NETWORK: @peach0341 (anonymous) [post soujuurou's wild ride]

[destage]

What would you consider the most unforgivable thing that a person could do to you? Something that someone could do, that they could never take back?

If it has been done to you, what happened? How did you treat that person afterward, if you kept in contact with them? If you didn't, do you regret ever severing off from them?

Have you done anything unforgivable? How did people respond to that--did they let you get a word in edge-wise to explain, or did they abandon you? Did you have to find your own way afterwards? How did it go for you, if so?

Do you think there's anything that one can do to earn forgiveness, depending on the severity of what happened? Do they deserve it? Does it depend? And is there a certain point that someone's allowed to give up on trying to find it, and should just stop trying to be good?

I'm curious as to what everyone's answers will be. Please don't give anymore info than you're comfortable with; these are just things that have been on my mind, lately. And please don't be rude to each other.

[this seems. infinitely more like a stream of conscious than anything actually coherent, but there's at least an attempt at maintaining some modicum of privacy. have at. be it on main or giving yourself a nice plurk-style anon-name, go for it.]

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[cleansewithfire]

[ It takes a while before Sunrise answers because she has to consider what Sayaka means by "difficult". ]

What do you mean by "difficult"?

[destage]

[...]

...I don't know how to ask my question without coming off as completely tactless. About your situation.

[SHE CAN'T JUST FUCKING ASK HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO ASSUMEDLY LIVE WITHOUT A SOUL???]

[cleansewithfire]

Oh.

You may be tactless.

[ Yeah, that's her solution to this: permission granted to be potentially tactless. ]

[destage]

[...SUNRISE. GIRL. THE FUCK.]

...Do you have a soul of your own? Or are you just. Her brain, but slightly...different, I guess?

[it takes her a solid couple of hours to send this. we're doing great here.]

[cleansewithfire]

[ It's fine. She probably went and did some other things in the meantime.

Oh, this is something she actually sort of has an answer to for once. ]

They are not mutually exclusive. Although I have inherited her brain, I am not the same person as her. Ms. Velvet has said it is highly likely I have my own soul.

[ Somehow, anyway. ]

[destage]

...Well, that's good at least!

[so a soul just. appeared. afterward. oh this is going to do sayaka's head in--]

I guess it was sort of confusing to think about. One always thinks that the body and soul are made for each other, and once separated, that's it.

[cleansewithfire]

That is also true.

[ Sunrise, you are not making this any less confusing. ]

What do people say about the soul after dying, where you are from?

[destage]

It depends on what beliefs you follow--some people believe that you can go to one of two places, though the people where I come from believe that the spirit persists and helps people from beyond.

Though, if they become corrupted, they can turn into youkai. Or...monsters, I guess, is the best way to put them.

But usually, the soul isn't able to be seen or interacted with.

[cleansewithfire]

That is not unusual.

Where I am from, everyone has two souls. There is an upper soul that consists of most of the things that make someone an individual. Things like personality, beliefs, and critical thinking. The lower soul consists of basic needs and instincts. When a person dies, the upper soul is separated from the body to pass through the afterlife, while the lower soul remains.

Someone I know who is more knowledgeable in these matters hypothesized that I may be a case where I have a "new" upper soul put into a body.

[destage]

...You know, I don't know what I expected.

But that. That is not even close to it.

[Hey Sunrise? What the fuck is Exalted World???]

Don't get me wrong, it makes...sense, I think? I think we talked about this in school, though it was split into three sort of things. What was it...id, ego, and superego? I think that's it...

Those are like the three sort of...minds, I guess? Id was impulse, superego is your morals, and ego was what was inbetween. The...I guess best way to describe a soul.

That's interesting, though...

[cleansewithfire]

[ I wish I knew, tbh. ]

It sounds something like that.

What most people consider "zombies" back home are usually bodies manipulated by someone with sorcery, or bodies with the lingering lower soul being agitated in some way. I think you could say they are more like clever animals. I am apparently rather unusual.