Alt

Alts is the term used for glowfic characters who share a template.
==Nicknames==
Because characters in the same template often have the same (or very similar) names, alts will commonly choose a nickname for themselves. Distinguishing nicknames, often self-chosen, typically refer to characteristics of the individual character that are unique to them within their template. Characters whose name is unique enough within their template may not bother with nicknames; Mehitabel Coscoroba goes by her usual nickname of Tab, and Campbell Swan goes by Cam.
==-oids==
There are a couple terms used for characters who are an alt of your close relative.
*Sisteroid or brotheroid can be used to refer to the alt of a sibling. Helen Ianthe is Peninnah's sisteroid because Helen's mother is an alt of Peninnah's mother and Helen's father is also an alt of Peninnah's father.
*Cousinoid can be used to refer to characters who both have one parent in the same template, but different second parents. Damaris is the cousionoid of Kerron Corlett because they both have a parent who is a Joker, but Damaris' mother is a Bell and Kerron's father is a Nathan.
==Circumstance Alts==
Circumstance alts are two characters who are explicitly not alts within the same template; rather, they are two characters who are given the same resources to work with but have different reactions to them that stem from their different personalities. An example of this is Loki Odinsdottir from the universe of Edda, who has almost the same backstory as the Loki from Yggdrasil except that Yggdrasil's Loki presents the canon MCU Loki personality and the Loki from Edda is a Bell.
==Branches==
Some alts are more similar than others. For alts who share completely identical portions of their life up to a certain point and then diverge, they are still considered as "alts" but may also be referred to as "branches" of each other. Tonies from Sunshine and its related worlds are branches of each other; Isabella Cullen (Golden), Isabella Swan (Stella) and Isabella Swan (Pattern) are also arguably branches.
==Forks==
Sometimes, via deliberate magic or other circumstance, a character can become duplicated - not cloned, but split into two instances with the same memories who diverge from there. These are still technically alts, in the sense that both characters are separate people who belong to the same template, but they share actual history to a point and not just the content thereof the way branches do. Forks often choose to merge into a single self which remembers both branches. Characters known to have forked include Bell Swan, Isabella Swan (Juliet) and Nathan Corlett.
==Clusters==
See Template#Template Clusters
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