akhra

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  • &🍯she/her 🐲xie/xer 🦡e/em/es

wenchcoat system:
🍯 Akhra (or Melli to disambiguate), ratel.
🐲 Rhiannon, drangolin.
🦡 Lenestre, American badger.

unless tagged or otherwise obvious, assume 🍯🐲🦡 in chorus; even when that's not quite accurate, we will always be in consensus. address collectively as Akhra (she/her), or as wenchcoat (she/her or plural).

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🧇@Reba-Rabbit


Discord (mention cohost, I get spam follows)
@akhra
Discord server ostensibly for the Twitch channel but with Cohost in hospice y'know what let's just link it here
discord.gg/AF57qnub3D

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How does fronting in your system work? Do all headmates pilot the body, only a few, or just one?


akhra
@akhra

all the median aspects front; generally according to who's most interested/invested/capable with the topic, environment and situation at hand.

co-fronting is arguably more rule than exception, and can manifest either as blending or (especially in text) as more of a high speed tag team situation; actually one of the main reasons we've had difficulty building consistent tagging habits is that even when we're fully aware of who's writing what, it can be all three aspects within the same sentence! one guiding the topic, one decorating tone and flow, one interjecting parentheticals, and not even consistent who's doing which.

in person, blending is more common since we don't have the luxury of an edit pass in real-time conversation, and we're not out as plural in meatspace. our habit has been to bend toward whatever aspect we think someone else is most familiar with, which usually depends on where and when we got to know them. so e.g. nightlife friends mostly get Akhra🍯, tabletop friends and former coworkers mostly get Lenestre🦡, men who knew me pre-transition mostly get Rhiannon🐲 (even if they're in one of the other groups) unless I'm really comfortable with them. whether that's the aspect in question solo-fronting, a blended co-front, or another aspect using Masks is still down to topic and environment.

we believe the Watcher 👁️ is not a median aspect, but represents a deeper/older system. it communicates mostly in wordless thought-sharing, or rarely in single words (usually "no"), and we do not perceive its presence when it is silent. it can front (and that's the only time we accumulate subjective memories from it) but it clearly has no desire to do so outside of full-stop emergencies. we actually coaxed it forward briefly last night while having a bit of an all-hands affirmation party; it stared for just a moment, said "I don't want to" (an astonishingly full sentence!) and departed, but without a sense of being upset.1


  1. funky little side note: we were left a little confused because after the fact it felt like that had been 🦡 at the helm, including to 🦡, but the tone was clearly wrong and 🦡 had no sense of volition in the moment. so we're wondering if maybe 👁️ actually can't front, but can puppet 🦡, which is why we get memories then... and we've previously noted that it's always 🦡 who translates 👁️'s more complex deliveries into words, which might support that. regardless, it's fairly certain that you out there are unlikely to ever meet 👁️.


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