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Here’s some positivity for fictives of player characters!

Every introject is unique, special, and wonderful in their own way, and this absolutely includes fictives whose source is a player character from a video game, tabletop rpg, or some other game! To all the fictives of player characters out there, your life is precious and you are worth uplifting and celebrating! So this one is just for you!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters from video games who kept and identify with the default name of their source!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives from TTRPGs whose source is someone else’s player character!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who formed consciously or unconsciously due to their system’s special interest or hyperfixation!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who feel strongly attached to the game, work, or world they were sourced from!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives of player characters that were created by their own system!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters from let’s plays, podcasts, livestreams, or other instances where their source is a player character created by someone outside their system!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who are trying to distance themselves from their source for any reason!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives of customizable player characters whose appearance regularly shifts as a result of their source!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who have never interacted directly with the work they are sourced from!

Fictives of player characters are valid as fictives and introjects, and are important and valued members of their systems! It’s okay to be a fictive of a player character, regardless of how you feel about your source. Your experience is real, you are real, and you deserve to be supported and uplifted as you are!

If you’re a fictive of a player character, we hope you can take it easy today and find the time to do something that you love. Rest assured the plural community and our spaces are made better by your presence in them! Know that we’re rooting for you, and we’re wishing the very best for you in all that you do. Thanks so much for reading, and have a great day!

#orion tag

[lions-den-collective]

please be patient with me im from the 1900s

#raoir tag

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holy shit guess who might be back.

[q]

#q tag #it's been a while.

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thinking about that one Ace Attorney character who canonically was a system AND didn't fall into the "serial killer alter who secretly kills people" trope that media loves so much. love them. it's been a while since we played that game but that kind of representation is so cool to see

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oh this looks fun!

he/they/ce/xe/it/she/hy/ky/ze/ae/kit/fe/reve

All of our pronouns put together :D

He/She/They/It/Hy/Clown/Glorp/Pink/Xe + any neos

Could other systems do this as well it'd be funny to see how many pronouns there'd be lol

-🐤

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being friends with a sw*ftie is. well it is a Challenge sometimes,

#not tagging this. lmao.

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being an introject is so weird because sometimes i settle into the body's life as if it's mine and then randomly in the middle of an activity i suddenly think "wait holy shit i'm a 30something year old hockey player what am i doing here". and then the immersion is broken. what the fuck AM i doing here

#a lot of us tbh #TC: i'm a 42 year old pirate captain who's 7'7'' why is everyone the same height as me #but sometimes he'll be driving down the freeway and be like yeah. this is where i belong. it's so weird lmao

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#galloway tag #looking at this for moral support while anxious........ [galloway]

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i miss my boyfriend(s)

[raoir]

#raoir tag

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wolf playing in the snow

#rb tag #oh to be a wolf playing in the snow

[lions-den-collective]

it just got really quiet up here and I am. unnerved to say the least. scared to say the most

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we're the Lion's Den (the collective is just for the URL lmao), named after a location in one of our D&D worlds! we have a lot of introjects from that world and a bunch of them have a connection to the original place, so it felt perfect. also we knew we wanted an animal theme

i'm curious to hear how other systems figured out their system names, if they have one! we chose the moonrise system because it's almost always evening or night in our headspace. we also chose it based on the 'rises the moon' song, it gives us comfort and hope during long days! - :)

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thank the alter who did the homework. tell the alter who cooked how much you liked the food. tell the alters who shower and clean your room and work out and drive home how much you appreciate them keeping things together, and tell them more when they mess up, because it's all about being there for each other.

#important reminder

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how to make it clear that i want a collar for werewolf reasons and not kink reasons

[rb]

#not condemning the latter btw #rb tag

[lions-den-collective]

One of my more minor gripes about the "serial killer alter" trope is that I think there is opportunity for genuine, well-made stories about a system that kills. You could potentially write some really interesting stories involving internal conflict over murder in a system – for instance, if a system killed once in self-defense, and one of the headmates is keeping that memory from the rest of them. Or if an alter came back from dormancy to find out the world's gone to shit and everyone knows "them" as the one willing to kill to protect their group of survivors. Hell, fuck it, have some kind of "no, I'm being literal when I say the version of me that you knew isn't present anymore, this isn't some metaphor for how I've become ~evil~" conflict! So long as it's done in a way that gives the system in question nuance and reason for their actions, I'd be willing to see where the story is going with this!

But nooooooo, it's all stock-standard "this one alter kills others for no good reason" shit with a dash of "don't look too long into the implications that this plural superhero/anti-hero just killed a bunch of people, just accept that they do this" hand-waving that makes people think we're going to stab them if they look away for too long. It's always "this imposter is pretending to be our loved one for nefarious reasons" angst and never "oh shit we treated this alter like shit for just being different than the host" angst. There's not even any originality smh smh. We've already gotten a thousand of these horror plots that use plurality as a one-size-fits-all villain cap; I'm sure horror, whump, and angst writers can do better if they really want to write about a system that kills others

#!!!!!this

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#this is so. accurate

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"how many of you have ever felt personally victimized by larian studios?" raises hands

(meme courtesy of @steampunk-sorcerer)

#the way we're wondering whether our durge character is forming. and whether or not ketheric will show up to parent him /j #jury is still out on whether or not astarion is around here but we wouldn't be surprised if we discover him soon lmao