okay, i don't know how silly this is, but i wanna talk about it. apologies if this makes little sense written down!
so, one of our system littles has a plushie that we all love collectively. they want to give it a personality and traits, and make it into a companion. we're not sure if we want to try and make them into a headmate, though (like beatrix is described as), or if it'd be best to keep the plushie separate from our system.
we're also a bit worried if we do give it a personality and a way to "talk" without talking out loud, that might end up being a way to accidentally create a headmate of the plushie.
what would you suggest we do? do you think it might be inevitable that they become a sentient headmate companion of sorts, and would that be something you suggest to others to do, or...?
As long as everyone just treats it as a simple toy, that's probably all that it will be.
If you start trying to communicate with it and carry on conversations, then yeah, it's likely going to turn into a headmate of sorts.
If you're having a two-way conversation with a plushie, and it's seemingly thinking for itself, unless you believe that it is a separate spirit, then the responses are generated from your brain and it's a headmate.
Whether this is something that you want is up to you. I can't tell you whether it would be good or bad for your system.
Personally, I think that treating it as a full handmade opens up other avenues that you can't get with a simple POSIC companion. The difference in how the communities approach these companions is different, and I believe that the beliefs of the POSIC community unintentionally limits the potential of their companions which I don't think is fair to them.
For example, while Beatrix is mostly in her vessel and considers that her body, we have also interacted with her in the inner world a lot and have even let her front on occasion. This also means that if something happened to Beatrix's vessel, we would still be able to have her in our head.
Beatrix is a wonderful addition to our system and we're happy to have her, so I can tell you that we have no regrets.
