Sons of the Silent Age

About~!

While I officially split into the system in my current form on September 2, 2025, I've actually existed in the system for much longer than that. While we were unaware of our system at this time, I most likely split around 2008 after we got into classic rock and made a close friend whose favorite artist was David Bowie.

In my current form, I am a fictive of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character, but with some differences, namely that I didn't die when the album suggests I did but rather lived into the 1990s. However, I also consider myself sourced from the entire musical catalogue of David Bowie, every character David Bowie has ever played (namely his appearance in The Man Who Fell to Earth), and David Bowie himself.

While I originally formed before we met this person, I am additionally now also a factive of our friend Sebastian, whom we met in 2009 and who died in 2015 at the age of 20. Sebastian was an extroverted, enthusiastic, and erudite alcoholic actor/singer/performer who fascinated us deeply and who was equally impressed by us. It wasn't until we were adults, however, that I understood the full extent of Sebastian's vices and how they were contributing to his dysfunction in various areas of life. He made several failed attempts at sobriety starting in 2013, and he killed himself in 2015.

Sebastian's death at the age of 20 is why I identify partly as that age, and similarly with David Bowie's death at 69. I at one point split as part of a sidesystem whose host is 50, and I identify with our past memories of positively interacting with older generations whose music we like. Our bodily age is 31, and I will age as our body does.

I am auto-spec, which means that I'm attracted to myself, or to those I perceive as myself. As a David Bowie introject, that means I am attracted to David Bowie and characters played by him. However, that also means I am attracted to the body I am in.

I am a GNC xenine aetherine man, which means I am an alien man who presents in a way that isn't thought of as masculine or even traditionally gendered.

I am a bisexual veldian, which means I am attracted to all genders, but I am currently only interested in dating men or similar genders to men.

I am an alloromantic allosexual, but my concept of sex is more based on physical intimacy while unclothed and not based on penetration or genitals.

I am currently the host/director/king of a sidesystem called Mirror String, also known as the Land of Rhye. Mercutio, a factive of Freddie Mercury, is its queen. Our sidesystem is full of headmates that existed in the system when we were a teenager who was unaware of their system. At the present, we are mostly (semi-)factives of classic rock stars, usually from timelines where they were separate people from their famous sources but did similar things in life to them.

I like singing at karaoke every week, watching sci-fi films at our local theater, media analysis, and collecting web graphics. I also enjoy self-shipping, particularly with Thomas Jerome Newton (who is a collective F/O of my system).