#subsystem

[moonpool-system]

Being a median subsystem and also the host is weird

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[thes0nnysystem]

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[darkmagenugget]

Midna's (Formerly Ifrit) (They/She/It) new form. Fused with me a long time ago, but still was around as a part of my subsystem. They had previously not had all their memories, but over time they started coming back. And with those memories comes a new form, and a new name. Hard to believe this is our little shadow ball with all its memories. But it loves the new form, and will still use the shadow ball form every once in a while. Midna is one of (Currently) 3 of the twilight sisters. Made of me (Dusk), Dawn, and Midna.

[isyoursystem]

If your system has multiple subsystems/sisasystems/subgroups, do their names follow a theme?

Yes, all of them

Yes, some

No

No subgroups/only one subgroup

Nuance

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Voting ended onMay 18

Eg. a lot of our sisasystems' names are related to space

[hikkikomori-moved-account]

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[semiplural]

i need help with something. is it possible to have two different…sides in one alter? for example, me, i can have two names that change depending on which i feel like being called. and when i want to be called that name, i feel different in the way i have a different personality but i’m still me. with one name, i’m more bitter and ‘human’, and with the other i’m more like a jester in a way. i know another alter who’s the same way, they have two names and different behaviours and personalities with both but it’s still them. i’m just confused and been having a little crisis about it…anyway.

— eli/eclipse (he/it)

Generally, if you're asking "is this experience possible" while having that experience, then the answer is yes. You are experiencing it. That means it's possible.

You don't have to call your experiences anything in particular, but what you're describing sounds a lot like how median subsystems describe their experiences.

A subsystem is a system within a system, so to speak: alters having their own alters. There are a lot of ways that can be experienced, and it varies between systems. Sometimes, it even varies within a system.

"Median" is a word that can describe any experience in-between "one undivided person" and "two or more separate people". What this means also varies a lot between systems (link has some examples), but I've seen a good number of median systems describe their experiences as having distinct sides or facets of themselves with their own attributes. It's still them, but it's a different part of them with its own identity on top of their own.

All that said: you don't have to use any of this language, and seeing yourself as a median subsystem is only one way of many to interpret this sort of thing. I know people with the same experiences who are comfortable understanding themselves as singlets- "it's all the same me, and I change". I know folks who see it as a form of passive influence from someone else in the system. There are probably at least half a dozen other interpretations out there, and you can always make sense of it outside of any particular framework. What matters is learning to live better with it, not putting it into a specific box.

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[interstellarchaosss]

An icon/something like that for the Sunfall Subsystem. Each section represents a different headmate in some way. We're pretty happy with it!