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Headmates
These are the people who live in Abyss. They were broken off from me through my dissociative mechanisms and pushed down there through redshift.
Selves:
Factive introjects:
How to refer to us
These are just codenames. We use them on the inside to make internal communication less disorienting. For the most part, we don't think endogenic elaboration on our preexisting traumagenic differences is useful in our healing process (this is only a claim about us, not a universal claim about all systems) but our names, at least, are a necessary evil: they're the only way we know who's telling us what. If we don't know which of several disjoint continuities of consciousness a thought or emotion is coming from, then neither can we know what it's eventually going to take to stitch them together.
On the outside, all of us just see ourselves as ego-states of Jaime. Please just call us all Jaime and use they/she for us. Unless you're talking about us in a way where it's necessary to distinguish. It's fine to use our codenames if that's ever easier, but in the usual case where it would be harder, it's perfectly fine to just pretend we're a singlet.