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note in magnus' handwriting
If someone had asked me “are souls real” while I was alive, I would’ve said “fuck no.” I also didn’t believe in any form of afterlife and believed death was the sweet release into nothingness from the pain that was living.
Well. Joke’s on fucking me on all accounts.
Everything is made up of Soul. Or, well, everything that fucking matters. Players, the living, Noise, Reapers, the Composer, I could go on but I fucking won’t. What defines which category a Soul falls into is just the code binding it. So reshaping a Soul is simply a matter of having the amount of power necessary to give it a certain form. The easiest shape for a Soul to take is Noise. A living being is the hardest.
Erasure, unlike what the word implies, is just undoing the binding that makes up a Soul. Don’t get me wrong, they still fucking die. But any being powerful enough can retake and reshape a Soul as they wish, even post-Erasure.
It’s extremely easy to undo the binding of a Soul. Reshaping it isn’t. I’m sure there’s some kind of lesson to be had here about life and death, but the truth is no one is ever truly free from this bullshit. Part of you will always live on. There’s even been a rare few cases of a Composer bringing back Erased Players for their own reason.
Maybe that kind of power is the real reason “gunning for the job of Composer” is a real quest for both Players and Reapers.
Ha ha, just kidding, what the fuck kind of Reaper cares about reviving people? They just want to be top of the Reaper food chain, right? Besides, any Composer that does nothing but revive everyone is definitely getting fired. It'd take some pretty special circumstances to make it otherwise.
Well. Joke’s on fucking me on all accounts.
Everything is made up of Soul. Or, well, everything that fucking matters. Players, the living, Noise, Reapers, the Composer, I could go on but I fucking won’t. What defines which category a Soul falls into is just the code binding it. So reshaping a Soul is simply a matter of having the amount of power necessary to give it a certain form. The easiest shape for a Soul to take is Noise. A living being is the hardest.
Erasure, unlike what the word implies, is just undoing the binding that makes up a Soul. Don’t get me wrong, they still fucking die. But any being powerful enough can retake and reshape a Soul as they wish, even post-Erasure.
It’s extremely easy to undo the binding of a Soul. Reshaping it isn’t. I’m sure there’s some kind of lesson to be had here about life and death, but the truth is no one is ever truly free from this bullshit. Part of you will always live on. There’s even been a rare few cases of a Composer bringing back Erased Players for their own reason.
Maybe that kind of power is the real reason “gunning for the job of Composer” is a real quest for both Players and Reapers.
Ha ha, just kidding, what the fuck kind of Reaper cares about reviving people? They just want to be top of the Reaper food chain, right? Besides, any Composer that does nothing but revive everyone is definitely getting fired. It'd take some pretty special circumstances to make it otherwise.