#several of them are introjects or fragments

[whimsivamp]

⇄ .......◁◁ fiction kin ▷▷....... ↻

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▿(1.) jinhsi from ᴡᴜᴛʜᴇʀɪɴɢ ᴡᴀᴠᴇꜱ ♡ (2.) sparkle from ʜᴏɴᴋᴀɪ ꜱᴛᴀʀ ʀᴀɪʟ ♡ (3.) chii from ᴄʜᴏʙɪᴛꜱ ♡

▿(4.) charlie morningstar from ʜᴀᴢʙɪɴ ʜᴏᴛᴇʟ ♡ (5.) yuki cross from ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ ᴋɴɪɢʜᴛ ♡ (6.) jinx from ᴀʀᴄᴀɴᴇ ♡

▿(7.) nahida from ɢᴇɴꜱʜɪɴ ɪᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛ ♡ (8.) sakura kinomoto from ᴄᴀʀᴅᴄᴀᴘᴛᴏʀ ꜱᴀᴋᴜʀᴀ ♡ (9.) yashiro nene from ᴛᴏɪʟᴇᴛ ʙᴏᴜɴᴅ ʜᴀɴᴀᴋᴏ-ᴋᴜɴ ♡

🎀 (10.) terakomori gandesblood from ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇxᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ꜱʜᴜᴛ-ɪɴ ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇꜱꜱ

▿(11.) luchia nanami from ᴍᴇʀᴍᴀɪᴅ ᴍᴇʟᴏᴅʏ ♡ (12.) madoka kaname from ᴍᴀᴅᴏᴋᴀ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄᴀ ♡ (13.) misuzu kamio from ᴀɪʀ ♡

▿(14.) marry kozakura from ᴋᴀɢᴇᴘʀᴏ ♡ (15.) hatsune miku from ᴠᴏᴄᴀʟᴏɪᴅ ♡ (16.) ruby rose from ʀᴡʙʏ ♡

▿(17.) mafuyu asahina from ᴘʀᴏꜱᴇᴋᴀ ♡ (18.) cecilia from ꜱᴀɪɴᴛ ᴄᴇᴄɪʟɪᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴀꜱᴛᴏʀ ʟᴀᴡʀᴇɴᴄᴇ ♡ (19.) PAERO from ʙᴀɴᴅᴏʀɪ! ♡

🧣 (20.) yuta okkotsu from ᴊᴜᴊᴜᴛꜱᴜ ᴋᴀɪꜱᴇɴ ♡

▿(21.) hajime ichinose from ɢᴀᴛᴄʜᴀᴍᴀɴ ᴄʀᴏᴡᴅꜱ ♡ (22.) komugi inukai from ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀꜰᴜʟ ᴘʀᴇᴄᴜʀᴇ! ♡ (23.) frankie stein from ᴍᴏɴꜱᴛᴇʀ ʜɪɢʜ ♡

▿(24.) alice from ᴘᴀɴᴅᴏʀᴀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛꜱ ♡ (25.) aya drevis from ᴍᴀᴅ ꜰᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ♡ (26.) rin natsume from ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ʙᴜꜱᴛᴇʀꜱ! ♡

▿(27.) shirli/nemesis from ᴛᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴀɴᴛᴀꜱʏ ♡ (28.) chocola from ɴᴇᴋᴏᴘᴀʀᴀ ♡ (29.) fischl from ɢᴇɴꜱʜɪɴ ɪᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛ ♡

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[orange-orchard-system]

Small Annoyances as a Polyfragmented System

There are certain patterns and events that we see in our life (mainly in system spaces) that get under our skin as a polyfrag system that smaller systems don't seem to be able to relate to. In an attempt to spread information on what it's like to be a polyfrag system – because goodness knows it's hard to find that – we've created this list of those annoyances, along with examples and explanations of why we find them annoying. Although, this turned into a vent post by the end, so... you have been warned!

Disclaimer: this post mainly applies to our personal experiences. We're sure that other polyfrag systems (and probably other large systems) may be able to relate to some of the things here, but you don't have to relate to any or all of them to be a real polyfrag system.

Polyfragmented Annoyances:

Most system tips do not work with our system because they're based in having a small member count. Anything that starts with "Have every system member..." is a no-go, because it is impossible for us to include every system member in system activities. There's a bunch of people in dormancy, whole sidesystems that we've barely explored, and even counting only the members we know could potentially participate, that's still hundreds of people to go through. It's not gonna work out. "Every system member" is not an achievable goal.

Blurring and other identity confusion happens a lot more often than you'd think, since a lot of us are fragments or otherwise not "full" headmates. When you don't check all the boxes to be a fully independent system member and constantly need at least one other member around to get even basic stuff done, it can be easy to lose track of where the line between you and another system member is.

On that note, co-fronting is a necessity and people outside the system (whether system or singlet) don't seem to understand that very often. We need to have multiple people in front – our system is not designed to have only one person alone controlling the body and aware of what's going on. Whereas most other systems experience negative side effects if they have too many headmates fronting, we more often experience negative side effects if not enough headmates front, and that can create a lot of estrangement when the former is usually the only example of fronting arrangement issues you can find. In addition, people outside the system (mostly singlets, but some systems too) don't seem to understand the implications of "We usually/almost always have a crowded front." Any interactions you have with one of us are going to be overseen, filtered through, and influenced by everyone else in front; if you're building a relationship* with one of us, you're probably building a relationship with several others, too.

Having to do so much more work to keep track of everyone. Organizing headmates by sidesystem, subsystem, etc can be a hassle, and system mapping becomes a lot more difficult when you've got a lot of people to include in your map. You not only have to frequently register new members in things such as Pluralkit and SimplyPlural, but you have to update that data as they learn more about themselves and the system develops, so we end up taking hours to just sit down and go through as many headmates as we can. Simply put, keeping any records of our system is so much more complicated because we're polyfragmented, even if it's just something basic like writing down everyone's names.

Introjects often face a name struggle that they wouldn't if we were a smaller system. Because of how often we get multiple introjects of the same character or person, every introject is expected to take up some kind of nickname so they can be more easily identified and identity issues aren't too frequent, which is its own troublesome process. Especially when we see small systems who don't need to do this... it can make us a bit jealous at times.

It's difficult to find anything about systems of our size. Most systems on platforms like TikTok and YouTube are small, so it's hard to find videos about larger systems. Most systems in fiction, whether they're positive representation or the usual stock-horror serial killer stereotype, have a small number of members so audiences don't get lost or confused. Even within the system community in settings like on Tumblr, it can be hard to find other large systems talking about their own experiences and how they differ from smaller systems – in fact, the experiences of small systems are seen as the "right" experiences in some cases, so if a large system goes outside of that, they are seen as "faking," "promoting unhealthy behavior," etc. We just want to find posts about us that go beyond one-sentence shout-outs, c'mon.

Related to that second-to-last bit, common polyfrag experiences are treated as automatic signs of "faking." Oh, you have a lot of headmates? Faker! You have more than one introject of or from the same source? Faker! You gain new members easily? Faker! Your headmates have highly specific roles? Faker! Some headmates don't have roles because others already handle those jobs? Faker! You often have multiple people in co-front or co-con? Faker! JFC, why is my existence automatically seen as a lie?! A lot of these fakeclaimers supposedly "support" polyfrag systems, too, but then the second a polyfrag system is, y'know, polyfrag, oooohhhh noooo, time to write a call-out about how they're "obviously faking it."

*"Relationship" is used as a general term here and does not refer solely to romantic relationships.

In conclusion, being polyfragmented comes with a lot of small annoyances that aren't helped by how, even in system spaces, we're often misunderstood, mocked, and fakeclaimed. It'd be nice to find more content or resources about/for polyfrag systems, but I'm not holding my breath.

[thestarseersystem]

Being polyfragmented is SO WEIRD. It is like a pretty unstable form of regular DID. I say this with my own experience in mind, and having seen other people's experiences.

Like, it doesn't present at all like its got a million dissociative barriers, and the barriers between some alters are thinner than others.

I can't help but notice that those who are polyfragmented tend to have trauma surrounding being gaslit and have a hard time accepting themselves in any capacity. Like there is no singular self state that they can look to and say "That is real". Its always more than one, or a changing self state, a swirling pot of attributes.

I wonder if being gaslit or made to feel like you're crazy, any way links up to the development of one's disorder. Because being gaslit isn't just being lied to, it makes you feel like you are not the one being honest, like you are overexaggerating or lying or denying something or the one who is crazy, that you are not trustworthy to see reality.

I don't think every polyfragmented system has this, but it is quite a lot of them, to which has an incredibly unstable self-state. Including myself. I not only have two co-hosts (three in total), but I also have many, MANY self state fragments and introjects, forming my own sort of collective. I feel the large amount of alters and fragments are to help strengthen the self state, and the dissociation exists within the self too, not just with the other.

And this is not to say that's not how all systems work. Technically all alters are part of the self and exist within the self. But for most systems, that's not how it actually presents itself to be. There is you and other alters, there is you and other parts.

Within polyfragmented systems, however, there is not just you and other parts, but different parts within the part that is you. Different self states within your main self state. Even though other alters are also technically part of you, they are different from self parts and fragments that make you up. Almost every separated alter, in my system, has some self state part within them. I refer to those self state parts (usually fragments) as asteroids and every separated alter to be planets. And any subsystem alter to be a moon.

And that adds up to be many, many alters. The original definition of polyfragmented happens to be "100+ alters", but never explains why. And polyfragmented systems seem to be structurally different from regular DID, so polyfragmented doesn't make sense that its left as "big system" as the main definition. In fact, big systems won't always have this unstable structure of systemhood.

And I do find it to be unstable. Many polyfragmented systems that I've met have had an internal rearranging and reforming of different alters, ending up with an unstable self, able to change at any sign of danger. But there are other polyfragmented systems like me, who create collections of alters, adding more when there is more stressors. And instead of reforming, each alter gains more. Each subsystem grows larger, each collection becomes bigger. And yes, there will be some alters that don't exist within other's orbit, but are not connected specifically. These alters will eventually form their own orbit at some point. Odds and ends have their uses.

And I don't know if there is a structural form of dissociation beyond tertiary, and its possible that polyfragmented systems are unstable because they have two structures on top of one another.

And this may explain why polyfragmented systems present similar to systems with no amnesia. Because they are a mix of multiple dissociative structures, causing them to have a more unique or unstable experience.

And this is not to say this makes those who are polyfragmented, to have more severe trauma. I doubt that is the case. Even though ritual abuse or religious abuse is common in those who have this type of dissociative disorder. I feel like the reasons for that is because of how ritual abuse manipulates its victim, to alter their perceptions and control their perceptions. Similar to how people, who are victims of gaslighting, have altered perceptions due to the way that they were abused.

And I feel as though those with polyfragmented systems have inconsistent perceptions due to that trauma. Even if different alters hold different memories, its precisely why, that we have such an inconsistent perception and memory. Even within one's own self state, there is inconsistencies for a reason. And it's trying to combat the specific type of abuse/trauma that they faced.

So, I don't obviously have a bunch of sources, this is all just conjecture. Stuff I've learned via my own experiences, research, what people have told me, and posts I've read within this community. But, this may be an important post for people to think about, build upon or look into. I surely do not have all the answers, but I recommend anyone reading this, to look into things I've mentioned further. Hopefully, as a community, we can figure things out together.

[abysshydra]

I like thinking about how plurality changes and functions depending on the neurodivergencies a system has.

Not only CDD based plurality, mind you. We've seen countless of times how ADHD and Autistic hyperfixations and Sp/Ins can cause a lot of introjects to appear. Same goes for any obsessions. Our Autistic obsession caused a big introject explosion, raising our numbers to 100 in comparison to our usual 30-40.

We also came to a conclusion that several of our headmates appeared just due to a person being close to us. As if in search for attention like "Hey look I am your fav character, love us". NPD likes to do that.

Our BPD still comes with it's own share of identity disturbance and it forces on us a lot of completely random fragments used as "masks" for a short period of time or until we wear them again.

It's interesting, for us at the very least.

[anti-endo-polyfragculture]

polyfrag culture is when you start out believing you have p-DID with three alters because the host never switched out but there were fictives causing passive influence.

then you believe you have OSDD-1b with 20+ alters because you don't experience amnesia between switches and no general amnesia.

then your general amnesia increases greatly after your host switches out more frequently and you believe you have DID with 50+ alters.

and suddenly a gatekeeper/manager from a random sub/side system fronts and logs thousands of fragments in their system (not separately, just roughly guessing the number), several other gatekeepers, a clear hierarchy, at least two more separate inner world spaces, a memory holder fragment that's always in front (explains the low amnesia), certain rules that apply to certain inner world areas, etc. etc..... also we have no host anymore and amnesia is at an all time high

and we're STILL in denial every other day. introject heavy? denial. low splitting tolerance? denial. trauma? not bad enough for polyfrag, so denial. but also trauma? probably not even real. so: the system is also not real = denial.

doesn't help that we have designated denial holders who are sometimes sent to flood the front whenever someone's digging too far into our trauma history.

but we also don't feel polyfrag enough to be polyfrag. we're still relatively small in comparison to other polyfrag systems. we don't split more than three alters at once unless they split far away from front where no one notices it. we don't have layers unless we don't know about them. we have 1-3 subsystems from which one of them acts like a side system in a way.

we're medically recognized with DID with a complex structure (so basically C-DID), so where does all this denial come from 😭

oops that post was longer than intended

can we claim🖤🌷?

Yes you can!

[mayimkjs]

All of my DID Research for FOOL's MATE So Far

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CRITQUE THIS IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM! IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU THINK I SHOULD ADD, PLEASE TELL ME IN ETHER THE COMMENTS, REBLOG THIS, DM ME OR THROUGH THE ANNONOMOUS FEEDBACK FORM.

Taken from the FOOL's MATE research doc

Introduction

Mikoto has Dissociative Identity Disorder. This means that he has multiple personalities/identities called “Alters”. DID is developed by repeated trauma typically before the age of 9 or 10 while one’s identity is not fully formed yet. In order to keep the host safe and functioning, the brain dissociates from those experiences and amnesia walls are put up. These walls interfere with the identity from fully integrating, and because of that, multiple identities are created. DID is the most severe form of PTSD.

Terminology

General

Alter: An individual “personality”. Alters are their own entities with their own consciousness, opinions and free will. They are each their own person, not a personality. They have their own names, genders, sexualities, ages or other identity traits. Alter is short for “Alternate Stare of Identity”.

System: The group of alters in one’s body. Sometimes, the system gives itself a name. For simplicity's sake, I will be calling Mikoto’s system the “Kayano System” or "Kayano Sys".

Inner World: A world that the mind has made for all the alters to live and communicate in. This is sometimes called “Headspace”.

Integration/Fusion: The act of 2 or more alters becoming one. This can happen randomly, when an alter is unneeded or from an alter coming to terms with or processing trauma. The new alter may change genders or names.

Split(ting): The formation of a new alter.

Switching / Fronting

Switch: The act of the alter who is in control of the body changing and switching to another. They can look slow, fast, immedient, very dissociated or many other things. They can also be intentional or unintentional. 

Front(ing): The alter who is in control of the body.

Co-Fronting: When multiple altars are in front at once. This can differ from system to system. 

Triggered Switch: These switches are not desired by any of the alters involved and occur when a stimulus has been registered that forces out an alter who can better handle it. 

Co-Conscious: When one alter is close enough to the front to know what’s going on in the outer world but isn’t in front. This is often called “Co-Con”.

Think of being able to tell what’s going on outside like a house. Someone is talking in a room and the closer you get to them (front), the more you can hear.

Roles

Host: The alter who is in front the most and handles day-to-day activities. This is seen as the main alter. These are not necessarily the “original” alter. However, it’s very common for the host to be the alter that has been around for the longest. Co-Hosts can also exist.

Protector: The alter who’s job is to protect the system from more harm whether it be physical, mental or emotional. There are many possible types of protectors like personal, primary, sexual, physical, spiritual, emotional and more. Protectors can slightly manipulate who is in front. 

Gatekeeper: The alter who is essentially like the administrator for the system. They can choose who fronts and manages/has access to all the memories in the system. They help the system stay organized and make sure nobody is remembering trauma they can't handle. 

Caretaker: They take care of and comfort the system or body. 

Fragment: An alter that is not fully differentiated or developed. They may exist to carry out a single function, to hold a single memory or to represent a single idea. It’s possible for fragments to develop into more elaborate alters if the need arises or with further use.

Types

Trauma Holder: An alter who holds trama. 

Non-Human: Sometimes, alters may appear as something other than human.

Introject: An alter who is based on a real person. The amount that they are based on someone can vary.

Fictive: An introject of a fictional character.

Little: A child alter. They stopped developing during the initial trauma or they extant to retain a type of childhood that the system was unable to experience. 

Others

Dissociative Amnesia: Not necessarily a DID thing and is really only a symptom. This is caused by someone unconsciously repressing traumatic or stressful memories as a coping mechanism. 

Singlet: Someone who doesn't have DID.

ANPs: Apparently Normal Parts have little knowledge of trauma. They are the rational, present-oriented and grounded parts of the system that handle daily life. 

EPs: Emotional Parts have awareness of trauma. They are the parts that represent dissociation and are often drawn to the front by reminders of trauma and may not experience much of everyday life.

Notes

Physical reflexes can differ between alters.

The debated average number of alters in a system is around 10-20 but you only need at least 2 alters to have DID.

Switching can also cause headaches and migraines. 

DID is the most extreme form of PTSD.

PTSD > CPTSD > DID

Medication cannot help DID it’s self. It can only manage symptoms such as anxiety or depression. 

Some alters may be neither apparently normal nor emotional parts but a combination of both.

Stress alone or in combination with genetics is not enough to cause PTSD. 

Misconceptions

What it is & How it’s formed

Someone can develop this but not have any symptoms until they are older. That is likely the case with Mikoto. 

Not all alters have trauma. 

DID isn’t always formed from abuse but it’s the most common way it’s formed. It’s not linked to a certain type of abuse. 

It’s not a personality disorder. It’s a trauma disorder. 

What are people with DID like?

People with DID can do anything someone without it can. 

Not all systems or alters are dangerous. 

Alter Relationships

Alters can be in any type of relationship. 

It's not always fun to have multiple people in your head. It's like a roommate you can't escape. 

All alters are responsible for each other’s actions. 

Alters can get into arguments and have their own opinions of other alters.

Kayano System

Roles

Mikoto: Host

John: Protector (ex-fragment)

Midokoto: Gatekeeper

Notes

They’re communication is horrible, if not non existent.

[cherinepup]

inbox: 5 (reqs closed!! will reopen as I finish them!)

hello! this is a blog for help with headmate creation, by a system, for systems.

why?

sometimes you have a fragment or other that needs help with fully forming, or you only have a very vague idea for a headmate you want help creating!

who r u?

hiii heyyy its Vivi and the Creeps, a monocon sys of ~30 members. we have too many ideas we barely get to commit to so Im hoping this can help others as well. our mogai blog is kiruliom

other stuff

while this blog relies on requests there will occasionally be freestyle ideas, these are free to use by anyone for any sort of inspiration. please be aware that 'headmate theft' is often done involuntarily, be kind to eachother etc. etc.

headmates may not develop exactly as we describe, thats okay, and thats normal! we will not be upset and neither should you!!

this blog is antirq and 'trans//systems'. we are anti syscourse and endo safe

req info under cut! pls read rules as well!

so, how to request?

well, however you want! it can be as vague as you want (x introject), or as specific as you want (lesboy catenby headmate with x, y, and z, no a or b but c is ok. angel theme). you can even make a little sheet for it like this

names: love themed

pronouns: he/kiss/pup

species: cherub puppy anthro

etc: etc.

literally go crazy! Ill try to stick to the guides given. do make sure to include stuff you dont want (ex. NO desirdae/aldernic/etc.)

rules:

there are a few non-gender/species/attraction liom terms I wont do because I feel I cant understand them fully and am therefore not fit for it, but again, theyre few. ones Im for sure okay with are: alterhuman terms, desirdae, aldernic, dissomei, to be added.

we only do one headmate at a time! no subsystems, sentispaces, etc. (because we dont have them and dont know enough abt them). you can send several asks but please, one request per ask if possible.

we're still a very new blog, and were mostly going into this blind, advice and stuff is welcome!

heres the template we'll use! (you can also request by partially filling this and leaving the ones you cant figure out blank. if you dont want something remove it or specify it)

names:

pronouns:

gender:

orientation:

species/alterhumanity:

system roles:

identities:

other: (usually personality traits go here)

faceclaim:

[systemtermz]

Dress up fragment/Costumed Fragment/Cosplay fragment

Look, I had several name ideas. The second two are obvious but the first is actually dress up games.

Flag is meant to be redesigned if desired

Fragments that aren’t formed enough to hold onto identities, but will periodically try on introjected identities before losing them.

(This Blog was created to repost terms for the convenience and comfort of others. If you remake a reclaimed flag please tag me.)

[cozza-frenzy]

Okay so it's been a bit since I made a "State Of The System" post, but... to be honest we're a mess right now. We're not doing great. Trigger warnings are in the tags. For a start, both of our persecutors, Jeremy and Getter, are dormant. According to Dr. Brewer - who was the last alter to have contact with them - this was a conscious decision they both made. Ongoing real life situations that I can't talk about in detail mean that their continued pressure on the system could have caused a collapse, similar to the Mass Fusion Disaster, so they went dormant to make sure there is still a system to come back to someday. Hopefully when we see them again, we'll be better equipped to deal with their problems, and they'll be more able to accept help. Besides that, apparently we're going through another discovery phase, which means we've had a series of alters show up that were extremely limited in their purpose and didn't exist for very long. These included Seamus, Chainey, Harley, Cooper, and several unknown/unnamed fragments - all of them either fused outright with someone else, or disintegrated into their component parts and ceased to exist. I've been hesitating to update our headcount for a while, but Gadget and Anarchy have returned from dormancy, and the only new ones so far who've stayed are Susan Sto Helit and Tim Stoker. Susan is an introject from Discworld, and she seems to have split to help deal with our ongoing poor mental health. During a particularly low point, things spiraled out of control, and I (Terry) suffered a spontaneous "fatal" injury in our inner world - a hole through the center of my chest, a metaphor for losing my will to live. It would have put me into dormancy or broken me apart if the others hadn't intervened, and pooled their efforts to restore hope and heal the damaged part of me. Susan appeared the next day, and appears to be handling our fears of uncertainty and instability, as well as taking care of our suicidal ideation. She's not particularly social and doesn't seem interested in fronting, so she's an assumed Fragment. Tim is an introject from The Magnus Archives, and is the first "full" alter that's shown up for quite a while. Apparently he was active during our time in college (this was before we knew we had DID/OSDD, so he didn't gain an identity until now) and went dormant after we were physically assaulted in a nightclub for being queer. Like his source, he's bitter and jaded and can't always hide that with his signature witty banter - but he seems determined to try and heal, and is embracing the fact he has a community in our system he can turn to for support. Everyone really likes him; he's been one of the few good things to come out of this mess. Things could be worse, but they could be a lot better. I'm front-fatigued, I badly need another extended break, and we've been suffering from migraines - but I'm stuck here with yet another new alter with no ID, who I don't even know will be here in the morning. Jeremy and Getter did something surprisingly noble to try and save us - but there's a lot of things both in real life and in the system that we just can't stop from happening. I really hope that their voluntary dormancy doesn't turn out to be for nothing. We have to keep going - there's too many reasons for us not to give up. But fuck me if it isn't hard right now.

[damnfandomproblems]

as someone with DID, i will admit that self-diagnosis in online communities based on little research and a desire for community IS an issue. as someone just finding out and learning about this disorder i had, i ended up surrounded by people whose experiences i did not relate to and could not no matter how hard i tried, because i was in circles where people blindly self-diagnosed based on very little. i tried so hard to make myself relate to them that my symptoms worsened and my alters fragmented themselves more. i outright lied about experiencing certain things. it was awful.

HOWEVER. it is disgusting that you people are making unsubstantiated claims about fictional introjects and the disorder as a whole. DID affects an estimated 2% of the population. that's one in 50 people.

you know someone with DID. that is a certainty.

we hear you and you make us ashamed of this disorder that we cannot hide and that we cannot get rid of. even if we have no introjects, or our introjects are only of abusers, or we don't have more than the average amount of alters, or our dissociation is severe and our memory problems worse. we hear you talking about how "everyone online is faking DID" and sure, there are "good ones." but am i one of the good ones to you? i'm not looking to find out.

introjects (fictional or otherwise, but i will admit this issue trends toward fictional ones) are so common as to be noted in any informative text about DID that explains any kind of ins or outs or tries to classify dissociative parts in any way. alters can split at any time once that is recognized as a coping mechanism by the brain, and as often as the brain deems it necessary (which, if you're actively in a hostile home situation like many young people with DID who can't access professional diagnosis are... can be very fucking often.)

you people are vile. just because people who are a little too quick to jump the gun on self-diagnosis tend to have common traits like fictional introjects from recently-popular things doesn't fucking mean that everyone WITH those traits is a faker.

and if someone has falsely self-diagnosed, they will realize it with time and maturity. you shaming them is not helping any of us.

Posting since this is a response to a previous ask.

[aita-systemized]

Aita for encouraging my (in system) partner to not openly identify himself as a fictive to our singlet friend?

Recently we've come out as a system to a friend (I was. Heavily against this but I've been trying to reflect on it a lot. And things have been patched up) this friend is a singlet and I care about them a lot. But i get really anxious about losing them if we act too system like (something I'm trying to work on) therefore i normally just present as if I'm just the host. And I'm not the only one doing this.

I am also a fictive, and in a relationship with two other fictives in the system. I consider myself disconnected from my source. (I was a non-fictive fragment for a while before I started latching onto my source.)

But both of them are a lot more connected to it. Especially B.

I've, discouraged B from directly telling our friend they are a fictive. (Somewhat accidentally. Thoughts are very easily overheard in our system and B and I co-front a lot) and B agreed. He isn't masking or anything. (That would be too far. I think xey has a right to express themself.) Just not explicitly stating that he isn't the host.

Another layer of anxiety is that the character b is a introject is a fairly recent addition to the piece of media he's from. And that character is also one of the friends favorite. And we just arent actually sure how good they are about fictives (they were really accepting when we told them, and they do have other system friends but we've never seen them interact with another system. And I'm a anxious mess)

B is entirely fine with this situation. Xey has stated multiple times that it's their choice and if they wanted they would actively identify themself to this friend. And they understand my reasoning (and A, our other in-sys partner agrees) but. I have a bad history of being really shit about the fact that we are a system (I've actively gotten in several fights with the host in the past.) So I'm worried I'm just being irrational and stopping my partner from fully being themself for like. No reason.

[multiplicity-positivity]

Can alters like...unintentionally faceclaim? I have several alters who cant imagine what they look like at all, they just know they dont vibe with the body. Recently one of them started being able to see themselves but as a character of a show we only recently watched. Whenever they think of themselves they see this character. Theyre pretty sure theyre not a fictive since theyve been around awhile and we only saw this show 3-4 days ago. But a lot of people say faceclaiming is intentional and theres nothing intentional about this, it just happens. Idk if this explains it very well

Hiya! We definitely do think something like this could happen! >w<

It’s worth noting that I (Ralsei!) existed in my system long before Deltarune (my source) came out… but I still totally identify as a fictive! I was more of a fragment before I unconsciously latched on to Ralsei from Deltarune, and it was 100% unintentional. It just sorta happened quite suddenly and involuntarily!

Honestly we’re not really sure what “faceclaim” means… like you claimed the face of someone else? And it has to be intentional or else it’s something different? Sorry, we’re not too knowledgeable about that term specifically, but as a fictive I can confidently say that something really similar happened to me!

Of course, your alter might choose not to identify as a fictive or an introject at all, and that’s totally okay!! They might be fictionkin or fictionhearted or just really identify with that character! We just wanted to say that what I went through when figuring out my identity sounds kinda like what your alter is going through :3 so it surely can happen! And it’s okay for stuff like this to happen! Even if other folks say it can’t… what do they know about you and y’all’s system, really? >w<

💚 Ralsei and 🌷 Corrie (mostly Ralsei though hehe :3)

[daggersandarrows]

alright SO if you've been following this blog for a while you likely know that it's run by a system, but we've never properly Gone Over That or introduced people or anything, not that we need to or have to, but i for one would like to. we need to socialize more. also apologies if this post has actually been made before, it's totally possible a different headmate posted it and i didn't know about it. we don't have the best communication.

anyway, some basics: we do not like the term alters, nor personalities. we are all people sharing the same body, and none of us identify as/with the term fragments. so headmates please and thank you <3. we are a median system--specifically, we all feel like we are complete people, but there is incomplete amnesia between us. what this means in practicality is that, generally, you can assume that we remember conversations we've had with you, regardless of who was fronting, because some of us have decent shared memory, but don't be surprised if we have no idea what you're talking about, because some of us have very slight or no memory of what other headmates do, and communication, again, is difficult for us. collectively, we use they/them pronouns. and lastly questions about us or systems in general are 100% fine and welcome!

ok so. now. the system:

jackal, 24, it/its - hi that's me!!! i'm probably the one that most of you know if you've ever messaged us. or if we know each other irl. i have been here the longest, at the very least i remember things from when the body was two.

percy, he/him - hi. i'm a percy de rolo fictive, i think my sourcing is a blend of the stream canon and the fanfic afk, so my pseudomemories are a bit blurry and weird. i don't think i'm very much like my source and may change my name to better reflect myself here, but nevertheless i am still a fictive. i am the newest as i only formed a few months ago.

vax, 26, he/him - (vax is having trouble fronting right now so jackal is writing this.) a vax'ildan fictive with the source of the og stream, he has been around since the body was 6 or 7 and has had several different identities and names from then until now. if you know us irl there's a good chance you've encountered him without knowing it.

wulf, he/him - (refuses to front, again this is jackal) eadwulf grieve fictive, protector, not very present

fallow, somewhere in the 100s but i can't decide, she/any - hi : ) i am i believe what you'd call a mixed source introject? the technical term doesn't interest me too much. it would be nice to talk to some of you : )

loki, doesn't matter, all please. the only person i'm going to talk to is bubbles.

jinx, she/her - (again this is jackal. i just want to acknowledge that she's here. i would Not like her to front)

october, 6, he/him - (jackal--i don't let my littles on the blog. maybe if they were teenagers.)

luna, 3, she/her - (jackal again--same as october.)

[dandelion-system]

ALTER LIST!

I’m specifying which parts are more developed and which are more fragmented, but I won’t specify roles quite yet (I may have mentioned them in previous posts) also alphabetical because I’m using our simply plural as a reference. (There’s a lot of us okay? I can’t always remember everyone.) also, I will be using littles names here but I won’t be specifying who is a little.

Developed (more than fragmented. Some are still a bit floaty.)

April

Aria

Astra

Bee

Bunny

Cassie (it’s short for Callisto!)

Charlie (mum says we used to call him tato)

Clover

Draco

Ghost (actually a ghost! But she’s less poltergeist haunt a Victorian manor now.) (she used to be) (it’s funny)

Hestia

Izzy (convinced this is our only introject of a real person but it’s so long since I saw her) (she may also be an introject of a plushie we named after aforementioned person) (that’s more likely)

James

Jem (cutie patootie)

Kat

Kitty (you would think she’s an animal introject, but no! She’s actually an EAH fictive.)

Lily Elliot (thinks spooky things are funny. Waved at prop skeletons on a ride. Several times. She kept riding it just so he could wave to the skeletons. May actually be twins)

Marinette

Mouse

Oscar

Pippin

Poppet

Raven (me)

Sasha

Saturn

Sophie

Teddy

Willow

Honourable mentions are Adrien, Akutagawa, Hunter, Chuuya and Dazai. Mostly formed, but don’t really show up often anymore (they’re very independence and system oriented. They’re needed less when we have more support)

More fragmented alters (some still have distinct personalities, but very fuzzy and less self actualised)

Arno

Atsushi

Berry

Doctor (10 and 11 why did we get two of him??)

Amber

Jamie Lee (imma be fr I don’t know who he is. Never met him. White rooms guy.)

Kyu

Light (has a weird enjoyment of homework, the sea and psychology. And taking a chip… and EATING IT!) (sorry dude)

Lina (lovely lady, sorry I keep being rude and ignoring your advice.)

Maddie (she was fuller once. I hope she gets to be again one day)

May (working on herself! Go girl!)

Monochrome

Narrator (he has a nice voice)

Nebbie (chaos)

Neo (she’s really nice she just doesn’t get much time to be out because she’s nonverbal and that’s usually not helpful)

Papyrus (specifically from hand plates.)

Penny

Ranpo (he’s gonna be mad I put him here but come back when you’ve evolved buddy)

Robin (poor girl didn’t get a chance to develop)

Tobey ‘ickleast’ (we go through a phase for a few months and we get this? No fair.)

[the-multiple-prism]

📼 - do you have any non-human alters? if yes, which species are the majority of them?

🌱 - do you have a headspace? if yes, describe it! if no, do you want one?

📼: prefacing this with ALL INFO WAS GIVEN PERMISSION TO BE SHARED. a majority of us are nonhuman or display nonhuman traits and if an introjects source isnt nonhuman oftentimes they will remember being nonhuman anyway or otherwise "translate" nonhuman-ly into our system when they split. we don't have any particular majority its a rainbow of species. it varies from demihumans and humanoid non-humans with vague or generally unknown species, to previously human but no longer and now an eldritch horror (the archives subsys is a great example), mimics (so many of our fragments), anomalous questionably humans (jamie, iceberg, glass, are examples. jamie was turned into a reality bender in her source and presents as such in headspace, iceberg is extremely cold and literally freezing and also techncially undead but otherwise human, and glass is otherwise human too but is literally made of glass), and robots, ai, other digital beings, etc (so many alters). and also literal gods (tiny/delilah)

🌱: yes!! we do! it's permanently snowing in here. we made a map before but we lost it. our fronting room is a black brick building with two humongous metal doors out in the middle of nowhere. theres a path leading directly to 3 separate parts of headspace, the village, the Village (not to be confused with the village) and some other structures that are based on the resident evil 8 lord's houses. there are also a few others. the village is where alters that don't often front stay and present. the Village is where dormant alters stay and also is ruled by an overseer who is currently dormant, it is very Very cold there and nobody is allowed to go there. in there is also an ice castle that also belongs to aforementioned overseer where she tends to alters injured in headspace because we used to have a severe aggression and violence problem in headspace. lords houses are generally empty except for house dimitrescu which is inhabited by our dimitrescu introject dieudonne who no longer fronts as often. there is also the archive's library which is somewhere in that little collection of structures that dyo occasionally visits. but nobody else is allowed to,,

honorable mentions of headspace areas: theres also glitch city which is structured based on the pokemon glitch. and mount silver which is reported to talk to people in headspace??? don't fucking know its not an alter but it does that and we've had Incidents. and also the neverending forest next to the front building.

[idledreams4]

ok, I don't like making callout posts unless someone makes one specifically about me, but my dash tonight is pissing me off. So here's a little something for everybody to read

Hi. My name is Harlenn, we're a multigenic system. Our host is dormant right now, so as the guardian in this system I stepped up to take her place.

Now I'm sure you folks all noticed something in there, I said "multigenic"

Yeah. I did.

Myself, Zoe, and Static are traumagenic. Cygnus is a little complicated but I'll get there.

We have several introjects. Thanks to whatever undiagnosed neurodivergence is happening in here we introject just about any character we get too fixated on.

But we have a few alters, Irene and Cygnus in particular, that were created without a direct trauma. Irene split due to some cognitive dissonance, but there wasn't trauma involved. Cygnus was a fusion of two persecutors who's origins I don't remember anymore: one was named Rose, the other was nameless.

There are several alters who aren't listed in our bio, Irene being one of them, and the reasons why aren't your business.

How these alters came to be shouldn't matter.

We are traumatized, and broken, and every one of us is a fragment of a little girl who had NOBODY she could turn to. I was the only person she had. I never thought Id have to say this to the goddamn system community of all things: but do you have ANY idea how damaging it is to have your only parental figure, your only support, the ONLY person you can trust be in your head? So why the FUCK am I being told our mind's reaction isn't valid?

I have fought for that little girl for nearly a decade and I'll be damned if I have to sit here and get told "sorry you don't belong here"

Fuck. You.

All of you, you have the audacity to tell people how their brain is allowed to handle things.

Come back to me when there is an actual problem and then we can talk.