There is one headmate in my system that communicates only through vocalisations, touch, movement and beyond, and pretty much just is an animal. The majority can communicate through all these ways as well–usually when emotions are too strong. My excited sea lion decided to call getting really excited “waggling”, which is combined tail wagging and wiggling. I taught a specific other friend about this as well (turned out to be a therian), and they now do it uncontrollably. They eventually mentioned they used to start shaking when they were really excited, which resolved as soon as they started wiggling instead. Form of stimming, in fact. All therians (all plural as well) in my sphere naturally respond to each other in ways like this. Hell, even animals themselves have systems which I’ll adapt to (I’ve been called a dog whisperer a lot).
There is one particular exception regarding animal identity–Vaida, my manic/psychotic state. She is a “Saturnian”–a cosmic being. She’s essentially a liquid form. It’s not unique to her, as it seems every manic/psychotic state I’ve seen seems to describe a similar fundamental form–boundless, chaotic, free from the confines of the defined.
I have executive control over all integrated parts of my system (two are not yet fully cooperative). I can become plural or singlet as needed. In all states, I can forcibly front, or headmates may front naturally, and indeed take control from each other for any variety of reasons (they like to playfully bash each other, and do tend to act like personified versions of their species and function). Splitting and merging may even be done as an almost trivial task, though that’s obviously likely to lead to issues when done outside of warranted reason–even if it’s all technically me, done by my consent.
I am conscious just as much as we are conscious. It’s quite an elaborately diversified and highly structured system.
There is one headmate in my system that communicates only through vocalisations, touch, movement and beyond, and pretty much just is an animal. The majority can communicate through all these ways as well–usually when emotions are too strong. My excited sea lion decided to call getting really excited “waggling”, which is combined tail wagging and wiggling. I taught a specific other friend about this as well (turned out to be a therian), and they now do it uncontrollably. They eventually mentioned they used to start shaking when they were really excited, which resolved as soon as they started wiggling instead. Form of stimming, in fact. All therians (all plural as well) in my sphere naturally respond to each other in ways like this. Hell, even animals themselves have systems which I’ll adapt to (I’ve been called a dog whisperer a lot).
There is one particular exception regarding animal identity–Vaida, my manic/psychotic state. She is a “Saturnian”–a cosmic being. She’s essentially a liquid form. It’s not unique to her, as it seems every manic/psychotic state I’ve seen seems to describe a similar fundamental form–boundless, chaotic, free from the confines of the defined.
I have executive control over all integrated parts of my system (two are not yet fully cooperative). I can become plural or singlet as needed. In all states, I can forcibly front, or headmates may front naturally, and indeed take control from each other for any variety of reasons (they like to playfully bash each other, and do tend to act like personified versions of their species and function). Splitting and merging may even be done as an almost trivial task, though that’s obviously likely to lead to issues when done outside of warranted reason–even if it’s all technically me, done by my consent.
I am conscious just as much as we are conscious. It’s quite an elaborately diversified and highly structured system.