Bondmate

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A bondmate (alt. boundmate) refers to a sysmate within a bondsystem. This term can be combined with other sysmate terms to create more specific titles, like bondalter, bondfacet, bondhost, etc.

Bondmates can be of any origin, and may continue to form in response to new events that the bondsystem experiences. For example, if the bondsystem is traumagenic and is exposed to more trauma after being bound to the body, it may split more bondmates within it to cope with the new trauma. Alternatively, a spiribonding bondsystem may choose to continue bonding new members to it.

History
This term was coined by "G" of A Shattered Dragon's Spirit on June 26th, 2023, after no longer wanting to use the term 'subalter'. He felt that it reduced his experiences of having a large bondsystem to being just a subset of a system structure that his alters didn't belong to, and wanted to reclaim his bondsystem's individuality.

Exclusivity
Due to this term requiring a bondsystem to experience a life somewhere in an outerworld before being bonded to a system, its use is exclusive to endogenic/cosmagenic/etc bodily systems.

However, the bondsystems themselves can be of any origin.

Related Terms

 * A bondmate is more specific kind of antegenic or pregenic origin.
 * A bondmate could consider themself previgenic.