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p style="text-align: center;" data-p-id="9848a424ee484331ef95bce086a549bb"emspan style="text-decoration: underline;"strongPeople/strong/span/embr /strongSeán Anderson-/strong Main character, 25. Detective of the Detroit Police Department and son of Hank Anderson. Played by emSeán McLoughlin./embr /strongConnor RK800-/strong Main character, ~3 months old. Prototype android and detective of the Detroit Police Department. Played by emBryan Dechart./embr /strongHank Anderson-/strong Main Character, 53. Lieutenant of the Detroit Police Department and father of Seán and Cole Anderson. Played by emClancy Brown./embr /strongGabbi/Evelein Smolders-/strong Not-Quite Main character, 27. Seán's girlfriend, moved in with Seán about six months before the book starts. Played by emHerself/em./p
p style="text-align: center;" data-p-id="f3d506050718bdc6d1b1029c6d516920"span style="text-decoration: underline;"Alters/spanbr /strongSeán-/strong 25, Host of the Jacksepticeye System. Holds very little trauma, and has hosted since the birth of the system. Tends to ignore the trauma he does hold, and push away the other alters when they bring it up. Most of the time, however, he is very happy and carefree, and tends to be the "good cop".br /strongAnti-/strong ~29, Persecutor/Protector; Fictive. Tends to pop up when Seán is put into a life-or-death situation. In the inner world, he is a kind of fictive- more specifically a demon. He tends to tease and mess with the other personalities. A tell for when he is fronting is the body tends to /strongChase- /strong39, ANP; Trauma Holder. Protects the littles in the inner world, and fronts when there are children around/when those he cares for are in trouble. Seán sometimes allows Chase to Co-Host, and when fronting he has a hat he likes to /strongHenrik-/strong 45, ANP; Caretaker. Tends to front suddenly when the body or other people get injured. He has a German accent and is qualified legally as a doctor in both Ireland and the Americas. A little bit of a /strongJack-/strong 18, Protector. Tends to front when the body is in a life-or-death situation, or when he just wants to see the world (which he loves). Dating Marvin. He is a superhero in the inner world and is kind of childlike. Likes to be called "Jackieboy Man"br /strongMarvin-/strong 17, Trauma holder. Loves magic tricks, but holds most of the memories formed in high school. He is dating Jack and has been for a few years. He doesn't like fronting, but will if no one else can./p
p style="text-align: center;" data-p-id="c7ca6ffaec33d21f251e4ae8b11d6e16"span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongEncyclopedia/strong/spanbr /strong**D.I.D specific definitions are underlined**/strongbr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongAlter-/strong/span Alternate state of consciousness; the other "people"/headmates/sides in a system. Each is like a person who does not have D.I.D. Can alter the body itself when they front (i.e. the body can become legally blind when an alter fronts but can see when another alter fronts)br /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongCo-Conscious-/strong/span More than one alter fronting at once. Also called "Co-Con". Each alter can control a certain amount of the bodybr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongDissociating-/strong/span A defense mechanism in traumatic situations. The fronting alter is unable to focus, has trouble speaking/forming words, and has trouble functioning correctly, and the alter feels like they cannot control the bodybr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongDissociative Identity Disorder-/strong/span a rare condition in which two or more distinct identities/alters, are present in—and alternately take control of—an individualbr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongFragment- /strong/spanA less fully formed alter with a minor rolebr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongFronting/"Out"-/strong/span Taking control of the bodybr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongHost-/strong/span The alter out most often. Tends to hold the name the body was given at birth and tends to not hold /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongInner-World-/strong/span Subconscious environment that non-fronting alters typically reside in. It can be anything from a single building to a small island to a whole galaxy. Holds trauma as well (typically in a place that most alters cannot reach). Each system's looks different, and may even have NPC's (Non-Playable Characters)br /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongIntegration- /strong/spanRecovering all memories (Integration of Memories) or combining multiple alters into one alter (Integration of Alters). Difficult to talk about sometimes. IoM means that each personality begins to hold a traumatic memory. IoA means that an alter basically absorbs another one, creating a new person. Sometimes, IoA tends to be the goal of therapybr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongLittle-/strong/span A young/child alter (10 and younger)br /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongMultiplicity-/strong/span Having multiple personalitiesbr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongSingleton/Singlet-/strong/span Someone without D. /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongSplit-/strong/span Creating a new alter. Tends to happen when a traumatic event occurs. Can happen at any timebr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongSwitching-/strong/span Changing between altersbr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongSystem-/strong/span All the alters in one body. Most people tend to name their systemsbr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongTrauma-/strong/span A deeply distressing or disturbing event that (before the age of ~6-12) can cause D.I.D. Brain has difficulty processing it and tends to leave a lasting impressionbr /span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongTrigger-/strong/span A cue that causes traumatic memories to surface. Sometimes, they don't make sense. Most of the time, they lead to a PTSD episode, or panic attacks/p
p style="text-align: center;" data-p-id="274950882298cb8ee1df9827a67fa834"strongAll of the D.I.D definitions come from the channel DissociaDID, which I will be using for some of the information I need for this book. Other channels I tend to refer to are The Entropy System and MultiplicityAndMe./strong/p
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