latchtive
A latchtive is a headmate who considers themself sourced from something, but rather than strictly originating as that thing, they latched onto it as an identity or source sometime following when they came to exist in the system. An example of this would be a fragment that did not elaborate into a full headmate until the system watched a movie with a character with similar traits as the fragment, who then latched onto that character and became an introject of them. With a latchtive, it tends to be that the headmate/fragment/part/etc. latching onto the external identity did not have a very strong sense of identity beforehand, or was not a full headmate before taking on this identity. Some latchtives may view the external identity as being responsible for or helpful in causing them to develop a full sense of identity at all. However, none of this is necessary as part of the term, just the idea that a headmate somehow became an introject of some kind or gained a source but after coming to exist in the system.
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