#roles: protector

[headmate-ideas]

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✦ Name(s): Sage, Cloudy, Red ✦ Emoji proxy: 🪶☁️ ✦ Pronouns: they/them, it/its, ix/ixs/ixself, e/em/eir/eirs/emself, ae/aer/aers/aerself, wing/wings/wingself, soar/soars/soarself ✦ Species: harpy ✦ Age: 35 ✦ Role(s): protector, aegir, scout, cupid, naturalist ✦ Labels: lesbian, butch, unaligned, stellarian, wilderic ✦ Likes: scented candles, pressed flowers, chain jewelry ✦ Dislikes: being inside for too long ✦ Xenos: the sky, chains, rock music ✦ Music taste: classic rock, power metal, thrash metal ✦ Aesthetic(s): gloomcore, golden hour, heavy metal aesthetic ✦ Kins: red-tailed hawk, cirrus clouds, chess pieces ✦ Nichelinks: guardian angel+ward, sun+moon, patron+pledge

✦ Description:

Sage is a hawk harpy who protects the system and explores the headspace to find newly split or uncovered headmates. It does not have a gender, but it considers itself a butch lesbian and relates somewhat more to women than to men. It is a guardian to everyone in the system, especially those it is close to.

✦ Relationship preferences:

Sage is a lesbian, in the sense of being a genderqueer person who dates women and other genderqueer people. It prefers feminine-presenting people and having butch4femme relationships. While most of the relationships [name] wants are romantic and not queerplatonic, a strong basis of friendship before the romantic component is important to it.

✦ Role performance:

Sage fronts during stressful situations for the system and defuses innerworld conflicts. It also explores parts of the headspace that other members of the system may be afraid of. It is generally very social within the system and is good at helping headmates make friends with each other.

✦ Presentation:

Sage is butch, which it expresses more through behavior and personality than clothing, although it does like wearing heavy chain jewelry that typically comes off as masculine. Its toughness and protectiveness are butch to it, as are things like going out in nature and taking care of people.

✦ Socialization:

Sage is fairly sociable, both in the innerworld and in the outerworld. It prefers in-person socialization and doesn't care as much about being individually recognized as a headmate, preferring to represent the system as a collective in in-person social events.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[steal-a-rodent]

☆ Steal-A-Rodent: Ketchup! ☆

This is based on Ketchup, a Mustard Plug songtive who split the year we saw them live. Ze is in a sidesystem that split in response to moving to a new area this year. The request was for a socializer, which is one of zyr roles, but ze also notably handles food tasks.

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✦ Name(s): Mustard, Burrito, Reed ✦ Pronouns: he/him, it/its, x/xs/xself, ze/zem/zyr/zyrs/zemself, zi/zir/zirs/zirself, ix/ixs/ixself, ska/skas/skaself, song/songs/songself, tone/tones/toneself, 🎷/🎷s/🎷self, 🎺/🎺s/🎺self, 🌯/🌯s/🌯self, 🌮/🌮s/🌮self, 🍲/🍲s/🍲self, 🥑/🥑s/🥑self ✦ Species: alien ✦ Age: 46 ✦ Role(s): socializer, chef, happiness holder, internal protector, mood booster, paichmate ✦ Labels: unlabelled, objectum ✦ Xenos: food, the ocean, space ✦ Likes: running errands, spicy foods, science fiction ✦ Dislikes: snow ✦ Music taste: ska, psychedelic rock, electroclash ✦ Aesthetic(s): two tone, naturalism, wacky pomo ✦ Objectum attraction(s): buildings ✦ Kins: stegosauruses, saxophones, jalapeno peppers ✦ Color palette: black, white, silver ✦ Personality traits: calm, upbeat, friendly ✦ Interests: culinary history, astronomy ✦ Hobbies: cooking, gaming ✦ Preferences: fast over slow, outside over inside ✦ Heart emoji: 🖤, 🤍, 💞 ✦ Emoji proxy: 🎷🌯

✦ Details:

Mustard is a two tone/ska alien who lived in Southern California in his timeline and is familiar with the music and food of the area. His favorite things are going to shows and cooking, and he always maintains a positive attitude. Ze is also good at helping calm down angry headmates.

✦ Role performance:

Mustard is very social, both offline and online. Offline, he likes seeing local bands perform, and online, he starts conversations over Discord by sending shitposts. He likes to cook, especially meal prep and low-effort foods when the system are tired.

✦ Personality:

Mustard is positive and sociable, and ze is rarely fazed by anything. Ze is good at helping people defuse their cognitive distortions, and ze almost never loses zyr temper. It disapproves of extremism in all forms and actively discourages members of its system from buying into binaries or us vs them thinking.

✦ Identity:

Mustard does not actively label its orientation or gender, but it presents as masculine and does not seem to experience attraction to people. It is, however, aesthetically and emotionally attracted to buildings, especially ones the system frequently visits.

✦ Interests and hobbies:

Mustard loves cooking and learning about food from all over the world, but especially Southern California and Mexico. It also likes video games and virtual worlds, especially multiplayer ones that are more about socializing than actually gaming.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[headmate-ideas]

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[Headmates may not turn out exactly as written, and that's okay.]

✦ Name(s): Divine, Solen, Raye, Delizek ✦ Emoji proxy: 🪽🌻 ✦ Pronouns: they/them, xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself, e/em/eir/eirs/emself, sun/suns/sunself, gold/golds/goldself, wing/wings/wingself, 🌻/🌻s/🌻self ✦ Species: deity ✦ Age: ageless adult ✦ Role(s): caretaker, protector, aegir, naturalist, spiritual headmate (optional), day fronter, early bird ✦ Labels: luxine, lumenoir, spiritine, omnisexual ✦ Likes: sunny days, gardening, religious studies ✦ Dislikes: negativity ✦ Xenos: sunshine, spirituality, nature ✦ Music taste: folk pop, garage rock, sunshine pop ✦ Aesthetic(s): solarpunk, psychedelica, cozycore ✦ Kins: sunlight, sunflowers, canaries ✦ Personality traits: caring, thoughtful, contemplative

✦ Description:

Divine is a deity of light, knowledge, and kindness who embodies these traits in their system. They consider themself a protector to humanity and to the Earth, and this comes through in how they treat the members of their own system. E has a few forms, including one that is just a ray of light and several that are angelic, but when taking a humanoid form, e wears warm colors (especially yellow and cream) and soft textures. If the system have any spiritual beliefs involving astral objects and/or nature, Divine practices these. While xe is normally self-assured, calm, and confident, xe sometimes worries xe is not doing enough for xyr system or for the people around xem. As a deity, xe is not particularly used to asking for help or reassurance.

✦ Relationship preferences:

For Divine, the emotional aspect of a relationship is more important than the physical aspect, although e is not necessarily entirely disinterested in sex or physicality. As a deity, Divine has a complicated relationship to the concept of "equality" in a relationship. E wants a partner e sees as being on "equal footing" with em, but this is sometimes hard because e perceives mortals inherently differently to em. E may do best in relationships with other divine headmates.

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[Headmates may not turn out exactly as written, and that's okay.]

✦ Name(s): Jacobi, Elliott, Azok ✦ Emoji proxy: 🐉💙 ✦ Pronouns: it/its, he/him, hy/hym/hys/hymself, x/xs/xself, xi/xir/xirs/xirself, dae/daem/daer/daers/daemself, claw/claws/clawself, 💙/💙s/💙self ✦ Species: draconic demon ✦ Age: ageless adult ✦ Role(s): anger holder, protector ✦ Labels: bi veldian, axvir, libramasculine ✦ Likes: cold temperatures, medieval folklore, fiber crafts ✦ Dislikes: cowards ✦ Xenos: power, the color blue, coldness ✦ Music taste: medieval rock, power metal, doom metal ✦ Aesthetic(s): medieval aesthetic, icepunk, metalhead ✦ Objectum attraction(s): swords ✦ Kins: dragons, fireflies, sunlight

✦ Description:

Jacobi is a demon whose form is draconic in nature and who is kin with dragons. It sees dragons as powerful, wise, authoritative, and honorable, and it emulates these traits. Honor and chivalry is very important to him, and he cannot stand those who lack those traits or whom he sees as cowards. Jacobi is very angry a lot of the time, and it feels righteous and unreasonable anger in about equal measure. It also sometimes has difficulty distinguishing the two. Jacobi has a tendency to take life and most situations very seriously, and it gets frustrated when others do not.

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✦ Name(s): Ellis, Hadden, Scott ✦ Emoji proxy: 🔎🎮 ✦ Pronouns: he/him, it/its, ey/em/eir/eirs/emself, ci/cir/cirs/cirself, vae/vaer/vaers/vaerself, clue/clues/clueself, sword/swords/swordself, zap/zaps/zapself, ?/?s/?self, 🔎/🔎s/🔎self, ⚔️/⚔️s/⚔️self, 🎮/🎮s/🎮self ✦ Species: human ✦ Age: 18 ✦ Role(s): protector, socializer, babysitter, reader, naturalist, trauma holder (optional) ✦ Labels: agender masculine, butch, aroace lesbian, wilderic, tekneo ✦ Likes: books, long walks, journaling ✦ Dislikes: disingenuous people ✦ Xenos: video games, detectives, courage ✦ Music taste: grunge rock, bitpop, post-rock ✦ Aesthetic(s): gamercore, 1940s vintage, urbancore ✦ Objectum attraction(s): buildings ✦ Kins: raccoons, duck toller retrievers, sage herbs, a detective character of your choosing ✦ Color palette: dark muted brown, forest green, slate, sepia ✦ Preferences: speedy over thorough, feelings over thoughts ✦ Values: truth, justice, bravery ✦ Favorite drinks: lemon-lime soda, black coffee, chocolate milk ✦ Desirdaes: hero, detective, competitive gamer

✦ Description:

Ellis is an 18 year old who holds some of the idealism of youth, as well as a strong and unwavering belief in right and wrong that sometimes seems simplistic to an older person. This means that, while he often makes well-meaning mistakes, he is a good protector to the system, especially to syskids, and helps them remember to do the right thing. Particularly, he is prone to checking in on the system's friends and considers himself good at calming people down from breakdowns.

✦ Fandom/media:

Ellis likes stories that feature clear heroes and villains, including a lot of high fantasy and detective stories. However, he also has an intellectual side that, in addition to being satisfied by the complexity of how a mystery story is set up, also leads him to historical fiction, post-modern literature, and philosophical novels. He sometimes admits he doesn't fully understand these stories and thus often looks up other people's discussions of them online to learn more.

✦ Interests and hobbies:

In addition to Ellis's literary interests, ey likes nature and the natural world, particularly the natural beauty of the area the system lives in. This includes learning to identify local plants and fungi. Ey also enjoys abandoned buildings and urban exploration, which includes a general interest in architecture as well. Ey also likes video games, but particularly from the angle of video games as a competitive sport or a form of socialization (he particularly likes playing fighting games at arcades), so ey sees video games very differently to books.

✦ Personality:

Ellis has a complex view of himself and the people around him. He holds ideals and values that he is completely comfortable with, but he understands that he is young and still learning, and also that what is comfortable is not always what is right. He always stands up for what he believes is right and always vigorously defends his beliefs and the people around him, but ey doesn't always know the best way to do that and also doesn't always understand that principles have to be balanced with practicality. However, his boldness and lack of fear in the face of danger should not be underestimated. He particularly cares about children, potentially influenced by the system's childhood trauma if applicable.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[headmate-ideas]

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✦ Name(s): Pasha, Pasharik, Yves, Dandelion ✦ Emoji proxy: 🦄❄️ ✦ Pronouns: he/him, they/them, ey/em/eir/eirs/emself, e/em/eir/eirs/emself, glow/glows/glowself, flor/flors/florself, snow/snows/snowself, zap/zaps/zapself ✦ Species: witch (non-human) ✦ Age: 27 ✦ Role(s): protector, gatekeeper, naturalist, reader, hobbyist ✦ Labels: veldian, solarian, droxinine, masculine, alloace, graysexual, florauna, magicgender ✦ Likes: books, nature trails, winter ✦ Dislikes: excess heat ✦ Xenos: magic, nature, weather ✦ Music taste: psychedelic pop, chamber pop, ethereal wave ✦ Aesthetic(s): icepunk, witchcore, naturecore ✦ Objectum attraction(s): crystals, divination tools ✦ Kins: unicorns, dandelions, snowstorms ✦ Color palette: navy blue, rich indigo, deep periwinkle, silver ✦ Personality traits: calm, inquisitive, old-fashioned ✦ Interests: high fantasy literature, botany ✦ Hobbies: gardening, tarot reading ✦ Values: honesty, connection, nature

✦ Description:

Pasha is a witch who has power over nature, particularly ice, plants, and electricity. While nature is what he affects, he gets his power from emotions, including his own. For the sake of his magic, he tends to keep a level head and isn't prone to overly strong feelings. This makes him a calm protector for the system. One way that Pasha uses their powers is to summon other headmates. Ey creates a flower with magic - a rose by default, but it's often a flower that reflects whoever they're summoning. The flower becomes larger and larger, and the petals close and then unfurl, and the desired headmate walks out from the flower.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

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✦ Name(s): Jed, Shade, Rocky, Pine ✦ Pronouns: he/him, it/its, that thing/that thing's, e/em/eir/eirs/emself, xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself, ix/ixs/ixself, howl/howls/howlself, stab/stabs/stabself, gore/gores/goreself, paw/paws/pawself, claw/claws/clawself, fang/fangs/fangself, 🐺/🐺s/🐺self, 👁️/👁️s/👁️self, 🔪/🔪s/🔪self, 🌲/🌲s/🌲self ✦ Species: shapeshifter ✦ Age: same as body ✦ Role(s): paranoia nullifier/symptom manager, protector, replacer, hobbyist, naturalist ✦ Labels: agender masculine, aroallo, fictoromantic, trixic, macarshric, zanicesh, discomfic, canisgender, othellic, wilderic, beltzaain ✦ Xenos: teeth, forests, the color black ✦ Likes: body horror, analog photography, plague doctors ✦ Dislikes: direct sunlight ✦ Music taste: harsh noise wall, power noise, post-industrial, electrogrind ✦ Aesthetic(s): gloomcore, drainer, medicalcore ✦ Objectum attraction(s): stuffed animals, buildings, paintings, cameras, knives, VHS tapes, medical equipment ✦ Kins: eldritch, werewolves, the moon ✦ Color palette: black, midnight blue, forest green, army green ✦ Emoji proxy: 🐺👁️

✦ Details:

Jed is based on the horror genre, specifically the element of horror that is derived from transformations or the mixing of humanity with non-humanity. He spends most of his time in either a human form or a black wolfdog form, but he can also turn into a monstrous version of the wolfdog that is larger with more limbs, eyes, and faces. Jed gravitates towards art, music, and topics that other people consider unpleasant, scary, gross, or "too much". Its comfort with things that other people often dislike translates to a general calmness in the face of things that others find stressful, as well as an immunity to paranoia. It prefers to front alone, including taking front to replace headmates who are stressed.

✦ Identity:

Jed is mostly but not exclusively attracted to femininity, regardless of the actual gender of the person in question. It considers itself moreso NBLW than MLW but doesn't feel either description is entirely accurate. Jed is aro-spec and more romantically attracted to fictional people than real people, especially women from horror media, who that thing normally perceives as feminine non-binary people. It uses masculine terms without actually being a man, rather relating to neogenders and xenogenders.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

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✦ Name(s): Uriel, Ronnie, Davey ✦ Emoji proxy: 🪽🌃 ✦ Pronouns: he/him, it/its, hy/hym/hys/hymself, xi/xir/xirs/xirself, ci/cir/cirs/cirself, wing/wings/wingself, night/nights/nightself, 🌃/🌃s/🌃self ✦ Species: alterhuman ✦ Age: 16 ✦ Role(s): assidumate, manager, caretaker, protector, babysitter/curadare ✦ Labels: demiboy, bisexual, loomaine ✦ Likes: late nights, public transportation, architecture ✦ Dislikes: being bored ✦ Xenos: shadows, angels, coffee ✦ Music taste: grunge rock, post-industrial, shoegaze ✦ Aesthetic(s): liminal spaces, urbancore, brutalism ✦ Personality traits: responsible, brave, caring ✦ Preferences: big cities over small towns, detailed over superficial ✦ Values: courage, wisdom, other people ✦ Media taste: shonen anime, superhero comics, indie webtoons

✦ Description:

Uriel is a teenage demiboy who is heavily kin with angels, especially the idea of an angel as a protector of a city or a location. He performs everyday tasks and responsibilities for the system and sees this as being akin to an angel taking care of the city they guard. He dresses in a grunge style with a lot of hand-altered clothes, especially distressed sweatshirts and hoodies with quote and lyrics embroidered onto them.

✦ Personality:

Uriel, to many people, seems wise and mature beyond his years, as he is very responsible, has a strong moral and protective streak, and is good at taking care of syskids and age regressors. However, beneath this, he is subject to a lot of the emotional instability and turmoil that teenagers are prone to, and while he has a good heart and usually does the right thing, he can be a little extreme or black and white about certain things.

✦ Socialization:

Uriel has a complicated relationship to socialization. It likes people and being around them, and it wants close friendships very much. However, it does not do well with small talk, doesn't always know how to interact in group settings, and does not like large crowds. It therefore comes off as something of a loner except to the system's close friends, with whom it talks frequently.