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Headmate

Deceased. Dissolved ex-subsystem whose gestalt identity does not carry on with any particular former internal part, and has instead terminated entirely in favor of the former internal parts' own distinct identities.

Headmate-α

Broken. Intact but extremely unstable subsystem who is fully expected to dissolve imminently.

Headmate-α

Past self. Dissolved ex-subsystem whose gestalt identity does carry on with some particular former internal part.

Headmate(?)

Independence uncertain. Most likely a former internal part of a mostly-intact subsystem.

Headmate-n

Memory. Unelaborated internal part of an intact subsystem.

Headmate-n(?)

Independence unlikely. Elaborated but still internal part of an intact subsystem.

Headmate*

Variant. Unnatural induced state of a different headmate, not actually part of them.

Headmate*

Rescued. Former unnatural induced state of a different headmate who has successfully been pulled out of that state.

Headmate

Status unknown. Communication currently cannot be established, but it doesn't feel like they've been integrated either.

Headmate

Ordinary headmate. No special nomenclature markup applies:

Not headmate because

Communication is possible with them.

Not headmate because

If they are a subsystem, they are intact or mostly intact.

Not headmate-n because

If they have an internal part who carries their gestalt identity, then (by definition) they themself are that same internal part.

Not headmate(?) because

They are not a former internal part of a still-mostly-intact subsystem.

Not headmate-α because

If they are unstable, they are not unstable enough for their imminent breakage to be an absolute certainty.

Not headmate* because

They, as herein named, represent the identity state currently understood as canonical for them.

Headmate**

Mass. Intact subsystem with no gestalt identity, not even a facade of one, only connectivity between internal parts. More akin to a "place" or "thing" than a "person."

Headmate**

Primordial mass. Ex-mass, documented as it was before gaining a gestalt identity, either by acquiring a part willing to represent it, or by forming a facade.

Headmate-n*

Integrated. Former headmate who has been reabsorbed by another and is now an unelaborated internal part, but not the part who carries the fused subsystem's gestalt identity.

Headmate-α*

Embraced. Former headmate who has been reabsorbed by another and is now an unelaborated internal part, and is the part who carries the fused subsystem's gestalt identity.

Singlet. When final fusion is attained, we won't need codenames or bio pages anymore, so the markup applied to this hypothetical headmate's codename will be that they won't have a codename at all.

The markup used in a headmate's nomenclature specifies only those qualities that either make me question their existence / validity, help me distinguish from other headmates with the same name, or both. More generally, unless a quality of a headmate is so important that in order to avoid confusion it should literally be part of their name, it does not belong in their nomenclature markup.

Thus, the markup is not intended to specify a headmate's type (e.g. part, alter, facet, introject, etc) nor their role (e.g. protector, persecutor, etc). I have chosen to avoid specifying headmates' types and roles at all, because my experience has been that doing so inhibits our healing progress. (I will make an exception to specify when someone is an introject as opposed to a genuine ego-state, because in my experience, direct work with introjects is not possible, because they are reflections of trauma rather than holders of it, so they can only be healed by working with the part who holds the trauma they reflect.)