#headmate types

[st4rb0xd-sysh3lp]

Headmate Role & Type Master-list (as re-posted by us to be more thorough and all system inclusive)

Below the cut is a masterlist of common headmate roles and types. We will do our best to keep this updated if we think anything else should be on here. Please let us know if there's anything you think we should add or any info we should update to be more accurate!!

Roles

Boosters

A type of headmate designed to hold or boost a certain emotion or feeling in the system, usually when fronting or co-con.

→ Confidence Booster: a headmate that boosts the confidence of the system or specific headmate(s) in front.

→ Mood Booster: a headmate that boosts the mood of the system, specific headmate(s) in front, or those around the system; emotions affected can range from neutral to overjoyed depending on the booster.

→ Motivator: a headmate that either boosts feelings of motivation in the system or specific headmate(s) in front, or helps motivate the system with encouragement.

Helpers

A type of headmate designed to help the system or individual headmates in a specific way.

→ Caretaker: a headmate who takes care of the system, generally by caring for the body or keeping the living space tidy.

→ Internal Helper: a headmate that helps take care of other headmates in the innerworld; may or may not front.

→ Soother: a headmate that helps soothe the body or other headmates, especially in times of distress or following traumatic events.

→ Supporter: a headmate who was formed to keep other headmates company; often in co-con with other headmates.

Holders

A type of headmate designed to hold certain memories, emotions, symptoms, or otherwise within a system; oftentimes fragments, but not always.

→ Anger Holder: a headmate that holds the system’s anger; might be more likely to lash out than other headmates.

→ Pain Holder: a headmate that helps deal with physical ailments in the body, such as pain or sickness; likely has an easier time handling said ailments than other headmates.

→ Symptom Holder: a headmate that holds or more strongly exhibits symptoms of mental illness or neurodivergent behaviors; may exhibit symptoms of disorders not apparent in the system as a whole.

→ Trauma Holder: a headmate that holds significant trauma; may have more vivid memory of the event(s) or memories not recalled by other headmates; often more affected by said trauma.

Protectors

A type of headmate that helps protect against various types of harm to the system.

→ Aggressor/ Aggressive Protector: a protector that’s more likely to be steadfast and have more aggressive mannerisms or methods than other protectors, but not to such a harmful degree as persecutors.

→ Emotional Protector: a headmate that protects against emotional harm and/or abuse.

→ Mental Protector: a headmate that helps protect against mental harm/abuse.

→ Persecutor: a misguided protector that tends to act harmfully towards others in the system, the body, or those around the system, whether in an outwardly aggressive or self-destructive manner.

→ Physical Protector: a headmate that helps protect against physical harm/abuse.

→ Sexual Protector: a headmate that helps protect against sexual harm/abuse.

Situational

A type of headmate that tends to front and/or is especially good at handling specific situations.

→ Academic Headmate: a headmate that is more inclined to help with academic affairs, such as homework, attending classes, studying, etc.

→ Sexual Headmate: a headmate that is highly sexual in nature; may or may not have formed to cope with sexual trauma; not considered a protector.

→ Social Headmate: a headmate that is more inclined to help with social affairs; may be more social or extroverted than other headmates.

Specialized

Headmate roles that do not fit into the above categories.

→ Host: the headmate that fronts the most and handles most day-to-day situations; may be responsible for many or most decisions.

→ Gatekeeper: a headmate that has a greater degree of control over the front than other headmates; may guard the fronting room and/or have more knowledge of the system as a whole than other headmates.

→ Manager: a headmate that has an easier time making decisions for the system; often more logic-driven than other headmates.

Types

Ages

→ Little: a child headmate aged 10 or under.

→ Middle: a tween/teen headmate aged 11-17.

-> Young Adult: an adult headmate aged 18-25.

-> Adult: an adult headmate aged 26+

-> Centenarian: an adult headmate aged 100 years or older

-> Ageless: a headmate who's age is indeterminate for any reason, including but not limited to being too old to be worth counting, in source time shenanigans, having an age that shifts frequently or varies heavily enough to not have a "true age", or being otherwise literally ageless.

Source Status

→ Introject: a headmate who formed with traits, background, or full identity of an outside source; may be a real-life source such as a person or childhood toy, or a fictional source, such as a character.

→ Sourceless: a headmate who seems to be introjected but does not have a definitive outside source or does not connect to their source at all.

-> Brainmade: a headmate that is not introjected and is instead entirely original to the brain

Types of Introjects

→ Factive: an introject who takes on traits or identity from a real person.

→ Fictive: an introject who takes on traits or identity from a fictional source, often characters in media.

-> Fictish/Factish: a headmate who is partially introjected and does not feel wholly attached to their source, and doesn't feel like just "brainmade" "sourceless" or "introject" describes the entirety of their identity or their relationship with their source.

→ Songtive: an introject who takes on traits or identity based on a song.

→ Playtive: an introject who takes on traits or identity based on a toy, usually one from childhood.

Sentience

→ Headmate: a fully sentient and independent headmate who is able to function on their own.

→ Companion: a complex established NPC, often animals, that are tied to specific headmates and often accompany them; generally can only be understood by their associated headmates.

→ Fragment: a headmate who is at least partially sentient, but not generally independent and able to function on their own; often hold specific feelings, symptoms, or memories.

→ NPC: a being in the innerworld who is not sentient or considered a headmate; named after the term “non-player character.”

Species

→ Human: a headmate who presents as a human.

→ Nonhuman: a headmate who presents as any other species than human; often as an animal, supernatural creature, or humanoid with animalistic features.

[radioroxx]

hmmmm mal du pays thoughts tonight

[hattiestgal]

The way you draw heavier body types- legs in particular- makes one of our headmates feel incredibly validated. She’s rather large herself and it’s not super common to see characters shaped like she is.

Apologies if this is a little odd to say, but we merely wanted to thank you for doing what you’re doing!

I will ALWAYS appreciate comments like this!! Fat n chubby folks need SO much more representation than they get, and if I can help some critters out in my crowd feel validated and seen, there is no higher honor than that.

[relaxxattack]

hey is it chill if i ask what plugin you use to color bot text on betterdiscord ?

completely okay! i use pluralchum!

maybe i'm just a homestuck, but the look of messages are just ruined if they aren't all in a user's custom color.

heres how pluralchum looks on my current theme (chittr theme by flaringk)

and heres how it looks on another theme i adore and use frequently! (pesterchum theme by luminaryflowers+others)

andddd here's it in the default, but the github link itself already shows you that lol :]

[clndstn-headmates]

can we get a femboy puppy boy alter that used he/bark/fluff/they pronouns. preferably transharmed, transgroomed, and transpet :3

mhm. hope u like fluff. u can change anything as always

-Mod Andrew

NAMES: Mihal, Miha, Mimi

AGE: 19, pupage

PRONOUNS: he/him, bark/barks, fluff/fluffs, they/them

GENDERS: femboy, puppyboy

SEXUALITY: bi gay, grayaroace

SOURCE: brainmade

SPECIES: puppyboy

ROLE: comforter

TRANSIDS: transharmed, transgroomed, transpet, transforcedpetdog, transAFAB, permamanipulated, permamanipulove, transbullied, transmissingperson, transpsychologicaltorture, transpupnapped, transSH, transstalked, permagroomed, transCSA, transTSA, transforcedgender, transLatino, translingualSpanish, transBrazilian, transArgentinian, transintersex, genitalfluid, transautistic

CISIDS: Albanian, brown hair, black eyes, dog ears, dog tail, ADHD, anxiety/social anxiety/separation anxiety, ARFID, anorexia, hypersexual, hyperromantic, short, skinny, androgynous, shy, sweet, awkward, needy

PARAS: masochist (💥), autobiastophile (🌼), autoaptophile (🍭), autogynephile (♀)

APPEARANCE:

[the-orange-solace]

Ask games are great for helping figure things out about your headmates! It also helps you figure out how a headmate speaks/interacts internally and externally!

[pluralhottakes]

People need to understand that criticizing anti-endos is often religiously intolerant or ableist and excludes people of certain beliefs or opinions from spaces where they can share isn't the same "i hate anti-endos!! I want anti-endos to be isolated!"

And saying that this is a problem that also affects people in real life (whether through religious intolerance, forced medicalization, etc.) is not comparing it to forms of systematic oppression.

(anti endo I'm not just referring to those who call themselves that, but rather anyone who believes that any form of plurality NEEDS TO BE medicalized and traumatic).

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[sonicaspeed123]

Tails wanders into the kitchen and says good morning to Sonic expecting a cheery hi only for Sonic to be silent and deadpan but waves back. Tails doesnt know that someone else is fronting but understands the "moods" he gets in. They hang out in silence and while Sonic won't remember it later his headmate who was fronting really appreciates the quality time.

[the-masquerade-council]

Non-Introject/"Brainmade"/Aseity alter flag to go along with these

The colors are mostly based off of this flag. Teal is used because it's the opposite of the color I used for source on the introject, it also represents that some aseitys may still feels like they came from somewhere even without a direct source. The light purple is for memory, this was added to combat the idea that only introject have memories that did not happen to the body.

Partial Introject - Partial Factional Introject/Factive/Factroject* - Partial Fictional Introject/Fictive/Fictroject*

these were made just by overlaying the introject flags on the non-introject flag, and then shifting the colors around so they looked better.

*Partial Factive/Fictive can also refer to an alter that has both factional and fictional sources, or an alter that has many sources and one primary one. However these flags are just partial factives/fictives that are partial do to being partially non-introjects.

[windupaidoneus]

ardb.ert remains the headmate with the beef & the moral compass. he's far from hating emet HOWEVER he very much does have qualms with him still & for good reason... it will take a looong time for him to get on more neutral terms with him. yes i once loved you, some thousand years ago, in another life. but look at all this shit you've done man. i'm not gonna forgive that easily. hilde may. amarith may. but i'm not going to.

[paracosmic-gt]

Doodlemate

Synonyms: Animate, animated headmate, drawn headmate, drawing come to life

A word to refer to a headmate who is a living moving drawing and prefers to represent themselves as such in headspace and the shared world.

The difference between this and a soulbond with a piece of art, is that doodlemates do not have an "alternate universe" that they come from, they are a drawing existing only in this reality.

A doodlemate's source is the art they came from.

Your system may be more likely to have doodlemates if you are POSIC.

Some features of a doodlemate:

They could prefer to hang in picture frames in the innerworld or be visualised in their desired style

They may be physically flat and one dimensional compared to other headmates who are 3D.

They may prefer to not have any body at all and speak as a disembodied voice.

They may be very comfortable with being "just a drawing" and/or having a creator.

They may have periods of time where they go back to being static artwork.

They may use projection to move around on the page in the shared reality

Here's a picture of our resident doodlemate, Clover. -- enjoys being inanimate, using no pronouns, being a mascot, and being 2D/static in headspace.

[freakpercent]

actually who was on this blog cause they looked like they were having existential dread. dude its okay it gets better. theres also friends we have and they love us. we can also attain our goals like we have in the past. also fresh fries and cheese burger too

[mydarlingedits]

happy Halloween!

-🍎

Happy Halloween!!! ᯓᡣ𐭩

[that-dreaming-dragon]

Just, kinda feeling really awkward in being unable to even call up the feeling or want to have ASol be the thing, without Akumu here to help maintain it.

It's funny, it's like we are two dragon lion dancing and the lion is ASol instead.

(I think he's dormant atm. I can't really feel him and yeah. I donno how I'm doing. Beast has never been a big presence. I have enough rage on my own)

[darkartistyt]

god i wanna yap about my alfendi hcs but i know for a fact that i would get banned from the fandom if i do

[the-silent-fellowship]

Musicative

Term not made by us!

“Musicative is an introject that comes from a song, music video, band, etc. A pluran in a system whose identity is a song.” - Pluralpedia

[ID: None yet]

Reposting on my coining blog.

Anyone can use this, just don’t bring discourse into it!