Member of a traumagenic–catharigenic, semi-structural DID system (host: @LoganDark)
Feral female Flareon, somewhat kinky but terminally panromantic towards other ferals~
Please do not call us "alters", we are full people with our own souls, not just personality states! We say "system members" or just "members". "People" works too!
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trying to think of a system name ,, or like some kind of shared name that kinda acts like a singlet name ? idk . nothing's rly coming to mind
any other systems have advice or stories of how they came to their system name and/or shared name ?
kind of silly but we came up with rife by just looking at like. synonyms for "many" with requirement that it start with the letter R because we wanted our name to be alliterative. it ended up being a word that had a bit of abstraction from the original concept but were happy with it because it is like a neat word and we've never seen anyone else use it as a name.
rad .. ty !!!! yall did end up with a rly cool one ; 10/10 we aspire to this tier
honestly it just came to us
now we use both luna and artemis as singlet/collective/meatspace names
lol yea we were kinda hoping for the ez revelation but it's been proving stubbornnn =w=
mine (polychotomous) was just a username i used almost a decade ago before i knew about plurality at all, ended up being definitionally perfect and a no brainer to use for a system name once we knew
Hoot_OS was based off of our username, Hootwheelz. We view our system as similar in function to an operating system, where our headmates are essentially different programs who are capable of different tasks and serve different purposes. If we feel it necessary to be referred to as a collective, we prefer Hoot but are also fine with Stryx or Amity, two of the most frequent fronters in the bunch
ooo i see ... intewesting ty for sharing !!! perhaps some kind of analogous model (dont rly relate to an OS exactly) wld provide an idea
Ours is Rat King! We use it because we all relate to rats on some level. My partner, Velvet, chose the name bc persona is a shared special interest of all of them. Try something shared!
My main advice regarding system name is that there are no rules. You can change your system name whenever, have multiple names, or forgo having a system name altogether even! So, don't be afraid to throw something on and try it out.
We have a number of shared names we use around the Internet, ourselves. The one we'd consider our system name, Hungry Ghosts, is a bunch of in-jokes about being Chinese-American, our feelings about community, our upbringing, and a book we read as a kid. But we actually don't use that one as much as the various other shared screennames we have.
hmm hmm !! ya we're trying not to b toooooo strict or like , idk , judgey ??? about any ideas but is good to b reminded to just try shit out w/o needing it to fit any preconceived ruleset
thx yall for sharing !!! vvv helpful ideas :3
we felt like certain headmates had affinities with particular chemical elements, and that prompted our "Pnictogen Wing" naming
we came up with meadow because we have a lot of furries/animals so it's like all of us are hanging out in one big meadow :)
I think a lot of systems generally pick something that suggests many things and has some kind of symbolism to them and also functions as a pretty name
but also some just pick another cute name
waaa i love that ... naming the system after a comfy shared space .. a name that points home !!! meadow is such a pretty name too !!!!!! tytyty 4 reply :3
i wanna highlight the distinction you drew between a system name and a like shared name! for us having a sort of coat to put on (lys) that help people identify "hey that's lys!" is so different than having a hugely descriptive, invocative, or evocative title. and it happens that's the name we've been using, so wahooey. but a name can just be an interface / transport layer that brings others to your own named and nameless gravity.
yayaya !! was thinking of yall there fs :3 waa yea well put last note <3 ... transport layer gender >:3
our system name, coffeecakes, is just because we really like coffeecake & mike thought it sounded like a funny coffee shop band name. our collective name is "names everyone is comfortable being addressed by and shared with the rest of us".
Hmmm... Well, before we transitioned, one of us identified with our given name more than the others but still picked a different personal name to distinguish.
When we transitioned, we changed our legal name to one that was (more or less) acceptable to all of us so our shared name is our legal name (jam) plus an s (jams) since there are three of us. And this is how we navigate the world. Our personal names are only used in certain settings
We also have a system name ("the cute frogs") which is mainly to identify ourselves to other systems, but that was a silly whim of my headmate and probably subject to change.
