#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

[headmateelevator]

hello! could we please request a level two ranboo (dsmp)? including typing example and excluding front triggers and roles!

with a space and winter/snow theme! a fem gender. and a few non-noun neopronouns please! also. idk if we are allowed to ask for things not on the template. but a few 1st person neopronouns too?

thank you! this blog is great btw! :D!!! -green anon

order up!

name(s) - Lumi , Boreas , Khione , Chióni , Eira , North , Frostine , Frost , Blizzard , Alba , Boo , Altitude , Apricity , Aquilo , Arctic , Blanca , Blizzard , Boreas , Chione , Crystal , Demetria , Freeze , Frost , Frostbite , Miyuki , Neve , Nevis , Andromeda , Apollo , Artemis , Aster , Asteroid , Astraios , Astro , Celeste , Celestia , Comet , Cos , Cosmos , Esther , Exo , Kulpar , Beloved , Luna , Matter , Moon , Nebula , Nova , Oranos , Orion , Sol , Soliel , Star , Starshine , Stella , Sun , Void , Nueve , Pan , Permafrost , Snow , Uncia , Viola , Winter , Xuĕ , Yukina , Snow , Andri , Bylur , Snowstorm , Permafrost , Aneira , Nevada , Alaska , Aquilo.

pronouns - they / them / she / her / ey / em / er / ers / hy / hyr / hy / hymn / ae / aer / it / that / thing / thon / thons / vae / vaer / se / sim / ny / nym / th-y / th-m / shy / shyr / thy / thym / x / xs / sh* / h*r / shx / hxr / hx / hxm / thxy / thxm / snow / snows / winter / winters / snow / flake / cold / colds / fre / freeze / bliz / blizzard / frost / frosts / chill / chills / frostbite / frostbites / tundra / tundras / arctic / arctics / shiver / shivers / ❄️ / ❄️s / 🌨️ / 🌨️s / 🧊 / 🧊s / spa / space / spaces / sta / star / stars / co / comet / comets / pla / planet / planets / gal / galaxy / galaxys / li / light / lights / mo / moon / moons / shi / shine / shines / tu / turn / turns / spi / spin / spins / su / sun / suns / bri / bright / brights / cro / crown / crowns / 🌌 / 🌌s / ✨/✨s / 🎇 / 🎇s / 🪐 / 🪐s / ⭐ / ⭐s / 🌟 / 🌟s / 🌀 / 🌀s / ☄ / ☄s / 🌠 / 🌠s / 🌙 / 🌙s / 👽 / 👽s / 👾 / 👾s / 👑 / 👑s / 💎 / 💎s / 🔭 / 🔭s / 🚀 / 🚀s / 🛰 / 🛰s.

1st person pronouns - i / me / my / mine / myself / ar / ar / arc / tic / arcself / mrri / mrre / mrry / mrrine / mrryself / i / ce / ice / icine / iceself / dai / dae / dy / daine / daiself / spi / spa / space / spacine / spaceself / sti / sta / star / starine / starself / X / X / Xy / Xine / Xself / li / love / lovely / lovine / loveself / ei / e / en / end / endself / dar / dare / darly / darling / darlingself / eye / meye / meye / meyene / meyeself.

gender(s) - girlish , genderflir , etheria , neogirl , nymgirl , luveratix , neigean , kalanagender , snowgirl , snowfallgender , lumilexic , noxventic , pleiadessidrea , spacegender , stargender , fargalaxian , astroscenic , galaxyflower , cosmiclatteic , galain , sueaumoc , noctichrine , canistellation , heavoid , beltzelestial , spacecoric , moongender , galasterios , staric , stargalactic , destria.

orientations - bisexual , masc leaning attraction.

species - half-enderman.

source(s) - c!ranboo , dsmp.

emoji(s) - ⬛ , ⬜ , 🌻 , ❄️ , 🌨️ , 🧤 , 🌌 , 🌠 , ✨ , 🌙 , ☄️

likes - cold weather , flowers , sweaters , comfortable clothes , friends , peaceful music , minecraft and other games , reading , watching youtube videos , meeting new people , stargazing , learning about space , aliens , cats , any animals or pets , going on walks , coffee , repeating things said by others (echolalia) , watching cartoons , cooking.

dislikes - sudden or loud noises , overheating , pain , loneliness , rude people , tags in shirts , cheap jumpscares (they always get hyr and shy hates it.) , sparkling water , feeling grimy or gross , picking sides.

personality description - a friendly and polite alter, they enjoy speaking to friends and people in the systems life any time they front, and love to meet new people when given the chance, once shy makes a friend, shy will remain loyal to them and stick with them in whatever situation they may need help with. while x loves meeting new people, ny often enjoys staying in and watching things on tv, or cooking something nice when given the time. she can often be a bit forgetful, but tries vaer hardest to keep up with things and people in their life, often writing things down in a notebook or notes app to keep track.

typing example / small message - hello, hello! I'm Boo, and it's nice to meet you!! li just thought mrri should write a little message to.. say hello and everything! dai'm honesty very excited to meet everyone in person!! this message probably isn't really enough to say hello properly.. or really say anthing about iceself.. but sti'm sure dai can give a better hello when I finally actually get there!! x'll hopefully see you later?

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[free-willowmates]

typing quirk inspo: discord-only typing quirks

always italics

always bold

bolding certain specific words, like your name/system name or other words important to you

splitting sentences in a paragraph into a list

putting specific words in a codeblock

example screenshot:

i wouldn't suggest combining these for accessibility reasons! pls reblog / like if this was helpful.

[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 :]

[merosmos]

Name: Ondine , Nerida , Lorelei

Age: 27 yo

Pronouns: She/Her , Sie/Sier , Sea/Sear , Mer/Mers

Gender: Lunarian , Mergender

Xeno Vibes: Mermaids , The Ocean , Seashells

Orientation: Pansexual Lesbian

Other IDs: Femme

Species: Beta Fish Merfolk

Role(s): Interest holder , Beauheur , Comforter

Aesthetic(s): Mermaidcore , Auroracore , Pearly

Interests/likes: Swimming , Seashell Collecting , Crystals

Dislikes: Being in large crowds

Kins: Crabs , The Moon

Emojis: 🧜‍♀️🌊

Details:

Ondine is a merfolk with pastel pink and purple scales with a pearly shimmer. She enjoys comforting others in the system, singing to them gently.

[dragongirlbunny]

at the very least we'll probably start referring to the suspected headmates as gamma and epsilon considering we've used delta and beta as placeholder names before

[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.

[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:

[dreamyintersexouppy]

sending love to all head mates with complex relationships to the body, language isn’t build to adequately describe our senses of identity and that’s fucking rough sometimes! However y’all choose or opt out of labels, I respect your choices!

thank you! but i think that's the thing about it, tma/tme (from how i understand it novas a good explainer but idk if im a good rememberer) isn't opt in or out, it just describes something that exists already, and while my identity as a boy is real queer how i get treated while fronting is still more affected by how people see the body. it feels like a tma if you don't know me/don't know im fronting and tme if you do but even that seems strange (nova says: that sounds like just tme to me cuz of the opportunity to opt out but it could be more complicated). i think the language is good but i also think it matters more to me to be an ally to nova and all my transfem friends than to think forever about where i sit in a framework that wasn't made to benefit me. in the end that stuff is for trans women and as funny as the joke of boy headmate in tma body is i think my position as boy headmate makes me not the authority on actual meaningful discussion

[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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[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.

[free-willowmates]

typing quirk inspo: unicode character replacements

you could replace one specific letter with a unicode character! i wouldn't suggest doing this with multiple letters to keep it readable. some examples:

o = ★, the quick brown f★x jumps over the lazy dog

B = ℬ, the quick ℬrown fox jumps over the lazy dog

e = ℮, th℮ quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

k = Ҝ, the quicҜ brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

m = ᶆ, the quick brown fox juᶆps over the lazy dog

n = ⋒, the quick brow⋒ fox jumps over the lazy dog

c = ☾, the qui☾k brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

p = ℙ, the quick brown fox jumℙs over the lazy dog

u = ⊂, the q⊂ick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

u = ♆, the q♆ick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

x = ✘, the quick brown fo✘ jumps over the lazy dog

α = a, the quick brown fox jumps over the lαzy dog

a = ∀, the quick brown fox jumps over the l∀zy dog

more characters you could use under the cut:

this site is really good and gives you some info on what each character means!

really important: DO NOT just take random letters from OTHER (living) LANGUAGES for this, that is racist and widely considered offensive by the people who speak those languages!! instead, try to pick symbols that represent astrology, are in math, are in dead languages etc. if you want help finding characters send me an ask and i will make a big lsit for you!

[garden-of-bah]

hi hii :D could we get two equestria girls alters? a sunset shimmer and an eq!twilight (like. the one from the human world :P so confusing dwiajoa) :]

no mental/physical conditions for either please, and throw in some transIDs if possible please :]!!

(yoinking 🦈anon because sharks are cool asf >:3)

We haven’t watched EQG in a while actually, maybe I should pick up the movies again and give myself a refresh.

Name/s: Sunset Shimmer

Age: 17

Pronouns: she/they/he/flare

Source: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

Genders: mingender firegender

Sexuality: lesbian

CisIDs: red hair, blue eyes, tan skin, tall, punk, student, scarred, piercings

Faceclaim: @/captains0ur @/sadscruffy

Alter roles: physical protector

Signoffs: -🔥, -🎸, -💥

TransIDs: transMasculine, transYellowStreaks, transSlitPupils, transFullyHuman, cinnamonScentic, transHarmful

Paras: sadism, haemoto-, oplo-, piquerism

Personality: cool, defensive, clever, cunning, emotional, empathetic, nihilistic

Quirks: has a deeper voice and swears like a sailor

Name/s: Twilight Sparkle

Age: 17

Pronouns: she/they/sci

Source: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

Genders: sciencegender girl

Sexuality: bisexual

CisIDs: dark blue hair, purple skin, purple eyes, human, student, thin, glasses

Faceclaim: @/sadscruffy @/digidollx

Alter roles: academic

Signoffs: -🧪, -🎆, -🧬

TransIDs: transStreaks, transGreenBlood, transMadScientist, transAmbivert, transAmbiamorous, transLesbian, transStalker

Paras: sadomasochism, narko-, peirama-, vigilia-

Personality: logical, curious, intelligent, awkward, ambitious, shy, prepared, deliberate

Quirks: has a habit of stuttering over the beginning of sentences