Synthwave System Q&A

Any asks for our system will be answered here and reblogged onto our main @synthwave-system to keep things more organized!

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About + Ask Rules

We are the Synthwave System! This is a sideblog where people can ask different alters things, get to know us, and maybe even get some advice! Why make a separate blog? We mostly use our main blog to reblog posts we find interesting, and if someone is looking for something one of us posted but doesn’t want to scroll through hours of reblogs then this is a cleaner way for that to happen ^^

We are a diagnosed (as of 2019) DiD Polyfragmented system of 200+ alters with 2 hosts (Sting and Colin) and 3 co-hosts (Wonho, TonyC, and Barney). Our Carrd has more info about us here:  https://synthwavesystem.carrd.co/# (last updated: 7/29/21)

Alters who will most likely be active here are:

Sting

Colin

Bill

Adrian

Barney

and Wonho

Any Alter on our Carrd can also be asked questions, but the likely hood of them answering is minimal unless in the Frequent Fronter list!

Rules for Asking!

Anon is on but we can and will block if we get anon hate!

We can refuse answering too personal questions!

Some alters are not human or from a source that doesn’t have the same experiences as we normally would! Please keep that in mind!

NO NSFW ASKS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING.

Hate wont be tolerated at all (this includes transphobic, homophobic, bigoted comments as we are a very diverse system) 

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where is Adrian from??? half life? /pos

Yeah I'm from Half Life! But I am technically a mix of two sources, meanin' I have memories from both sources but the memories are stronger with my main source. I'm mainly from Opposing Force/Half Life 1 with some sprinkled in headcanons, really my only connection to my other source is how I look since said source was made based off system wide headcanons. I honestly can't say if I'm connected to anything else in Half Life due to the fact the last thing I remember before forming was bein' stuck in GMan's dumb void copter before forming here, so there's a high chance I am only from the Opposing Force side of the fictive road!

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Hi! No idea if you‘re still active on this blog and this isn’t a system question but- what website did you use to make your header?

Hi! Were still very active- just haven't gotten a lot of asks lately ^^'

Our blog header was made by a vaporwave text generator site we found on reddit! I don't have the link anymore sadly as we made it a year ago, but we were able to find it just by googling it!

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Whats your headspace like?

Currently its like a big neighborhood! People have their own little homes and it looks kinda like one of those 80's movie suburban streets. There's a park down the street on one end thats next to a diner, that act kinda like a little common area.

Sting made a huge area that we can access through a door on the way to the fronting room that has a lake and Stings house that ey modeled after Sophies flower field in Howl's Moving Castle and its also where the centaur alters and now a few wolves live too.

To get to the fronting room we have to go into this hallway from a door that just kinda exists on the street of the neighborhood, Sting originally wanted to make the door work like Howls door where if you turn the door lock to a certain color it would take you to a different area but never could get it to work so theres just the void hall with four doors.

First door goes to the Neighborhood, Second one goes to the Fronting room, Third goes to the lake and the Fourth goes to the old headspace area but the void/wallpaper covers up the door now since we dont use it after expanding.

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Do you ever worry about being public about your system?

Sometimes, we've had pretty awful experiences with being open about our system in the past. When we were very new to being aware of the system we got called fake by a k/n and system Amino because we talked about a time where Alex as a joke put Wheatley in a closet in the old headspace which became a running joke in the headspace. Apparently they thought that meant we were faking lmao.

After that we got outed as a system and people we didn't even know started accusing us of faking for attention because we had one alter that was a introject of the same character- and at the time the only alters active were introjects- as the person who outed us. At this point we had started to try and be more public about our system by drawing silly little comics of us doing stupid shit, but we stopped after that.

We decided to become SUPER open about being a System more recently, about a year ago we got into HLVRAI and the AU side of the community- ended up getting to meet two of the creators of a AU and they asked if we wanted to join their discord server and we did. Ended up finding a very welcoming and open community with those people and met more systems, it helped our host Sting stop trying to keep the system on a down low and being afraid of splitting more people as well as us being more open online about being a system.

I'm sure there's still archived streams from one of our friends where Bubby would join in front and joke around on the streams VC call with everyone and their stream chat!

Of course there's still dangers with us being public, but for now, using this place and our own channel to try and not only talk about things we've experienced with the hopes it will help people, but also show singlets or new systems that it's really not something for people to be afraid of, and it's not what awful Hollywood movies portray it as either.

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Why would it be problematic? (in regards to your last ask)

According to previous system discords, having POC alters when you're not POC is r/cist because an alter saying that internally they are another race is the same thing as them going and talking about real world situations like the body is POC.

None of our alters have ever done that, we as a collective have no right speaking on certain things - one of our factives of a streamer got told he couldnt have a Chinese name because the body wasn't Asian despite the streamer and our factive of him is Chinese and he wasn't even trying to speak on anything other then trying to get a name that was different from the streamers online name. This situation also caused a lot of our K-Idol factives to hide from fronting outside of close system friend circles because they used their own names or even their stage names (like Wonho does) because to them that is their name.

We have for the majority of our life, split introjects from sources we have found comforting, the only introject thats from a non comforting source is a prosecutor and I will not go into that for a multitude of reasons - but mostly for safety reasons. We have a few POC alters yes, but that has never phased us until what happened with Damien happened as we always grew up in a huge POC community. We've heard from others its not problematic, and to us it is not.

NOW THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE ARE 100 CORRECT ON THIS- This is just going off of what we've been told! If we are completely incorrect or in the wrong please do tell us!

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So like…. You guys white or???

That- is none of your business?? I don't need to tell you my ethnicity or color of skin, or really anything about our real life things as I don't know who you or anyone following us are.

If this is because we have Korean alters, it literally does not matter what ethnicity or color we are. Again we cannot control what alters we get and they cannot control what their ethnicity is when they form. They dont run around telling people about their experiences that they remember from things we've learned about happening in their source, and they dont go around talking like things happened through the body or happening at all. Get off of our Tumblr if you think thats "problematic" or think its okay to ask personal questions like that.

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Ok I have to know- what was halloween like for your littles?

Halloween was super cute, lots of costumes and lots of candy! Our headspace is set up like a neighborhood, a lot of alters have either their own houses or certain groups have houses, so for the littles it was a lot like how external trick or treating would be!

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How do alters form? Curious :)

Alters can form from a multitude of reasons! We've talked about it lightly before but never really in depth.

Basically, the brain does a few things! When something stressful or something related to a trauma happens, the brain will create a alter that is specific in helping itself cope with whatever is happening externally (or even sometimes internally) and sometimes they can be from an existing source! We call them Factives or Fictives, but most of the time they're called Introjects.

Sometimes, especially with Polyfragmented systems, we can split just from thinking about something for too long. An example being; thinking about a specific situation and different possibilities that could have happened if you did something different. Which happens a lot with us haha

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Dont you think that having introjects of kpop idols is a bit weird?? Like?? Those are real people man

Yes they are real people, but we can't control what alters form. We have a lot of introjects from different Kpop groups, because we found videos of them comforting, not just the MV's but the videos where they were goofing around together and acting like a family! It's comforting for us to see people (especially friend groups) act like found family, because that's always been important to us!

As it stands, they never claim to be their source (the real life KIdols), while they might talk about the things they remember while living that life, but they will never sit there and claim they're their source. Trying to control what alter's you split is unhealthy, and dangerous to you and the system. That's true with other people trying to control who you split.

Tldr: don't try and control what alters people have, because since they cant do it either then why can you?

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How come so many alters have Sting in their name? Is it just a common name like your user or is there another meaning to it?

A lot of us Sting's are alternate versions of ourselves formed from over thinking a different choice in events that have happened over the last few years or just from over thinking in general! For example: the Centaur Sting formed after talking way too much with our partner system about us as centaurs and then we started drawing us as centaurs and well- now there's some centaur alters!

As for the name choice- I used to go by the name Stingray/ScreamingSting online a lot, my main internet persona being a transformers OC named Stingray being the source of it. And my online friends would call me "Sting" (sometimes Gray but we dont talk about that kjshfglksjhdfg) as a nickname and it just sorta stuck! Even to this day one of my closest gaming friends will call me Sting! So a few of my OC's would then be called Sting or Stingray due to that, and sometimes if I think too much about them or actually turn them into fleshed out characters, there's a chance our system splits them, especially since making characters and stories has been such a huge coping mechanism for me.

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I saw Wonho talking about KDramas on your other account and was wondering if hes the only one or why he started watching it?

Most of us Idol factives watch KDramas actually! I know Hongjoong started watching KDramas back in I think February? I formed back in May and started watching Vincenzo on Netflix during my free time when I wasn’t exercising the body, before I formed (back in my source) I would watch Netflix to help learn and understand English actually, so watching KDramas now is kind of like that but with Korean (the body has been learning Korean off and on for a year)

When I first formed I didn’t front much because I still didn’t know much English, but the other Idol alters helped me practice so I could front, I was really wanting to try it out then and when I realized I could do things I did in my source through the body (exercising and such) I offered to be a Co Host and ended up finding Netflix’s KDrama selection. And now I’m absolutely obsessed over the one I’m currently binging!

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Whats being a centaur like??

Well- it's not as complicated of a life as humans seem to have! We have our tribes/herds and dens, quiet days of farming for my tribe, others shepherd sheep and goats! We don't wear clothes or eat meat, and generally stay away from humans, they've been real awful to us - a lot of humans treat us like actual horses sadly... So we keep to ourselves!

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Something I dont hear about often enough is non-human alters struggling with being in a human body, like- I’m non-human, I’m a centaur! Walking around is strange enough because I can still feel my hindquarters while moving- dont even get me started on trying to move out of the way while closing doors like my back half would be in the doors path.

Sitting and laying down is a whole other story- human legs dont bend like my front legs would, and without my lower half I cant even figure out how to balance myself to sit right. Stairs were terrifying trying to go down when I first fronted, it was such a huge learning curve to try and navigate a human body, and no one talks about it enough!

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Question for Colin! You said in a previous ask that you were a introject of Sting?? How does that work??

So- basically what happened was that a event happened in the headspace that Sting regretted a choice ey made, and ey spent a few days thinking about what might have happened if ey did something differently. And that caused my (as I like to call it) timeline to come into existence and then I formed!

It's kind of like how you can get a introject of another person or alter from another system, but with one of your own alters instead!

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Is Sting a fictive of anyone??

Yep! I am a DHMIS fictive! Sting is really just a nickname based on my old user, my actual name is Sketch-Colin Computer! But my name now is Sketch-Colin Lee, I dropped Computer from my name pff- because like- thats just what I am! Not really a last name pff

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How do pets work in the innerworld (headspace?)??

We call it the headspace - but for us, sometimes alters will form with a pet or object that was important to them in their source! Sometimes we might want to have a pet - say a little wants a puppy or something - and someone can basically summon one! They aren't actual alters, but they act just like a real animal would! It kinda works like how summoning items and food does but with animals!