Vessel

undefined: A vessel is the name given to a soma, or a sysmate's body, that contains fragments, a subsystem, a bondsystem, or any other containable kind of sisasystem. The term is designed to give nested sysmates a way to refer to their shared physical self, while not having to identify as/with the physical self if they don't want to. This can be particularly useful for sisasystems who do not have a core, such as webbed sisasystems, where there may be no nested sysmates who resemble the vessel.

It can also be used as a descriptor in a bio or role list to indicate that a sysmate contains a sisasystem, useful for collective/blanketself PluralKit proxies.

History
The term has been in use by A Shattered Dragon's Spirit since mid-2020, and was coined by draer host, who is a vessel himself.

Its name is taken from two definitions of the word vessel, "a container of substances, such as a cup, bottle, or bowl", and "a person as a container of qualities or feelings".

Related Terms

 * The system's shared physical form in shared reality is the body.
 * Intraplural could be used as a synonym in some circumstances.
 * The vessel may or may not be similar to, or the same identity as, the sisasystem's host, core, or main.
 * A fractal course is a name for a vessel that specifically contains fragments.