#alter coining

Unusual protector: an alter who comes off as creepy, disturbing, weird, unusual, bizarre, strange, unnerving, generally uncomfortable individuals, etc in order to protect the system through social isolation.

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an alter whose role is to lighten the mood when the system is experiencing negative emotions/situations despite having a hard time themself. a corriedale alter is usually supportive, kind and caring. oftentimes, they happen to be littles or little-adjacent, but that’s not a requirement.

The Cat’s Meow: a term that describes an alter who meows or makes cat noises(this includes big cats). This could be due to a multitude of reasons, such as due to being non-human, verbal stemming, tics, etc. There is no wrong way to use this term.

Knight

a protector in a system who feels as if their role is comparable to that of a knight in any way. they could feel responsible for protecting a "royal" figure, a city, their people, etc.

Sword (or Swordknight) (left)

a knight who is primarily offensive or active in their role as a protector; the blade that wards off incoming harm from the system.

Shield (or Shieldknight) (center)

a knight who is primarily defensive or passive in their role as a protector; the shield that blocks the system from incoming harm.

Dark Knight (right)

a knight who aligns more with the image of a "dark knight" than a traditional knight. this may be a knight in dark armor, or any other personal interpretations.

♱⠀⠀𓂃⠀MEMORY MANAGER

♡　coined by us, for systems only

an alter role that is somewhat similar to a memory holder, however these alters also manage, organize and extract information from memories instead of just holding them.

credits appreciated but not necessary!

This term was requested by a person in a discord server I’m in!

ID: A 13 stripe flag with a black stripe in the middle. It’s in shades of purple, yellow and a light blue. /END ID

Similar to introject, an intraject is an alter whose sense of self and identity is a “clone” or different version of another alter in the same system.

This name is a bit of a misnomer and so more nuanced differences between introjects and intrajects below.

Examples of how this could present are:

-An alter being split into two or more new alters with more than alters identifying with the pre-split alter. (This of course includes splits that are more 90-10% rather than 50-50% in how elaborated they are, and so one alter might seem like less of a new alter than the other.)

-An alter that is often co-conscious/fronting with another alter and picks up their traits and a similar sense of self. They might lack awareness that some of their emotions/thoughts/behaviors are being highly influenced by other alter/alters.

-Multiple current or past hosts/frequent fronters who all identify with the body and shared name the people in their outside life call them and so develop to be similar in basic self concept.

-Alters that appear to be different ages of a shared general identity.

-Systems with less differentiated alters, often relate to less extreme forms of amnesia (like black outs) and greater amounts of memory sharing but not always. These systems that have many alters that seem like different versions of one identity are more likely to present in OSDD-1 systems but can be seen in other CDD systems.

-An alter forms as a clone of another alter that has since split, fused, or gone dormant. This concept is more similar to the traditional introject and since I have never seen this yet, is a hypothetical for me right now.

Intrajects may be more common in variant subsystems. More below.

Skull Crusher - A term for a headmate that is antagonistic, aggressive, apathetic, and defensive. As well as holding beliefs of misanthropy towards external people.

Skull Crushers are always the first (or one of the first) to react in situations where the system and/or a fellow headmate may feel attacked and will react with hostility always. Their idea of a solution in moments such as these may be to piss the other person off more than them and make them hate you, purposefully, to ensure they’ll never hold the idea of contact again.

Said headmate can fall under roles (all simultaneously) such as prosecutor, anger-holder, aggressor, protector, apathy-holder and guardian.

Kinda cluster b-aligned, though, wasn’t intentional and is for anyone to use.