#headspace mapping

⋮ ⌗ ┆Elysium

𓏵‧₊˚ ┊Elysium is a layered, enclosed headspace settlement surrounded on all sides by a continuous wall with five main gates. At its heart is the castle. Going outward from this core is a dense urban ring containing functional, social, and recreational districts, followed by residential outskirts, then natural wilderness, and finally a living boundary known as The Void. The city isn't fully static, some things shift but the core geography remains consistent.

⋮ ⌗ ┆CENTER ZONE — CASTLE + PARK

𓏵‧₊˚ ┊The Castle is the main spot. Most of the members in our system live here.

⋮ ⌗ ┆THE CITY

𓏵‧₊˚ ┊This is the main day to day area. It’s busy but not overwhelming. Everything important is here. Things kind of shift sometimes. Possible sentispace??

𓏵‧₊˚ ┊Here is the roller rink, the library, Nine's TARDIS, a couple of cafes + the donut shop, the skate park, the theater, the arcade, the apartments, and The Lupin (Dazai's bar). Towards the west are the docks. Harry, Kim, their child, Ricky, and Andy all live in their own apartments.

⋮ ⌗ ┆OUTSKIRTS + FOREST

we have a rather large headspace, and we'd like to be able to figure out the locations of key places (and maybe what they sorta look like) in relation to each other but nothing seems to work. thanks for reading!

hey there, our own system has been working for some time now to map out our own headspace. we have a part who has taken on the cartographer/chronicler role. i asked them to share a bit about their process, and this is what they had to say:

“Okay first up I made a list of all the places I know about. Not even necessarily places I’ve been just every place I know is there. And I talked to lots of others to ask them about places they know about. And some others can talk to the ones I can’t so we worked together to come up with a big ol list.

“Next up I started connecting the places. Like I know Margo’s garden is on the island. And I know the treehouse is on the island. But Toby’s woods is not on the island. And the (redacted) is close to Toby’s woods. And the outer space where (redacted) and (redacted) live is nearby there too. But the big ocean is still by the island.

“So once I know that a couple places are connected, I can draw them together. And I just keep drawing and drawing until it looks right. But sometimes I get it wrong. But when it’s wrong one of the others could tell me or something. And I’m not done with it I’m still working on it. Because it’s hard and sometimes I can’t reach a place and sometimes a place changes. And sometimes I gotta crumple up the map and start over because I was wrong. But I’m doing my best.”

us main fronters don’t dig too deep into our headspace for the safety and well-being of the whole system, so i don’t have much i can add here. i guess just start small with what you know, interview your headmates, and maybe try to collaborate. also don’t worry too much if your map turns out to be inaccurate, or if you have to constantly change and adjust things.

⊹₊⟡⋆ | Since we’ve discovered that allowing residents to post has relived some head tension and generally caused the afformentioned posting residents to feel happier and a bit relieved, we've decided to post about our headspace.

⊹₊⟡⋆ | If you’re questioning what the intentions behind this masterlist are, it's to essentially map out our headspace/s to better understand our inner world and, by connection, our systems and headmates, which will in-turn allow for better communication!

we're trying to map ours and not having the greatest luck so far haha

- michael

(tagging @siffrin-enthusiast bc they were also interested)

here’s the map again for reference

so starting with the one in the center is the flowers, this is the field and it has quite a few doors that lead to other areas. the doors that are open travel are the starry hallway (which leads to alter rooms), the pillow fort/pillow fort subsystem, the schoolhouse, and the glass beach. minus the pillow fort subsystem, this is where the secondary system inhabits. As well from the glass beach, the merfolk subsystem is under the water on the beach

then if you see the smaller circles that have the card suites, those are NPC gatekeeper/guard stations. they're just rooms with fake alters that will only let you past if you're allowed to/have clearance. they only let past mid-high level gatekeepers

past the stations are different subsystems. the one with the heart is the evenfall subsystem, they kinda have a house their own house separated from the rest. evenfall is probably the most functional subsystem

the one with the road and the leaves is the breezy subsystem, which is the largest subsystem both alter and headspace-wise (we also suspect that there may be some nested subsystems within it, but we can't confirm that so we're ignoring it for now). It's a long road and then an apartment complex where they all live, it's mostly fragments and fragment-leaning alters/fledglings with Ezra who leads them.

the one with the bandaids is the infirmary garden subsystem, it looks like a mental hospital and holds the most unstable alters. there's a special task fragment/fledgling named nurse Solace who oversees this subsystem. alters from the breezy subsystem are able to be moved here by Ezra and Solace if they become too unstable or too much of a danger to us

the one with the "zzz" is less of a subsystem, as it's the dormancy/"sleepy complex". i'm honestly not really sure how it works, all i know is that dormant alters stay here. only the highest level gatekeepers and sometimes nurse Solace are allowed in there

there's also kinda another layer not included in this map, we call it the cosmos layer. it has our highest (known) level gatekeeper, cosmosis. we're not sure how cosmosis works, but it's just kinda space. there's also a little guy named void, who is just a vaguely humanoid void, who floats around in there. we're not sure what void does, it might be an archivist of some sort

(there's also like one fragment/shard that doesn't exist within this system (no pun intended), named MAG. we're just gonna ignore mag)

this is VERY long, but yeah! this is kinda a run through of how i understand our headspace

it’s the physical headspace distance, but the amnesiac barriers are also included in a way. some of the areas off of the middle are type 2 (separated) subsystems, so their barriers are much higher

we kinda imagine our consciousness of the real world being in the middle of the main area (with the flowers), so those who are in that area have a pretty good grasp of reality even while in the headspace the farther out you get, generally the farther you get from front/the more dissociated you get. there’s some more stuff we’re happy to explain more if you’d like :]

(disclaimer: us who wrote this post can’t actually go into the headspace as hosts, so this is just our general understanding)

Due to being a Creepypasta fan when we were younger, this mansion has been here for a while; even before the system formed. Now, it's just taken on a new life as our main headspace.

Well not technically the FIRST ever headspace, this is one of the more recently discovered ones that we actually discovered because we accidentally drew it on the box of Crayola markers that our physics teacher has (she didn’t care because it was an art school + she’s one of the only teachers that actually uses our preferred name alongside our math teacher).