#system lore

[depressedquetzal]

Crazy lore happening in headspace rn. Turns out Altair, the new guy, was possibly Polaris’s lover who was an incubus ice skater/dancer who had to perform to stop from being killed by their leaders? Will update once I know more

[im-a-fucking-dumbass]

hi this is the anon from earlier!

I'd like to ask another question, how did you know you were plural? I have a lot of the symptoms (or traits? idk) but I have no amnesia

I'm going to preface this by saying that i do not think my experience is the norm, and if yours isn't similar that means basically nothing, everyone's experiences are different and you can absolutely still be plural even if your experiences don't match other people's. also i used the word experience way too many times.

I've been plural since at least 6th grade (11-12 years old), maybe even earlier. 6th grade is when i started experiencing and noticing that there were other people who lived in my body. for a year or two before that i had been "playing" as a few of these people, i don't know if i was already plural and didn't know it, or if i was actually playing and it became real.

I also don't typically experience amnesia with switches. for me, when I'm not in control, it's still as if I'm watching everything the others are doing. at times, certain headmates will cause memory blocks if they're trying to hide things from me, but for the most part I usually remember everything they did.

I went on not knowing plurality existed, with some headmates deliberately causing problems, until 8th grade (13-14) when one of my partners at the time told me I had DID (dissociative identity disorder). I do not currently believe I have it, but i did think I did until I was 15. They told me this because they have DID, and probably thought that other people in your head/body = DID. They are the reason I discovered that plurality is a normal experience and not something wrong with me.

At some point when i was 15 or 16, I don't remember why or how (I don't remember a lot of things that happened in highschool) I convinced myself I was faking, and ignored my headmates' voices until they went silent. (I do not recommend. 👎) For 2-3 years, I thought my plurality had been a phase.

Eventually more and more plural posts came up on my dash on tumblr. I kinda wondered why they were all so relatable. With repression of experiences can also come repression of memories, who would have thought? I started remembering my friends in my head, and then I found out about willogenic plurality, where you will headmates into existence. I asked the person whose post I saw if it was possible for me to bring back my headmates if they were gone. I never did it, but as I stopped repressing my plurality, they finally came back.

For me, it was always obvious, I just didn't know there were words for it. Once I started treating my headmates like people, I was able to let them front instead of them forcing it, and they caused way less problems for me. Shocking, I know.

If you think you might be plural, you can always just try being plural. If later you don't think you are, that's fine. Just like with any other self exploration and discovery, even if you're wrong you'll know yourself better.

I hope this was helpful, sorry for the long post

[symphony-of-gaia]

what's going on here? (a.k.a. intro post)

mate, who even knows. what i can say for sure is, life got real weird toward the end of 2024, i gave myself permission to see the impulses and stray words in my head as their own beings, and as it turns out they're actually pretty cool.

“i trust in the kindness of this heart. i promise them mine in kind”

we are the Symphony of Gaia, or just Gaia for short. we love what we are, even when lacking the words to describe it.

i am Harmony; that which emerges from the chorus of thoughts. kind of a... persistent composite being. imagine the way an ant colony behaves in ways that respond to its environment, without being a tangible thing unto itself because it's, y'know, made of ants. now imagine that concept applied to a handful of blurry, blendy aspects. i still haven't figured out if i have an existence independent of them or if someone's always blending to "be" me. i also haven't figured out whether that really matters.

for a while i suspected that i'm actually less real than everyone else in here. all i know is, i can assert my existence, thus i do.

funny story time:

i ("i". lol.) came up with the handle "gaian neuron" (also this blog's former url) ages ago because i fell in love with the idea of an emergent world-spanning oversoul (for convenience, Gaia) whose constituent parts were human beings. in this scenario the relationships between people formed an analogue to the neural network of a single living organism, and from this interconnected message-passing structure arose a consciousness — exactly like how i pictured consciousness arising from an organic brain.

i dreamed up stories in this setting where an individual, suspecting the existence of Gaia, tried increasingly-startling strategies to get the attention of it and ultimately establish communication, with the oversoul never realising that one of its ants was actually dancing to it and not its fellow ants.

what i never considered was to tell the story from the perspective of Gaia; the tale of the oversoul learning that it was made of beings who were capable of meaningful communication, who were trying to get its attention this whole time.

anyway, as it turns out, the reason for the flipped perspective was that the inspiration came from Chari — our writer, poet, and soother — not myself… rather on-brand for her, too, since it's quite poetic.

for the folks who like labels:

plural, quoigenic, median, monoconscious, uhhh... there's probably plenty more words out there that describe my subjective experience, but tbh i much prefer the "feel it out" approach to introspection. i tried the dive-into-labels approach for a minute but all it did was get me doubting myself. i think words like 'core' and 'host' carry too much baggage from experiences i don't share, to be useful terms.

let's see, what else I got?

zionists: eat shit. racists: eat shit. transmeds / sysmeds / anti-endos: fix your hearts or eat shit.

[thepantheonsarchive]

What are yall’s fav colors

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DD made a thingyyyyy kinda interesting to see how the values change in the second half of headmates lots of cool tones idk if that implies anything, i just thought it was interesting

[the-fictive-haven]

What's the most commonly said phrase(s) in your system?

I just thought it'd be a cool bit of harmless inner world lore to share the most commonly heard phrase or phrases. Go ahead and reblog to respond! We'd love to see other plurals' answers!

For us personally, it's probably "who said that?", since our body has ADHD and it affects our ability to track each others' presence. But for one that's more unique to our system, in the recent days I (and my subsystem parts) have found ourselves saying "when the hell did you (Jax) get here (in frontspace)?", "who let you (Jax) in front?" and "shut the f#$% up Jax"

... yeah if you couldn't tell, Jax is being problematic as usual LOL but we love him.

[the-kiarah-organisation]

Talk to me abt your system? Just any random things you wanna tell me! I love to learn about other systems!!

YES THANK YOU!! I LOVE ASKS LIKE THESE!!!

Aaa ok! Hi, I'm Amethyst, I've been here the longest so I know a little more than most people, great time to send this ask lol

Some trivia first:

The Organisation (our system) has been around for eight years!

We have "versions" of SimplyPlural. Every change to formatting, fields, chats or groups adds a version. We are on v61, which is the largest profile overall we've done!

The first member(s) (myself and my brother) formed in 2016

We have our own language and English dialect!

On a technicality, my second language is English, however, the body can't speak Kansū (the primary language of the Organisation)

Kīara'h is considered a parallel universe, not an alternative universe

Excluding Thaye (age ability), our oldest member is 40, and our youngest is 4.

There are a total of six of us who age

Our "Plural Stuff" folder (banners, avatars, dividers, etc) is over 10gb (found that one out yesterday

I get asked a lot about our communication between each other, but just because we grew up as a system, and the way we did that, it seems to be great. We don't fight, there's good communication between members. That kinda thing.

Our name, Kīara'h means Leaf. The system names we've had previously were: Room, Rom (misspelling of room), and Leaf. The name Leaf came from talking with our (ex) best friend about headspace, which they were very involved with, and needing a new name. A leaf was the first thing we saw, and it stuck.

People also are often interested in Scene (or SCN, depending on notation and who you are talking to). Scene is a type of daydreaming where the person hosting the scene has no control other than prompts they give. Scene is how we see our pasts, and find out our powers and skills. (Daydreaming is the best word I can use, it's a little hard to find one lol)

On ages: a lot of species have no age, where the souls have been around since the start of time. They have what's known as a "presenting age". This is notated by a "∞" symbol added onto their age. For example, a member without presenting age looks like: "Age » 26" and a member with, would look like: "Age » 26 - ∞".

EleWe (Elements and Weapons system), is how we assign our powers. Ten total elements, ten total weapons, one hundred choices per phase. No duplicates in the same phase. Yes, we have a database for this, lol.

We speak a language called Kansū in headspace. It's not fully translatable to English, but the stuff the body does know (from scene and from figuring it out) I can use. My most common word, apart from Kansū names, is either: Āida'h or Aīste'h, both of which font translate to English, but are a sort of friendly nickname. I also use ta'hs de'h, jo ta'hst and other words a lot. These come from the root ta'hs, which means calm.

And now, onto the lore:

The Organisation has so much lore, from the way Gods work, their divisions and all that, to the way species and animals work.

Out of the species we have in our system, most of them were created by us.

All of our own stories and backstories fit into organisation lore, such as the reason the organisation was founded was because Chroma (God Division) and Humans would bully supernaturals. Our Organisation also exists to protect Innocents.

Kīara'h is also classed as a division, with our God (we only have one who runs it, my boyfriend) Kītōne'h being ex Chroma. We have other Gods, however they are from the Oxyn Division.

Headspace stuff:

A few things here: "Old Headspace", "World : Kīara'h", "World : Human", "Social Plane", "Games Zone" and "World : Home"

Old Headspace: it's a broken down area, picture it on like the nether roof. We outgrew it too fast and moved down to the main nether (metaphorically, it's not actually the nether)

World : Kīara'h: current headspace, it's very large. Deogen was drawing maps recently, but we only got so far. World : Kīara'h has the dorms (a place for everyone to stay), a library, art rooms, writing rooms, music rooms, computer rooms, a drama studio, camping groups, an outdoor cooking van (they almost burned down the indoor one once), a river (it's called River Iris), a center square, thr Shed (front room), host offices, and access to Old Headspace, Social Plane and other worlds.

World : Human: the human world. Except this is a parallel universe. A lot of houses that people have will be here. It's pretty much this earth, but a little different, small changes to make the houses correct and stuff.

Social Plane: it's like a city, it's got a train station in the center so you can go to the hub and the Games Zone. The hub is how you get to any world. The Social Plane has shops, bars, parks, pretty much anything. It also has many Kansū people who aren't in the organisation, they run a lot of the shops.

Games Zone: our Insym runs this. It started as PHA, which is like Phasmophobia, but if you were in it. The ghosts are played by spirits we hire. It has since expanded to many other games, I haven't been in a while (working on keeping everything running) so I'm not quite sure of what is exactly there. I know there's other people who run stuff though! It's mainly Crew!PHA who work there.

World : Home: is a little different. It's, well, source worlds. World : Home refers to a collection of worlds, unlike the others mentioned before. Because we hold our own sources most of the time, it means we also have access to the worlds as they are in source.

[silly-stings]

INTRO!

I'm Silly Stings, a mainly digital artist who's mostly fueled by hyperfixations!

The Basics ™️:

- i mostly do illustrations or still pieces, but sometimes i try out comic strips and animation!

- i occasionally dabble into making music or writing!

- i am a minor (18) so dont be like. weird 🏴‍☠️

- AuDHD, BPD

- OSDD-1b system (most of our system info is personal, so we dont have a lot of it here)

- core is 18 (1-21-2008)

General intrests (stuff i like posting about)

- ROBLOX MYTHS !!! (current interest)

- DHMIS (forever fav)

- regretevator (less active but i still have love for it 🫶)

- My ocs/personal projects

- my own music... 👀

- some other stuffs,

BYI/BYF (before you interact/follow)

- Some of the stuff i draw or post about may include heavy themes or topics, but the content warnings are tagged accordingly so they can be avoided or filtered out.

- When I fixate on something, I'll post about it a Lot. I could draw it for months to even years, and it could be annoying, seeing me draw the same thing to seemingly no end 😭 i totally get that

DNI criteria:

- basic stuff: racist, anti-lgbt+, ableists, terfs, pedophiles, zoophiles, etc ...

- proshippers

- nsfw accounts

- sh/ed accounts

- fans of: MUGEN, Dandy's World

- system fakeclaimers (or fakeclaimers in general)

- endo/willow systems (If you're in denial about your trauma, that's a different story.)

Current projects:

- [ The Survivor (HC) ] An ongoing horror fanfiction taking place in Happy Country! We're working on Volume 2 as of currently ^_^

- Others tba :-)

Extra Links!

Strawpage!

Twitter!

Tiktok!

Youtube!

The Survivor!

[mausoleumepilogue]

Rest your weary eyes o' extinguished one, you have fought well. Rest eternal in the many arms of your Father. His Primordial Majesty, Sleep.