Plural Joy

Us being a protogenic-endogenic system, and also a generative system, it's always odd to us to see people talk about it as if the growth and just being a system is suffering, because to us NOT growing and NOT being a system is suffering. So we kind of have to stop ourselves from going like:

• You don't want friend???? You don't want found friend???? You kick friend out like a sad lost puppy????
• No hugs? Cuddles? No small acts of love? But waking up to the projection of your headmate when he shifts a little trying not to wake you up is adorable. That's...not something people want? :( Like sure the external world can do that too and singlets can do that too but it's not the same. It hits different when the person in question is in your own brain. Double the hug!!! Double the cuddle!!! It's an endless feedback loop until one of us stops!! :D
• And also, pinging a more generalized "good morning" and getting hundreds of pings back in return is the most amazing feeling ever.
• Also describing in-headspace events to singlets when we do manage to get a connection between frontspace and backspace + someone manages to write it down. Seriously. We love confusing the ever-loving fuck out of singlets. Sometimes a few of them catch on. They're usually the folks who didn't decide right off the bat to medicalize our existence in the first place though, so our goal is obtained either way.
• None of us can really do math the way people think it means, but 💜 (xe/xem; emoji is an alias) seems to be able to grasp some of the more abstract concepts in our training for [complicated process moving through the product support agent position until we get to the point where we can do all of the troubleshooting, that we simply call Moving Up A Pod]. 💜 is also like fifteen, so someone else keeps having to drag xem out of the front because "please let the adults do this until we can figure out how you actually function," and such. Even once we figured out xe could handle it, most of us still have a pretty hard time letting xem help us at work. Pretty much everyone would feel bad if a systeen got burnt out because of us.
• Okay but for real, does anyone else know the feeling of amazement when you see headmates projecting themselves from your brain and out of the window, so you can see them like playing and stuff? Like everyone knows it's physically impossible to interact with the actual environment in that state but it's nice to see/feel/know about that people can get along this well.
• WE DO NOT GENERALLY AGE UNLESS WE WANT TO. Either that, or it is very weird since there is at least a lower limit. But we saw Elise (she/her) very specifically choose how to age up and when, and to what age, which does mean we probably do have some semblance of a choice in our system. It brings us a lot of joy to have seen someone plan things out to that degree and take such pride in it, actually.
• System movie nights. Or just anime nights between three other headmates.
• Headmates who try their damn best to make something to eat they know another headmate would like. Except. They're normally (lovingly) banned from the kitchen, so it's a disaster, but all the other folks who have frontspace access at the moment are in really bad emotional pain, which means the effort and care put into the food is actually super appreciated. <3
  
• And other our-system-is-literally-the-size of-a-village-right-now moments.