Question from @bujin (original post):
@qOS Reading the Heartsong ST1: Attuned description it sounds like it would combine very well with Inner Circle for developing non-romantic relationships as well. Many of the same issues that affect romantic partners can also affect friendships. Can you confirm if this is the case or is the scripting specifically targeted towards romantic partners? I currently have an excellent IC + LBFH custom I’m thinking Attuned could fit nicely into. What would be the combined effect of those three cores?
Summary
@bujin — yes, Attuned carries well beyond romance, and it fits naturally beside Inner Circle and A Love Bomb For Humanity.
What carries into friendships
Attuned is the foundation for every heart, single or partnered, and most of it works on how you hold yourself in any close bond. Worthy Before Chosen helps your sense of worth stop depending on whether someone replies or invites you. Rejection Without Verdict helps you ask plainly and take a no as information about the other person, which matters as much with a friend as with a date. My Own Needs, Answered helps you name what you need and ask for it as a request rather than a debt. Seeing Them, Not the Picture and Curious About You turn your attention toward the real person in front of you instead of the one you expected. The Same Heart Everywhere keeps your warmth and your word steady from room to room. Repair helps you turn back toward someone after friction, apologise cleanly and raise small hurts before they harden. Choosing Again helps you see the people you love with fresh eyes and say your gratitude out loud. Heartsong recommends one small, honest ask each week, from a partner, a friend or someone new.
What stays romantic
Some features are about partnership itself. Knowing What I Want works on the shape of a shared life, such as children, where to live and how you want your evenings to look. At Home in My Body and The Settled Heart work on sensuality and on closeness with a lover. Free Inside Commitment helps you keep your own life and friendships inside a relationship. Expect those parts to show up in your love life rather than your friendships. Nothing in them pulls against Inner Circle, which also includes romantic partners among the people it helps you meet.
The three cores together
A Love Bomb For Humanity fills you with self-love first. Its whole mission is a deep love for yourself, in every part of you, and once that reservoir is full the love overflows on its own: whoever is near you feels it without you doing anything in particular. That is what makes it the natural companion here. The warmth you bring to a friendship comes from a self that is already full, not from effort or performance. Inner Circle brings the people and the skill to connect with them. It works on drawing in friends, mentors and collaborators who fit your path, moving easily between groups, building rapport, and telling who is aligned with you and who is draining. Attuned works on what happens once those bonds exist: asking for what you need, hearing a no without losing your footing, staying the same person over years, and mending things after a rupture. Inner Circle’s Intrinsic Worth and Attuned’s Worthy Before Chosen point the same way, so that thread may grow stronger rather than repeat. Run together, the custom may help you draw the right people in and keep those friendships honest and lasting, from a body that is at ease around them.
Heartsong Core Stage 1 is the core to add for Attuned. It runs on Zero Point Union, so read the official instructions before adding it: https://instructions.subliminalclub.com