The term roleic was officially coined on March 1, 2024 by Shockwave and Venn of our system. They created it because they were trying to coin terms to describe the intersections of certain things with their roles - e.g. how their roles related simultaneously but in different ways to topics like intrusive thoughts, outer space, and the old web.

At first, they were trying to coin plural-specific xenogenders about them, but then they realized the experience they were trying to convey was not what they considered a gender at all but rather a completely different unit of identity. Hence, they coined roleic.

A roleic is something that is part of someone's role or part of their status or experience in the system, but it is not necessarily a role in and of itself.

Here are some examples of potential roleics:

-intrusiroleic for a headmate whose role deals with intrusive thoughts but is not necessarily as simple as "holder" or "manager".
-magicroleic for a headmate who comes from a timeline where they had magic and where their connection to magic is an important part of how they do their role.
-angerroleic for a headmate whose role involves anger, without specifying in what way it does.
-dogroleic for a headmate who is a canine introject of a non-canine characters and holds the system's canine behaviors

One potential use of roleics is to disclose that a headmate has a connection to a certain thing without specifying what that connection is. This can be useful for privacy - e.g. headmates who want to specify they have something to do with the old web and with trauma, but without necessarily using a more specific trauma holder-related word.

However, this is a website dedicated to analyzing and explaining different aspects of our identity, and as a result, we would only list a label here if we wanted to go into some amount of detail. That said, we still do care about privacy, and there are different levels of detail.

Therefore, where it comes to the roleics (and a lot of other plural terms), there may be different levels of details given about how exactly the headmate relates to that role. For example, many of us with old web trauma do use "oldwebroleic", but we don't always like to have a page listing out all our trauma on the old web. At the same time, though, we do find the broad strokes important to be able to share with others, and some of this information is useful to have in therapy, too.