#fb sys questions

[firebrandseraph]

System question thing

What's it like when not being in front? If anyone can explain It?

I'm just curious and would like to know

Thank you!

Sure thing, it's a little difficult to explain and the experience can be very different between systems, so bear in mind this is just for our own experience.

For us its mostly just blank, unless co-conscious which feels kind of like being on a video call with the front. Its hard to explain really, I hope that makes a shred of sense.

In our inner world it appears like a viewing screen lol but it has the same feeling of a video call.

Being "blank" when out of front is just memory gaps, really, it's like going to sleep and then needing to take a few seconds to realise where we are and such. Its not stressful because we're used to it unless there's a new alter on which case it can take longer if nobody in the system is around to help. Plus our routine is so regular which helps avoid confusion.

Hope this helps at all, sorry if its hard to visualize what we mean.

-Seraph [he/cyr/██]

[firebrandseraph]

System ask about something I haven't got my head around fully but would like too

I've seen like on simply flags ones for like system eaters, ones that eat for the system, and other stuff like that, could you explain that properly for me please??

And how members get their roles/how to determine their roles, if they even have any???

Anyway I'm just a bit confused, thank you!!

+fd%%yug <- snake wisdom from our lord and savior Oreo

Okay anyway - those are basically explanations of their job in the system.

E.g. an eater would front if the system needs a specific alter to get their food for any reason.

For example we have Connor who front when our eating disorder flares up, in order to make sure we dont skip meals, but there's any number of reasons someone might be an eater - it might be for positive reasons, such as an eater who has that role because they enjoy eating more than the rest of the system. Its a bit of a vague one to explain lol

As for getting/understanding roles, sometimes its assigned at formation, and sometimes its acquired over time. An alter might split off to fill a role specifically but there are also many cases where they dont have one to start with, and will choose or naturally fall into one - that being said not all alters need to have a role, sometimes they can just be there. And roles can change over time :>

-Seraph [he/cyr/██]

[firebrandseraph]

System ask!!/nfta

What colour has the most headmates associated with it?

Is there at least one headmate of every colour? Like one associated with red, another green, like that??

!!! /pos

Okay so we have at least one alter for every color :> those will be under the cut because its a list.

As for the most associated with one color, I think its fairly equal between red, black and blue, but we have multiple of each color association, even though each has a main alter association.

-Seraph [he/cyr/██]

Colors:

Red = Reid (color themed name lol)

Orange = me, Seraph

Yellow = Solar

Green = Gooberry

Blue = Cerulean (again, lol)

Purple = Eliana

Pink = Scythe

Black = Cole

White = Thiuyu

Gray = Matthew

Brown = Archa

Gold = also Seraph (me)

Silver = Silver (again)

[firebrandseraph]

Another system ask!!!

What term(s) do you use for alters? (eg. alters, parts, identities, people, headmates, etc.) Feel free to share reasoning!

Yippee :>!! Thank you for the question hehe

We tend to alternate between "alters" or "headmates", no particular reasoning why we change, it just be like that lol. Typically "alters" is the most common one we use and prefer to be used on us but "headmates" is also good!

The reason we dont use "parts" or "identities" is because it feels restrictive on the individuality of each of us, it feels like it negates the fact that we are separate and we like being separate. It helps for us to express it, not suppress it, suppressing our system tends to lead to periods where we lose internal communication and dont switch at all from the host (this is bad in case you weren't aware :p leads to host changes because they get worn out of being in front and overall just feels bad)

And we dont use "people" because it sounds awkward lol. Only for the bit if applicable :p

We have also seen systems use customized ones based on their system theme (like a galaxy themed system might call their alters "stars", or a beach themed system might call them "pebbles" or smth, to represent their part in the whole), those are really fun to hear about, but we dont prefer it for ourselves :>

-eclipse [they/it/xe]