PluralWiki: the Soulbond Code

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This code was for soulbonders! (That is, folks who felt emotional resonance with media characters.  This ranged from feeling like a character "wrote itself" to said character being a fronting system member like any other.)

Quick Details

Created By: Amorpha
Time Created: 2001
Location: http://soulbonding.tripod.com/sbcode.txt

Circumstances of Creation

"The SBers' [Soulbonders'] Code was inspired by seeing the Multiple Code [...] and thinking that it would  be useful to tailor something like that specifically for SBers. (For the record, while we also have a Multiple Code and many multiples also SB, we thought it would be useful to have a code with specific information on the SBing aspects of the system.)" (Amorpha, n.d.)

It was created in 2001 (Eclective, December 25).

Original 2001 Version

This version prefaced itself with SBC to declare itself a soulbond code. (Eclective, 2001 December 25).    It contained sections for the following criteria: system size (N), body and bond genders (G), origin of soulbonds, such as insourced, outsourced, from what kind of media (O), bond species (S.), involvement of bonds in the bonder's life (i), opinion of self-insert fic (SI) how into roleplaying they were (R), how social they were (S), and how much they liked to draw (A) or write (W).

There were also modifiers ? for unknown, or * for variable.

Undated (2004?) Revised Version

This version has no date; however, seeing as soulbonding.tripod.com was declared inactive by 2004, the edits must predate the abandonment (Eclective, 2004 June 6).  It is also unclear whether Amorpha or Eclective are responsible for the edits.  Among the changes (all from Amorpha, n.d.):

• It tweaked the range for number of bonds, changing from 2-50+ to 1-100+.
• It added the following modifier to the origin section: "#- Not an SB in the most traditional sense; represents some aspect of the Bonder (for example, a younger version of the self)"
• Added mechanical beings to the "species" section, and the modifier, "The Bonder's conception of this species is extremely different from the 'common' idea." It also fixed a problem where a different modifier had the same value as a global one.
• It recategorized the "involvement" section to "bonds' fronting ability" (F).
• It deleted the self-insert section.

Citations

Amorpha. (n.d.) The Soulbond Code [web page].  Retrieved 2019/03/24 from http://soulbonding.tripod.com/sbcode.txt

Eclective. (2001, December 25). the soulbond code [web page]. http://childofmana.tripod.com/sbcode.htm Internet Archive.  Retrieved 2019/03/24 from https://web.archive.org/web/20011225183245/http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/sbcode.htm

Eclective. (2004, June 6). we're leaving here tonight.... [web page]. http://soulbonding.tripod.com/ Internet Archive.  Retrieved 2019/03/24 from https://web.archive.org/web/20040606093747/http://soulbonding.tripod.com/

Neither the Soulbond Code nor the Multi Code have been really updated in fifteen years or more!  I found myself wondering, maybe it'd be neat to try and smoosh them together and overhaul them into a plural code! @_@ What do you think?  Do people even use those codes anymore?  I guess it'd just be for fun...