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This site is about the concept of forcishaping (aka shaping), forcigenic systems, and other language that describes plurals or systems whose structure or functions are knowingly created or affected by abusive outside forces.

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Forciplex

If a system or structure is forciplex, the entire structure is affected by external forces forcibly abusively affecting them via trauma, even if not all in the same way or to the same extent.

An example of a structure that might be forciplex but not neatly fit into other terms would include a sidesystem that came to exist unintentionally through trauma, but some members of it were programmed or shaped later on, and the other members who weren't are still affected by the trauma in which the other headmates were.

Another example would be a structure that has a storyline that an external party gave it, and the whole structure follows that storyline, but individual headmates' roles in or relationships to that storyline vary.

Forciplex isn't inherently synonymous with "shaped system" or "shaped structure", although forciplurid is. However, most systems or structures that would consider themselves shaped would probably fit under forciplex, as the shaping likely affects everyone in the structure in some way.