#we have fictives as well

[cosmic-stars-system]

Cutely uses this later because ohmigosh explaining is kiiinda hard sometimes. Like some people use the explanation like Multiplayer Mario Cart, but no no nooo, those are separate people playing separate characters! /lh Like, no, we all share a body and a life. It's like sharing a game file with a sibling or just a friend, lover, partner, whatever term you wanna use! Sometimes you won't "play it" for a whole and will come back and everythings different! Even potentially "character customization" could be different. For example, if someone just randomly decides to get dressed up in pretty clothing (we present as male most of the time) and you get to "play the game" again and suddenly you look very feminine! Oup we just went on a ramble, our bad- ^^" -Lunar (they/them) and Astrophel (they/it/shine)

Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

[ebonytails]

Happy famife, happy life

[pluralhottakes]

People should NEVER force their headcannons on fictives!! Yes, this includes even within your own system. For example, if you have a fictive of an eldritch being who doesn't understand human romantic concepts, you can headcannon them as aroflux, that's fine, but if you actively TELL the fictive they're aroflux, and try to make them believe it, that's fucked up.

FICTIVES ARE NOT YOUR BLORBOS YOU CAN PROJECT YOUR HEADCANNONS ONTO!!!!

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[kiruyeen]

Dwight's inner struggles with his desperation for love and appreciation that he worked for all his life to get even a smidge of, only to have that one person who does give him love and appreciation being a fucking serial killer

vs Danny never even knowing he wanted- no, NEEDED love in the first place, not being raised or taught to recognize it, and therefore short-circuiting when he does feel it.

[fictive-culture]

Fictive with a problematic source culture is:

Actually not being like him because you are partially sourced from a fanfiction centered around you where you've changed as a person but everyone still hates you </3

(For context I'm a c!Dream fictive mixed with Extradition!Dream. I'm striving to be better but it's hard sometimes.)

We love c!dreams in this household (our brain gave us 4 and an xd) we believe in you and are proud of your growth

[bimboqueer-bah]

{A Spud! Fictive~!}

𓆩♡𓆪 Alter Type: Fictive

𓆩♡𓆪 Source: Regretevator

𓆩♡𓆪 System Role(s): Buffer, Amnesian Protector

𓆩♡𓆪 Name(s): Spud!

𓆩♡𓆪 Species: Ex-Human, Alien Experiment (TransHuman)

𓆩♡𓆪 Gender: Traumagender Boything Alienic Spud!charic Autigender Voidgender Fogthing Amnesiabeing

𓆩♡𓆪 Pronouns: He/Hx/She/Shx/They/Thxy/It/Xe/Spud/Fog/No Pronouns

𓆩♡𓆪 Sexuality: Caedsexual Grayomniromantic

𓆩♡𓆪 Age: 23 (Internally 100+)

𓆩♡𓆪 CisIDs: CisTrauma, CisTBI, CisExperiment, CisTortured, CisKidnapped, CisAmnesia, CisAnxious, CisLegless, CisPTSD, CisAutistic, CisSensoryIssues, CisAngerIssues, CisNEPD (Never Ending Personality Disorder), CisExplosive, CisPermaHeadache/CisChronicHeadache, CisStutter, CisEcholalia, CisDermatillomania, XisNonhuman, CisSpeciesDysphoria

𓆩♡𓆪 TransIDs: TransHuman, TransNullTBI, TransOCD, TransDangerous, TransHarmful, TransVBMD (Violence Based Mind Disorder), TransCarnivorous, TransMaDD, TransEmotionless, TransNullAmnesia, TransMAP4AAMRelationship, TransHealthyRelationship, TransPOCD, TransAge, TransAncient, XenoAge (NonhumanAge), TereAge

𓆩♡𓆪 Paras: Aptophile, Autotraumaphile (Trauma-induced), Ephebophile, Autoteratophile (Trauma-induced), Odaxelagnia, Agalmatophile, MAP

𓆩♡𓆪 Personality: Ambivert. Spud! Is an amnesiac who was previously human before being abducted and experimented on by aliens. Due to this, he has brain damage and many issues involving memory, communication, and physical ability. He is often incapable of remembering anything before the abduction, and remembering the abduction itself is often painful for him. Despite his current state of mind, he is still tries his best to be friendly and social when he has to, and does enjoy spending time with people he feels he can trust.

𓆩♡𓆪 Likes: Marshmallows, Smores, Camping, Campfires, Relaxing, The Woods, Campfire Stories, Relaxing music

𓆩♡𓆪 Dislikes: Aliens (Trauma-related), Bright Lights, Chocolate, Loud Noises/Music, Being reminded that he isn’t human, 

𓆩♡𓆪 Aesthetic(s): Campcore

𓆩♡𓆪 Typing Quirk(s): Says ‘spud’ at random times, writes emoji’s as ‘o)o’, doesn’t fix typos

𓆩♡𓆪 Face Claim:

[petrichorvoices]

i used to have a huge complex or whatever about not acting like my source, and you can still see the posts about it on here if you search my tag {which i only tagged with my name because i was embarrassed and i didn't want anyone to think they were from other headmates, i didn't want to do that to them} but these days, like...

i just don't care? i just don't care. no shit i'm different from canon Cecil. the last canon events i remember were in 2017; it's 2024 now. he's experienced things that i haven't and i've experienced things that he hasn't. not to mention that i'm also impacted by, you know, the whole entire other brain of this body i'm controlling now, and influenced by the people here, and the history of this body

i can see why it was such an issue to my past self but in hindsight it feels a little silly, i guess. i was so scared of people telling me that i was doing Being Who I Am wrong

[possibly-in-wonderland]

Huh, two rabbits in a system?

Now, how in the world did I form?

And more importantly why?

[yoylepasta]

WOAH!! WEVE NEVER POSTED ANY ART HERE IT SEEMS!! BUT HERE THIS IS ME !! YEAH!! THIS WAS IN FACT DRAWN ON IMPULSE AND THE UH I MIGHTVE FORGOTTEN SOME DETAILS BUT THATS A-OKAY!!

[nexus-nebulae]

trying to sort our simplyplural but there's enough of us that we need to use smthn like a spreadsheet to do that. but also. how tf do we sort source categories when we have so many multifictives

[untanglingknotsinarope]

system big 3: a CDD meme take on astrology big 3 lmao

[the-crystal-femmes]

..I need to get a g1 Clawdeen doll I don't have the money for it 😭😭😭

[thr4shit]

ME, SEEING SOMEONE POSTING SOMETHING THAT TALKS ABOUT A SHIP AND HE'S BEING SOGGY ABOUT IT:

>:3

[viralbiologist]

Miserable..

We walked to the library to study a while longer and because we need to stay indoors and not make our throat hurt worse. The cold dries it out a bit more and we’re in pain

Oh and our septum is made of metal, so when it’s cold out it makes our nose runny ꃋᴖꃋ I don’t like today very much

[hetaliakinfessions]

Not sure if there are any other 2p! fictives out there anymore but man. Sucks not knowing anyone to talk to about things and especially never having found other 2p!s in the wild.

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[fictive-culture]

Was gonna make this a fictive culture is post to queue but then decided I wanted to make a long thing tw: anti endo mention

Sometimes fictive culture or even just Introject culture is something negative happening related to the source and headmates not showing up till after the bad feeling subside by time

By this I mean that and I don't talk about this often but when we first realized we were a system we were eventually presented with telling our friends, sure there is always the option of not telling they aren't owed that information but for better or worse we hate being friends with people that don't know? We hate hiding ourselves and not being able to be friends with people as individuals rather than a collective. We were horrified and while it went well for the most part, the system I already knew was thankfully supportive of endos and another friend even shot back with a same! There was one friend that wasn't supportive a singlet that was firmly anti endo and one of my best friends at the time. We met on a kin server both being tf2 kin though after realizing we were a system those tf2 kins were for sure not kins. We were both huge fans and would create things for each other fanart, writing. It hurt a lot losing them and even if we didn't have solid proof we knew we had tf2 headmates could feel them even if we couldn't interact with them. It's been nearly two years since then, and they fronted for the first time since learning we were a system in September of last year just a few months ago and we were ecstatic. Just felt like a sign we were healing and we were getting truly comfortable in our shared reality and it felt so nice knowing they weren't trapped any longer we have names and faces to people we couldn't reach for so long and it makes us genuinely so happy to see them on our sp and see their chat messages we can also look at tf2 content without being sad anymore? We can enjoy something we lost for a really long time and I don't know I just wanted to share that with y'all? Things hurt but it lessens over time, if you lost a joy you may be able to enjoy it again one day, if you are worried about a headmate they may return to you one day, if you are that headmate from a source the body has bad memories of know that you will still be missed that you are still wanted and your sysmates will smile and cry and hug you if you returned from disappearing. Sometimes we still miss them, especially one of our tf2 crewmates but we are all much happier knowing they aren't in our life and we aren't trying to fit into their box of what is and isn't okay. Even if we did end up being mostly traumagenic traumaendo the endo part is still so important to us and we and all of you deserve people that accept and love those parts of you too.