We have to ask this off anon because of the flags, but we coined these terms (and a friend of ours on a plural discord server made the flags for them ^-^) the flags go with the description *above* them. -🇬🇧🛹 (they/he)
Anger Conduit
A headmate who feels and experiences anger more often than other headmates and helps other headmates to feel/experience/process their anger and/or rage.
Apathy Conduit
A headmate who feels and experiences apathy more often than other headmates and helps other headmates to feel/experience or process their apathy.
Sadness Conduit
A headmate who feels sadness more often than other headmates and may help other headmates to feel/experience or process their sadness.
Grief Conduit
A headmate who feels grief more often than other headmates and may help other headmates to feel/experience or process their grief.
Happiness Conduit
A headmate who feels happiness more often than other headmates and may help other headmates to feel/experience or process their happiness.
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Headmate Role & Type Master-list (as re-posted by us to be more thorough and all system inclusive)
Below the cut is a masterlist of common headmate roles and types. We will do our best to keep this updated if we think anything else should be on here. Please let us know if there's anything you think we should add or any info we should update to be more accurate!!
Roles
Boosters
A type of headmate designed to hold or boost a certain emotion or feeling in the system, usually when fronting or co-con.
→ Confidence Booster: a headmate that boosts the confidence of the system or specific headmate(s) in front.
→ Mood Booster: a headmate that boosts the mood of the system, specific headmate(s) in front, or those around the system; emotions affected can range from neutral to overjoyed depending on the booster.
→ Motivator: a headmate that either boosts feelings of motivation in the system or specific headmate(s) in front, or helps motivate the system with encouragement.
Helpers
A type of headmate designed to help the system or individual headmates in a specific way.
→ Caretaker: a headmate who takes care of the system, generally by caring for the body or keeping the living space tidy.
→ Internal Helper: a headmate that helps take care of other headmates in the innerworld; may or may not front.
→ Soother: a headmate that helps soothe the body or other headmates, especially in times of distress or following traumatic events.
→ Supporter: a headmate who was formed to keep other headmates company; often in co-con with other headmates.
Holders
A type of headmate designed to hold certain memories, emotions, symptoms, or otherwise within a system; oftentimes fragments, but not always.
→ Anger Holder: a headmate that holds the system’s anger; might be more likely to lash out than other headmates.
→ Pain Holder: a headmate that helps deal with physical ailments in the body, such as pain or sickness; likely has an easier time handling said ailments than other headmates.
→ Symptom Holder: a headmate that holds or more strongly exhibits symptoms of mental illness or neurodivergent behaviors; may exhibit symptoms of disorders not apparent in the system as a whole.
→ Trauma Holder: a headmate that holds significant trauma; may have more vivid memory of the event(s) or memories not recalled by other headmates; often more affected by said trauma.
Protectors
A type of headmate that helps protect against various types of harm to the system.
→ Aggressor/ Aggressive Protector: a protector that’s more likely to be steadfast and have more aggressive mannerisms or methods than other protectors, but not to such a harmful degree as persecutors.
→ Emotional Protector: a headmate that protects against emotional harm and/or abuse.
→ Mental Protector: a headmate that helps protect against mental harm/abuse.
→ Persecutor: a misguided protector that tends to act harmfully towards others in the system, the body, or those around the system, whether in an outwardly aggressive or self-destructive manner.
→ Physical Protector: a headmate that helps protect against physical harm/abuse.
→ Sexual Protector: a headmate that helps protect against sexual harm/abuse.
Situational
A type of headmate that tends to front and/or is especially good at handling specific situations.
→ Academic Headmate: a headmate that is more inclined to help with academic affairs, such as homework, attending classes, studying, etc.
→ Sexual Headmate: a headmate that is highly sexual in nature; may or may not have formed to cope with sexual trauma; not considered a protector.
→ Social Headmate: a headmate that is more inclined to help with social affairs; may be more social or extroverted than other headmates.
Specialized
Headmate roles that do not fit into the above categories.
→ Host: the headmate that fronts the most and handles most day-to-day situations; may be responsible for many or most decisions.
→ Gatekeeper: a headmate that has a greater degree of control over the front than other headmates; may guard the fronting room and/or have more knowledge of the system as a whole than other headmates.
→ Manager: a headmate that has an easier time making decisions for the system; often more logic-driven than other headmates.
Types
Ages
→ Little: a child headmate aged 10 or under.
→ Middle: a tween/teen headmate aged 11-17.
-> Young Adult: an adult headmate aged 18-25.
-> Adult: an adult headmate aged 26+
-> Centenarian: an adult headmate aged 100 years or older
-> Ageless: a headmate who's age is indeterminate for any reason, including but not limited to being too old to be worth counting, in source time shenanigans, having an age that shifts frequently or varies heavily enough to not have a "true age", or being otherwise literally ageless.
Source Status
→ Introject: a headmate who formed with traits, background, or full identity of an outside source; may be a real-life source such as a person or childhood toy, or a fictional source, such as a character.
→ Sourceless: a headmate who seems to be introjected but does not have a definitive outside source or does not connect to their source at all.
-> Brainmade: a headmate that is not introjected and is instead entirely original to the brain
Types of Introjects
→ Factive: an introject who takes on traits or identity from a real person.
→ Fictive: an introject who takes on traits or identity from a fictional source, often characters in media.
-> Fictish/Factish: a headmate who is partially introjected and does not feel wholly attached to their source, and doesn't feel like just "brainmade" "sourceless" or "introject" describes the entirety of their identity or their relationship with their source.
→ Songtive: an introject who takes on traits or identity based on a song.
→ Playtive: an introject who takes on traits or identity based on a toy, usually one from childhood.
Sentience
→ Headmate: a fully sentient and independent headmate who is able to function on their own.
→ Companion: a complex established NPC, often animals, that are tied to specific headmates and often accompany them; generally can only be understood by their associated headmates.
→ Fragment: a headmate who is at least partially sentient, but not generally independent and able to function on their own; often hold specific feelings, symptoms, or memories.
→ NPC: a being in the innerworld who is not sentient or considered a headmate; named after the term “non-player character.”
Species
→ Human: a headmate who presents as a human.
→ Nonhuman: a headmate who presents as any other species than human; often as an animal, supernatural creature, or humanoid with animalistic features.
Here’s a listing of different headmate types you may find in the community to-date! We may have missed something, but these are some of the more common and current terms out there.
Little: A child system member. Adult system members are usually called Bigs, and those who are teens (or in-between Littles and Bigs) may be called Middles.
Tulpa: A tulpa is a headmate that has been created in some manner, usually purposefully (through trying to form and create another entity) or accidentally (via going through the steps of creating another entity without knowing it.)
Walk-In: A walk-in is a system member who, as the name suggests, “walks into” the system one day. They may appear fully formed with their own personality, wants, and interests and may be able to front as needed.
Soulbond: A soulbond is an external entity which a person has a connection to. They may come together with an original host to form a plural system, or it may be more spiritual with the entity coming and going as they choose.
Fictive: These are system members who happen to be based off of fictional sources (ex. a fictive may be based off of a comic book character or a fantastical species in a TV show)
Factive: These are system members who happen to be based off of real-world sources (a factive may be based off of historical figures, or of significant people in a system’s life.)
Fcktive: A mix between a fictive and a factive (ex. a system member who is based off of a real-world mascot, a system member who is based on a fictional account of a real world person, etc.)
Extranth: These are system members who happen to be nonhuman, often in ways that may not quite sync up with the otherkin label (ex. a system member may identify as extranth because in-system they live as nonhuman complete with associated behavior and a culture, or because they popped into the system completely nonhuman)
Please note that you don’t have to identify different system members as these types here, and these types of headmates are not integral to plurality. You can be a system of regular human beings from Earth, or you can be a system composed of soulbonds, walk-ins, nonhumans or whathaveyou-every system is different :) Please note that being a system member that is a fictive or factive may mean that you have to exercise caution and compassion when interacting with the creators or real-life entities that make you who you are.
hey there. we were trying to find a term that encompassed being a caretaker and a protector at the same time, but couldn't find anything that worked on pluralpedia. would you know of any terms that could fit? on the gentler side, if that helps at all. thanks, @thestardust-system
Hiya, we have to admit this one stumped us. We could have sworn that we saw a term like this before. but we can’t find it. Like you said there isn’t an exact match on Pluralpedia.
There are similar terms like sentry, succorer and a neat set of terms in the caretaker subterms that are different combinations of different roles and persecuters, one of which is hydraen that almost but doesn’t quite match.
A term might have been coined but we cannot find it. It’s difficult to search for because historically the caretaker role was considered a subsection of the protector role.
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hello! We were wondering if you& are aware of any terms for a headmate who *is* the front in a way? Like our host is just sort of… always there and often what others front through
Hello hello 👋
There are a few terms that could work for you.
If you have a permanently front stuck host (aka a specutien system) specusian describes your front stuck host.
A specusian is the frontstuck member of a specutien system. This member is the host (or a host) by virtue of being frontstuck, since they’re
Since they are always there and others often front through them, they might be a concha or a shell
A concha is an ever-present entity (frontstuck or a tienmate) that usually don't have a sense of self of its/their own, although it/they may
A shell is a type of system member through which all other members act, front, and (possibly) blend. Shells may never leave the fr
A permanently frontstuck headmate is also called a front moor.
A Front Moor is a headmate who is permanently Frontstuck, or acts as a permanent connection to Front. Even if they somehow "move away" from
You mentioned that they are the front; any headmate who embodies a system function is called a tienmate.
A tienmate is a member who embodies one or several functions of the system, and/or sections of the system/body/front/brain/etc.
We hope these terms we found will be helpful to you 🫡
Hi there! I have 3 questions if that’s alright with you. Sorry if these sound stupid.
There was this one role related to teens? I cannot remember what it was called, but it’s related to holding rebellious tendencies that the host (?) was unable to do. I think it was a four-letter acronym of some sort? Teenage something, yeah, I’m sorry I’m bad at remembering things.
What’s it called when you feel your headmates emotions almost like your own, but you know those aren’t your emotions?
What’s it called when you have headmates from different origins (example: some are just there, some were made, some have spiritual origins, etc.)?
Hi! Genuine questions aren’t stupid, we’re happy to help if we can.
1. We found this one it’s Sullen Teenage Bitch Alter (STBA). https://pluralpedia.org/w/STBA The role is quite funny to us. We might have one of those XD
STBA is an acronym for Sullen Teenage Bitch Alter and refers to rebellious systeens, particularly those in systems that were unable to expre
2. This might be a form of emotion bleed over. What you described is pretty common in a lot of systems but wasn’t able to find an exact match. https://pluralpedia.org/w/Emotion_Sharing
Emotion sharing is when the emotions that one member of the system is feeling bleeds over to the others.
For example, if they are upset by
3. Multi Origin is the most straightforward term for that but multiorma is most specific for headmates origins. Polygenic may also describe this situation.
Mixed origin refers to a system that has multiple different system origins. This could be because their system formed from a combination of
Polygenic is a mixed origin subtype. Specifically, it means a multiple origin plural, especially if those multiple origins cause the plural
hi there!! may we ask about terms for a protector in an endo/quoigenic system who formed to deal with syscourse? thanks in advance!!
Hiya! We couldn’t find any that were specific to an endo/quoi system but we did find syscoursegenic and external protector which combined might work? Such as syscoursegenic external protector or syscoursegenic protector. Depending on the protector they might also be a harboringer or an internet restrictor :)
Syscourgenic is an origin term for any system or headmate that formed due to syscourse. These origins are usually stressgenic in nature, tho
External protectors are, as hinted at by their name, a form of protector, one that protects specifically from anything external to the syste
A harboringer is a protector who is devoted to finding or creating an external safe space for the system. Harboringers are also dedicated t
An internet restrictor is a headmate that limits access to or encourages breaks from the internet. This can be for general upkeep, to protec
