Willogenic

Where it comes to systems that did not originate from being intentionally created but that intentionally influence things about their system, including by way of means that someone would use to create a system (e.g. build-a-headmate templates), we refer to these as "willobased methods".

In May 2024, we discovered the build-a-headmate community on Tumblr. We didn't know what to think of it at first because it seemed to be originating from communites we consider ourselves outside of, but when a build-a-headmate blog popped up that didn't seem to affiliate itself with any stances, we decided to make a blog of our own. Our blog, headmate-ideas, is now one of the longest-running build-a-headmate blogs currently active on Tumblr (i.e. not abandoned or deleted).

While our system does not feel that any of the superclusters or the sidesystems were fully created entirely intentionally, Hourglass Meadow is a sidesystem that split shortly after we made templates for them and started using them. While we think a specific panic attack was the actual thing that caused them to split and not our own efforts, it was undoubtedly our own efforts that influenced what KIND of alters we split from that panic attack.

Since then, we have used templates (as we call build-a-headmate packs) to influence our splits. We have filled them out for headmates who were in the process of splitting, we have used them to help newly-split headmates explore their identities before making things official on SimplyPlural, and we have created and requested templates that we didn't try to split on purpose but that were intended to introject naturally whenever the system most needed that headmate.

While we do not do this very often, we occasionally do create headmates entirely on purpose, although the methods we use are different from the ones that you would use if you did not already split headmates due to stress or intense emotions. We may someday make a page about our methods for anyone who would want to use them. If so, it will be linked here.

We are also now familiar with fragment elaboration after learning more about the Hidden Supercluster's (Blue's and Bryan's). In particular, Blixa's supercluster is polymultiple but not polyfragmented, meaning most of the denizens of that part of the system are not fragments at all.

However, in 2024, we started getting parts of the system who were more fragmentary, and in 2025, we discovered they were actually old parts of the system who came back due to us getting closer to discovering trauma we didn't remember.

Since then, we've seen fragments elaborate on themselves without any outside input from us, and given that it was a jarring experience for everyone involved, we've learned that templates can help fragments develop a sense of self.

While we don't push fragments to elaborate, and not all of them want to, many of them are fragments because one headmate was too traumatized to be one person, so they turned into fragments who are defined only by trauma or by a symptom. They do not like living that way, and they also don't usually prefer to be fused with a previously-existing headmate long-term, so fragment elaboration is what they find most helpful.

Fragment elaboration is likely what happened when Bryan thought he created a system in approximately 2006. During that time, Bryan's part of the system discovered tulpamancy groups on the internet, particularly MySpace. While we now understand that most of the "tulpas" he thought he created were actually fragments from our past who he helped become full headmates, it's still notable that he believed for a long time that he had created his system on purpose, and that he was partly responsible for why his part of the system became less fragmentary.

While it is less known what Blue's part of the system was doing on the internet while taking advantage of amnesia barriers - because it is likely that they were, but for different things than Bryan was - it is possible they would have discovered the tulpamancy community as well. While the circles Blue would have fallen into would have been different than Bryan's, it is likely that, given that Blue's Supercluster is the most affected by imagination and other endobased factors, they would have tried and succeeded to make new headmates as well.