#cabinsys

Most systems simply have headmates. Some have side systems and some have sub systems, but most systems we've talked to don't have classifications for alters.

We do. Not roles, but what we call Generations- based on when the person formed.

For us, this is because we went through 2 different, distinct and separate periods of trauma, followed by smaller events throughout. We classified them differently (or rather Grian and a few others did and i found iut about it) because their lives were functionally very different to how the other 2 generations lived.

Generation 1 (Gen 1) makes up all the Alters from the original split when we were 4-5, all the way up to COVID-19. It's the smallest group, and mainly contains Alice, Neil, and Kendra (Sam and Victor are considered part of the count, as they both mainly hold/are 90% a gen 1 alter, even though they merged into their current "form" semi-recently)

Generation 2 (Gen 2) is everyone from the COVID lock down- which is where the brunt of the Alters from this generation are- all the way up to Sam figuring out about the system. This includes people like Wil, Techno, Katsuki, and is heavily introjects due to comfort media being the thing to get us through lockdown

Generation 3 (Gen 3) is everyone who has formed since we found out about the system. People like Viktor, Dallas, Molly and Carl are Gen 3, and mostly formed due to smaller traumas, stress or hyperfixations, not due to major periods of prolonged trauma.

We are a traumagenic system, which means our system formed due to trauma. That doesn't mean every alter WILL form due to trauma, it means that the original split/crack/break was because of it.

This sounds odd, I know, but it's our way of organizing. Our split tolerance has decreased each generation, and is now finally starting to get back down (doesn't help that we've had *almost* all of our dormant alters come back). Generation 2 is the most unknown to us, mostly because most of them either went dormant and when they came back they only told one person then went back to headspace, or never went dormant and just choose not to be around at all. Their headcount is not really known, but their some of the least active (ignoring Wil and Techno being the exceptions) so it's not as much of a concern

So, I felt like making I post about the differences between our headmates in body, because most of the discussions around the topic are people saying that they're completely different/factually incorrect information or that there's not difference at all.

(This is mostly because we are currently dealing with the wonderful world of endometriosis menstrual shit)

Hello! Finally bothering to make a profile for myself, as I've been pretty stuck up front.

My names Wilbur or Wil, I'm a C!Wilbur introject, He/Him.

I used to be a prosecutor and trauma holder, have since gotten most of those memories taken from me due me not being able to handle them. I'm now a recovered prosecutor and a caregiver. (This doesn't mean I'm "healed" or "fixed", it means I no longer put the body in active danger)

Honestly I mainly shitpost about system stuff- both our system and general plural yapping. Pretty easy to get me up here, but honestly if you want to ask me something I suggest heading over to my blog @williamburrsir :D

I'm a CC!Wilbur Soot introject. I had so many issues with drug abuse in source that I remember disturbingly well, that continue to be a constant want despite almost 7 years in the body.

Almost half of our introjects have or continue to struggle with substance abuse- either wanting to in the body and only being stopped by a host, or by not being allowed to front. Or, they struggle in headspace (very long story, and the way headspace functions when it comes to altered mental space for specific alters is a different post to make).

We grew up in a house with a father, who while now better- as a person and a father- was a drug addict. It wasn't recreational drugs, but frankly that just put shiny polish on the wound. It meant instead of needles we had pill bottles he could tell people were prescribed by a doctor. We had a mother who drank (responsibly) and a shit ton of other relatives who did the same. Plently of other who smoke. Alcoholism and addiction runs in the family, through experience and genetics.

Our first generation of alters, those that formed directly because we would not have lived through the shit we went through otherwise, almost all have issues with it- because they did it in the body. They coped with the trauma from real shit in the body.

So, when we get introjects with drug abuse issues, which are already pre- ingrained because we're fucked in the head and relate to fucked up people far more, it fucks us up so badly.

Memory problems make it so much worse, because sure I remember stealing vodka to numb shit after a flashback, that doesn't mean our host does. Our hosts don't realize it's fucking bad because we don't front.

Because we cannot afford to be a drug addict. Sounds fucking but it's true. We're already chronically ill, we can't afford alcoholism or drug addiction (that doesn't mean we will ever shame someone who is, because god fucking dammit it's hard).

Neil's obsession with Wild Krats as a child (and now):

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