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~Absorber: A system member who "soaks up" either the optimism or pessimism of other system members. They mirror that optimism or pessimism. Some Absorbers may choose to "soak up" both, though. If they choose to "soak up" or absorb the optimism, they may be seen stuck to the hip of the system Optimist (if there is one). In this case, they'd be trying to help the Optimist's (or Pollyanna's) goals to liven the system up to better, happier places. If they choose to "soak up" or absord pessimism, they may be stuck to the hip of the system's Worrier or Cynic (if there are any). They'd be trying to help with their goals to point out bad things that could happen and maybe even help disrupt system life.

~Achrosyn: People in system who are color blind, either in the mindscape when others can see colors normally, or physically color blind when taking over the body, or both!

~Aesthetive: An introject of an aesthetic personified (eg cottagecore, clowncore, vaporwave, etc)

~Age Advancing: A term for system members that progress in age over time, either following outspace or inspace time. (Age Advancer is noun form.)

~Age Constant: A term for system members that stay the same age no matter what.

~Age Slider: A system member or person who changes age or identifies with different ages at different times. How much control they have over the process, the age ranges involved, and all other aspects of age-sliding vary widely between and even within systems.

~_Ageswinging: Used to describe when a system member's age rapidly swings from one or multiple ages to another.

~Age Vague: A system member who doesn't have a particular age, or their age is more based on the way they act or look, and not a specific number. This is different from an age-slider as the age does not change.

~Age Varying: A blanket term for age sliders/regressors/progressors. (Age Variant is noun form.)

~Aliumlenguian: A system member who speaks a different language than the majority of the system, or a language that the body doesn't know. From the Latin "Alium" for "different"

~Alter: Someone who shares a brain/body with someone else; a member of a plural system, usually used by DID/OSDD-1 systems but is not exclusive.

~Altive: Can also be used as alt-fictive, alt-factive, alt-fucktive/faitive or alt-(any -tive term). A term for (meaningfully, whatever "meaningfully" means for the person in question) "AU"/alternate universe introjects.

~Altverbal: A term used to describe people who are not traditionally full-verbal. This includes non-verbal, semi-verbal, limited-verbal, verbal-flux, and people who are fully verbal but speak in a different way, such as: reversed, in code, in a fictional language, etc.

~Amalgamate: System members who embody 3 or more individuals in some way, or system members who are "many of a whole".

~Amitive: An introtive/introject of a member of another system, usually a system that is close to you but not always.

~Amnesian: A system member who suffers from amnesia, anterograde or retrograde.

~Amnesian Protector: A system member who fronts in order to facilitate forgetting bad memories. They may or may not be aware of this role.

~Amorform: A system member formed from a system member's yearning. Similar to parative/dreamtive but specifies romantic origins. Note: this term is not to be used for NSFW contexts.

~Anima-Mate: A system member that co-fronts or fronts to make the system acknowledge and work through negative emotions instead of repressing or ignoring them. Depending on the intentions of the system member in question, they could be considered a protector or a persecutor, or both simultaneously. In noun form, the system member is an Anima-mate. A system member can also be described as an animotic system member. From animi motus, Latin for "emotion" and anima/animus, Latin for "soul, life, mind, heart, feeling".

~Antagonist: A system member who deliberately starts arguments. Can be to harm the system's reputation, protect other members of the system or to push away unwanted outsiders.

~Anxieform: A system member who was formed from representations and/or scenarios of another system member's fears

~Apparently Normal Part: For DID/OSDD-1 systems. This is the identity who manages every day life and does not normally hold trauma memories. There may be more than one ANP managing daily life at any one time, each with different roles. An ANP may be emotionally unconnected to, or amnesiac for, past traumatic events. There is controversy surrounding this term, so it should be used with care and not applied to anyone else without their permission.

~Approxive: A blanket term for a system member who is partially an introject; someone who is similar or based to another individual or being external to the system, but still identifies partially as someone/something else. Eg: A fogtive or a fuzztive.

~Araisative: A system member that was made by an Araisagenic system, most often grabbed from timelines or thought-formed. These system members are brought to the system very quickly (much faster than most Parogenic methods) and may suffer amnesia or even have trouble acting like themselves due to lack of life memories because of it.

~Arantive: Introjects/fucktives who, while not factives, and not starting out as factives, have been influenced in their formation and the formation of their canons by the brain's knowledge of the canons of either other doubles in the system or fictive doubles outside of the system. Essentially the "convergent evolution" version of "fogtive", rather than starting as a factive and diverging significantly in their canon these people have a "root" that is non-factive but develop factive like characteristics through their influence from other doubles.

~Architect: A headmate that controls or manipulates the headspace/innerworld.

~Archivist: A system member that keeps records of the body or of the system as a whole. This can be anything from daily activities to newly found memories, etc.

~Artist: A system member who has the most artistic talent. They can also be the only who expresses their artistic talents as opposed to the one with the most talent. These talents can obviously include drawing, painting, and things like that; but, it can also include writing and just anything creative!

~Arttive: A type of fictive that is a character from a piece of art.

~Autoflux: Members who fluctuate from having their own thoughts, emotions, and identity to none at all, or somewhere in between. This is more common amongst autopilots, fragments, and servitors, but is not exclusive to them. They may go between carrying out simple tasks without thought to having complex emotions and beliefs, for example.

~Autopilot: A system member who inhabits the body and fronts when no one else is. Depending on the system, and the autopilot themselves, autopilots range from not having an identity or personhood, nor feelings or emotions, to actually having such. They may have different reasons for fronting, such as being stressed, dissociated, etc.

~Autotemporal: Describing a flow of time that is individual to a single person, or a headspace with a flow of time that is different for each system member.

~Avenger: A type of protector system member that is angrier in nature than other protectors, normally but not always as a result of trauma. These protectors tend to hold the anger of the system and/or other system members, and lash out at those outside the system, with intent to protect the system. These protectors can also be referred to as anger holders.

~Avisum: When system members can’t see headspace for any number of reasons and either can’t interact with it at all or have difficulty doing so.

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~Daemon: A personified version of the second half of someone's mental dialogue, usually mentally represented in an animal form. Usually has a name, gender and personality; usually the daemon's personality is at least somewhat different from that of the person. Comes from the Greek word daimon, a minor spirit (either good or evil)

~Dejugan: A system member that holds or experiences intense dissociation. They may numb the body or cause the body to dissociate upon fronting.

~Demiblur: A blur in which one of the components has both the blurred consciousness and their own consciousness. Often formed to provide support and a break from reality for one of the components, to let the other component(s) act for them for a bit.

~Deminūmin: A system member whose nature is formed from a divine power, will, or mystical influence/phenomenon.

~Diachorian: A system member that is emotionally disconnected or amnesic to past traumatic experience that has happened to the system.

~Dissociation Manager: A system member who predicts and manages dissociation, sometimes swapping the dissociation from one system member to another.

~Distive: A system member that started out as introject but became disconnected with that identity due to trauma. They can choose to remain disconnected or attempt to rebuild the connection. Can be added onto other introject types e.g disfictive or disfactive.

~Doorkeeper: A system member who chooses which members the system gains, and which they don't. May or may not also manage who the system introjects, and/or help guide or explain things to new members. Not specific to gateway systems or non-gateway systems.

~Double: A system member that either a.) shares an identity with another system member (eg: two fictives of the same character, regardless of differences between them), or b.) is based mostly/completely off of an existing system member (eg: snapshots, etc).

~Drama Holder: Another term for "emotional protector", this is a type of protector who specializes in holding negative emotions and keeping them away from others; usually specifically specializes in internet drama/discourse. Sometimes may seek out such things or stir up trouble for fun.

~Dreaject: An insourced introject that is caused/brought forward by sleeping dreams, commonly in Dreagenic systems.

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~Gatekeeper: A gatekeeper is a system member who controls switching, access to certain areas inside the headspace, or access to certain system members or memories. In Gateway systems, this can also refer to a system member whose job it is to watch over new system members trying to enter the system and either welcome them or deny them access.

~Gaytive: A gay or a general LGBTQ/MOGAI version of an introject.

~Groundskeeper: A member responsible for maintaining, repairing and making alterations to the headspace when needed.

~Group: A group of system members within a system, sidesystem, or subsystem, that stick together and spend time around each other almost exclusively. They may often front together, and they might live together or near each other in headspace.

~Guardian: A system member who protects the system from internal threats like violent persecutors and fighting within the system.

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~Jack of All Trades: A system member who performs a wide range of roles or has an ever fluctuating role.

~Janusian: A system member who can function as both a protector and/or a persecutor depending on the situation.

~Janusmate: System members who embody duality in some way, or system members who are "two halves of a whole".

~Jester: A system member whose main purpose is to try to make others happy, often through humor and/or wit.

~Jokestar: A system member who's a jokester and looovveess being the centre of attention! Depending on their personality, they may be very helpful to a system's Optimist. However, they can also tend to make jokes in a wrong situation. Some may even make a lot of dark jokes when they think it fits a situation, even if it may not always be the best time to joke or best thing to joke about. Their contribution really depends on their other personality traits and how much they yearn to be the centre of attention.

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~Main: Different from host, in they don't actually have to front that much. The main people or person that everyone basically draws energy from, or they feel more like leaders, or teachers, or in some cases like the system charges that you take care of. Usually someone that nearly everyone in system thinks of as a defacto leader, or who simply feels like someone that is a Main Person. There can be multiple mains.

~Malicitor: A system member who is actively malicious, rarely with the intention to genuinely help the system. They may target those within and outside their system and can administer their abuse in a variety of ways. They absolutely refuse to change and it's unlikely that their stance on this decision can be swayed. The term was coined as an alternative to malicious persecutor and hopefully lift some of the poor reputation off persecutors as a whole.

~Mapper: A system member that maps out and charts the headspace, whether that be physically or internally.

~Masked-Verbal: A term used to describe people who are non-verbal, semi-verbal, limited-verbal, or even verbal-flux, but try to force themselves to be fully verbal in order to "pass". It can be a result of abuse, or bullying, or anything.

~Medic: Someone within the system who deals with Physical medical issues within the system, like injuries and the likes.

~Medical Caretaker: A system member that deals with and takes care of medical procedures, schedules, and/or memories for a chronically ill or disabled system.

~Memorempiric: When another system member is mindful or aware of the memories, experiences, etc of another system member or members. They don’t share the memories or experiences, they just know about them and are likely more adept at helping said member(s) with traumatic or otherwise stressful memories, experiences, etc.

~Merging: The fusion of two or more system members, whether permanent or temporary. This term can be a sensitive topic for many systems, and helpful for other systems, so this topic should be brought up with care.

~Messenger: A system member who who has the ability to communicate across layers, or less specifically, somehow helps other system members communicate with each other.

~Middle: A system member who is a teenager, between Little and adult.

~Mimic: A system member whose job it is to mimic another member of the system, most commonly the host.

~Morceaux D’âme: A spiritual system member term for systems that have some soul splitting going on; wherein some or many or all system members are pieces of one person's soul. They are still, usually, individuals though. While they may share some or many similarities to the soul they "split" from, they are their own beings and should be treated as such.

~Mortemate: A sysmate who is deceased, and may take the form of a ghost or spirit. Unlike “spiritive” and other similar terms, mortemates are not inherently religious or metaphysical; rather, they are simply sysmates who have already passed. Often trauma holders, they may hold feelings of an environment so bad they felt as if the body was dying, or represent an escape; in some cases, they may hold memories of their own death.

~Mostive: A system member who is an introject of a character that another member of the system created, especially for a tabletop roleplaying game or similar. The defining trait is that the character was created from scratch or close to it, rather than altered from an already existing character. From the Latin "mos" meaning "customize".

~Move-in: A system member who has system travelled from their "native" system to another system, and has decided to stay somewhat permanently in that other system. this is not introjection, but more like walk-ins, except they specifically came from a different system.

~Multifictive: A fictive who has more than two/three fictional identities.

~Muse: An introject based on or heavily influenced by a song, genre or specific artists style.

~Myctive: An introject from mythology or religion. May or may not include pop-culture pagan figures as well.

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~Pain Holder: A specific type of protector system member. Pain holders take front to deal with and protect other members of the system from pain. This can be physical pain, emotional pain, chronic pain, or etc.

~Parative: A para (any character in a paracosm of a neuronarrator/person with maladaptive daydreaming) that became a system member.

~Parcelle D’âme: A spiritual system member term for those who could use Morceaux D’âme but prefer this one. It's also for those whose system member all (or some or many) have different souls than each other.

~Parethnic: The state in which the system member is ethnically different from the body the system member inhabits. Coined to acknowledge that the system member still has white privilege (if applicable) and should not invade the spaces of BIPOC the body does not belong to, while also acknowledging the system member's internal identity and the potential importance of said identity.

~Paromate: A system member created through the Parogenic process whether intentionally or not. Can be used as a replacement for tulpa.

~Parroting: When a system member consciously and purposefully controls another system member's actions. Parroting generally refers to controlling their speech while puppeting generally refers to controlling their movement, but the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. It is often seen as a useful for helping young tulpas develop and as a critical tool in the making of servitors.

~Partner System: A system that your system is involved with, where your system members have intertwined dynamics and share friendships and partnerships.

~Passive Influence: Refers to influence from a system member that is not currently using the body. Can be in the form of disowned thoughts, memories, emotions, urges, actions, skills, preferences, etc.

~Pathempiric: A lack of internal communication and/or memories between members, subsystems, layers, sidesystems, etc. outside of passive influences.

~Peacemaker: A system member whose purpose is to find compromises for internal disputes between system members. They take pride in settling arguments for the better in which everyone is happy with the outcome.

~Peri-: A prefix meaning "around" or "at the edge". Used to describe something happening or being at the front/an outward consciousness level.

~Perinaut: An alternative to 'co-host' or 'secondary host'. A system member who is not primarily responsible, but holds a close secondary responsibility for fronting and external matters/daily life. A system may have one, multiple or no system members in this role.

~Perirelatian: A system member who deals with relationships, concerning ones outside the system and inside it. Can deal with any kind of relationship, and is not inherently exclusive to romance.

~Persecutor: System members who purposefully harm the body, system, host, core, or other system members, sabotage the system's goals or healing, or work to assist the system's abuser(s). This is normally, but not always, done in a misguided attempt to protect the system.

~Petmate: A system member that is either an animal or a pet of a system member.

~Phobia Protector: A member who fronts to deal with things that other members are afraid of, for example cleaning up bugs or riding out a storm.

~Pluran: A demonym for an individual person in a plural system. (Alternative to system member/alter/etc)

~Plushtive: A system member that is based on or formed as a stuffed animal.

~Polyage: A system member who experiences two or more ages at the same time. This is not mutually exclusive to other age related terms such as age slider.

~Positive Front Trigger: The people, places, things, ideas, and scenarios that may cause a system member to front due to positive associations.

~Possession: Shared control of the body. The previous fronter remains connected to the body's senses, but the new one takes a control of a part or of the whole body.

~Post-: A prefix for introjects who started out as an fictive/factive but, over time, gained a disconnect from their fictional/factional self or identity.

~Pre-: A prefix denoting that a system member was not originally an introject, but feels like they are becoming one, or that an introjected identity is relevant and meaningful to them.

~Prepian: A system member that is the most popular in the system. Often a trendsetter.

~Previme: A parame (a character that is daydreamed as in a paracosm of a neuronarrator/person with maladaptive daydreaming) that became a system member.

~Projector: A system member who projects their thoughts, feelings, trauma, etc. onto other system members.

~Prolesian: A natalgenic system member who is the child of one or more other system members. May also be the child of a system member and their partner(s) who is not a member of the system.

~Protector: Protectors are system members who protect the body, system, host, core, or other specific system members or groups of system members. Physical protectors might take or try to prevent physical abuse or become aggressive in an attempt to defend against physical abuse. Verbal protectors might take verbal abuse or lash back verbally in order to counter verbal abuse. Emotional protectors might take emotional abuse or comfort other system members to soften the effects of emotional abuse.

~Pseudo-original: A system member who identifies strongly, but not to 100%, with the person the system was before becoming plural, or with the singletsona, or the corresponding memories. May or may not look like the body inside.

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~Sanavisum: When system members use sound or other types of echolocation to view and interact with their headspace. This is due to them not being able to see or visualise it for any number of reasons.

~Scouter: A system member who looks around the headspace for system members who are wandering around or may be lost, and undiscovered headspace locations.

~Scrap: A non-sentient fragment who is more so the idea of a system member to come. They often integrate with other scraps to form a sentient system member.

~Selective Front Yeety: When the system yeets everyone but a specific (or several specific) system members away from front if they try to front.

~Semi-Verbal: A term used to describe people who are between full-verbal and non-verbal. It comes in a wide range of differences, for example: someone who talks in both emojis and words, someone who omits words from sentences, or someone who repeats words a lot while talking.

~Servitor: Thoughtforms that are usually created to carry out specific tasks or jobs. Servitors are not sentient/fully separate system members. Similar to magical familiars. Sometimes referred to as a type of mental construct.

~Side Host: The host of a sidesystem. Just like centre systems, there can be multiple side hosts in charge of one sidesystem.

~Singletsona: A term used to refer to a persona that is of a singlet, normally acting as a collective identity of a system. There are multiple reasons why systems may take on a singletsona, most commonly being for safety reasons in spaces that are not explicitly plural-friendly.

~Sharding: A term similar to/included within splitting, but used when a system member "spawns" other system members without losing parts of themselves.

~Shattering: The process by which a system member is forcefully split apart into fragments. Is usually caused by extreme stress or trauma, but can also be done in self defense from another member. May be a sensitive topic for systems and should be handled with care.

~Shell: A type of alter that normally only exists in OSDD-1A, is normally a host and is meant to hide the existence of other alters from the outside world. This is the alter through which all other alters act, fronting and temporarily blending with the shell. The non-shell alters are not as distinct as in DID, though amnesia may be exist between them.

~Skeleton Crew: A group of people who temporarily take over front life when the rest of the system is either dormant or otherwise disconnected from the body.

~Snapshot: A member of a system who is a double of an earlier/younger version of another system member.

~Somnoian: Term used for system mates who are tired all the time, or split to make sure the body gets rest.

~Somvisum: When system members view headspace as if it’s playing out through daydreams. Members must also look inside headspace, otherwise nothing happens there.

~Soulbond: A system member who has the identity of a fictional character (fictive), from the work of someone either inside or outside the system that has been adopted into one’s own headspace.

~Soulbonder: A person who is connected to one or more soulbonds.

~Sourcemate: A term used to describe system members who have the same source. Does not have to be within the same system.

~Spillover: Emotional bleedthrough from another system member, often occurs with particularly strong emotions.

~Spiritive: An introject from a religious or spiritual source. This is not exclusive to any one belief, religion, or practice.

~Splitting: The process by which a system member or singlet splits into two or more.

~Sponge: A system member or subsystem that takes on identities or pieces of identities from those around them. Their identity and presentation is constantly shifting, sometimes around a common theme and sometimes not. They may fully morph into several different introjects day by day, or simply take on introjected traits.

~Stilltive: A system member that, for whatever reason, is unable to move or interact in the innerworld, but is still considered a member of the system.

~Switching: The act of one system member taking the place of another in controlling their body; changing who is in front.

~Swordsperson: A system member that is very protecting of their friends, partners, and/or family. They focus on protecting those they care about outside of the system rather than those within. Depending on their overall personality, they may seem or come off as "over-protecting" to others but that's just primarily how they show that they care. They can be a regular protector as well, but don’t have to be.

~Syllogist: A system member who focuses on logic and statistics when it comes to just about anything. They especially use it to determine how system wise or system member decisions might turn out. They can also tend to use it to justify their own feelings about certain things or to try to shut down their emotions if they view them as "wrong" or "illogical". This can either be a system member that already feels a lot of emotions or very litte or in between.

~Symptom Holder: A system member who holds symptoms of the body’s neurodivergence, mental illness, etc. A symptom holder may hold certain/specific symptoms, multiple symptoms, or all symptoms.

~Synaisthian: A system member that generally represents or holds a specific emotion and the system’s association with it (e.g. memories, sensory details or experiences).

~System Freeze: A time where the system goes into partial dormancy in some way, usually with one main person in front for the entire time, and it feels almost similar to being nonplural for the time during the freeze due to lack of switching, activity, and headspace chatter. Can last for days, to months, to even years. Eventually will "thaw" back out into normal system activity levels.

~System Manager: A system member that helps keep the system organised. May or may not be a caretaker, gatekeeper, and/or an internal self helper. These system members may keep track of system members, the headspace, memories, and important aspects of daily life such as appointments, daily routines, etc.

~System Stagnant: When the system starts to get quieter, and it's harder for people to take front or talk to people outside of system (some even inside system). Kind of like the entire system is dissociating, and only a handful of people can really front, making them frequent fronters.

~System Travel: The travel of system members between systems. This topic can be very sensitive so it should be brought up with care, and partaking in system travel should only be done when all involved parties trust each other well and are consenting.

~Systive: An introject of a system as a whole, or a system’s singletsona.

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~Venatian: A system member who created a character who then became a mostive. May feel some responsibility towards the mostive in question, or may not.

~Verbal-Flux: A term used to describe people who fluctuate between full-verbal, semi-verbal, limited-verbal, and non-verbal. They can have any verbal state at any given time. The shortened form VF can be used in conjunction with others, i.e. "VF-NV" to denote that the person is verbal-flux and currently non-verbal.

~Vicislenguian: A system member who is not consistent in which language they speak; this is distinct from Bilingualism in that the system member frequently loses the ability to speak a language they are able to speak at other times. From the Latin "vicissitudinem" for "alternations".

~Validator: A system member who reminds the system of their existence, or reminds system members that their sexuality, origin, role, etc. is valid.

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~You&: A way to say "you" while acknowledging the other person is a system. The & can also be combined with other pronouns, such as I&, Me&, etc.

Headmate Terminology

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~Backmate: A system member that came back from dormancy/stasis.

~Beauheur: A system member whose function is to store happiness and share it among other system members.

~Blur: A temporary fusion between two or more system members. The blur is usually their own person and all of the system members in the blur have a single consciousness for the duration of the blur.

~Blurrflux: A fuzztive/fogtive that switches between identities. These switches can be reffered to as Shifts, or Swaps.

~Builder: A system member who creates other system members. This can be intentionally or not. This may be a designated role or could just be one that sort of "fell into their lap" so to speak. They may also have roles connecting to inviting soulbounds or other, similar system members into the system but don't have to. Some may have a space in the innerworld where they create these other system members that can be referred to as the "Build-a-Bud Workshops" but each system may have their own terms as well. Not all Builders have any sort of workspace.

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~Emotional Funnel: A system member who actively steals/waters down the emotions of other system members. A protector variant.

~Emotional Guardian: A type of Emotional Processor whose job is to manage and either absorb or spread a certain emotion throughout the system.

~Emotionalist: A system member feels a lot of emotions, but is good at expressing those emotions to others. They are good at advocating their emotions to others as well as advocating for other system members. They also tend to be good at expressing the feelings of the system as a whole to other people as well, whether this be through actions or words.

~Emotional Part: For DID/OSDD-1 systems. These alters hold traumatic memory, often being stuck in the sensory experience of the memory and unaware of the passage of time. Tasks involving daily life are managed by ANPs instead, e.g., working, cooking and parenting. Despite their name, some EPs are not emotional. There is controversy surrounding this term, so it should be used with care and not applied to anyone else without their permission.

~Emotional Processor: A type of protector whose job is to guide other system members through dealing with their emotions, or to absorb the negative or overwhelming emotions of other system members to process and water them down to make them easier to deal with.

~Eraser: A system member that purposely takes memories away from others, often for their protection. They fall under the ISH, gatekeeper, and trauma holder categories. Erasers help to keep trauma memories from spreading between sysmates. These are more common with amnesiac systems, like DID.

~Escutcheon: A system member who is very open with their feelings, but try to put up a shield of sorts so that external forces or internal forces can't hurt them at all or not as much. They're often system members that are normally described as being tough and don't like the idea of being or being seen as vulnerable. They often times will try to detatch themselves from their emotions on some way, especially if any or all other system members are feeling the same or in a similar way to them.

~Executioner: Could be a system member who tends to be a bit aggressive or off-putting to others who feels the need to interject themselves into arguments outside of the headspace. They don't try to calm the argument down or come to a compromise, instead they assert themselves into it and say their piece before potentially backing out. However, if the outside person they're arguing with continues arguing as well, they may likely stay in front to continue arguing back.
Often, they are inserting themselves into the arguments because they felt personally attacked in some way or the argument or person upset them in some way. Their goal is not to protect themselves or anyone else in the system, but to try to have their feelings and opinions on the matter heard. This can but doesn't have to include system members who may sometimes purposely and personally mess up relationships outside of headspace that they deem "not important", "not worth while", or they believe is somehow harmful to them and maybe even the whole system, even if other system members don't agree that this is the case.

~Exolimb: When the body feels as if it's supposed to have (an) extra limb(s) due to the current fronter's extra limbs in headspace, such as wings, tails, and horns.

~Exorelatian: A system member who deals exclusively with either the system as a whole's relationships or with other system members' relationships to people outside the system. Can deal with any kind of relationship, and is not inherently exclusive to romance.

~Explorer: A system member that explores headspace. Can also be a system member that explores out-of-system places via system travel.

~Extranth: A nonhuman member in a multiple system; a system member who experiences their body in the headspace being nonhuman. Coined with those in mind who are nonhuman but don't identify as otherkin/alterhuman and want to be more specific in the origin of their nonhumanity; compare to fictive and factive.

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~Headmate: Someone who shares a brain/body with someone else; a member of a plural system.

~High Verbality: A spectrum and descriptor term, generally for limited-verbal and semi-verbal, when you have words but not enough for full sentences type of semi-verbal. Can be used in conjunction with other shortened terms, such as HIGHV-NV to denote someone is high verbality non-verbal.

~Hive: A group of two or more sysmates that are distinct as individuals, but prefer functioning as one mind. They're similar to a collective character in media.

~Horrortive: A system member that is introjected/innerjected from a horror genre. Can also be applied to members that feel they have the aesthetic or demeanor of a horror franchise character. Most often used to describe the "villain" or "monster" in a horror setting, but can be applied to main/side "good" protagonists as well.

~Host: A system member who inhabits the front most of the time, or is most responsible for daily life. Systems can have one, no, or multiple hosts. The host may or may not also be the core/original.

~Hover: A system member whose job it is to "hover" or watch over other system members in co-consciousness for a multitude of reasons. They usually are present when a younger/more unstable member is in the front and is either frontstuck or simply adjusting to the outside world.

~Hybrid: A system member or facet who is considered a part of more than one median or non-median subsystem or who fluctuates between more than one subsystem. Hybrids may or may not be able to control which subsystem(s) they are a part of.

~Hygenist: A system member who makes sure that the body is kept clean and well-maintained in the hygiene department. They may do this by taking front when needed, at (a) certain time(s), once a day, and/or by keeping up with what other system members are doing while in front to make sure they do their part as well.

~Hyperérosian: A system member who is hypersexual possibly from suppressed sexual desires, abuse, trauma, or for other reasons. Inclusive of aspec system members but not exclusive to them. This term is a self-identifier and should not be used to refer to others without their consent.

~Hyperludusian: A system member who is hyperromantic due to trauma, suppressed romantic desires, emotional abuse, or any other reason. Not exclusive to alloromantic folks! This term is one that should not be used without the system member's consent, as it is self-identifier only.

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~Kinform: A kintype that became a system member.

~Kroppens Ursprung: Sort of a synonym for “original” or “core” but wherein no system members split from them and they just happen to be the first to control or enter the body. Primarily for spiritual systems.

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~Narravisum: When system members experience headspace as more of a narrative rather than visualising it through other means.

~Natalgenic: A system member origin for members who were born into the system.

~Naturalist: A system member that is extremely connected to nature. They love the outdoors and feel most comfortable surrounded by nature and natural things. They are the most likely to be the best with plants and animals. Most of their interests likely revolve around all of these things. They are also the most likely to take care of any plants or animals the system has as a whole or, at least, the "less appealing" caregiving required.

~Negative Front Trigger: The people, places, things, ideas, and scenarios that may cause a system member to front due to negative associations.

~Negotiator: A system member whose role is to settle disputes or arguments externally with singlets or other systems apart from their own. They find compromises where other system members may be reluctant to or too stubborn to even consider. They take pride in finding the "middle ground" that everyone can in some way agree on.

~Neutral Front Trigger: The people, places, things, ideas, and scenarios that may cause a system member to front due to neutral associations.

~Nightroject: When a system member is an introject from a nightmare, and formed from that.

~Nightwatcher: A system member that takes over front at night exclusively. They front when the rest of the system is asleep.

~Nihilcorporus: A system member that has no physical form in-headspace.

~Nonsimilous: A term for an introject that is different from how they are in their source material in a significant way.

~Nonverbal: A term used to describe people who have no or very close to no words to communicate with, for any number of reasons. As such, when socializing, they use alternative means of communication, such as: emojis (including using emojis to spell words), pictures, writing words on a paper and sending photos, or having a co-fronting system member communicate for them.

~Nūminīan: A system member who is divine in nature, an influence or phenomenon seen as mystical or carrying divine power, will, or quality.

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~Temp-Host: A host who only handles the system's singlet affairs for a day or so, likely just taking care of everything while the normal host rests or takes a break. (Joke alternate name: Toast)

~-Temporal: A suffix used for describing different types of time flows, similar in usage to -strata.

~Temporal Manipulator: a system member who can manipulate the flow of time for themself and those around them in headspace. This ability can either be through passive influence or intentional manipulation.

~Tether: A force connecting system members, specifically Gateway systems that can be visited by other beings.

~Textform: A system member created by roleplay, writing or acting until they gain free will.

~Theraporma: A system member who became aware of themselves during therapy.

~Thought Echo: When you hear thoughts from your system member(s) despite them not being in or near front at the time. Can also apply to hearing thoughts from system members that are still forming or dormant.

~Thoughtform: An umbrella term for any (intentionally or unintentionally) created entity, though its exact nature or dependence varies depending on exactly what kind it is -- tulpas, daemons, servitors, etc.

~-Tien: A suffix to denote that the term describes system function rather than origin.

~Tienmate: A system member who embodies (a) function(s) of the system, and/or sections of the system/body/front/brain/etc. Eg. A person who is directly tied to the well-being of the body, and is also an individual.

~Timekeeper: A system member that "keeps time" for the system and makes sure the system is where they need to be on time (work, school, meetings, hangouts, parties, etc). They tend to get stressed if anyone (inside or outside the system) is running late but can sometimes also get stressed out if they tend to be places too early and have to wait for things to begin or other people to arrive.

~Time Loss: A period of time that one or more system members cannot account for due to one or more other system members having been active at the time. That this has occurred is not always noticeable to system members who may be amnesiac to their amnesia. Some system members that experience time loss may still be active in an internal world during this period.

~Translator: System member who converts another system member's speech into another language for the benefit of others. This can be done after the original speech has already been typed or simultaneously.

~Translinguian: A system member who was created exclusively for the purpose of translating languages, either for another system member or an outside person. This is distinct from Translator in that "Translator" refers to a job, and "Translinguian" refers to origin.

~Trauma Breaker: A system member who fronts to handle trauma, and handles trauma and exotrauma within the system, not necessarily to separate the rest of the system from it but because they can handle it easily if needed.

~Trauma Holder: System members who hold memories that are traumatic in nature so that other system members don't have to deal with them.

~Treasurer: A money-manager, accountant, treasurer, shopper, or handler of money-related stress.

~Trivisum: When system members view headspace as if through a third person point of view. This may be the only way they can see headspace or, for certain members, they may be able to change their point of view over time.

~Typing Quirk: When someone's style of typing is different than normal forms, such as typing backwards, typing in all capitals, or replacing letters with numbers.

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~Warden: A type of guardian who works with persecutors specifically. They keep watch over persecutors, both protecting other system members from persecutors and protecting persecutors from other system members.

~Welder: A system member who purposefully integrates scraps together into new system members.

~Worrier: A system member that often worries for the worst even if they don't mean to. They often focus much more on the bad than the good, even sometimes finding something bad in something that's primarily good. They don't want to disrupt the system, but sometimes their over-worrying can do that.

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~???tive: When a system member is outsourced in some way but doesn't know what that source is due to the source either not existing in this world or having not found it yet.

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~Caesyn: People in system who are blind, either in the mindscape when others can see it (ie. can’t look into the mindscape at all), or physically blind when taking over the body, or both! This can count if you have significantly enough worse vision than others in system/the body as well.

~Caretaker: Used to describe a system member that has the role of comforting the body, system, host, core or other specific system members or groups of system members. They can help by aiding emotionally or physically.

~Celetive: A sysmate that is inspired or based around a holiday, like Halloween or Easter. They may retain the aesthetic of the event, the feelings the system has around it (including trauma memories), or figures associated with the holiday. Based off "celebration".

~Channeler: A system in which the host channels spirits. Channeled spirits may or may not control the body or live permanently in the headspace.

~Chronotive: An introject of a past version of a person/character. Can be used as chronofictive, chronofactive, etc.

~Cluster: A group of system members who have arbitrary but definitively felt similarities that bind them together in some way.

~Coach: A system member whose role is to make sure the system's body is healthy with a healthy and balanced diet along with good exercise. They will often try to teach other system members about what they know to hopefully gain some help and support from them. Their success rate depends on how much effort other system members are willing to put in to keep up the effort. Some Coaches may also be helpful to system members in the mental health department as well, making sure everyone is mentally healthy or as mentally healthy as possible.

~Co-Host: A secondary or backup host. Systems can have one, no, or multiple hosts.

~Coltenoir: An emotion funnel, but specifically for anger.

~Communicator: A system member that communicates other members’ thoughts, boundaries, and emotions on their behalf. May be common in systems that frequently go semi-verbal or nonverbal

~Companion: A system member whose purpose or role is to keep other system members company.

~Component: A system member that makes up a blur.

~Consenq: A system member with little emotional capacity who fronts in emergencies to make everything appear normal while everyone else is panicking.

~Core: Usually used by traumagenic systems, but is not exclusive. This system member is considered by some to be the part first born to the body. Can also refer to the system member that acts as the central identity in a median system.

~Corpvisum: When system members can view/see and interact with headspace as well as the body interacts with meatspace/the outerworld. Members with the ability to interact with headspace in this way may also be able to do so while in front, but it’s not exclusive to those who can.

~Counterweight: A powerful and relatively inactive system member that tips the scales of conflicts without doing much.

~Creationform: A system member created, developed, or influenced by the act of creative process. This may include writing, acting, roleplay, drawing, music composition, and many other acts of creation. A textform is a kind of creationform.

~Cross-Fictive: A fictive that is a "crossover" of typically two or more fictional characters/creatures. Whether this be from mixed-source AUs or just plain and simple crossovers, Cross-Fictives do not identify with anyone other than themselves.

~Cynic: A system member that thinks very negatively, like a Worrier, but wants to disrupt life in someway for other system members or the system as a whole. They may do this because they want other system members to understand or relate to their constant negative emotions or because they have some anger issues or because of a number of other reasons. Their disruptiveness can be "small" things or things that are bigger. It all depends on how disruptive to life they want to be and how disruptive they're allowed to be.

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~Fableing: A facet (in a median system) who is a fictional identity who is somewhere between or adjacent to a fictive and fictionkin.

~Facetroject: A system member who is an introjection of a face. ; A non-introject that formed with the face of a character or person but isn’t that person. ; System members who look like people but aren’t those people.

~Factional: When a system member is from a fictional source but doesn't consider themselves fictional, from a fictional source but doesn't connect at all to their "source-self", introjected from the looks of a character from a fictional source, or a system member who would otherwise be a factive but is so removed from their counterpart that they almost aren't a factive.

~Factive: A system member derived from an existing person, such as persons close to the system, popular persons/celebrities, etc. This may also be someone who helped them through trauma or the person/people who caused it.

~Factform: A thoughtform that is created from a real person.

~Fantive: An introject from fanfiction and fandom portrayals of characters and people in general. Can be used as a subtype of fictive (or factive, in the case of real person introjects), or as its own term on its own.

~Fcktive: A system member that has traits of both fictive and factive.

~Ficform: A thoughtform that is created from a fictional character.

~Fictikai: An introject whose counterpart is not alive in some form. The reason they are alive within the system can vary, including but not limited to reincarnation, soul transfer (aka "getting Isekai'd"), or originating from an alternate universe where they are alive.

~Fictive: A system member who is a person, creature, or race from a fictional source. They may be a specific character or a non-canon character of the same race or world.

~Fixkeeper: A system member similar to a gatekeeper and symptom holder (specific to ADHD + Autistic symptoms) who manages and keeps track of hyperfixations and special interests and knowledge pertaining to them within the system.

~Flare: A large influx of system members in a short amount of time.

~Fluicorpus: A headmate with an unclear or ever-changing physical form in-headspace.

~Fogtive: Someone who is partially, somewhat, or almost a factive, but factive doesnt seem 'quite right' or 'entirely accurate'. Between or partially factive and something else (the something else may or may not be defined, personal choice).

~Force Front: When a system member forcibly removes someone from front to take their place. Alternatively when a system member purposefully uses positive, neutral, or negative fronting triggers to bring a specific member to front.

~Force Switch: When a system member forcibly switches in or out of front due to any number of reasons. Examples: Pos/neu/neg triggers, friends/partners are near, something the system member is working on comes up, etc.

~Forcing: The act of focusing on and developing a tulpa's presence or strength by devoting specific attention to them, or otherwise interacting with them.

~Fragment: A member of a system who isn't a complete person or is not a fully formed person. A fragment may one day become a complete person, remain the way they are, or even disappear. They may be a piece of another person, part of a median system or subsystem, a chunk broken/split off another person, etc. Servitors are generally thought to be fragments/shards. Members of a median system or subsystem are sometimes called aspects or facets, but almost never fragments or shards.

~Frijōn: A system member who's very friendly and wants to be friends with everyone inside and outside of the system. They love to work on group projects and are happiest talking to or making friends!

~Front: The mental space from where a system member controls the body. When in control, a system member can be referred to as "fronting" or "in the front". Also used to describe the space outside of the mind, in contrast to Headspace.

~Front-Assisted: A system member that cannot come to the front or front without help from other system members or accommodations for them.

~Front Blocked: The state of a system member being unable to front. This can be for any amount of time, ranging from days to indefinitely. They may or may not be able to be co-con during this time, but never fully fronting.

~Frontflux: A smooth, fluid, continuous shifting of fronters. Could be described as a slower, calmer, smoother version of cycling. May or may not involve blurring and/or dissociation.

~Front Fussy: When the front seems to be particularly fussy over who fronts, both tossing and pulling members in and out at will until it finds a member of its choosing.

~Fronting Partners: Two or more system members in the same system, who usually front together rather than apart. Can also be used in the singular, such as when referring to one's own frontmate.

~Fronting Roster: A group of system members that consistently front and/or deal with day to day life. Not all members of a fronting roster have to be hosts/co-hosts, it can be any system member with other role/s or system members without one.

~Frontlocked: When front is "locked" or inaccessible to other system members when a frontstuck system member isn't in front/the control room. This may also extend to the frontstuck person not being able to leave to go to sleep at night if others are still in front/the control room with them.

~Frontlock Averse: When a system member or a select handful system members aren't affected by any sort of frontlock and still can go into front/the control room when the frontstuck system member isn't there. Their ability to fully front and do things with the body during this timeframe fluxuates and may depend on the system member(s) themselves and how their innerworld works.

~Frontrunner: A system member who habitually occupies the front position or is accustomed to doing so.

~Front Sealed: When the system member/s in front is/are completely incapable of communication with the rest of the system. Often goes hand-in-hand with being frontstuck, but not necessarily.

~Front Sickness: When it becomes hard for a system member to front and they may get tired, dizzy, or easily frustrated. Can also cause symptoms of other mental illnesses to be increased.

~Front Slippery: When a system member is continuously drawn away from front. A system member that is front slippery is only able to hold front for a short amount of time, even if they want to stay in front for longer. Unlike Front Blocked, they are able to front, but only for limited amounts of time.

~Front Soup: A mixed front where its difficult/hard to tell who's who. Blurry plus. Can result in large numbers in front at the same time.

~Front Stew: A variant on Front Soup in which everything is the same. but it is known who's all there, and everyone is still individual/distinct, just all jammed into front at once.

~Front Sticky: When someone is continuously drawn to front, no matter how many times they leave. When front seems to want someone, and they keep getting pulled back to front even when they don't want to be. Unlike front stuck, they can leave for small periods of time, even if it's uncomfortable, or they're pulled back quickly.

~Frontstuck: The state of a system member being unable to leave front. This can be for many reasons, and being frontstuck can last any period of time, from days to infinitely. Other system members may or may not simultaneously be co-fronting or co-conscious.

~Front Trigger: The people, places, things, ideas, and scenarios that may cause a system member to front.

~Front Yeety: When the front seems to reject everyone, yeeting system members around as it pleases.

~Full-Verbal: A term similar to how asexual people use "allo" for non-aces, and how autistic people use "allistic" for non-autistics. It means someone who does not have verbality issues, i.e is not non-verbal, semi-verbal, etc.

~Fused Cluster: A group of shards/fragments which are fused to the point where they share one mind and either share one headspace body or are tightly packed into a loosely spherical structure. However, the individual shards frequently try to break out and when they do, they are very unstable. Fused Clusters are very similar to The Cluster from Steven Universe.

~Fustive: A type of double; a member based on a temporary fusion of two or more system members.

~Fuzztive: Someone who is partially, somewhat, or almost a fictive, but fictive doesnt seem 'quite right' or 'entirely accurate'. Between or partially fictive and something else (the something else may or may not be defined, personal choice).

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~Idemlenguian: A system member who speaks the same language(s) as the majority of the system, or the languages the body knows. From the Latin "Idem" for "same".

~Imagitive: A system member that started off as an imaginary friend, but ended up introjecting into the system as a member.

~Inerflux: A member that frequently fluctuates in and out of dormancy.

~Influend: A system member who is projected onto/influenced by other system members as a means of communicating thoughts, feelings, etc.

~Inner-ject: A system member who is insourced; with a canon that is separate from any real or fictional sources.

~Insourced: A descriptor term for an introject from a source the system created.

~Integration: Can be seen as the fusion/merging of system members, or the removal of dissociative barriers between system members. This term can be a sensitive topic for many systems, and helpful for other systems, so this topic should be brought up with care.

~Internal Self Helper: A system member who holds vast amounts of knowledge about the system, system members, trauma, and/or internal workings. May or may not also be a Gatekeeper.

~Intersystem Dating: When two or more systems date.

~Intragenic: System members formed through continuous mimickery of real or fictitious people. Can be a form of neurogenic for disorders like HPD or BPD.

~Intragentive: Can mean two things. 1. A system member who is cisgender in the innerworld, living in a transgender body. (e.g. a cisgender male in headspace living in a trans FTM body.) 2. A system member whose sex in the innerworld does not align with the body's sex. Variations: Intragentive male, Intragentive female, etc.

~Intrarelatian: A system member who deals exclusively with relationships between other system members. Can deal with any kind of relationship, and is not inherently exclusive to romance.

~Intrasinglet: A term to describe system members who are not part of a subsystem.

~Intrasystem Dating: When members within the same system date.

~Intratrauma: Trauma sustained through in-system interaction and/or in headspace. This may include various traumas such as system member interactions, a persecutor hurting the body, or harrowing experiences in headspace regardless of the involvement of other system members.

~Introject: An umbrella term for any system member that is based off of an abuser, family member, caretaker, or a historical, popular/famous, or fictional figure, etc. Includes, but is not limited to, fictives and factives.

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~Layer Manipulator: A system member that causes changes within a layer: modifying the look of a layer, the "reality" of that layer, who lives in that layer (permanently or temporarily), blending layers, or allowing traveling between layers, among other things. It can be purposeful or accidental, and can "break" or mess up headspace or layers. This may or may not return to normal when not in their presence.

~Leader: One or more system members that lead an area of system organization, whether that be a layer, group, or other section of the system.

~Lenguaject: An introject of a language or dialect. A system member that literally is a language.

~Lenguian: A system member who was either created for the purpose of learning/speaking one or more languages, or whose identity is strongly linked to the language(s) they speak. From the Spanish "Lengua" for "language/tongue".

~Limit Breaker A specific type of protector, who overrides bodily or mental limitations in order to protect the system or otherwise accomplish a necessary task.

~Limited-Verbal: A term used to describe people who are technically fully verbal, but their usage of their words is limited. Some examples include: an autistic person communicating only in scripts, someone who only uses one word at a time, or someone who communicates via typed actions.

~Little: A system member usually under the age of 10 or 12.

~Lone Wolf: A system member that sticks to themself. They may or may not be close with only a select number of system member or they may be close with most everyone in the system. However, they don't tend to front much and don't like interacting internally or externally in big groups. When they do front, they often like to do so alone (not co-fronting) and don't engage externally with many people unless necessary. Just because they like to be alone, though, doesn't mean they can't contribute to the system or that they don't have a lot to contribute.

~Lostmate: A system member that is unaware of being part of a system.

~Low Verbality: A spectrum and descriptor term, generally for non-verbal and semi-verbal, when you have maybe a hundred or so words max but you're not fully non-verbal. Can be used in conjunction with other shortened terms, such as LOWV-SV to denote someone is low verbality semi-verbal.

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~Objective: A system member that is either based on or formed as an object.

~Objectmate: A system member that takes the form of a tangible item or object, like a book, house, or part of nature.

~Oblitive: A term for an introject that is different from how they are in their source material in a significant way.

~Oculovisum: When system members need to visualise headspace before they can fully see it. This can also include needing to be able to visualise other system members or new additions before being able to see it in headspace, even if it’s already there.

~Officium: A member who is essential to the system's functions for some reason. The system's way of functioning would be heavily effected if they were to go dormant, intergrate, or similar.

~Oikeian: A system member that is often the result of trauma. They are hypersexual in nature and/or act as a sexual protector for the system; attempting to keep the system out of unsafe intimate situations or putting themselves in that situation instead.

~Omate: The term to refer to the "characters"/system members the belong to an Ostem.

~Optimist: A system member who is always trying to find the good in things for themselves, the system, and others! Whether that be finding more good in an already good thing or the little bit of good in a prinarily bad thing. They try to boost other system members up when they're down and are always looking for any of the potential positives in anything that happens. They also tend to be, but don't have to be, the life of a party.

~Orbiter Group: Two or more system members who are linked in some way, they are fundamentally the same person but in some way also fundamentally different.

~Orchard Relationship: A relationship between two system members that is characterized by heavy reliance on each other, easy communication, and similar identities, although they are still two separate people. may also include energy leeching and queerplatonic or romantic relations. it isn't always permanent, and it's mostly used until one or both of the system members is strong enough to rely on their own.

~Ordemate: Term used for system mates who are the 'final word', or last say in decisions as a whole, usually if an agreement can't be made.

~Organizer: A system member that works in tandem with an archivist and keep track of system statistics, and theorize on the system and what will become of it as well as what types of new system members they expect may surface.

~-Orma: A suffix used to describe the origins of a member, Eg. Natalorma. Its main use is for member origin terms that are not also system origin terms.

~Oster: Can refer to a system containing an Ostem subsystem or can refer to the "creator" of the characters who introduced themselves and became omates.

~Outernaut: An alternative to 'host'. A system member who is primarily responsible for fronting and external matters/daily life. A system may have one, multiple, or no system members in this role.

~Outrasystem Dating: When a system or system member(s) date outside of their system. Can be with other systems or with singlets.

~Outsourced: A descriptor term for an introject from a source the system didn't create.

~Overseer: A system member who keeps an eye on everything. Not necessarily a gatekeeper, Overseers ensure that everyone in headspace is safe. They are able to keep an eye on everyone as needed.

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~Reality Dysphoria: A feeling that arises when a system member, typically but not always a Fictive or a Factional, cannot perform actions or skills they had in their source or according to their own memories due to the physical body experiencing different physics or other limiting factors.

~Receptionist: A system member who can invite new members into the system (usually using the system’s Gate to invite them) with the ability to assign the new system member(s) to a subsystem.

~Recollection: Whole memories, thoughts, feelings, etc shared with another system member or members. This can be done purpose or on accident, depending on how the system functions.

~Reformer: A system member whose role it is to help persecutors reform and to help prevent relapses with reformed persecutors.

~Regulator: A system member who takes control of the body if they believe other system members are experiencing emotions too elevated or dramatic. They will often calm the body down and take over until the previous fronter is calm as well.

~Relatian: A system member who deals with relationships, can be combined with prefixes such as exo-, peri-, and intra-. Can deal with any kind of relationship, and is not inherently exclusive to romance.

~Reliux: A system member that formed due to religious reasons (traumatic or not) and handles matters of religion within the system.

~Researcher: Someone within the system who studies and researches headspace and/or the workings of the system.

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