hey!! so i'm pretty new to fickin and i just wanted to ask, what are systems and fictives? i've never really gotten a solid answer out of anybody because they think i'm stupid sbsbsb
Okay I can’t tag this but I’m gonna try to be active again hhhhh
So a system is basically like… Multiple souls sharing a body, kinda. Idk how to explain it all too well, but they can happen through trauma and are most common in people with DID. However, multiplicity (which is another way of saying something like a system, though hopefully without offending anyone ahaaa…) in and of itself does not have to be formed through trauma. For example, I’m a soulbonder, meaning I have spirits of characters living with me that formed without any major trauma on my end. They just kinda… Happened lmao
Fictives are headmates of a typical system that ID as/are fictional characters. Generally, this is used for situations where a DID-type system is formed via trauma. I, for example, don’t refer to my anime ghosts as “headmates” or “fictives” as it works a bit differently with soulbonding, mine are just. Soulbonds. Typically, the term “fictive” is reserved for people in the system other than the “original”, which is the first sentient being in the body.
Idk how to say this in more detail aha… If anyone else has any input they’re free to add it on here.
~ Mod Cipher
as a system I’m gonna say:
systems/multiplicity are complex, trauma based coping mechanisms and very different to soulbonding and thoughtforms, though those can present like a system. fictives, or fictional introjects, are alters that adopted the appearance and/or mannerisms of a fictional character to help navigate the life around them or protect/hide otherwise painful memories. not all alters are fictives, but all fictives are alters; and fictives are NOT kintypes, they are that character in the flesh, but fictives can HAVE kintypes.
