Some random musings with no real plot:
I understand why some people feel uncomfortable with language like "me and my alters", in a way that doesn't quite translate over the same way as "my headmates" etc. I think this is because for some people, "alters" seems to imply less reality - there's you, the real you, and then there's alternate versions of you.
But I'd like to gently propose that this isn't how most people intend it to mean. It's no more a bad kind of ownership than saying "me and my family", "me and my friends", "me and my coworkers". Me and my headmates are equals. Separating the "me" part out is just normal English parlance, since for most people "we headmates" feels more awkward. Like "me and the others" is casual and informal, but "we in my system" feels more formal. Idk. Maybe it's just me.
But anyways. I think that's one of the reasons why we in my system intentionally created two pronoun+noun sets for us: we-Willows / us-Willows, and we-Crew / us-Crew. We usually connect these with hyphens like that, as that's how we prefer it, but sometimes you'll see us forget the hyphen (or be too lazy to use it.) We created these because not only did we want to easily communicate the difference between our subset of originals and the whole of our Crew, and to easily make it obvious exactly what kind of "we" we're talking about, but we wanted it to be very explicitly a "We're all in this together equally" thing. It did feel awkward at first but we got used to it and now we-Crew like it A Lot.
