Oh, to be your constant companion!

We're the Heartbeat System! Welcome to our plurality blog! | 🦊 She/It ♥️ They/Them 🐟 She/Ze 🌺 She/Her 🎀 She/Her🐇Any | Follow/Like from @beatsthingies !!

[heartbeatsys]

Oh, hello there!

Figured it's best we start this off with an introduction to everyone you're likely to see around here.

🦊 - Beat

Starting with myself, obviously. I guess you could call me the Host of our system. I've been here the longest and front most often, so you'll see me a bunch probably. Or you'll see me on our main.

I'm a big fan of the Beatles, movies, and playing video games. Also Jamie Paige. Jamie Paige is a good musician and you should listen to her music and especially Constant Companions and Autumn Every Day ok promise me you'll do that

Oh I'm also a fox lol, not a human.

♥️ - Chara

Greetings.

I am Chara. Dreemurr. An Undertale fictive and the co-host of this system. You may ask about my past, within reason.

Beyond my status and roles, I enjoy electronic music, baking, progressive rock, Violet Evergarden, and media analysis.

And chocolate, naturally.

🐟 - Lily

sup, I'm Lily! I'm a fighter and generally try to look out for everyone's well being. I will BITE YOU if I think you're trying to harm any of us and I am dating the best girl in the world (Beat)

I like all music but especially folk and bluegrass.

🌺 - Ashley

Hiiiiiiiii!! ^-^ I am Ashley! But you can also call me Ash! Just not Leyley. Ever. I'm here to have fun and fuck with people!! The others all care way too much what other people think so I'm here to balance them out, or, something.

Oh! And I'm a fictive from everyone's faaaaaavorite indie horror visual novel (god what a mouthful) The Coffin of Andy and Leyley! Feel free to ask me about it, just don't be a dick.

🎀 - Jax

Not gonna make a pic of myself with the thing, you already know what I look like. I'm here, I'm new, I'm a girl. Figure out the rest

🐇 - Nexus

Whaddaya know, I'm not dead. Mostly I just keep Char company these days, you ain't ever gonna hear much from me here. I'm the maintenance rabbit, make sure no one else forgets to like, feed the body and stuff

All the pics were made with this thing

[heartbeat-sys]

btw. "plural" is an opt-in label. you can call yourself plural for any reason. its not a diagnostic label and its definition is very loose. "i'm not plural i just-" i promise theres an entire segment of the plural community that is full of people who are plural for specifically that thing. you're not plural because you dont identify with the label, not because that experience "doesn't count."

[ostolero]

Are you an evil princess?

evil princess

evil, not princess

not evil, princess

neither evil, nor princess

Voting ended onJul 23

[ayviedoesthings]

Do you use different voices when speaking as Ayvie or Sabine? I'm genuinely curious

I've been told we do! But I never got to notice the difference, so I just assume Sabine talks as if we never voice trained once in our life.

[pluralpolls]

MINORS DON'T SHARE ANSWER IN NOTES

I've been wondering about the general demographics of my voters (hearts to you all) so I am running general demographic polls. If you prefer not to answer you don't have to.

PLURAL FOLKS ONLY: What race are you? (question based on us census bureau options)

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Black

Hispanic or Latino

Middle Eastern or North African (MENA)

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

White

Other

Unknown

Remaining time: 17 hours 43 minutes

[acaciapines]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

You look, she thinks, so strange. So… She pushes herself up onto her elbows. So unfamiliar. What? Pomni thinks. Of course it looks familiar. She looks just the same as she always does. I have bags under my eyes. Her hands are shaking. Why are they all so worried about me. She’s not entirely sure she’s remembering how to breathe. None of them even know who I was. She’s pretty sure the face staring back at her is somewhere halfway between herself and stranger. I think we’re going mad, Pom-Pom, says a voice that is not her own, and Pomni yelps. (Or: Your coping mechanisms suck shit, Pom-Pom.)

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT I HAVE DONE IT. GOT THIS ONE IN LITERALLY RIGHT UNDER THE WIRE. i am so proud of myself <3 i worked so hard to make this real and exist and i have DONE IT.

i hope you all enjoy this one i had a lot of fun with it despite all the horrors!!!!! <3

[birdplushie]

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

[lyninabin]

[demilypyro]

feels like everybody around me could tell i'm plural except me. which is kinda pissing me off

[demilypyro]

not a different person, exactly. the same person, slightly to the left. like timelines converging. "i would never say that." but I did. i remember saying it. and yet I never would. too cheerful, too calm, too cynical, all at once. three voices, disagreeing on what is proper behaviour.

[gayeldestdaughter]

we just released a new single on bandcamp!

it's a song about protecting your headmates and the process of learning to coexist as a system, a slow and sappy track sung over banjo and keys, bursting with love for plural existence.

if you like it, throw a dollar our way on bandcamp and you can download it in high quality!

lyrics below the cut:

you may have never heard of me, though i know your name so closely i’ll give myself another, so you can’t refuse to know me i’m living in the undiscovered corners of your mind or maybe you’re living here in mine

i think that i’m what happens when you pull every alarm you’re free to voice objections when you're the one in charge but you were gonna do something very, very dumb so instead i’m gonna run, gonna run, gonna run

you’ll tell your friends i don’t exist though i still know that i’ll be missed your tears roll down my cheeks as you cry and however i can, goddammit, i’m keeping you alive

it’s been a while since you last let me take the stage i’d let you have an earful, but i can't keep all that rage i take a new name, something feminine and sweet then i pretend to be you and just take in the scene

and then i drive you to the hospital blaring up the wolves we’re gonna be fucked if this ever grows old i’ve got just another hour or two at the most but i’ll party when you come home, come home, come home

you’ll tell your friends i don’t exist though i still know that i’ll be missed your tears roll down my cheeks as you cry and however i can, goddammit, i’m keeping you alive

one year hence and i show myself again you don't hold me back, i write my story with your pen i kiss with your lips, speak my name with your tongue and i make sure i’m never, ever going back down

there’s a woman in our bed, you’ve been with her for a year and though she doesn't know me, she shows me no fear in her freckled arms she holds me, i’m finally found she says please stick around, stick around, stick around

now you and i, we coexist years of denial won't be missed i’ll dry your tears, and you’ll dry mine and however we can, goddammit, we’re keeping us alive

[puapka]

[heartbeatsys]

woah, there's more of you! hi everyone! 🥞

🦊 hello!! Yeah there's six of us now isn't that wild? Hope you're doing well, Maple!

[heartbeatsys]

🌺 I'm a mom I'm a mom I'm a mom I'm a mom!!!!!!!

LOOK AT HIM HES SO CUTE

AAAAAAAA I cannot believe there's actually a timeline out there where Andy and I work it out enough to pass our fucked up genes to the next generation!

Betcha I could be a better mom than my mom! (Or the body's bio mom for that matter)

[punkitt-is-here]

me when the fucking??? character???? i guess??????

[purr0gi]

what if she came back?

[kyariru-hikaeme]

Isn't she lovely? 💜