Abyss Hydra

A little System Blog for little system members from a big system complex

[abysshydra]

Basic Info

Name: Abyss Hydra, Bite, Abyss ⟢ 🌀

Pronouns: They/them and Abyss/abyss' (Individually it's he/it/one/abyss)

2ndp Pronouns: Vou/vour or You all/you&

Collective Identity: Abro, Masc Agender

Adult, Persodivergent (BPD, NPD, AVPD), Autistic

Current Front: LINK

Links

Simply Plural: AbyssHydra

Main: @whisper-overseer

[addgenic-culture-is]

Addgenic culture is finding moving simply plural alters to a new app or file to be a chore so rewarding yourself with a new alter every time you do so cause you much prefer creating new alters over re-adding ones

This is addgenic culture!!

[transientsatellite]

[bombogenic-culture-is]

Bombogenic culture is hesitating to make a new pk proxy for a new headmate unless there's solid evidence that they're actually gonna use it regularly...and then they don't use it anyway bc there's always someone new coming around or we're blurry all the time 😭

💣

[tranthony]

youve been a bad *remembers youre plural* people

[polyfrag-culture-is]

polyfrag culture is not being able to differentiate between 1 headmate or 1000 fragments

“Is this 1 headmate or 1000 fragments in a trenchcoat or or”

[polyfrag-culture-is]

polyfrag culture is feeling like hivemind sometimes

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[changelingcoded]

complete blackout. do mangoes just do this to people

[kosmicsuserboxes]

✦ ﹚ This System uses [blank]

✦﹚ Requested by : anon + @the-theta-sigma ⇋ ✦﹚ Art credit : n/a⇋ ✦﹚ Notes : edit: i forgot the other two boxes they are added now ⇋ ✦﹚ Read pinned post before requesting ⇋

✦ ﹚ IMAGE IDS IN ORDER: ⇋

This system uses Obsidian This system uses Notion This system uses Ampersand This system uses Hivemind This system survived the great system app apocalypse of 2026 This system survived the great system app apocalypse of 2026 (alt image)

[polyfrag-culture-is]

polyfrag culture is...

person: we're a large system! us: oh us too! person: yeah! we have 27 headmates! us: [stares in 1000+ known fully formed headmates and uncountable fragments & unknown headmates] ah. our experiences are not actually the same i think,

Yyyyeah

[leathersys]

so... we may have made something.

have YOU ever thought like this?????? i know WE hate the current plural diagnostics!!!! so! WE MADE OUR OWN!!!!!!!

it's 44 questions long, you can receive a total of 50 points!

it's unfortunately hosted through google forms for now unless we find something better...

Plural Checklist

*Due to how Google Forms is built, your "System Percentage" is shown as your amount of correct answers. Plural systems typically get a score

we are not doctors, do not take your result as medical advice.

feel free to reblog with your result!

note: if you're a system and got under 60%, let us know! the 60% minimum is based solely off of, like, five non-system takers. we're working on getting a bigger sample size!

[leathersys]

we've been getting some questions about this quiz! the primary one we'll answer here is "these questions feel normal, why do they prove you're plural?"

the idea behind this quiz is pretty much exactly that. these are all fairly normal symptoms. on their own, none of these are a sign of plurality.

however, they start to become a sign of something more when there's a large percentage answered "yes"! all diagnoses are collections of symptoms, that was the core idea behind this :) we sent this to several singlets to make sure it worked, and every time, singlets got a significantly lower score than systems!

a lot of plural quizzes have confusing, vague questions that are really hard to answer when you have, y'know. a disorder that causes memory issues. so we wanted to help that by making the questions as simple and, like, normal as possible. that's why we say that systems(not all, but many) usually get a score of about 60% ^^

of course, there is overlap with other disorders that cause disassociation, we are 100% aware of that. like we said, this isn't a diagnosis!! 🫶🫶

also, not all systems will get 60% or more! it depends wholly on who you are :) this quiz was based off of ourself and the people around us/online, we didn't really do a lot of intensive outreach because we honestly didn't think it would get as big as it did </3 everyone is different! just because your symptoms aren't the same as everyone else's doesn't make you more or less valid.

[werewolf-pack-system]

.. 88%

Heh. That helps the imposter syndrome go down but wow is that a high number lol

[addgenic-culture-is]

addgenic culture is us having over 700 bah packs reblogged on our archive account

- noli & c00lkidd

This is addgenic culture!!

[polyfrag-culture-is]

Polyplural culture is a lot of “I don’t knowwwwwww”s

[addgenic-culture-is]

addgenic culture is introjecting characters we know nothing about and hoping people don’t ask us about their source cuz we don’t know anything about it 💔

This is addgenic culture!! (we have done this many a time lol)

[cest-mallory]

metadata is part of your message. your name, your avatar, all communicate things about you. if your message was sent by a different user it would often be interpreted differently.

this is even more true for plural systems, who, with tools like PluralKit (or even just emoji signifying), have to decide for each message who to indicate said a thing, or whether to indicate such information at all.

with an established rapport, a lot of meaning can be conveyed with the use of a proxy. something that would be rude out of one headmates mouth may seem friendly from another (see: calibration). but less positive associations can be built too. "oh god you're in front is everything ok?" is not necessarily a nice association to have with your existence (although perhaps useful for some).

tightly built rapports with other systems can convey a lot. "oh you immediately fronted when i talked about this fantasy, is that good for you~?". "you two are in front together a lot, do you like each other or something~?". there is space to build very intimate understandings of a system's inner workings.

but this creates a dilemma with more distant relationships. if someone doesn't know your system well enough to pick up on the extra information provided by a choice of proxy, how much do they need that? oftentimes systems will end up offering headmate explanations, system diagrams, simplyplural accounts, etc. early on in a relationship to frontload this information and open up those communicative potentials right away, rather than letting someone learn over time. but for large systems this can also be overwhelming, a lot of information for someone to internalise at once.

a tension is created, between plurality as a model for understanding yourself, and as a tool for communicating with other people.

do you show a full system diagram? or only a simplified version with the headmates you think someone is likely to meet. how much do you elide variations between similar headmates to simplify yourself for other people. it's often a terrible plural anxiety, to think you're too big or complicated for many people to care to understand. but these are also decisions made every time someone "lies" about a proxy, choosing to hide the fact a more vulnerable headmate is in front, or when someone chooses a less accurate but more socially appropriate avatar for public spaces.

models of plurality as a socially realised identity, and as a form of internal self understanding will probably always be in tension. but it's worth thinking about their interactions

[thesillybunch]

Systems wonder why they're miserable when they don't let their headmates front. That's the issue, maybe take a break when a headmate suggests it.

This is your reminder to take a break.

This is also a signal for any lingering headmates to steal front so the body can actually rest and/or do something fun.

[minnowco1ns]

memorialter

a term for any part that is missed, grieved, or was 'lost' to their system. this may have been through shattering, prolonged dormancy, fusion (particularly negative fusion), drastic fragmentation, or any other occurrence that the system views as loss.

this is one of the few terms that the headmate themselves cannot claim. rather, its intended use is to give those who loved them a term to refer to them by, memorializing their existence and showing that they were cherished by the rest of their system.

more personal info below the cut, surrounding what inspired us to make this.

#OHHHH THIS IS WHAT AMMIE WAS #man i wish she were around to see this

these tags were left under our house host term by @crys-ambivalenttowardrbs . it hit us hard. it made us happy to know that we'd been able to give a recognized name to something others experience, especially when the person in our own system, who coined it for themselves, struggled for so long to define their role in words.

"man, I wish she were around to see this."

we've echoed that sentiment so many times, about so many we've lost; it makes us emotional reading it over trying to write this. they would have loved this, if only they could see it. it's even harder now, because we lost the person who coined that role, split up into multiple for a lot of different reasons. though we love the newcomers dearly, there's still that sense of loss for the person they were.

everyone focuses so much on how, in the typical way, headmates can't die, so they skim past the fact that you can still lose them because it's 'not the same'. we've always hated that. loss is loss, no matter what way. sometimes you can get them back. sometimes you can't. it doesn't change the fact that it hurts when they're gone.

we wanted a way to let others know they're not alone in grieving. a way for those left to show that the ones they lost weren't just forgotten, they're memorialized, whatever that means to them. a way to commemorate the alters that didn't make it through to the other side.

this post is dedicated to ammie. it's dedicated to those in our partner system that we never got the privilege to meet before their collapse. it's dedicated to all the members of our system we've lost over the years, and to those we never got to meet properly before they slipped away. it's dedicated to every single part, alter, headmate, fragment, that every plural has lost in their journey.

we understand that holding on is hard. we know. but your system will love and cherish you, and what you did for them, long after you're gone.