hivewide hell

purely because there's not enough doctors who can diagnose you "professionally", you might not know the trauma outright WHEN trying to diagnose you,

in addition to that, last time I tried getting us diagnosed it was roughly a 3 week stay in a mental hospital just to be smacked with "yeah you disassociate" which SUCKS because

that doesn't explain the stress causing 60 new voices or presences I get in the body, repeatedly, at major inconveniences or when it piles up just to roll downhill

it doesn't explain how I can see a world inside the body that isnt real the same way sitting in bed is real,

it doesn't explain being told by talking anthro versions of animal stuffed animals "yeah I've been here since the body was roughly ten" and you're JUST NOW discovering these guys exist,

pesudo memories are the memories from "before" being in the body whatever that might be,

the living library is our quite literaly living database of everyone's pesudo memories and bodily memories, that takes form of every form of documentation and sense a memory possiblity could be stored in

the living library has an introjected version of itself named "keeper" for us who both handles "intruders" to the library and acts as a gatekeeper, assigning and taking away memories as needed when possible, this is important as he is what keeps the main front room who has pesudo memories of over 6,000 different lives sane and stable, limiting which memories are accessable in what forms.

"helpers" are alters assigned to one of the main gatekeepers who are room introjects in our system, as though there are only 6 of them at the moment they are currently the most important alters to keep the system stable, running, and managed properly.

introjects are guys who are physically, or mentally based off a pre existing thing, an object, character, person, pet, location, music, sound or so on that is pre existing

you are likely to see "doubles" versions of you who are not exactly you in a parallel universe sort of way, no introject will have the exact same memories, quirks, personality, or even exact freckles and moles,

it is fairly easy to tell who was an introject of something and clear distinctiveness of which alter is who AFTER living innerworld for a time usually, even if two introjects are of the same character in the same fanfic

dogs- act like protectors but they are not alters and basically "npcs" easy to mix up with huntables except for their deep instincts to either protect alters OR guard a location

huntables- these are npcs you can kill, attack, maim who may seem like alters but their only purpose is to be used as an excorsise and challenge for alters who are restless if not productive and "useful" and or used to hunting, have anger or power issues, they act as "food" innerworld for alters as well. These can be as powerful or suized and look like: dragons unicorns, deer, bears, wolves, mimics, humans, robots, cookies, witches, and much more.

dolls- npcs in the purest most important form, due to how big innerworld is for us even with thousands of alters these nameless beings keep places feeling "alive" and have routines that will involve alters, dogs, or huntables, you will know they are a doll and not a huntable or alter due to their doll like featureless faces, as cats, dogs, humans, robots, cookies and so on this is what consistently shows they are a doll,