Crossethnic

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Crossethnic is a term for when an introject is a different race or ethnicity than their source. This applies both to when an introject is darker and when they are lighter than their source. This term is not to be applied to shapeshifters or other such headmates who can change their appearance unless their base, unshifted, original form is different from that of their source.

This term can be applied to any headmate with either a fully human source, or a humanoid source that possesses the human traits of race and/or ethnicity. This source may be factual, fictional, spiritual, an OC, etc., as long as said source is human. If a headmate has a non-human source - as in the case of animal introjects or conceptives, for example - then this term is unable to apply.

By the same token, this term is only able to apply to headmates who are either fully human, or who are humanoid and possess the human traits of race and/or ethnicity.

Related Terms
An introject who is different from their source may be called nonsimilous.

A headmate who is a different ethnicity from the body may be called parethnic. Parethnic headmates are not necessarily introjects. A headmate who is parethnic due to exomemories may be called exoethnic.

Darker- or lighter-skinned headmates in a SOC may be described as heravic or whivic, respectively.

History
This term was created by the Werewolf Pack to describe one of their own headmates. It was added to the wiki by them on December 26, 2023.