These are kind of just a combination of all the various headmates, sonas, representations, whatever else that I&'ve come up with in the past. There's more I& could add but I& felt these were the closest to canon (except for Win who is a reference to a roleplay). It's kind of ironic how well Manifold works as a collective name for them, too.

Thunder the Wolf is an idea I& came up with a long time ago, and I& mentioned the reasoning for having a wolf in there in the recent Antfrost post. This specific design I& originally intended to use as my& fursona, but I&'ve quickly adopted her as a representation for the red side. He was the most active during the early days of the SMP. Later on, she was still around, but no longer hosted.

Manibot is kind of a generic design. I&'ve added a TV head because. well. JackManifoldTV. Subtle nod, I& know. Not much to say here, just wouldn't be right to leave Manibot out.

Him and Thunder co-fronted together a lot, and could be vaguely assigned to red and blue respectively based on arbitrary criteria, and so they frequently refer to each other with just "Red" or "Blue". None of them have any idea that Red and Blue can be any of like three separate people, and this is where the "elaborate categorization" I& mentioned in tags comes in, which I&'ll elaborate on later.

Manifork, as the short blurb says, was just the result of projecting sentience onto a trident so hard that she just introjected. She's labelled as blue because she would technically qualify, but in practice it basically never gets mistaken for anyone else. Manifold just thinks it's an external presence rather than internal. It sometimes has an alternate gijinka form, but she is also still a trident.

Jackpot is a fun one! They're actually very active and one of the main suggesters of bad ideas around. Mostly though he's just there to have fun by gambling and drinking. Might potentially be where they got the name "Jack" from in the first place.

They're based on Jackie Womanifold, a drag persona I& made for a Minecraft roleplay, who is in turn based on a combination of Jack's Name Your Price furcoat outfit and the iconic Coraline wig.

(the Jonk image drawn by my& wonderful boyfriend @j3st3rc0r3 who plays Ponk in the roleplay <3) and I& also posted the Minecraft skin I& made for the drag event on my& PlanetMinecraft

Michael Clifford is based on the stream where Jack Manifold managed to get him onto the server and gave him a tour. Me& and the other mods like to headcanon him as an angel who came down from heaven when he saw that Manifold needed help, but a common interpretation is that he was a figment of Manifold's imagination. So it felt only fitting to add him to the roster as well. He basically only fronted once or twice as a comforting presence and hasn't been seen around since then. Presumed dead in a ditch

And finally, Win is another reference to the aformentioned roleplay. In there, he formed when Manifold got locked up in a cell for trying to interrupt the opening of Wilbur's nation by faking a suicide to change the trajectory of his life forever. After being locked away, Manifold wanted to "become a new person" to improve and be let out, which. Well. I& guess in a way he did. Unfortunately for him, Sapnap and Quackity were in call, and his idea of an "improved person" is basically an alpha wolf sigma gigachad. Or The Joker from the hit movie Joker. So the guy is just a mess of a combination of awful role models. On the actual canonical DSMP itself, I& imagine Win would be the one that mainly started the New Manifoldland and did Breaking Bad roleplay.

The categorization is just straight up based on my& own identity ongoings, except for Manifold is less aware of how bullshit it all is. The colours are assigned arbitrarily based on vibes, but generally red corresponds to active and blue to passive, or to mania and depression if you subscribe to the bipolar Manifold headcanon. There's also an attempt at ensuring "duals" which. Ok you know what I& cannot coherently explain this one it's just a projection of some bullshit. I& guess you can describe it as making sure there's a matching red to every blue and the reverse. It's not very successful though