#plural headcanons

[moonpool-system]

Plurality in Slay the Princess: Part 1

[pt: Plurality in Slay the Princess: Part 1]

Imagine you're standing facing the unknown, and then a little internal voice begins narrating everything you see.

[The Narrator] "You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path, is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin, is a princess. You're here to slay her; if you don't, it will be the end of the world."

He seems pretty biased.

One of the best indie games to come out in 2023 was Slay the Princess, an indie horror/romance visual novel featuring your player character and the being he's meant to slay, known simply as The Princess. However, you're not alone, in more ways than one- both your player character and the Princess display clear aspects of plurality - aka, multiple identities residing within/utilizing a singular physical body. This can take many forms in real life, from disordered to non-disordered variants, and a good few of them are prominently recognized in this visceral narrative experience.

After the read-more will be some spoilers from the various choices you can make throughout the early game- so while this is part 1, there will be no endgame spoilers yet! It'll start off with Chapter 1 and go deeper from there. If you're intending on playing the game, we HIGHLY recommend you play only after reading Chapter 1 information, or only after this part 1 at most! It's best experienced blind as possible, and trigger warnings are present upon opening the game. This analysis took a while to write, so please consider reblogging if you enjoy!

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Right from the beginning, the plural undertones of the story are clearly apparent. Once the Narrator stops speaking, you as the one controlling the body are able to communicate by asking various questions directly to the Narrator to press upon, enthuse over, or counter his point. The Narrator is speaking to you mentally, but is not you.

If you continue on the path to the cabin, you're presented with someone else speaking to you internally, titled as "The Voice of the Hero". The Narrator quickly responds with "Ignore him. He doesn't know what he's talking about." This situation tells us a lot of interesting things! First off, the Hero defers to the pronoun "we" - as he's clearly responding to the Narrator's direction, the other individual in this situation must be the controller of the body. The Narrator reinforces this concept by talking directly to you, telling you to ignore the Hero. So right off the bat, there are three people in this body- the Host, whom is being controlled by the player, the Narrator, and the Voice of the Hero. They stay with you throughout (most of) the entire game, so even without much happening, the main character is very blatantly plural. The only thing we can tell about them so far is that they're a polyconscious system, wherein each member displays their own individual consciousnesses rather than sharing one, and can all perceive the world using separate streams of thought.

Let's say you head to the cabin, speak to the Princess, and don't even bother taking the pristine blade meant to slay her, as you're intent on saving her. You speak to her with options using "quotation marks" to indicate vocal speech rather than how you've been thinking to the other members of your system, and you free her from her bindings. Just as you're walking up the stairs, the Narrator decides to try and impose his decision instead, and save the world by using the arm of the body to raise the blade to her. Being in control of the body as a plural/system is called fronting, and oftentimes in intense circumstances, one member can "take" the front from another. This is what we see in the desperate Narrator, and the fact that the Hero expresses his frustration at the Narrator's actions at the same time indicates once again that the members of this system are polyconscious.

You resist the Narrator and warn the Princess, and she also notices and addresses the sudden shift in motivation. She then takes the blade, and uses it haplessly against you in self defense. Such is this end of Chapter 1; everything goes dark, and you die.

!!! CHAPTER 2+ SPOILERS BEGIN HERE !!!

[pt: !!! Chapter 2+ spoilers begin here !!!]

Chapter 2 is titled "The Damsel". When everything loads, you're back where you were before- the Narrator doesn't seem to remember you or what happened, but you and the Hero clearly do.

Not only that, but another character has joined the mix since your supposed death- The Voice of the Smitten loudly proclaims his love for the Princess and hatred for the Narrator. Plus, he says something unique- he mentioned "the four of us" foiling the Narrator's "assassination attempts". This four includes the Princess, the Smitten, the Hero, and the Host/player, establishing how everyone here perceives the others as separate entities. Plus, now that naming consistency with the others established, the Narrator, not labeled as a "voice", starts to stand out as something... Different, from the rest of you all.

But it's not just you that's changed; everything within the cabin looks different, and it's not only that.

The Princess has metamorphosized; the Damsel wears a new dress and crown, has a much more gentle and delicate disposition, and her voice sounds significantly higher pitched and kinder. Not only that, but her bone structure is physically thinner, as is addressed later in the route. She has inarguably become different in not only personality but appearance too. Additionally, while she recognizes you and your earlier confrontation, she uses the pronoun "I" to refer to both herself as the Damsel and herself as the Princess before. This is indicative of monoconscious systems, where members share an individual consciousness/train of thought and switching involves the feeling of one member "becoming" another in a smooth transition, and median systems, where members often feel like facets of an overarching identity rather than completely separate entities. We see more evidence to medianhood after the two of you escape, and the Damsel seems to be taken away by... Something. You find yourself presented with the Entity holding her gingerly.

"Something finds me in the Long Quiet and brings me the gift of a fragile vessel."

She cradles her and describes the vessels as "nerves and fibers to feel the worlds beyond. Perspectives to make my own", and the Damsel as "soft and delicate. You molded her to love you, and she'll make for a gentle heart." She words it as if they are the same, and yet different at the same time. You ask if she is the Princess, and she says this;

upon pressuring, she states that you're speaking in circles. "Does it matter where one thing begins and another ends?" This once again supports the fluid concept of median plurality. She is different, and yet she is the same. It's hard to tell the lines between one and the other, even though they both still distinctly exist. She asks you to "bring [her] more perspectives so [she] may be whole", wishing for the facets of herself to be returned to her via completing different routes of the game. Interestingly enough, it seems the Entity displays polyconsciousness during these segments, unlike the in-loop Princesses. In another route she mentions the Princess having a will pushing against her own, and at the end of your conversation she mentions one last thing;

You're flung back to the beginning, with only the Hero and the Narrator at your side, and not a single memory ingame of what happened. You can't re-access old routes, so you have to choose to do something different the next time, to bring different parts of herself home to her.

There are many different routes you can end up on, and the Princess will change in many different ways depending on your decisions. Let's go over some interesting notes on how the two's plurality presents over the course of the time loops.

- The Princess seems to be completely monoconscious when within the loops, sometimes acknowledging herself as different but never referring to her other facets as a separate perspective ("I/me", never "she" like the Entity refers to her vessels.) This rule is only broken by the Stranger route whom, where due to the world literally fracturing, had multiple perspectives shoved into a single one, and she refers to herselves as "we".

- The origin of new facets of the Princess seems to correlate directly with the reset of the world they're in, and we never see her looping forms change otherwise, meaning we can likely assume this to be their origin. While time loops aren't recorded to have happened in this universe, we can safely attribute some sort of metagenic origin to the Princess's median facets. The only other time we see her "change" other than after a reset is her disposition & voice upon the first time meeting her, depending on whether or not we take the pristine blade. This displays that the player character's actions directly affect the Princess's facets as well, however delving into that would get into endgame spoilers, so it'll be touched on in part 2.

- Due to the lack of evident amnesia, distress, or disorder expressed to be caused by her plurality (aside from the Stranger) it's safe to assume the Princess falls under the category of systems/plurals without a dissociative disorder such as DID, P-DID, OSDD1, and UDD.

- On the flipside, the Player's system shows quite a lot of distress and disorder, from the Broken and the Smitten attempting to kill the body to the Cold eager to harm it, as well as many different system members with specific jobs meant to help counteract or ease the negative circumstances of the previous loop. Additionally, during the Moment of Clarity chapter, the Host explicitly experiences amnesia of traumatic memories the other members remember everyone experiencing, displaying dissociative amnesia. It's likely this system falls under the category of plurals with a dissociative disorder such as DID, P-DID, OSDD1, and UDD.

- Many speculate the members of the Player character's system to be your past lives or iterations of you after your death, since for the most part, a new one appears every time the body dies. This would be known as a fenigenic/phoenigenic origin. However, there are a couple instances where this theory falls apart- for example, in the No Way Out route, the Player, Hero, Narrator, and Cheated are joined by both the Voice of the Contrarian and the Voice of the Broken at the same time; right after, the Hero states that this is your third time, meaning if the past life theory is true, there should be only two new members, not three. (The line between alive and dead gets fuzzy later in the route, but this one is cut and dry.) Instead, I propose the Player's system to be an adaptive system, ending up with new members whenever they must adapt their mindset drastically to the situation. The new members often tend to be a reflection of the body's actions during the last loop, which supports this concept as well.

- Routes such as No Way Out and The Adversary complicate these assessments. In No Way Out, every time you die you try something different, which results in a new system member every time. In The Adversary, you fight over and over again with the same determination, and The Stubborn remains as the only new member from the beginning the entire time. However, in both of these routes, the Princess stops changing form at all. Evidence once again shows itself that the Player Character's perception not only affects what the Princess will be, but what the results of his own changes will be as well.

- Another differentiation between you, the "voices", and the Narrator, aside from his lack of memory between loops and insistence that he's not the same person as other versions of him, is how they both treat and experience the Mirror. The Narrator is notably distinct in that he cannot see it during regular gameplay, and that once the world is replaced with it at the end of a route, he's no longer existent to perceive it. The ones labeled "voices" are able to see it and fear it instinctively- while they're different from the Narrator, even they disappear when you look in the mirror and speak to the Entity. Hypothetically, this could mean that you are to the Voices' perspectives as the Entity is to the Princess's. The Entity mentions that nothing but you and her come to the space where you speak.

- Upon meeting the Entity after the third time you bring her a vessel, she greets you with this line; "I am a growing chorus of contradiction. A mass of tides ebbing and flowing all at once in more directions than my attention can bear to hold. To look at any one is to shift them all into something new, and to look away is to reshape them yet again. All of me is changing, and yet the rest is still the same." This is an interesting perspective into her relationship with the vessels and how her overarching identity is affected by her medianhood.

- A case that deserves special mentioning is the route of the Spectre, after killing the Princess without hesitation in chapter 1 and then proceeding to kill yourself after. In Chapter 2, you're then presented with the option to let the Spectre possess you temporarily, giving her not only access to your body, but to your mind. For a brief while, she can hear and interact with all the others currently present with you- at the time, the Narrator, the Voice of the Hero, and the Voice of the Cold. Once she's within you, the Narrator can't even get out a full sentence before she comments, "So this is what it's like to be you, huh? Disembodied voice narrating your every move?" She addresses the Voices differently than the Narrator; "All these shards of broken glass on the floor... Are they also supposed to be you?" The Hero takes initial offense at this, saying that "I'm me, is what I am." The conversation continues to the Hero questioning the Narrator's existence, to which he responds, "You don't need to know what I am. You just need to know that I'm different than you. More important."

To this, the Princess answers, "So you're the one that pulled the strings and made me dead. I can tell you don't belong here. You're barely even there. Like the shape of something left behind. You're more of a... Memory, than a person." And then, "You're kind of like me, actually." What does she mean by that? Is he like a ghost? Something else? It'll be addressed in part 2, but clearly he's different from the rest.

- One of the most affirming dialogue options you can have with the Entity is after the fourth time you bring a Vessel to her, where you both speak about how your systems operate. You can ask her, "When you send me back, I'm not alone. There are voices that speak to me. Some of them are me, but one of them is something else. I call him The Narrator, and he wants me to kill you. Do you have a Narrator? Have the Vessels had one?" This is yet another hint that the Narrator is fundamentally different than the rest of the Player's system, making it clear that together they make up a mixed origin system. In response to your question, the Entity responds with this:

From this we get a few things. For one, the Princesses are referred to in the plural sense ("their minds"), enforcing the separation between them. However, she goes on to describe them existing and constantly metamorphosising into something new, basically confirming the concept of monoconsciousness within the Princesses themselves.

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From all this, we've drawn a lot of conclusions about the plurality of the Player character and the Princess/Entity from Slay the Princess! Such depth of plural experiences is extremely rare in any media, and this one exemplifies it very well, balancing both personhood and parts-based conceptualizations in its depiction. In part 2 we'll go over how the endgame and its philosophy applies to these concepts, as well as the revelations about the characters involved. It's wonderful to have such vibrant and unique plural representation in a video game; thank you for reading this disambiguation!

#slay the princess #stp princess #stp analysis #pluralgang #plural community #plurality #plural system #system community #pluralpunk #plural headcanons #stp the princess #stp the long quiet #stp the hero #the narrator stp #the shifting mound #the long quiet #media analysis #character analysis #slay the princess analysis #adaptive system #monoconscious #mixed origin system #sysmeds dni #exclusionists dni #didosdd #did osdd #disordered system

[fossys]

i want more plural/system headcanons that arent just 'this character has did'!! i want fully established systems, i want to hear about their alters, i want ones where one isnt the body n the rest are headmates, i want ones where none of them are the body, i want ones with high amnesia ones with low ones with practically none, i want to see established systems in headcanons n media!!!

#there is a character i like that many ppl headcanon to have did n i like it but #so many of them are just 'he has did' n no further context #i wanna hear about it!!! #sysblr #plural #system headcanon #plural headcanons #-blurry

[gummysharkzz]

The Other Guy

(P.S. I know SB explained switching weird. It's because I think he has OSDD and little to no amnesia between switches so when someone else is fronting strong bad is like "Oh i think I'm someone else now" because nobody in the system fully knows what's going on)

#homestar runner #hsr #h*r #strong bad #strong sad #homestar runner fanart #plural headcanons #my art #digital art #my comics #artists on tumblr

[everythingwasnormalhere]

In my class they're talking about autism rn, so some ND headcanons for the boys (main 4 + Butters)

Kenny: Definitely autistic it's so obvious to me for some reason Also PTSD. Dude dies 24/7 and has an awful family life what did you expect?

Kyle: OCD, I know it's a kinda popular headcanon but still

Stan: BPD don't ask why he gives the vibe Depression too because. C'mon it's Stan he's depression personified

Cartman: D.I.D. (this is @richierambles fault btw) (disclaimer: people with D.I.D. aren't usually assholes, they're mostly pretty cool. This is just a headcanon for a character that exhibits D.I.D.-like behaviours, who just happens to also be an asshole)

Butters: Autism but a bit spicier than Kenny's (autism4autism real)

#south park #south park hcs #south park headcanons #south park au #kenny mccormick #south park kenny #kenny mccormick headcanons #kenny mccormick hcs #kyle brovlofski #kyle broflovski #south park kyle #kyle broflovski headcanons #kyle brovlofski hcs #stan marsh #south park stan #stan marsh headcanons #stan marsh hc #eric cartman #south park cartman #eric cartman headcanons #eric cartman hcs #neurodivergent #nd headcanons #autism headcanon #ptsd headcanon #ocd headcanon #bpd headcanon #depression headcanon #did headcanons #plural headcanons

[wildtulipfield]

Moka Akashiya plural headcanon

(Except she’s so blatantly plural that I’m not sure I can consider this a head canon)

Rosario+Vampire is… probably not the best anime, it’s a fanservicey harem that most people only watched because it was on Netflix a while ago. However the main girl(s), Moka, is probably the best part. Outer Moka wears a rosary around her neck to seal inner Moka because she’s a vampire? But literally every episode inner Moka switches in to fight monsters.

(Very cute gif)

The evidence I have for them being plural is that:

They can talk to each other through the rosary, but only to theirselves. They literally have system communication?

Then when a fairy comes along with a magic mirror that forces everyone into their monster form, inner and outer Moka are literally split into two.

Which also wouldn’t happen if they were a singlet.

There’s also a lot of scenarios where they make differentiations between the two, such as when their sister only considers inner Moka to be her sister while despising outer Moka.

#pluralgang #plural #endo safe #plural system #system #plurality #plural positivity #plural headcanons #rosario + vampire #AntiEndo Dni #plural posting #plural character

[richierambles]

If you were Eric Cartman but had to use another name which one would you use

This is for the plural cartman au so pls don't say Hitler 💀

Just give me first names that fit him idk

I'm just running out of ideas 💀💀💀

#any suggestions are welcome no matter how batshit they are #because otherwise imma go look at the fucking baby name pages #and how would cartman feel about that huh??? #join my plural cartman agenda >:3 #plural system #pluralgang #sysblr #plural stuff #plural hcs #plural headcanons #sp eric cartman #eric cartman #eric cartman headcanons #south park hcs #south park headcanons #eric cartman hcs #south park #plurality #multiplicity

[iheartdabihawks]

dabihawks as systems

hawks deserves to have just like a day of him talking to his headmates, asking them questions howre they, theres gonna be arguements ofc like if its even real, but it is

dabi deserves to stfu and let his headmates talk for once, they know cremate would talk so theyre shutting them up too, dabi and cremate are like twins its INFURIATING and so the others have a day for them only <3

#testing to see if tumblr will let me post this #plurality #system #plural headcanons #dbhwks #dabihawks #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha hawks #mha hawks #bnha dabi #mha dabi #hawks #dabi #hotwings #swizzy sillies #loverboy ludicrous

[internetfriend]

astarion is plural (in my mind) and these are my headcanons amen

specifically . he has osdd1a or partial DID .

he only became aware of his system after the tadpole was inserted after the parasite's psyonic powers alerted everyone to his inner monologue(s) .

INNER WORLD

his inner world is cazador's mansion .

there's specific places that astarion (host) can and cannot enter due to disassociative barriers .

astarion (host) has been around quite a while and is not recently formed, but is not the oldest alter by formation .

ALTERS

astarion does not refer to his alters with names . rather, they are referred to with roles or things he remembers about them .

his trauma holder/memory keeper is a child (due to cazador's belittling and infantilizing comments) and is referred to as "kid" most often .

kid sleeps in the coffin that he was buried in for a year . the coffin's location is explicitly off-limits and unable to be accessed .

kid almost always fronts when astarion's PTSD debuff is present .

"monster" is the persecutor, and has cazador's presence and voice . but he does not look like cazador, rather a strange and terrifying creature that towers over everyone else .

monster is the most dominant voice in astarion's mind . every alter is terrified of monster including astarion (host) .

monster is not seen without accompnying kid, acting as a sort of abusive carer .

monster does not front .

"hindbrain" is astarion's base vampire instincts . it has a monsterous look to it . it only communicates in growls and other noises .

hindbrain fronts during hunts, or when dealing with other spawn .

"magistrate" is the system's manager, acting as a sort of organizer for memories and disassociative barriers .

magistrate represents astarion before he died . his face and general form are blurry because he cannot remember what he looks like .

magistrate does not front .

there are a few fragments, namely, one that fronts during sex, and one that fronts when seducing people .

the fragments' appearances are are based off of what astarion's (host) thinks he looks like when people compliment him .

the fragments' voices are no different than astarion's (host) but slightly to the left, based off of their purposes .

OTHER STUFF

cazador was vaguely aware of the system, but decided he had no use for it .

when inside the astral prism, they all appear with their own bodies instead of just astarion (host) . this greatly surprised the dream guardian .

astarion does not like the idea of integration, seeing it as taking away one of the few defense mechanisms he has .

#hi um . hi . #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #astarion headcanons #plural headcanons

[scleracentipede]

thought I’d share my reference sheets for the different alters in our Scarecrows’ system since y’all have been digging it

(If you see spelling mistakes, no you don’t.)

#sceleraverse #jonathan crane #dr jonathan crane #batman #queer artist #artists on tumblr #digital art #trans artist #disabled artist #trans!jonathan crane #jonathan crane headcanons #scarecrow headcanons #system! scarecrow #system headcanons #plural headcanons

[goobersnart]

did i ever post my spongebob is plural headcanon?

regardless spongebob is plural and penny, used napkin, and chip are his headmates :3c

#💬 babbles #💖 headcanons #sbsp headcanon #sbsp #plural headcanons #actually plural #plural community #endo safe #plurality

[moonpool-system]

writing out an absolutely MASSIVE analysis post on plurality in slay the princess, hoping to have it up by today or tomorrow ✨

#pluralgang #plural community #plural headcanons #slay the princess #stp

[sophieinwonderland]

Swedish Fish are plural (theres a bunch of em in the same bag)

LOL! How did I not see it! It was right in front of me the whole time! /j 😁 🤣

#pluralgang #plurality #swedish fish #plural headcanons #plural #endogenic #multiplicity #systems #system #plural system #pro endo #pro endogenic

[your-fave-is-plural]

Seele Vollerei from Honkai Impact 3rd is plural!

done, thank you for the request!

#seele vollerei #velonia #i assume thats their name? thats what i read on the wiki but idk anything about honkai impact so i could be wrong there #i hope you dont mind their inclusion! #honkai impact #honkai impact 3rd #plural icons #system icons #plural headcanons #mod skye #hi3rd

[everythingwasnormalhere]

rating cartman's brain sillies (by @richierambles)

Anne: 8/10 she's great :D

Finn: 6/10 kinda lame idk

Artemis: 10/10 he's so silly<3

Sam: 6/10 needs a psychiatrist

Collins: 9/10 he's so gay dude

Irick: 7/10 silly old man 😔🫶

Grim: 8/10 fucking furry

Adrian: 9/10 he's gay idk

Theodore: 3/10 lame ass guy

Sunny: 10/10 heart's crazy<3

Eight: 1/10 burn him in a fire

Jenni: 7/10 love-hate relationship

Mitch: 6/10 mild idk

Mae: 2/10 burn her too while you're at it

#cartman's brain sillies #<- yes that's what im calling them #south park #south park headcanons #south park au #south park fandom #eric cartman #eric cartman headcanons #plural headcanons #not my headcanon

[wildtulipfield]

Another Plural headcanon that’s not really a headcanon: Birdy the Mighty /Tetsuwan Birdy

No idea why I watched this show as a young teen but this show has both an OVA (Tetsuwan birdy) and a rebooted anime (Tetsuwan Birdy:Decode) This one is also a fan-servicy shounen just like Rosario+Vampire but the action scenes are really good and Birdy is super strong and defies the whole damsel in distress trope that’s so common in shounen.

This series also has a cool history you can find a video explaining everything here

Minor spoilers just for the first parts

Basically while beating up a bad guy named Geega, A space federation officer named Birdy accidentally kills a random student named Tsutomu, Tsutomu wakes up thinking it was a dream.

The OVA and anime diverge a bit here, with the anime having him think he’s all alone and getting told by birdy who was in his brain that he’s not.

The OVA has Birdy take possession of his hand durning the admissions test and writes down all the answers super fast. He tries to stop the hand with his other hand after getting weirded out. Also when Birdy finally mind speaks in the OVA the translated English literally says “Let’s switch now” which is tulpa/plural terminology!!!

After a few more weird occurrences it’s explained that Birdy and Tsutomu have to share Birdy’s body for a while because his body needs to be reconstructed. Tsutomu kinda has to live his normal while Birdy typically switches back in whenever there’s another bad guy(or to get… ice cream?).

The OVA has the COOLEST switching transforms btw, Enough for me to go watch the whole OVA because I only ever saw the first season of the anime.

So more plural references/proof from the OVA, even though it’s kinda clear that they’re already canonically plural though.

-While eating dinner his sister asks him “Did you make up a new imaginary friend lately” referring to the fact that Tsutomu keeps talking to Birdy out loud. This also leads to weird scenarios where other people think he’s talking to them when he’s just talking to Birdy.

-When in danger, Birdy tries to switch, but can’t and says “We can’t switch until you open up your consciousness” Which is similar to how some systems have to have the person switched in become relaxed before switching

-Birdy can possess parts of the body while Tsutomu is technically switched in.

More switching gifs from the OVA because they’re the coolest.

#tetsuwan birdy #birdy the mighty #anime #plural character #plural headcanons #pluralgang #endogenic #plural #plurality #endo safe #system #plural positivity #Birdy #systems #plural system

[richierambles]

Cartman's system: headmate list 2.0

Been thinking thoughts idk

This list would be their alters when their body's 15yo (sorry it's long I might make a shorter one later-)

Thanks to @mischieviousmusic and @everythingwasnormalhere for standing my infodumping about this au XD

Littles:

Anne:

6 yo

She/her

Loves playing tea party (main fronter during it)

When it's the other littles playing, she mainly roleplays as the Polly Prissipants doll

Sometimes cofronts when they're at class, but isn't allowed to talk to their classmates

Almost always at cofront when Love's fronting

After they come out, she's closest to Stan and Butters

They're not out to Karen, but Anne's spent time with her too

Whenever she talks to Kenny she asks him how she's doing<3

Ginger in headspace (it felt important to mention this don't ask why)

Finn:

8yo

He/him

Main fronter almost all the time they're playing

Roleplays as most of the other toys when they're playing tea party though

Loves playing cowboys

Frienemies with Artemis, they'll either hate each other or be best friends all the time

After they come out, he's closest to Kenny (but will much rather hang out with his sysmates)

Looks and acts like a Typical White Boy™

Artemis:

5yo

He/they

Introjected from Artemis Clyde Frog (the stuffed animal), but lost almost all his connection to it since the day it died (and exclusively goes by Artemis, hates his other names)

Roleplays himself when playing with the other syskids, never a main fronter while playing

Spent a long while (2-3 years) dormant, only came back after they came out, one day when the system was hanging out with their friends

The gang were all like "wtf who's this idk this alter-" but finally figured it out (mainly Kyle did)

SUPER close to Kyle

Actually whenever Artemis fronts they'll text Kyle first thing no matter what

Also close-ish to Butters

Has dark skin in the innerworld, his iw appearance is human but he always wears a frog hat

Hosts:

Sam:

15yo

he/him

The meaner, stronger Cartman

Is also a protector besides a host

Split from Collins on the Kenny Dies episode

He's the one who used fetuses to built the pizza place because otherwise the guys would've thought he was weak (his thought process is fucking crazy)

One of the few alters who remembers Kenny's deaths

He also knows there's something weird going on in their brain, but has no idea what

Used to cleaning up after everyone else's messes (like acting as if Jenni was Mitch Conners and as if all the Henniffer Lopez thing was just a joke (which backfired so bad...))

After they come out, he hangs out with everyone the same way they always do

Insys, he's trying to get close to 8

^ completely idolatrizes Hitler

Huge on the antisemitism (and general bigotry tbh)

Collins:

14yo

he/him

Split from Sam on the Kenny dies episode

He did want to use the fetuses to save Kenny, and he does consider Kenny his best friend

But he switched out when they got the news Kenny was dead (he was unable to cope with that) and so that's why Sam did what he did

Acts much more like a normal kid than Sam

Actually he's pretty normal for South Park standards

After they come out, he's best friends with Kenny but still friends with the rest of the gang as usual

Not as bad as Sam but definitely not good either

Kyle doesn't hate him as much as he hates Sam (but he'd never say this)

Cartman-sonas (idk how else to call this category):

Irick:

120yo

he/him

Grand Wizard King

Gatekeeper

Fronts mainly while playing SoT (but not every time they do)

Definitely their most responsible alter

^ the others often ask him for advice and stuff

Mildly connected to source

The first time he fronted it was during a SoT game, he found all of it normal (his memories are of the SoT universe) but when they stopped playing he was so weirded out by everything since he's used to a fantasy world

"Cartman stop rping we finished 2 hours ago" "who trapped those guys inside that box 😰" (they were watching TV 💀)

Now (after they came out) they don't play SoT as much, so he only takes full control on special occasions or when Kenny is on a Princess shift (otherkin Kenny 💯)

Only actually close to Kenny because of that, doesn't talk much to anyone else

Grim:

18yo

it/raccoon neos/he

The Coon

Physical protector

Formed because of Cartman's hero persona, but that was long before they started going out as The Coon (they made the first concept for that sona when they were around 4-5yo)

But one day it fronted and decided why not go out fight crime

The others didn't know about this at first

They just knew they had a weird fixation on that "Coon" hero (which, they didn't know where they saw him either but wtv)

But one day Sam decided to go out as Coon (in a rp manner) and found he looked exactly like him

Grim fronted in the middle of it and yk Coon'd for a bit

And Sam did remember that time

So what made more sense is that he'd been The Coon since the beginning

(which wasn't exactly a lie-)

After their syscovery, they assumed Grim formed after they started going out as The Coon

Grim has never confirmed nor denied this

Every single time Kenny's in his Mysterion shift fur gets yeeted to front just so they can argue for a while 💀

Talks to pretty much all the gang but mainly Mysterion'd Kenny

Gets called a furry 24/7 by both his headmates and Kenny (and the rest of the gang sometimes, not as much tho). He fucking hates it.

Adrian:

16yo

he/him

S3xual protector

Metrosexual Cartman

But he's a full-on homosexual

Cartman's metrosexual phase lasted longer than anyone else's because "it's not a phase mom it's who I am 🙄💅"

It was a phase for everyone but Adrian

He's still in that phase

Has hooked up with half the system and even a couple guys out of it

Nothing serious though

Before they came out he respected Cartman's image and didn't flirt with their friends, but after they did there's not a conversation in which he's not telling them the gayest most explicit shit ever

The gang are between confidence boost and absolute utter cringe fucking kill me pls

Theodore:

17yo

he/him

Persecutor (misguided protector) + academic

Formed during Tsst, he's the nice submissive version of Cartman

Would let basically anyone boss him around

Good intentions all the time

Won't do anything bad on purpose

All his submissiveness has gotten them in trouble though

To the point the others try to avoid him fronting as much as they can

He switched in when they were going to kill Liane though, that's good

Goes exclusively by Theodore, some people have tried to call him Theo but he hates that

After they come out, the gang are kinda uncomfortable with him, but Butters warms up to him eventually

(the reason why they're uncomfortable is because Theodore has such a Not Cartman way to act, and also because he's kinda really fucking lame)

(also a bit because Sam has told them all about the times Theodore has messed up)

Sunny/Love

Ageless

love-related neos

Cupid Me

S3xual protector

Hypersexual

When heart's at front, heart'll flirt with Kyle so much it's insane

Is it because fluff's in love with him? Is it because fluff ships kyman? Is it because of a secret third reason? Who knows

Btw everyone else (/sys) was so confused about it at first, like, "...wdym I was acting weird yesterday? I was flirting with you?? And calling you Ky-boo??? Good one dude but quit the bullshit I never did that"

Then when they had the syscovery nobody associated that with some alter doing it

Until a few months after they came out Kyle connected the dots and almost instantly told Sam (who was so pissed off at Sunny 😭)

Love's mostly close to the girls (Nichole, Bebe, even Wendy), but a lot closer to Collins and Anne

Also 💘's never stopped flirting with Kyle, and will never stop (slay)

Introjects:

Eight/8/H:

56yo

he/him

Hitler factive, really connected to source

Protector + Prosecutor

Formed soon after they learnt about Hitler's existence

Fronts at times in which they have to act commanding, such as The Passion Of The Jew or Ginger Kids

Also fronted during some of Tsst, and was who planned (and tried) to kill Liane

After they came out, he didn't front much in front of their friends (he found them lame)

But one day something Bad happened when they woke up and he got triggered to front, so he had to go to school

When the gang noticed he was acting different, they asked who he was

Well, Kyle did, but Eight refused to answer

Stan asked again and H told them his name was Adolf Hitler

Kyle refused to even look at him the rest of that day (and rightfully so)

When someone else switched in, Kyle told them that if 8 didn't at least change his name he'd never talk to any of them ever again, so that's why he goes by Eight/8/H (that was the most he'd accept to change it)

When he's at front (not often) Kyle has to resist the urge to beat him up (he doesn't wanna hurt some of the others), but to find them both in the same room is practically imposible

Jenni:

25yo

she/her

Jenniffer Lopez fictive

Talks in spanish sometimes, it's horribly incorrect but she doesn't care

She's the one who does most of the drag

Also the other one (besides Adrian) who hooks up with random guys

She's mostly at cofront rather than full front (talking with the hand because it "looks less weird"), but she's been at full front sometimes too :3

Fucking hates Mitch

After they come out, she hangs out with Bebe sometimes (but not really too often, she'll much rather go with celebrities)

Mitch Conner:

31yo

they/he

Sam first made him up so he could "get rid of" Jenni without looking too insane

But then they actually split

Jenni and Mitch fucking hate each other, Jenni because he steals her identity and Mitch because he thinks she's annoying

Whenever they front they'll find out everything they can about the other alters (and everyone in general) just so they can get stuff from them later

Kyle is so annoyed by his existence for some reason

Other (idk where else to put her soo):

Mae:

21yo

she/her

Persecutor

Originally split when they were a little kid (3-5), to take care of them when Liane didn't (she was kinda neglectful back then)

Also to have them grow up in a hopefully healthier environment

But she started obsessing over growing up and maturing to the point she actually made them unsafe

Such as in 1%, when she mutilated their stuffed animals and almost killed them (by burning down their house) in the process

Now she almost never fronts, and only Irick knows where she is and is allowed to talk to her

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