Soulbonding terms

Basic Terms

  • Daytripper: A bond who can travel to and from their world, they can sometimes be both a telephone bond and a daytripper. (Other names: Visitors)
  • Permanent Resident: A soulbond who stays with the soulbonder permanently, they may be unwilling or unable to return home. Other names: Resident, permanent, live-in
  • Soulbond: The person a soulbonder bonds with. It can be shortened to bond(s).
  • Soulbonder: The person (normally from this world, but doesn't have to be) who bonds with a soulbond. It can be used to describe the host of a soulbonded system. Can be shortened to bonder(s).
  • Telephone Bond: A bond who stays in their world, but can still communicate with the bonder in this world. It's like communicating with a bond through an internal phone line. (Other names: Internal cellphone, long distance, caller)

Subterms

  • Cosmabonding: A subterm under soulbonding for soulbonders who's bonds are made through reality shifting, soulbonds that shift from their realities or can shift back and forth from their realities to this one, etc. This is usually seen as a magical or spiritual experience but can also be psychological. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Munbonding: A subterm under soulbonding that denotes having purely psychological origins for their soulbonds. Pronounced "moon-bonding" (coined by @winreyplace)

More Terms

  • Guest: A telephone bond that sometimes becomes a daytripper for short periods of time, but stays in their reality more, making them more telephone bond rather than daytripper. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Interim: A permanent resident that leaves only when necessary, usually they'll leave for short periods of time and come back for extended periods, making them more of a resident rather than daytripper. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Overnighter: Soulbonds who temporarily become permanent residents based on the needs of their bonder, but return to being daytrippers once those needs don't require them to be there all the time anymore. (coined by @winreyplace)
  • Prophet: A type of bond that communicates with their bonder through dreams. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Reverse Soulbonding: An experience where instead of a bond coming into your head, you go into theirs. It can be experienced as a type of dream. A soulbonder who can do this is called a traveler.
  • Soulbond Sharing: An instance where a soulbond moves from one person's mind to another, they retain their personality and any information/experiences gained while they were bonded to the first person.
  • SoulMuse: A term for a soulbond who is always active and has some control when the body is awake, in a way that is synchronous with the soulbonder. (coined by @Alcremie-Leo on Tumblr)
  • Spammer: A telephone bond that is constantly around and talking to their bonder while staying in their reality. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Telepath: A permanent resident or daytripper that is capable of communicating like a telephone bond when they aren't with the soulbonder. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Time Lord: A bond that believes their reality is the future of the body's reality or the bond's reality is/was the past of the body's reality and time traveled to become a soulbond. (coined by @soularsys on Tumblr)
  • Tourist: A variant of daytripper for bonds who rarely visit or visit noticeably less than other bonds. (coined by @anomalycouncil on Tumblr)

Older Terms

  • Dar'morende: An old term meaning permanent soulbond.
  • Idea-creature: Anything born of thought, dreams, imagination, or the energy created from this process. Can include soulbonds, parts of self, self image, etc.
  • Insourced: Soulbonds that aren't derived from an outside source, such as ocs or paras.
  • Outsourced: Soulbonds that are derived from an outside source, such as tv shows, books, anime, movies, ect.
  • Reality-version: A soulbonders version of a character and/or their world.
  • Soulscape: A term used to describe a place inside a soulbonders head (or separate place entirely) to interact with and/or house their bonds.
  • Stereo-Soulbonding: A term used to describe when multiple soulbonders have soulbonds of the same character. (synonymus with doubles)
  • Tar'morende: A term meaning temporary soulbond.