Blazing hot take, system origin labels donāt tell you anything about what kind of system someone is. Origin labels tell you where they came from, not where they are now.
For example, us. Weāre plural. Weāre traumagenic. Our system formed because trauma broke us into fragments. However, weāre in a completely safe environment now. Weāre on meds. Weāre in therapy. I know how to fuse with alters at will. I know I could do final fusion Right Now, if I WANTED to. But I donāt WANT to. Iām choosing to stay plural. I WANT to be plural. My present life circumstances line up more with the willo community than the trauma community. Because while it may not have been my choice to become a system, it is my choice to stay a system.
A theoretical. Someone could be willogenic, and lose control of their headmates completely. No longer able to will them into nonexistence or fuse or fragment at will. (I think thatās what most willogenic systems want to begin with.) Their headmates could start causing harm to the body, to other headmates, to the willogenic systemās friends and family. Or their headmates could be benign and benevolent, but their life situation is so horrific that they canāt imagine living without their headmates. That would be a willogenic system whose experiences would line up more with the trauma community than willo community.
Itās not as clear cut as traumagenic, endogenic, and willogenic. Thereās infinite permeations of what kind of system someone could be. Your origin isnāt who you are. I feel like a lot of the genic microlabels are missing the point, which is that you can originate from one thing and be another thing.
Someone could be endogenic, plural just because thatās how they are, and go through so much trauma after developing a system that they function more like a trauma system. That doesnāt mean theyāre traumagenic, but theyāre traumaplural now.
What I propose is a completely new set of labels. Not origin labels, but labels of who you are NOW. If these already exist, feel free to ignore my suggestions. If they donāt already exist, then this is me coining them. If these labels exist but mean different things, we can workshop new labels for the same meanings. But, hereās my solution. Current plurality labels, not origin labels.
Endoplural: regardless of origin, you are plural. You cannot control whether you are plural. Your system does not cause significant distress, and your life is not currently in a traumatic situation.
Traumaplural: regardless of origin, you are plural. Your system causes you distress, and/or your life is currently in the thick of a traumatic situation. You may or may not have control over whether youāre plural.
Willoplural: regardless of origin, you choose to be plural. Your system may or may not cause distress and you may or may not be in a traumatic situation, but you have control over whether or not you are plural.
I havenāt seen anyone talk about this concept before, but feel free to direct me if someone has already coined terms for what someone is experiencing NOW, not their origin.
I am a traumagenic willoplural.
ETA: Iām workshopping terms for this concept that are entirely unrelated to origin terms, ie have completely different prefixes, I will be adding a reblog with my new terms, which i believe i will be calling āplural statusā terms as opposed to āplural originā terms. For those who believe origin doesnāt matter but still want to give people an idea of what kind of system they are, these terms could be useful as identity terms. A lot of system use origin terms as identity terms, for example āI am traumagenicā when I think the proper use case for these is āI was traumagenicā (similar to how in nonbinary communities the proper use case for sex assignment is āi was afab/amabā and not āi am afab/amabā because it is not who you are currently)
