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Constelic!

1. What’s constelic?

Constelic, or Stel,
is an alterhuman label for when one takes on, or collects, an
identity/multiple identities. A constelic individual may range from
having one identity, to a very high amount, and everything in between.

Constelic identities, also called stels or constels,
can range from being very casual and unobtrusive, to intense. These
constels may or may not shape how a person likes to act, present
themselves, or refer to themselves. Constelic individuals may also
experience varying intensities of their stel, called phasing, or a phase. One may phase from one constel to the next, or simply phase closer to a constel.

Reasons
for why someone is constelic may vary. Popular reasons may be because
of hyperfixation, projection onto characters, a need to “hoard” things
(possibly due to things like OCD), having personas or “identity masks,”
or it might simply be for the sake of fun.

A constelic individual may be referred to as a constari, or a stellie/stelly if one prefers a more “fun” name. If one wished, they could also change the “i” at the end of constari, to make terms such as constara, constaro, or constare.

2. What makes constelic distinguishable from other terms?

Constels are not inherent,
distinguishing it from other alterhuman labels such as otherkin or
otherhearted. A constel may slowly fade away over time, be ‘dropped,’ or
simply not be permanent in general. While some constels may last a
person’s entire lifetime, someone is not typically born with a constel,
though they may consider themselves to have been born constelic in
general, with a predisposition to taking on identities.

Constelic
does not go by “with” or “as” terminology, either. You may identify
“as” your constel, you may identify “with” them, you may move between
the two, or something else entirely. Constelic identities do not go by
whether or not they’re chosen; sometimes they are intentionally taken
on, while other times they’re unconsciously taken on.

In short, the thing that distinguishes constelic is that constelic identities are non-inherent. They are extrinsic.

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