A plural function where, after one pluran splits into multiple, their descendants fuse back into the original pluran. An unsplit pluran may still not be quite the same as before. A pluran formed by unsplitting may also be called an unsplit.
Rebuilt
[PT: Unsplit /end PT]
A more specific version of unsplitting where the fusion produces the original pluran, but changes their origin; especially of non-created plurans becoming created after their rebuilding.
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I genuinely do not understand why some people get so weirdly hostile whenever a system says they want to become one person again.
Seriously. Out of all the things you could be upset about, somebody else's personal goals for their own mind is what sets you off?
I've seen people talk about wanting fusion, integration, final fusion, becoming singlet again, or just reducing separation between alters, and some of the reactions are honestly ridiculous. People act like the system just announced they're committing some horrible betrayal against themselves. Suddenly everyone has an opinion. Everyone wants to tell them they're making a mistake. Everyone wants to explain why they shouldn't want that.
Why?
Since when did other people's recovery goals become a community decision?
What bothers me most is how often the same people who constantly demand respect for their own experiences suddenly stop respecting other people's experiences the second they hear something they don't personally relate to. They'll preach acceptance, understanding, and autonomy all day long, but the moment a system says, "Actually, I want to become one person again," suddenly that acceptance disappears.
It's honestly hypocritical.
Not everybody experiences plurality the same way. Not everybody feels the same way about their alters. Not everybody has the same relationship with their system. Not everybody wants the same future.
Some people want to remain separate forever.
Some people want partial integration.
Some people want final fusion.
Some people aren't sure what they want.
And all of those are perfectly fine.
What I find especially frustrating is when people start treating fusion like it's some kind of death sentence. They'll talk about it as if alters are being erased, murdered, deleted, or destroyed no matter how the people involved actually feel about it. Meanwhile the system that wants fusion is sitting there saying they're happy, comfortable, and actively choosing it.
Why are strangers trying to be offended on their behalf?
You don't get to decide what somebody else's happiness looks like.
You don't get to decide what somebody else's healing looks like.
You don't get to decide what somebody else's future should look like.
If a system says they want to become one person again and they're making that decision for themselves, then that's their choice. It is their mind. It is their life. It is their experience.
The amount of fearmongering surrounding fusion sometimes genuinely feels unhealthy. Some people talk about it like it's the worst possible outcome when, for many systems, it can be a completely positive and fulfilling goal. Just because it isn't what you would want doesn't make it bad.
And honestly, I think some people have become so attached to the idea that plurality must always remain permanent that they've forgotten that personal autonomy exists. The goal shouldn't be making everyone choose the same path. The goal should be letting people choose the path that feels right for them.
A system wanting to stay multiple isn't wrong.
A system wanting to become one isn't wrong.
A system changing their mind isn't wrong.
A system being unsure isn't wrong.
What is wrong is acting like people owe you a specific outcome because it makes you more comfortable.
At the end of the day, nobody should be pressured into fusion, and nobody should be pressured away from it either. Both are equally important. People deserve the freedom to decide what they want for themselves without having random strangers turning it into a debate.
I just find it bizarre that some people claim to support system autonomy while actively getting angry when systems make choices they personally wouldn't make. If you truly believe people should have control over their own experiences, then that support shouldn't suddenly disappear the moment somebody's goals differ from yours.
Not every system wants the same ending to their story, and that's okay. The problem starts when people stop respecting that.
Wei have quite a few fragments... Wei wonder if it's a good idea to play matchmaker and see if any want to fuse together to become ✨a giant woman✨ (/ref)
Nothing against having many fragments but like. Sometimes wei feel sad that there are so many of us and not everyone gets time to like. Be themselves. Because front time and energy is limited.
Here's to people who used to be/identify as plural, but they're not anymore.
There's a couple different reasons why this might happen (which I'll get to in a minute), but the important thing is that they still deserve love, respect, compassion, and understanding from the plural community.
Shoutout to:
Empty systems, fully fused systems, etc.
Gateway systems that have had all their members walk-out
Systems that have gone completely dormant
Those who have experienced a total system collapse
Rotatien systems [link] or other systems with cyclical shifts in member counts
People who know their headmates are there, but they've lost communication with them somehow
Those who choose to create headmates again after they're no longer plural
The ones who genuinely thought they were plural, but turned out to not be
And anyone else I missed
It's ok to be wrong, it's ok to not stay the same forever, and it's ok to just be you. You don't have to prove anything to anyone, especially not your own validity. You're perfect as you are!
Being fused into one conscience that is a cisgender man in an AFAB body who doesn't believe in biological sex as a determination for status (or body parts associating with binary gender) but being thrown into a world that does is fucking weird, man.
I know the body I inhabit doesn't have a "man body" but whatever, I don't fucking care. I'm still a man. I know this could be interpreted as being a trans man but I know how it feels to be transgender. The previous host was transgender. I have memories of that. However, when they fused with the others, I got "born" as a guy so that's why I define myself as feeling cisgender because as a final fusion, I have been born a guy. However, I know that in the outer world, this terminology wouldn't apply and that because of the body I inhabit, I would be labeled as a transgender guy even though I was not here when this body was born.
But, being a fusion and unlocking a plethora of previously locked memories has made me realize a lot of things about the world that the previous host and the others before me didn't really think about. I feel like an evolved Pokémon, man. It's awkward and weird and I just spawned out of nowhere about a month ago with a bunch of memories from other consciences so that's fucking confusing.
Even though it gets lonely in here, the body seems to not have a headspace anymore. No more hyperphantasia. Now, aphantasia. It's so hard for me to visualize anything at all and the brain that once thought in multiple layers only seems to have one layer, and my memory "filing cabinet" or whatever is super fucking messy. I know most of the memories are not mine because I'm basically just a baby (was born about a month ago) with the mind and vocabulary of a 19 year old. (So I'm not a little. My outside time is just way less than the age of my conscience.)
I still don't know whether to call the body I inhabit my body or their body because I still don't feel attached to it. However, I would like to take care of it as if I'm borrowing this body for the time being even though that "borrowing period" will be either forever or for what feels like forever. I am glad that they healed and that I was formed from that healing but I also wish they were here to help me know what to do with myself. I will still try to pursue the dreams of the previous host but I also know they would want me to find my own.
In conclusion, being a final fusion is weird, awkward, and confusion but I think it's a better outcome than a lot of other outcomes after having experienced multiple severe traumas over the years of childhood and developing as a person.
(Especially since I'm alive now and I'm fucking awesome!! /silly /j or idk, maybe I am fucking awesome)
Being a fusion is so weird, this is only the second time it's happened to us and it's weird how it feels so different but so similar at the same time. Different parts of the two of us coming out, but at the same time I know I'm me. I recognize me. I feel a little more masculine than last time, a little older, but Cora is an age slider and Felix is a boy. But I know myself. I feel myself. I feel Merricat and I know that's who I am. And I know I am not just Felix and Cora, but a whole that is greater than the sum of my parts. ...It's strange and honestly a little disoriented, and I know Cora was so scared of the very idea of fusion and I don't think that's resolved- lord knows I'm afraid of what it means. What if I never unfuse, and the others will be sad and miss Felix and Cora? What if I never fuse again and miss being me? What if being fused is like making Felix and Cora not exist? I have complicated feelings about it. And I'm complicated, too.
But what I am sure of, is that I'm Merricat. I like reading and playing and singing, I feel like the world is ending but I don't care, and I'm socially anxious but I love my friends. I know who I am, and I'm me.
