogs, death, paradoxes, gold ✦ Interests/likes: outer space, art history, death, books, bees ✦ Music taste: darksynth, space ambient, deathdream, classical, baroque rock ✦ Aesthetic(s): voidcore, expressionism, grunge, art nouveau ✦ Kins: quasars, ghosts, rats, void, icicles ✦ Emoji proxy: 🌌🐝 ✦ Details:

Cassius's asocial nature combined with negative schizoid symptoms leads to a personal resonation with things that are empty or signify nothingness (including but not limited to outer space, ghosts, and death). However, Cassius is also interested in social animal species, as well as social studies, from the perspective that they are studying an aspect of life that they don't fully understand. Their favorite social animals are bees, but they also like lions, dolphins, and rabbits. They also like art (especially paintings), music (classical as well as current), and literature (particularly science fiction and horror). They enjoy partaking in these things as well as learning about their history. One way that Cassius's asocial nature can help the system is by protecting against social burnout. The necessity of this depends on what Cassius's other system members are like, but if any of them have a tendency to overextend themselves socially, Cassius can step in and remove themself from social situations, cancel social arrangements, or otherwise give the system a break when needed.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates introjected from this template will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[windcarvedlyre]

While I'm talking about DR3 and its handling of themes, does anyone else feel like danganronpa's ideas of 'hope' and 'despair' became a bit flanderised sometimes?

I could be reaching- the series has always been incredibly hammy in how it uses the terms- but in DR1 they still felt somewhat grounded in the words' actual definitions and in DR2 Komaeda fixating on an abstracted conflict between 'hope' and 'despair' was presented as a bad thing. Thinking 'hope' is synonymous with 'talent' was part of the problem, but even without that he'd feel like an intentional twisted parody of Naegi. He takes the thematic conflict between hope and despair too literally; to him the concepts were less states of mind, more grand causes, and so no amount of suffering became unacceptable to him if it made for a more interesting narrative in the end.

But sometimes later additions to the series... kind of sound like him? Maybe I should revisit DR3 and give it more of a chance, but I felt like the entire narrative approached 'hope' and 'despair' in some of the ways Komaeda does. Like it kept throwing those words at me as a substitute for actual depth, because hey, it's Danganronpa, right? That's what you're here for, right? Especially considering how little interest the writers showed in non-Ultimates besides Hinata as people, making 'hope' feel genuinely associated with talent to some degree.

Similarly, in DRV3, what did it mean for the survivors to reject both hope and despair? Stripped of those words, their choice was to break out of the narrative's control, not let their reality being potentially fake get to them, and face the unknown together. Is that not 'hope'? Is that not emotionally identical to both previous games' endings? Does that not make the game's use of 'hope' completely divorced from its meaning?

If the themes were handled more coherently I could see that being done intentionally- exploring whether the series started with a good message and lost its way, and/or asking whether 'hope' is hollow if your struggles, your eventual triumph over them, everything was contrived for others' entertainment- but I feel like if that was the case the DRV3 characters should reclaim hope and reject false definitions or exploitation of it instead of rejecting hope itself. Because again, with feeling, what does that mean???

[neon-vocalist]

there is nothing i hate more than demondice antis who call themselves mori calliope fans.

[kickedin17]

I finally read All My Sons and I've realized that this play is to Tyler what Moby Dick is to me and I'm glad to know we match each other's freak