Constelic

Constelic, or Stel, is a term for someone who takes on or collects an identity, or multiple identities. A constelic individual may range from having one identity, to a very high amount, and everything in between. Constelic identities can range from being very casual and unobtrusive, to intense. These identities may or may not shape how a person likes to act, present themselves, or refer to themselves. Constelic individuals may also experience varying intensities of their identity.

At times, constelic individuals may have periods where they feel as though they have become their identity entirely. Furthermore, constelic may be experienced as a short burst of heavy identification, before the identity fades away entirely.

Reasons for why someone is constelic may vary. Popular reasons may be because of hyperfixation, projection onto characters, a need to “hoard” things (possibly due to things like OCD), having personas or "identity masks," or it might simply be for the sake of fun.Typically, constelic identities are not inherent, unlike terms like otherkind.

The term comes from the word constellation, and the symbol represents a branching star. The term was coined by @extranth on Tumblr, and a Carrd has been created to explain this identity.

Terminology
Constelic may be used as a noun or a verb. As a noun, the term constel or stel is used similarly to kintype. However, as a verb, the term stel is also used (ex: "I stel him," "I'm stelling them," "She stels deer.")

Other constelic terms include:

 * Phase: When you move close towards / move into a new constel. Similar to a shift, but specific to constelic.
 * Constari: Someone who is constelic. The "i" may be replaced with another letter, creating words such as constara, constaro, or constare.
 * Constelist, Constellation: Refers to a tier list of how intensive one's constels are in relation to each other.
 * Veiling, Cloaking: When a constelic individual temporarily becomes, or takes on, their constel, identifying as them entirely.
 * Orbiting: A constelic individual whose constels fluctuate in intensity, or has a shifting level of identification with their constels.
 * Steljection: When someone projects onto something to the point of either gaining a constel, or veiling an existing one.
 * Alterstelic: An alternative label for constelic.
 * Magnistel(ic): When one only experiences short bursts of gaining a constel and veiling/cloaking immediately, before the constel fades away/drops entirely.
 * Perstel(ic): When one's constel(s) function as/like a persona(s).
 * Projestel(ic), "conproj," Projection Constel(ic): In which someone projects onto something to the point of gaining a constel.
 * Permacloaking, Permaveiling: When someone's constel is always veiled/cloaked. Might just be one/some constel(s), or it could be the only way the user experiences any of them.
 * Stellie, Stelly: A nickname for a constelic person.

Subterms of constelic include:

 * Ficstel(ic), fictionstel(ic): Someone whose constel(s) is a fictional character.
 * Multistel(ic), polystel(ic): Someone who has multiple constels, particularly of varying types.
 * Farstel(ic), conceptstel(ic): Someone whose constel(s) is a concept of vague notion, like outer space.
 * Objectstel(ic): Someone whose constel(s) is an object.
 * Anistel(ic): Someone whose constel(s) is an animal.
 * Mythostel(ic): Someone whose constel(s) is a mythological being, creature, etc.