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Many polyfragmented systems have intensely vivid inner worlds. There might be alters who date or marry other alters. Maybe they have a job in the inner world, maybe there’s whole cities. 

The likelihood of, for lack of a better word, more “odd” alters also becomes possible. Alters with somatic disorders, alters with different eyesight, left handed alters in a primarily right handed system, etc. 

I also personally have seen that polyfragmented systems (that i believe to be legitimate) that frequent tumblr often have many alters with fictional IDs as that helps a lot with differentiating between alters and helping them feel more individual. (most of the alters in my system have identities that revolve around being a fictional character, even if most of them are not true introjects)

Splitting off for seemingly “no reason” or a smaller reason than you personally would split off for. Polyfragmented systems are that way partially because their brain is more prone to dissociation, so it makes sense they might not need something intensely traumatic to have a new alter form. It’s also common to be having a pretty steady stream of discovering old, already existing alters that were previously somewhat hidden.