Bondmate

undefined: Not to be confused with members of a Bonded System.

A bondmate or 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 bondsys experiences. For example, if the bondsys is traumagenic and is exposed to more trauma after being brought to the body, it may split more bondmates within it to cope with the new trauma. Alternatively, a spiribonding bondsys may choose to continue bonding new members to it.

History
This term was coined by the host of A Shattered Dragon's Spirit on the 26th of June, 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 its users to experience a life somewhere in an outerworld before joining a system, it is exclusive to endogenic/cosmagenic/mixed origin bodily systems. However, the bondsystems themselves that use the term can be of any origin.

Related Terms

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