Veldianplurid

While our system collectively identifies as gay, we are specifically a veldian - i.e. a gay man.

We default to referring to this identity as "veldian" because it is a single word, it is not named after a person (unlike "turian" - we don't have a problem with Alan Turing but we prefer words not named after people if possible), and it does not have the names of other identities in it (i.e. "gay" and "man").

We have long considered ourselves collectively gay, and we briefly struggled with identfying what KIND of gay we collectively were. At the time, we didn't understand there were superclusters or amnesiac groups, so what may have been conflict over identity was actually passive influence from parts of the system that were trying to rejoin and Unify but hadn't been properly discovered yet.

Some parts of the system are lesbian, and some parts are cenelian or gaybian, but collectively speaking, our system is veldian.

We consider ourselves this because the only members of the system who are really interested in getting a romantic partner are men or male-aligned people who are only interested in dating another man or male-aligned person. Therefore, if we were seeking a romantic partner, it would be wisest to present ourselves as a man only attracted to men.

In the past, we have identified in a way that indicates we are attracted to genderqueer people, and this attraction still exists. However, cenelian and torenamoric are no longer the primary words we use for our orientation, even though we do consider those still to be among our plurids.

But our main orientation plurid is veldian at this point, because we are already in several relationships with unaligned genderqueer partners, but not with men or male-aligned people. We therefore consider that attraction more important to signal, as well that as a cenelian identity or similar is potentially what is ASSUMED of us with the relationships we have, requiring us to go more out of our way to signal our attraction to genders we're not currently in relationships with.

This means we would also collectively consider ourselves mspec veldian, although not in the sense of being attracted to binary women or genders other than oneself. Rather, this is in the sense of being a genderqueer multigender man who is attracted to men and genderqueer people, with a preference for men/masculinity/male-aligned genders, who sees all their attraction as gay due to all of it being to a gender category that they are in, and predominantly aligns the type of gay they are with being a veldian (as opposed to other types of gay).

However, some parts of the system, particularly Silent Hedges and other parts of Bryan's Supercluster, are emphatically NOT mspec veldians, at least not in the sense that they consider ALL genderqueer people within their attraction and are more specific about what being a veldian or an mspec veldian means to them.

Due to a series of personal reasons, more priority is currently being given in the collective to the identities of the veldians who are not attracted to genders other than men and male-related genders. This includes in-system relationships tending to be considered veldian/gay male over other alignments of gay/queer.

However, we are still in relationships with unaligned genderqueer people, so we use "mspec veldian" to clarify that these relationships aren't atypical for us as a collective. At the same time, though, we also aren't "mspec veldian" in the sense of "veldian who is actively attracted to or seeks relationships with genders they don't identify as", so adding "mspec" to "veldian" isn't all that important to us, at least in describing the collective (individual importance may vary).